CREDITS - This is yet to be updated fully :( -Thargoid Hydra transparent and Thargoid Glaive transparent - CMDR Jurloo (added as per @BTKLion12’s request)
@@todydn Elite was first released in 1984 for the BBC Micro personal computer, then off the back of it's huge impact and success, converted to almost every system, and later refined into the ED masterpiece we have today. One of the two original 1984 programmers, David Braben, was responsible for overseeing development of ED. Google will give you lots more info, and if you download an 8/16bit system emulator and original game (e.g. C64) you can see it's original form. Bear in mind that computer systems were a 'little' more basic 40 years ago. Like the OP, I also purchased the original Elite in the 1980's. This was also the right at the beginning of the era of home 'computers', and as you can imagine, folks from then have witnessed some spectacular advances since.
Great job researching all of this lore. I think a correction is in order however. The Salome event, where CMDR Harry Potter killed her, I was there that day. I watched the recording Harry Potter made of his stream that day. I don't think he used any glitches or hacks. What he did was lie to the community telling everyone he and his group were there to protect her. That's why he is hated.
@@_The_Specter_ I was there too. No glitches, no hacks. Maybe you should get your facts straight, before making public assumptions about a player. His group, SDC (Smiling Dog Crew) played the whole playerbase and the community eventually got what they deserved, since numerous people (I was among those) warned the guys playing security for Salomé to not trust SDC. They shut us down with lots of drama, gave SDC inside-information about the route of Salomé and in the end Harry got the kill. All in all, this was peak Elite back then and the best that ever happened in the game and is still a great memory.
@@allmyfaults Yeah that's kinda impactful. I wasn't playing much at the time so I kinda forgot all about that. I had put that name in my head while watching as a POS. Good thing I came down to the comments. No pinned comment or correction. Guess Specter doesn't care about perpetuating that slanderous myth then?
@@nistramaiI wasn’t expecting a player to mess up the lore of an MMO RPG? Hearing this kind of story really completes the gamer cycle that we all think is broken. It reminds me of Asian comics I’ve read over the years. I’m still looking for mine…
As someone that loves Stellaris my brain short-circuited when i heard the beggining of creation and beyond, i thought id accidentally clicked a Stellaris lore video instead. I always thought Elite and Stellaris' soundtracks would work well will with both games
Well done. As a long time CMDR(39 years now) it’s nice to see someone putting together the old lore and the new lore together in one place so other CMDRs can see it. O7
The culture in this game is deep man yall are loyal as hell and im glad frontier responds in kind a game older than me and still has fan and dev support so good it only required updates no sequels thats awesome and truly underated
I think this is what sets Elite apart, this lore is so interesting… and so hard to find!! it really insists that you engage with the mechanics of the game but also the spirit of the game and you get a sort of, double reward for it.
Right on Commander, this was great to see! Elite is a great game with a great universe, and I'm glad to find others still enjoying it! Earlier this year I'd thought about making some Elite lore videos, but you've gone ahead and done it! o7
I picked up the elite game for the BBC Acorn all of those years ago, and can't believe how progressed and advanced this is now. TY for taking us through the story. I did get to meet David Braben at a computer games fair in Olympia once,. that was just the Icing on the cake. Elite could be so much more. but for now. I'm really happy playing it in VR. so immersive. I would suggest you try (if you don't use it) either EDDI or ED Co Pilot. I am just starting with Co Pilot.
Love the passion, I've been playing for the past 2 years AND I'm on console XD. Got a ps5 now, so I'm restarting my progress... can't get enough of this beautiful game!
Frontier made Elite and went looking for better things and still haven't found them. It will take a certain amount of gray matter to revitalize this game, resources they already have if there is the will to. 👍 But your work is impeccable, I'm impressed, congratulations and success in your adventures o7.
I was curious how you'd cover so much lore in under an hour. Not bad, but there is so much more left. If you havent made a part 2, please consider it because I enjoyed this.
would be nice to have timestamps! to enable this feature just enter 00:00 as your first one and YT will recognize it. also : stellaris music!? Hhaha cmon ED has great OST!
ill be working on the timestamps once school ends. i didnt use the ED ost as the volume goes up and down a lot, so it sounded pretty awkward lol and i really like the stellaris ost :D
@@_The_Specter_ yeah i see your point, can always compress it, thou that my sound bad. still a few segments for sure could use a bit of that ED greatness =}
5:05 I cant help but think how coincidental ED's WW3 aligns almost perfectly with Star Trek's WW3, as noted in Star Trek wikis and by Will Riker in Star Trek: First Contact.
thanks for this, i've been slowly getting back into the flow of things and wanted to know how things had changed since I last played, this was pretty much exactly what I wanted
excellent clear instructional video thank you so much for all your hard work guys. o7 commanders this kind of info is very very much appreciated! i did subscribe for more info on this hard hobby!
