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Space elevators
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Gil Warden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-05-30 12:58:30 UTC
One question about the Space elevators seen in CCP trailers.

The question is, will there be a limit of one such elevator per planet, owned by whomever holds systems sovereignty and tethered to the "customs station", or one per district on that planet?
Horatius Caul
Kitzless
#2 - 2013-05-30 14:51:31 UTC
That's a game design question, not a lore question.

Amarrad - Amarr language project
Gil Warden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-05-30 14:59:44 UTC
It's both, actually.

In the book "Empyrean Age" they had multiple elevators per planet. From what I recall, each corporation more or less had their own.

The Game design aspect stops where the players are able to lift items off the planet, it really is of no consequence if that happens by rocket, elevator or something else.

And I am asking as I intend to use elevators in my story. Eventually.
Horatius Caul
Kitzless
#4 - 2013-05-30 17:01:33 UTC
The only space elevators I can recall being mentioned in the books were at Amamake and Piak, and I'm not too sure of that last one.

If TEA says there are several elevators on a planet then I doubt anyone would complain if you made one up for another planet.

Amarrad - Amarr language project
Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#5 - 2013-05-31 01:05:15 UTC
The lore also says that POS systems can only be anchored in orbit of a Moon, not in deadspace, and only one per moon.

Wheras in reality they would be parked blobbing choke points, jump through to the next system and..... 2 dozen deathstars have you...

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Eija-Riitta Veitonen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-05-31 09:02:33 UTC
Kirjava wrote:
The lore also says that POS systems can only be anchored in orbit of a Moon, not in deadspace, and only one per moon.

Wheras in reality they would be parked blobbing choke points, jump through to the next system and..... 2 dozen deathstars have you...

Not intending to derail the thread, however CCP did mention player-owned sentry guns deployable in null-sec long-long time ago...