Larger than a Drake-Class Carrier, Colonisation ships are mindblowing in person.
I made sure to include some of those Trailblazing ship trails of my own in this shot. :)

Thanks to Frontier Developments for featuring this screenshot on last weeks #StellarScreenshots highlights!

Very few feelings in a video game compare to knowing you've made a lasting mark on the universe. With that in mind, it's hard not to feel like the Trailblazers update has truly expanded on that potential in Elite: Dangerous.

I'm not one for vanity even in the form of a quick selfie, but I can apprecaite the usefulness and utility of self-catalogue and documentation. It is nice to take some time every once in a while to reflect.

First off, I love the reward idea, I would love to see more of these! In my opinion Elite: Dangerous is a perfect game to kick back and play your favorite music to while spacefaring. I loved the days when AMVs and frag videos were a new thing that could ganger tons of views on YouTube, I would love to see more things like it but the algorithim and copyright often get in the way of people just creating cool stuff in this day and age.

I have been producing electronic music for about 13 years and have intentionally created some songs just for chilling at your favorite Space Station Bar or Cantina.

This is my song Callisto Cantina.
This song envisions a live performance by a sentient intelligence performated at a Cantina/Bar located on Jupiter's moon Callisto. I can imagine this song would fit pretty well for exploring the galaxy.


Yes I do listen to my own music and love playing Elite: Dangerous while listening to tons of music (primarily Electronic Music).

Enjoy.

(sorry I didn't use the cool suggested hash tags this time, there was no room in the character limit.) ;) <3

I made this infographic recently to help people in my Discord community and Squadron learn how to appraoch a planet properly. They couldn't get their glide stages to activate consistently.

Unlike approaching Space-Stations or orbital starports there is Planetary Landing, something I think people overlook the imporance of.
Yes there is a "throttle down to 50% engines/speed at 0:07 seconds tip" when approaching a body or station but there is also;

SAFE PLANETARY APPROACH GEOMETRY

Only a mere 620.49ly from Sol ; HIP 88727 contains a High metal content world that closely orbits a cool Class M Star and is the only planetary body in the system. This provided stunning views from the cockpit of my exploration Vulture.
This body; HIP 88727 C 1 features Major Silicate vapour geysers and a Hot Thick Sulphur dioxide Atmosphere. It is exactly what you'd expect to see from a molten sphere that closely orbits a star.

There are three I'd like to submit, as they instantly came to mind when I saw this, and I didn’t see them in the previous glossary submissions/posts. As someone mentioned in the last round of these, I'll "save some for the rest." ;)

Onionhead / Onion Head (noun): A fruit-bearing plant with a flower and seed head, first discovered in the HIP 55118 system, it has since been cultivated into various strains. The fruit has medicinal and hallucinogenic properties, making it both addictive and euphoric. It has since become a widely used and traded drug across the established systems. The narcotic is legal in Empire-controlled systems but illegal in Federation territory. Grown on Panem in the Kappa Fornacis system, it is embraced as a staple crop and rare trade commodity. The word is also colloquially used as a derogatory term to call someone "stupid".

• He dropped some Onionhead and took spacewalk without a suit.

• Those gankers in Minerva are such onionheads.

HAZ RES / HazRES (noun): The hazardous variant of a Resource Extraction Site (RES). These locations are generally found within asteroid belts and planetary rings. Pirates in these areas are often more skilled and have higher combat ranks. System Authorities may not be present at a Hazardous Resource Extraction Site, depending on the system's overall status. Skilled Commanders brave HazRES zones due to the higher frequency of wanted ships, which offer greater bounties.

• Brave and skilled Commanders love to hunt bounties in HazRES sites.

• I just spent an hour in a HazRES and made out like a bandit.

Witchspace / Witch Space (noun): A slang term for the mysterious dimension that ships travel through when making a hyperspace (faster than light) jump between star systems. Often associated with strange phenomena and anomalies, Witchspace is both awe-inspiring and unsettling to many pilots. Thargoids have been known to hyperdict Commanders mid-jump, adding to the eerie and dangerous nature of this space.

• My ship barely made it out of Witchspace before the Thargoids could finish their hyperdiction.

• There's something unsettling about Witchspace... Every jump feels like something is watching from the void.

Years ago, I was researching world music and discovered a few fascinating Oriental instruments that really captured my attention. This research, along with these personal discoveries, led me to create a number of synthesizer patches that emulated some of them. I eventually composed a song centered around the use of the Koto, Sanshin and the Sheng.

While the Sheng isn’t exactly "obscure," it is quite rare in my area to see one or hear music created with it. In reality, it’s a very traditional, ancient instrument that I feel doesn’t often make an appearance to modern audiences.

One of those videos is burned into my mind; the image of this woman performing with a Sheng is something I'll never forget seeing for the first time. It took me a while to track the video down, but it was worth it. The enthusiasm and emotion conveyed by the woman playing the Sheng was instantly unforgettable, almost like a rock star playing a guitar in front of a lively audience.

As I said before I created a few synthesized versions of some of these instruments and used them in a few songs. this is one of them. Check it out! ;)

Honestly I don't really watch movies or TV or utilize streaming services, and I also kind of despise how people idolize and care about famous people who will never care about them. However when I was in 2nd grade a movie released that was not only one of my favorite movies for a very long time as a kid, but it featured a young actress who really blew me away. At the time I hadn't had similar feelings for the girls around me while growing up, so you could say this is the very first time in my life I had a "crush" on anyone at all.

This young actress was Christina Ricci and that movie was the 1995 release of Casper.

I later saw her older works like The Adam's Family and Mermaids and realized it was her, but younger. She is credited with being the soul reason that Wednesday Adams is a cultural icon. Speaking of being iconic, as a teenager and still to this day as an adult, my personal style is very alligned with goth or gothic culture, and I've since realized that this was a major contributing factor to why I adored Christina Ricci so much when I was growing up.

Again, I have never made famous people a figure in my life, but this actress absolutely had a number of very relatable factors about her that made her appeal to me when I was young.
At one point in time there was a school project to write a famous person, and I ended up writing a really simple letter going on about enjoying her portrayals and acting skills, I recall getting a signed photograph from her or her agency but it was misplaced many years ago while I was moving from home to home as a child.

So there, you got me to admit it. When I was young I had a huge crush on Christina Ricci.
Even as an adult I absolutely do not fault my adolescent taste in members of the opposite sex, in this reguard... I mean... how could you?