The attaack on Achenar was not taking it "BACK" - the federation never had any claim to it. There was more to their reasons than something as reasonable-sounding as that. Look it up on the ED Wiki, and other histories.
8:28 Big piece of missing lore here. 2296 is also the first known documented mention of Raxxla. Also, in 2280, the Martian Relic was discovered on Mars.
The documentation in the original game Elite 2 Frontier had a pretty detailed human history. It didnt mention the United States being the only country to not be affected by WW3. Was that added for the modern game?
Did you watch the video of Salome's demise? SDC is part of the lore, like it or not. They covertly joined the escort under the guise of wanting to protect Solome. They were approved to be in the convoy. If you were there, you would know anyone not approved to be apart of that convoy, by the community groups that allied to escort her, had orders to kill any cmdrs without clearance on site, innocent or not, even if they were in surrounding systems, even if it was a lowly t6 obviously full of trade goods. HP was one of the CMDRS navigating the route abreast of Solome's ship. From Memory, he played along, going half the route with Solome, pretending to be there for the cause. There was a consorted effort to kill her by multiple players, not just HP. While HP was inderdicting Solome, other cmders allied with him and SDC were interdicting every other player in that system they could, in order to prevent HP from being stopped. He didn't just show up, and blow up. This was a planned effort, with good execution. No exploits were used, no cheats, nothing. You basically slandered the guy for playing the game in a way you, and thousands of others, didn't like. Commenting about how you don't like what he did, or condemning it, is o.k. I understand. I wanted to know what solome was going to tell too. There is no reason to make up stuff though. Harry was even mentioned in galnet in game as a bounty hunter, as Solome had a bounty on her. Quote HP's words as published by Polygon's request for comment-"“I personally didn't need a reason to kill,” Chamberlain wrote in an email. “It was more because ... there was a bounty of one billion credits. Credits are not something most PvPers care about, but I pilot big ships. Any death can amount to over 30 million to buy a new one. One billion will be of great help.”" HP is in the book, they had to change his name for copyright purposes. You really negatively reduced his part in the history of a game, and broke any sense of watching a "history" of the lore. SDC from memory, wasn't attempting to be apart of lore, but by being the scheming double agents, became noteworthy characters in it. While HP, and SDC's methods of getting points across for PVP balance, were often misunderstood, they were apart of the PVP community, and important to the rise of many other "anit-ganking" squadrons. I am not affiliated with SDC, but I do have a couple on my friends list in game. I am not a "ganker" or "griefer", or even a pvper at all really. What I learned from them was invaluable as trader in open. It's amazing how people will talk to you, and teach you, if you just approach them with an open mind. When I helped organize a couple of largely successful, and FDEV approved/promoted charity live streams, I invited SDC. From my previous chats/pvp mentoring from them, I knew they weren't the evil everyone thought they were. I knew they would be a huge draw to the stream, helping to raise a LOT of money, and they were. They didn't "gank" or "greif" anyone, were respectful of the stream, and participated in good spirit of the stream. HP (Josh Chamberlain) being of course the feature player, the villain, the anit-hero. They proved they were part of the community, un-disputably, and were invited back again to support other causes. Ironically, we did have an issue with people actually purposely grieving new players during their time on the stream, and they weren't from SDC. I will link the footage, since you didn't, so others can see the truth. ruclips.net/video/nybidBJbxc8/видео.html
I think you're completely missing your own point here. If a player has the right to cement themselves in the game's history by doing something like that, then other players have the right to take an issue with it. It's freedom. That's part of the roleplay. This guy can express his frustration as much as he wants, just as HP can kill Salome all he wants. How could you have missed this crucial detail in your criticism?
This game has been in most of my life since the apple 2 days and I still play it I just love this game ill play it intill they turn the server's off💯 intill then "07 commander's" see you in the black
why do you think USA won though, the developers didn't say it and as of right now Russia has objectively more nuclear weapons and space technology advancements. in other aspects you really did a good job, I appreciate it
The developers are American? That is probably the reason. Personally I would have made it a stalemate with massive death on all sides thus triggering an "awakening", or not have WW3 happen at all because of MAD. Then have Earth be a special zone for diplomacy, trade and luxury, while new space superstates fight it out respecting Earth as the cradle of civilization.
This may have been better served as a series covering different time periods in more detail. This reads as a brief overview of key turning points, not as a complete story of E:D.
You need to go back and check your lore - either do Ram Tah's mission or look at the logs on Canon's site. The constructs/AI/monolith network were developed about the same time as the Thargoid war. Initially, the war against the Thargoids was fought by the Guardians themselves and then it became more and more automated. Second, the second civil war wasn't about the traditionalists not liking the constructs. The other faction of Guardians was installing cybernetic implants that allowed them to interface with the monolith network and thus become more advanced. It was the whole "technology in our bodies" bit that drove the traditionalists to war. Also, the constructs wiped out the Guardians because they were horrified at the all the damage the war had caused and that the Guardians would never get past their own nature; more to the point, the destruction was a threat to developing constructs, because they still needed the physical monolith network to exist and evolve. The civilian constructs had to convince the military constructs to wipe out the Guardians; the military constructs were resistant, but eventually agreed with the logic. And finally, it wasn't a prolonged conflict - it was a massive, simultaneous strike that wiped out nearly all the Guardians at once. What few survivors remained were doomed.
