Welcome Commanders and Rush fans! And if you are both a Commander and a Rush fan then twice welcome! I hope you all had a wonderful Yuletide. Being autistic I find this time of year a struggle. And this year it has been a bigger struggle than ever. If it wasn’t for Elite Dangerous I don’t think I’d handle things as stoically as I seem to manage. It’s a lifeline for me. Thankfully the season is almost at an end. Spring will be here soon and the days are getting longer again. I would just like to thank the great people at Frontier Developments for this game. It guides me through the mire.
So! Twenty ships purchased. Only eighteen to go! The light may not be at the end of the tunnel yet, but I can smell the fresh air! Mind you it’s a pretty fun tunnel to be in as tunnels go. Those last two ships were an absolute blast to fly, so much so that I purchased them both in my PC account too! Exploring tenuous atmospheric planets in a chrome covered Imperial Courier is a joy that defies description. It is such a beautiful ship! The way the starlight gleams of the chrome hull! I could gaze at her for hours. The only thing I find a bit disconcerting is the view from the cockpit. And that’s because I’m not playing in VR. That’s how that particular cockpit is meant to be viewed. I would love to play Elite Dangerous in VR. It’s a dream of mine. But persuading Wifeborger of the benefits of splashing out on a pricey VR setup is another matter. Especially after splashing out on a 3000 series gpu pc.
I’ve been reading Reclamation by Drew Wagar. He describes the Courier as, “a dream of spaceflight rendered into art” – such a beautiful way to sum up its image. Flying around in it is such immense fun. That, I find, is one of the joys of Elite Dangerous. You don’t really have to be achieving anything in order to have fun. You don’t have to keep progressing all the time. Just muck about, experiment, do things you’ve never done before. Canyon running, for example, or circumnavigating a small moon in an SRV. Get as close as you can to a neuron star or get caught in the exclusion zone of a black hole. But I’m getting away from the point. I really enjoyed reading Reclamation and am eagerly looking forward to reading his other books. Well, listening to anyway. I don’t have any time to read on top of playing Elite and writing this blog. So I listen to audiobooks while I’m busy with some of the dozens of daily duties I am bound to. So if you are a Commander and have never heard of Drew then I cannot recommend his writing enough. And if you are a Rush fan and enjoy a bit of gripping sci-fi then he has written lots of other books as well! So check him out.
Also my site has passed one thousand views! Never imagined it would get that many this quickly! I just want to say a huge thank you to every one of you for donating your time to have a butchers at my humble website.
Lots of things planned to be added in the very near future. A piece on Rush virtuoso guitarist Alex Lifeson to come very soon, as well as a couple more PC ships. Also, it shouldn’t be too much longer until I buy the next two ships to accompany the next Rush album and then, by the end of next week, I ought to have published the next episode in my Fuel Rat Diaries! So toodle pip all you lovely Rush fans and ED Commanders! Have an awesome rest of the week and a very, very Happy New Year! o/
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