The people at Just have invited commanders to record a three minute video describing what Elite Dangerous means to them. This is my video, looking back over fourteen key news events from ten years of the #EliteDangerous Galaxy. It was hard to decide what to include and what to miss out!

Lyriext AI-I d10-0 is a recent discovery, only about 6,500 LY from the Bubble. In a region full of neutron stars and water worlds, I found this system with a ringed Earthlike world close to a gas giant surrounded by rather photogenic moons, and a bit further from the star a landable moon with lovely warm colours and some quite unusual vegetation. An added bonus is that the system is 2,000 LY below the galactic plane, so you can clearly see the disc of the Milky Way galaxy.

There's a fair amount of vulcanism on these close-orbiting bodies in the Aucownst sector. It takes only a couple of minutes to fly from one to the other - the "orbital cruise" limits intersect.

3310 has been a busy year in Elite Dangerous! The conclusion of the Thargoid War, the new SCO drive, four new ships, improvements to engineering and Powerplay 2.0. Let's hope 3311 is just as full of excitement and innovation, and perhaps slightly fewer Thargoids.

Bio-Scanning for Fun and Profit

We're going bio-scanning! Grab a ship and let's go!

Two nebulas that suffer from Thargoid infestation. The orange California Nebula with one of Archon Delaine's starports, and the blue Pleiades nebula, with an Aegis megaship in the foreground.

I hadn't tried Powerplay until 2.0 was released. In this video, I recount my actual first-day experience, with didactic intent - I try to show the individual commander's version of Powerplay, and how it all works, from pledging to completing the first week's missions and earning the first Powerplay rank.

There's a strategic, 3-D chess aspect to Powerplay too, but that's for the advanced player. Perhaps there's another video waiting to be made....

Frontier's Halloween events have been pretty scary over the past few years. The Holloway Biosciences event (the one with heat-seeking flesh-eating alien spiders) was pretty good, but I liked this year's event too. It features a treasure hunter and the ghost of a famous pirate. It doesn't end well....