Great runthrough. If only Frontier supported you folks more, and Cmdrs like yourselves were allowed to add actual content to the game i think the game would be even better. Maybe thats where we are now heading? Anyway, purely from a historical perspective, having played the game in the 80s and given the largely computer tech restrictions the history back then i think was different. Main bits (if i recall): Cmdr Jameson started out in a Cobra mk3, and finished in one with Elite status around 3100. I.e. the Cobra mk3 was already around by then too. Fer de Lance was also around then from the beginning of his venture too. Intergalactic travel was also available when Cmdr Jameson started out too. Not later on. Thargoids were only ever found in Wich Space. Basically they would pull you out of hyperdrive (fsd now) or if your hyperdrive failed to route correctly thats where you would end up. Thargoids were never found outside of Wich Space. In later games in the 90s on the Amiga etc i think they were present in normal space. More broadly i think there were some real missed opportunities in not taking some aspects of the original game when bringing it forward to today but obviously its much better in many other aspects. The community being one. Anyway, just for info / others to debate. Great work!
This is great work, and fills a definite need. I have to mention that there's a lot of mispronounciation, but really - who cares? I learned this lore by spending a huge amount of time scouring through the Fandom site and a few other sites, and here you've compiled all of the major points into a single video! I honestly didn't think that this much info could be crammed into a single half hour video, but you did it, while keeping it clear and interesting. Also, great visuals! This should be a reference for new CMDRs. You've done a service to the community. o7!
yeah my commentary skills are very trash, but yep - who cares lol thanks for your compliments! i never saw an ED lore video so i might as well do it myself :D
Commenting to inform you that I was here before you blew up. Great content, same interests, love it all. Now only if you covered TES lore and other info, be based if you did.
Interesting... seeing and hearing this lore makes me want to come back to ED... although I can't stand the constant grinding... I gave up because I would like to get a carrier but I barely have around 250 Mil and no drive to grind up to 5-6 Bln... to me not the journey there is important, but the end result... which is why I kinda gave up on ED since I can never afford a carrier...
The part referencing the Oresrians and the Klaxians; is there an in game citation regarding the two Thargoid factions? The only time I've seen them referenced was on a galaxy map; that I'm not entirely sure what the source is and in side material that isn't necessarily canon. By the way... loved the video. Keep up the good work!
thank you for watching! im not really sure where you found the Thargoid factions in the galaxy map, and i cannot find the thargoid factions in the codex as well… it might not be canon :/
@@_The_Specter_ I didn't see it in the in game galaxy map. I found a picture of one online that looks semi official. It labels all the permit locked sectors with what supposedly lives in them. The only problem is; I can't verify the authenticity of the map. I think I found it on Reddit and just screen captured it.
Currently, in-game, there is no reference. However, currently there is something going on regarding certain Goids not attacking human ships in a certain area of space, away from the Bugs genociding of humanity currently in progress. So, maybe the old lore regarding these factions maybe being made official.
@@Windrake101 That's kind of what I thought. I've been through the codex pretty thoroughly and I'm pretty well up on current lore. I've been jumping around the Wregoe sector trying to get hyperdicted but have been unable to replicate the incident. But it's definitely telling that the Thargoids were largely non hostile. It could either mean it's a different, non hostile faction... or it's some sort of expeditionary force that isn't quite prepared for battle. Although there are around a dozen Thargoid inhabited systems where the Thargoids are hostile when you drop into their signal sources.
