The station Obsidian Orbital, in the Maia system, is voiced by the content creator Obsidian Ant.

There are also various items in the game inspired by other sci fi series, for example, you can purchase Leathery Eggs from the station named Ridley Scott, Zaonce. This is an elusion to the eggs that the xenomorph face huggers hatch from in the Alien franchise.

I would love to see a simple entry to the Elite franchise that crosses over with Papers Please.

The premise would be you are an up and coming flight controller in a station of your choice (why not let them pick a station from the galaxy map).

If you get good enough at the game, and with future development, actually integrate this into Open. So if you send a docking request to a station in Open, and someone is playing this other game as the controller there, you would literally see questions etc coming through from them

You would have to answer satisfactorily or not get docking permission.

Obviously there could be ways this could be abused, but nothing that cannot be mitigated through design.

This would go a long way to fleshing out the 'non independent pilots federation' life that most inhabitants of the Elite universe experience.

With the Galactic Superpowers sending the signal that independent pilots are soon going to be approved to charter their own system colonisation, it would appear they have chosen Brewer Logistics as their partner.

In many ways this make s agreat deal of sense. With Brewers proven track record both with the Fleet Carrier License expansion as well as the Colonia Bridge project, they are an ideal manufacturing and logistics partner for the superpowers.

However, things are never as simple as they first appear.

Sirius Corporation appears to be actively focussed on ring fencing some part of the value chain of system colonisation. After their recent hit in Frame Shift Drive sales in response to Achilles Robotics now Super Cruise Overdrive (SCO) developments, it should come as no surprise that Li Yong Rui has somehow managed to capture under his own personal influence, the system containing Brewer Corps manufacturing plants - Minerva.

It cannot be ignored that whilst Brewer are excellent from a manufacturing perspective, they do not take into consideration the needs of existing populations when considering these endeavours, with dissidents of HIP 90578 making quite a scene during Brewers recent exploration data survey.

All in all, the humble civilisation Humanity has built and protected all these years is about to undergo some rapid expansion.

One question many seem to have allowed to fall by the way side is, what will "The Consortium" have to say about this. After all, they are one of the few corporations thus far that has been colonising far away systems, and they also seem to be in bed with the Pilots Federation to secure their own system permits...