Liked and SUBBED, here's to meaning! o7 My First Encounter with an "AX Spire Setup Ship" It was my first encounter with an "AX Spire setup ship," and I was in my Alliance Chieftain, aptly named the AX AARDVARK. I had been preparing to hunt down Thargoid Spires in the Rajuarpai system. Earlier, I had joined forces with another Commander in a desperate attempt to defend a station from a relentless Thargoid attack. Despite our best efforts, we were woefully underprepared for the onslaught and decided to part ways. As I Frame Shifted away from the beleaguered station, my systems, weapons, and hull were in relatively good shape, all hovering around 94%. Unfortunately, my Guardian Booster had taken a hit during the skirmish and was now out of commission. With the station receding in my rearview, I hoped to get my boost operational again, perhaps employing some ancient old Model A Ford magic. Suddenly, I was yanked out of Frame Shift and assaulted by something that crippled my Power Plant and reduced my hull integrity to a mere 24%. I couldn’t believe I was still playing a game; it felt like a life-or-death struggle as I scrambled to balance systems and survive. It took every ounce of my skill and luck to manage module repairs, juggle systems, and toggle life support off and on. I had to drop heat sinks and engage “silent running” to avoid detection, all while trying to boost away as Thargoids continued to spawn around me. The eerie noises and the unnerving distortion of my cockpit voice assistant, Jennifer, who now sounded like a broken tape, only added to the chaos. The Thargoids’ interference was messing with all my systems, creating an atmosphere of sheer terror. After a grueling 35 minutes that felt like an eternity, I somehow managed to stabilize my ship enough to engage Frame Shift and escape Thargoid space. When I finally found a carrier in the next system, I was still on edge. I had to carefully toggle systems to establish contact with the carrier and request clearance to land. The ordeal was so intense that it felt more like a complex puzzle than a game. Many Commanders report returning with their ships barely intact, sometimes with just 1% hull left. That alone is an incredible feat, but my experience was a nerve-wracking test of survival. Had I failed to figure out the right sequence of actions, my ship would have been reduced to space debris. The AX AARDVARK and I made it through, but that encounter left a lasting impression on me. It was a stark reminder of the unpredictable and dangerous universe we navigate, where every decision can mean the difference between life and death.
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CREDITS - This is yet to be updated fully :(
-Thargoid Hydra transparent and Thargoid Glaive transparent - CMDR Jurloo (added as per @BTKLion12’s request)
Using Stellaris OST for a lore talk about ED....
I see you are a man of culture!
a great choice IMO
thought it sounded familar
Veteran commander who played Elite in the 80s here. You did a great job. Thank you for taking the time to share this with everyone.
thank you CMDR!
How has the best game been a thing since before i was born and i never knew it existed
@@todydn Elite was first released in 1984 for the BBC Micro personal computer, then off the back of it's huge impact and success, converted to almost every system, and later refined into the ED masterpiece we have today. One of the two original 1984 programmers, David Braben, was responsible for overseeing development of ED.
Google will give you lots more info, and if you download an 8/16bit system emulator and original game (e.g. C64) you can see it's original form. Bear in mind that computer systems were a 'little' more basic 40 years ago. Like the OP, I also purchased the original Elite in the 1980's. This was also the right at the beginning of the era of home 'computers', and as you can imagine, folks from then have witnessed some spectacular advances since.
@@todydn I think he means in game time.... More specifically 3280
@@saigaikwad415 Not necessarily. First Elite game came out in 1984 I think.
Great job researching all of this lore. I think a correction is in order however. The Salome event, where CMDR Harry Potter killed her, I was there that day. I watched the recording Harry Potter made of his stream that day. I don't think he used any glitches or hacks. What he did was lie to the community telling everyone he and his group were there to protect her. That's why he is hated.
thank you CMDR! i wasnt there at the Salome event, so yeah idk what happened there
@@_The_Specter_ I was there too. No glitches, no hacks. Maybe you should get your facts straight, before making public assumptions about a player.
His group, SDC (Smiling Dog Crew) played the whole playerbase and the community eventually got what they deserved, since numerous people (I was among those) warned the guys playing security for Salomé to not trust SDC. They shut us down with lots of drama, gave SDC inside-information about the route of Salomé and in the end Harry got the kill. All in all, this was peak Elite back then and the best that ever happened in the game and is still a great memory.
@@allmyfaults Yeah that's kinda impactful. I wasn't playing much at the time so I kinda forgot all about that. I had put that name in my head while watching as a POS. Good thing I came down to the comments.
No pinned comment or correction. Guess Specter doesn't care about perpetuating that slanderous myth then?
@@nistramaiI wasn’t expecting a player to mess up the lore of an MMO RPG?
Hearing this kind of story really completes the gamer cycle that we all think is broken.
It reminds me of Asian comics I’ve read over the years. I’m still looking for mine…
Me too. Took part of it and it was the greatest event i ever whitnessed!!!
"So this is Elite Dangerous?!"
"Aye"
"And what is the Fuzz all about?"
"Well...Stay a while and listen..."
As someone that loves Stellaris my brain short-circuited when i heard the beggining of creation and beyond, i thought id accidentally clicked a Stellaris lore video instead. I always thought Elite and Stellaris' soundtracks would work well will with both games
I love both games. You are absolutely right about the music. :) o7
I can confirm. I was confused too. It's the Stellaris effect
Well done. As a long time CMDR(39 years now) it’s nice to see someone putting together the old lore and the new lore together in one place so other CMDRs can see it. O7
The culture in this game is deep man yall are loyal as hell and im glad frontier responds in kind a game older than me and still has fan and dev support so good it only required updates no sequels thats awesome and truly underated
I think this is what sets Elite apart, this lore is so interesting… and so hard to find!! it really insists that you engage with the mechanics of the game but also the spirit of the game and you get a sort of, double reward for it.
Right on Commander, this was great to see! Elite is a great game with a great universe, and I'm glad to find others still enjoying it! Earlier this year I'd thought about making some Elite lore videos, but you've gone ahead and done it! o7
thank you! the lore of elite is indeed rich and great :D
I picked up the elite game for the BBC Acorn all of those years ago, and can't believe how progressed and advanced this is now. TY for taking us through the story. I did get to meet David Braben at a computer games fair in Olympia once,. that was just the Icing on the cake. Elite could be so much more. but for now. I'm really happy playing it in VR. so immersive. I would suggest you try (if you don't use it) either EDDI or ED Co Pilot. I am just starting with Co Pilot.
Love the passion, I've been playing for the past 2 years AND I'm on console XD. Got a ps5 now, so I'm restarting my progress... can't get enough of this beautiful game!
yep! awesome game o7
Very happy and glad that someone finally compiled all of Elites lore (up to when this was posted) and put it all into one SINGLE video
yw o7!
Frontier made Elite and went looking for better things and still haven't found them. It will take a certain amount of gray matter to revitalize this game, resources they already have if there is the will to.
👍 But your work is impeccable, I'm impressed, congratulations and success in your adventures o7.
o7!
Great video, good job! The stellaris soundtrack was a nice touch, fits perfectly.
i chose stellaris for the fitting sounds, thanks!
I was curious how you'd cover so much lore in under an hour. Not bad, but there is so much more left. If you havent made a part 2, please consider it because I enjoyed this.
Love to see this kind of content! Much love, and since I’ve been here a whole, I love seeing you grow and be recognized more!
yeeaah thanks bro
would be nice to have timestamps!
to enable this feature just enter 00:00 as your first one and YT will recognize it.
also : stellaris music!? Hhaha cmon ED has great OST!
ill be working on the timestamps once school ends. i didnt use the ED ost as the volume goes up and down a lot, so it sounded pretty awkward lol
and i really like the stellaris ost :D
@@_The_Specter_ yeah i see your point, can always compress it, thou that my sound bad. still a few segments for sure could use a bit of that ED greatness =}
So I played Stanfield for the 1st time yesterday...I will be staying with Elite..it is by far the superior
Different games, completely different gameplay. I did not like SF too, but people that like Skyrim style gameplay may like It...
I like both for separate reasons, and will be using Starfield for Planetary exploration and Ship interiors and Elite Dangerous for Space exploration
"Stanfield" is it sequel to starcityzen?😂
yay :D
My friends and I both love skyrim but couldnt get past 2 hrs of starfield without being incredibly unengaged
Oh hell yeah, I was looking for something like this a few months ago - Amazing work, CMDR!
thanks!
Cool. I’m new to ED and I was looking for some informations around the history of the galaxy. Glad I found this.
I've been an Elite player for years... I love all of the lore too... This is a great video.
5:05 I cant help but think how coincidental ED's WW3 aligns almost perfectly with Star Trek's WW3, as noted in Star Trek wikis and by Will Riker in Star Trek: First Contact.
I believe Anchorage is when my squadron came to fruition! They came back from the journey with a good case of space madness. Praise the Void!
Love the stellaris background music.
thanks for this, i've been slowly getting back into the flow of things and wanted to know how things had changed since I last played, this was pretty much exactly what I wanted
Great job! It was a pleasure to listen to it, to remind myself of the lore! Well done o7
i have been waiting for this kind of lore video on this game, you gained my sub cmdr!
o7, thank you!
O7 sir, great work on updating the lore.
This is excellent work. You're one subscriber closer to 1000, mate!
excellent clear instructional video thank you so much for all your hard work guys. o7 commanders this kind of info is very very much appreciated! i did subscribe for more info on this hard hobby!
your welcome, O7!
Thank you for making this, I wish all of this lore was actually within the game.
your welcome! it is in the game, in the Codex, if im right
Amazing vídeo ! I play Elite since 1984 and was incredible to see all the history put together! o7 CMDR !
thanks!
The attaack on Achenar was not taking it "BACK" - the federation never had any claim to it. There was more to their reasons than something as reasonable-sounding as that. Look it up on the ED Wiki, and other histories.
The RP is admirable
This is GREAT my man! Well done!! o7 Right on CMDR
thank you! O7 to you as well
8:28
Big piece of missing lore here. 2296 is also the first known documented mention of Raxxla.
Also, in 2280, the Martian Relic was discovered on Mars.
my bad, sorry
Well Done! Pretty comprehensive.
thanks! o7 cmdr
Nice overview, listened to this while playing!
thanks!
Incredible effort, commander. Thank you.
elite is more star wars than star wars
All Tomorrows is more Star wars than them both lol
Thank you for creating and sharing this great video with the whole community.... how great is the ED community!!!!!
your welcome, cmdr!
The documentation in the original game Elite 2 Frontier had a pretty detailed human history. It didnt mention the United States being the only country to not be affected by WW3. Was that added for the modern game?
i think so, FD added a lot of lore to Elite: Dangerous
Nice job man! youre a hard worker indeed.
yep the video took 2 straight weeks of effort XD
The background music is from Stellaralis
*listening to the sign off at the end while washing dishes* “nah man he hit me with the o7 I gotta like now.”
love lore videos. well done. do however wish there was at least some mention of the Dark Wheel or Raxxla
Now i understand a loot more, this is a really good video
Great job man! learned a lot :)
o7
Didnt expect the Thargoid drawings i made to be actually used in a video, pretty neat
i put it onto the credits in the pinned comment
Oh there was no need to! It is honestly quite awesome just to see them being used!
Did you watch the video of Salome's demise? SDC is part of the lore, like it or not. They covertly joined the escort under the guise of wanting to protect Solome. They were approved to be in the convoy. If you were there, you would know anyone not approved to be apart of that convoy, by the community groups that allied to escort her, had orders to kill any cmdrs without clearance on site, innocent or not, even if they were in surrounding systems, even if it was a lowly t6 obviously full of trade goods.
HP was one of the CMDRS navigating the route abreast of Solome's ship. From Memory, he played along, going half the route with Solome, pretending to be there for the cause. There was a consorted effort to kill her by multiple players, not just HP. While HP was inderdicting Solome, other cmders allied with him and SDC were interdicting every other player in that system they could, in order to prevent HP from being stopped. He didn't just show up, and blow up. This was a planned effort, with good execution. No exploits were used, no cheats, nothing. You basically slandered the guy for playing the game in a way you, and thousands of others, didn't like. Commenting about how you don't like what he did, or condemning it, is o.k. I understand. I wanted to know what solome was going to tell too. There is no reason to make up stuff though.
Harry was even mentioned in galnet in game as a bounty hunter, as Solome had a bounty on her.
Quote HP's words as published by Polygon's request for comment-"“I personally didn't need a reason to kill,” Chamberlain wrote in an email. “It was more because ... there was a bounty of one billion credits. Credits are not something most PvPers care about, but I pilot big ships. Any death can amount to over 30 million to buy a new one. One billion will be of great help.”"
HP is in the book, they had to change his name for copyright purposes. You really negatively reduced his part in the history of a game, and broke any sense of watching a "history" of the lore. SDC from memory, wasn't attempting to be apart of lore, but by being the scheming double agents, became noteworthy characters in it.
While HP, and SDC's methods of getting points across for PVP balance, were often misunderstood, they were apart of the PVP community, and important to the rise of many other "anit-ganking" squadrons.
I am not affiliated with SDC, but I do have a couple on my friends list in game. I am not a "ganker" or "griefer", or even a pvper at all really. What I learned from them was invaluable as trader in open. It's amazing how people will talk to you, and teach you, if you just approach them with an open mind.
When I helped organize a couple of largely successful, and FDEV approved/promoted charity live streams, I invited SDC. From my previous chats/pvp mentoring from them, I knew they weren't the evil everyone thought they were. I knew they would be a huge draw to the stream, helping to raise a LOT of money, and they were. They didn't "gank" or "greif" anyone, were respectful of the stream, and participated in good spirit of the stream. HP (Josh Chamberlain) being of course the feature player, the villain, the anit-hero. They proved they were part of the community, un-disputably, and were invited back again to support other causes. Ironically, we did have an issue with people actually purposely grieving new players during their time on the stream, and they weren't from SDC.
I will link the footage, since you didn't, so others can see the truth. ruclips.net/video/nybidBJbxc8/видео.html
I think you're completely missing your own point here. If a player has the right to cement themselves in the game's history by doing something like that, then other players have the right to take an issue with it. It's freedom. That's part of the roleplay. This guy can express his frustration as much as he wants, just as HP can kill Salome all he wants. How could you have missed this crucial detail in your criticism?
you are full of crap.
Very nice video, man. Perfect for people like me who'd like to know more lore but too lazy to read , o7
This is fantastic dude.
This game has been in most of my life since the apple 2 days and I still play it I just love this game ill play it intill they turn the server's off💯 intill then "07 commander's" see you in the black
Whatt and Pritney 💀
17:50 They should have called the Fuel Rats.
why do you think USA won though, the developers didn't say it and as of right now Russia has objectively more nuclear weapons and space technology advancements. in other aspects you really did a good job, I appreciate it
It was the defensive technologies that saved NATO/Federation
The developers are American? That is probably the reason. Personally I would have made it a stalemate with massive death on all sides thus triggering an "awakening", or not have WW3 happen at all because of MAD. Then have Earth be a special zone for diplomacy, trade and luxury, while new space superstates fight it out respecting Earth as the cradle of civilization.
this could be a movie franchise or TV show, im thinking The Expanse meets Dune
This may have been better served as a series covering different time periods in more detail. This reads as a brief overview of key turning points, not as a complete story of E:D.
Wow dude.. Just wow.. Great work
Man you did an amazing job on this video. Very cool.
6:11 love the Stellaris music😎
Nice job!
thank you!
Very broad and thorough summary! Agreed, to document everything would take a video several hours long. Great video. You have a new subscriber.
thanks! i appreciate anyone subscribing :) i just condensed all of the important info in about 30 minutes
Well Done CMDR! The galaxy could use more hoomins like yourself.
thank you!
Love the stellaris music😂
You need to go back and check your lore - either do Ram Tah's mission or look at the logs on Canon's site. The constructs/AI/monolith network were developed about the same time as the Thargoid war. Initially, the war against the Thargoids was fought by the Guardians themselves and then it became more and more automated.
Second, the second civil war wasn't about the traditionalists not liking the constructs. The other faction of Guardians was installing cybernetic implants that allowed them to interface with the monolith network and thus become more advanced. It was the whole "technology in our bodies" bit that drove the traditionalists to war.
Also, the constructs wiped out the Guardians because they were horrified at the all the damage the war had caused and that the Guardians would never get past their own nature; more to the point, the destruction was a threat to developing constructs, because they still needed the physical monolith network to exist and evolve. The civilian constructs had to convince the military constructs to wipe out the Guardians; the military constructs were resistant, but eventually agreed with the logic. And finally, it wasn't a prolonged conflict - it was a massive, simultaneous strike that wiped out nearly all the Guardians at once. What few survivors remained were doomed.
i guess i missed some of it, thanks. but the second part i dont understand, do you have a link to a source?
Great runthrough. If only Frontier supported you folks more, and Cmdrs like yourselves were allowed to add actual content to the game i think the game would be even better. Maybe thats where we are now heading?
Anyway, purely from a historical perspective, having played the game in the 80s and given the largely computer tech restrictions the history back then i think was different. Main bits (if i recall):
Cmdr Jameson started out in a Cobra mk3, and finished in one with Elite status around 3100. I.e. the Cobra mk3 was already around by then too. Fer de Lance was also around then from the beginning of his venture too.
Intergalactic travel was also available when Cmdr Jameson started out too. Not later on.
Thargoids were only ever found in Wich Space. Basically they would pull you out of hyperdrive (fsd now) or if your hyperdrive failed to route correctly thats where you would end up. Thargoids were never found outside of Wich Space. In later games in the 90s on the Amiga etc i think they were present in normal space.
More broadly i think there were some real missed opportunities in not taking some aspects of the original game when bringing it forward to today but obviously its much better in many other aspects. The community being one.
Anyway, just for info / others to debate. Great work!
Love the background music from Stellaris.
This is great work, and fills a definite need. I have to mention that there's a lot of mispronounciation, but really - who cares? I learned this lore by spending a huge amount of time scouring through the Fandom site and a few other sites, and here you've compiled all of the major points into a single video! I honestly didn't think that this much info could be crammed into a single half hour video, but you did it, while keeping it clear and interesting. Also, great visuals!
This should be a reference for new CMDRs. You've done a service to the community. o7!
yeah my commentary skills are very trash, but yep - who cares lol
thanks for your compliments! i never saw an ED lore video so i might as well do it myself :D
Блін клас, Єммо, Ви крута! Поділяю ваші погляди стосовно зелених та червоних прапорців, це дійсно цінні та важливі речі речі
Kudos for your great work!
o7, thank you
Well done
thanks!
Commenting to inform you that I was here before you blew up.
Great content, same interests, love it all. Now only if you covered TES lore and other info, be based if you did.
yo sorry for the late reply, but im glad that you were here before i started getting popular. thanks for sitcking around! anyways, what’s TES lore?
@@_The_Specter_ Hey dog, don't be sorry for it lol. And TES is The elder scrolls. So stuff like Skyrim, morrowind, daggerfall, etc.
11:45 funny rover tumble :)
Just found your Video brilliant Content and a lot of time and effort put into this Thank you o7
Great video
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Great summary, and a voice that reminds me .... cmdr hp
who is CMDR HP?
@@_The_Specter_a CMDR who disappeared some years ago, maybe he is dead or he found Raxxla...
Interesting... seeing and hearing this lore makes me want to come back to ED... although I can't stand the constant grinding... I gave up because I would like to get a carrier but I barely have around 250 Mil and no drive to grind up to 5-6 Bln... to me not the journey there is important, but the end result... which is why I kinda gave up on ED since I can never afford a carrier...
I just started watching and I can tell you worked hard on this👌. One thing tho.. read just a little bit slower maybe?
Excellent. Thank You.
very very good mate .
12:12 whaaaat how did you make it go into third person camera when you were on foot?! PLEASE TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!!!
Wow! What a titanic work!
thank you! an honor to have you comment, o7
@@_The_Specter_ The honor is mine:)
@ 9:58 What ship manufacturer is the best and why is it Core Dynamics?
Good job 👍
Udderly amazing.
The part referencing the Oresrians and the Klaxians; is there an in game citation regarding the two Thargoid factions?
The only time I've seen them referenced was on a galaxy map; that I'm not entirely sure what the source is and in side material that isn't necessarily canon.
By the way... loved the video. Keep up the good work!
thank you for watching! im not really sure where you found the Thargoid factions in the galaxy map, and i cannot find the thargoid factions in the codex as well… it might not be canon :/
@@_The_Specter_ I didn't see it in the in game galaxy map. I found a picture of one online that looks semi official. It labels all the permit locked sectors with what supposedly lives in them. The only problem is; I can't verify the authenticity of the map. I think I found it on Reddit and just screen captured it.
@@om3g4888hmm, i wonder where that map is... i might be able to check idk
Currently, in-game, there is no reference. However, currently there is something going on regarding certain Goids not attacking human ships in a certain area of space, away from the Bugs genociding of humanity currently in progress. So, maybe the old lore regarding these factions maybe being made official.
@@Windrake101 That's kind of what I thought. I've been through the codex pretty thoroughly and I'm pretty well up on current lore.
I've been jumping around the Wregoe sector trying to get hyperdicted but have been unable to replicate the incident. But it's definitely telling that the Thargoids were largely non hostile.
It could either mean it's a different, non hostile faction... or it's some sort of expeditionary force that isn't quite prepared for battle. Although there are around a dozen Thargoid inhabited systems where the Thargoids are hostile when you drop into their signal sources.
Will there be a test over this? If so, can I get a study guide?
Awesome! thnx a lot ;)
Well done! o7
o7
I wonder what would happen if Harry Potter didn't kill that senator
uhhh you mean Marlin Duval?
I guess?@@_The_Specter_
@@HarenunHoppus Drew Wager changed the name in his book for obvious reasons.
I miss when Elite was on Xbox…
Great job well done.
awesome! thanks!
THANK YOU
At 23:15 I see CMDR Jurloo's art of a Hydra and at 30:10. Yet I don't see any credit given at all anywhere.
my bad, i thought it was just a regular hydra but transparent
@Specter_2026 no worries, just thought I'd mention it. Jurloo also seems quite happy that you've included his art too
thank you,@@BTKLion12! it is added right now and should be on my pinned comment
It's very funny that just the US survived the war. It reminds me of old idealistic scifi from the cold war.
48k views! Nice!
Be carefull with the background music. Its from Stellaris...
Stellaris OST
Liked and SUBBED, here's to meaning! o7
My First Encounter with an "AX Spire Setup Ship"
It was my first encounter with an "AX Spire setup ship," and I was in my Alliance Chieftain, aptly named the AX AARDVARK. I had been preparing to hunt down Thargoid Spires in the Rajuarpai system. Earlier, I had joined forces with another Commander in a desperate attempt to defend a station from a relentless Thargoid attack. Despite our best efforts, we were woefully underprepared for the onslaught and decided to part ways.
As I Frame Shifted away from the beleaguered station, my systems, weapons, and hull were in relatively good shape, all hovering around 94%. Unfortunately, my Guardian Booster had taken a hit during the skirmish and was now out of commission. With the station receding in my rearview, I hoped to get my boost operational again, perhaps employing some ancient old Model A Ford magic.
Suddenly, I was yanked out of Frame Shift and assaulted by something that crippled my Power Plant and reduced my hull integrity to a mere 24%. I couldn’t believe I was still playing a game; it felt like a life-or-death struggle as I scrambled to balance systems and survive. It took every ounce of my skill and luck to manage module repairs, juggle systems, and toggle life support off and on. I had to drop heat sinks and engage “silent running” to avoid detection, all while trying to boost away as Thargoids continued to spawn around me.
The eerie noises and the unnerving distortion of my cockpit voice assistant, Jennifer, who now sounded like a broken tape, only added to the chaos. The Thargoids’ interference was messing with all my systems, creating an atmosphere of sheer terror. After a grueling 35 minutes that felt like an eternity, I somehow managed to stabilize my ship enough to engage Frame Shift and escape Thargoid space.
When I finally found a carrier in the next system, I was still on edge. I had to carefully toggle systems to establish contact with the carrier and request clearance to land. The ordeal was so intense that it felt more like a complex puzzle than a game. Many Commanders report returning with their ships barely intact, sometimes with just 1% hull left. That alone is an incredible feat, but my experience was a nerve-wracking test of survival. Had I failed to figure out the right sequence of actions, my ship would have been reduced to space debris.
The AX AARDVARK and I made it through, but that encounter left a lasting impression on me. It was a stark reminder of the unpredictable and dangerous universe we navigate, where every decision can mean the difference between life and death.
Great