very funny. all those fancy words detract from the actually capability of the items.

Limited cpu on missiles??? you could easily have missiles controlled through a quantum subspace link to a master control computer on a command ship, or station 3 sectors away. if it actually required a super computer to not hit a hill.

200 pounds for a scout suit? AWESOME! that's light enough that i am sure some guy in Pakistan can figure out how to make it jump 2.1 feet.

why dose weight even matter? the damn thing can magically cancel out my inertia as i land on the planet FROM ORBIT, but you tell me i cant jump 2.1 feet at the cost of POWER.

you come and explain this stuff with nice fancy words, but all i see is, its make CHEAP, QUICK, and from time tested 400 year old tech.

all of the stuff outlined in your 'lore" could be invented in less than 80 years. we already have bullets that blow up at a pre-determined distance from a target turning them into little frag grenades.

your explanations on how everything works is flawless, because its all to simplistic. Grounded by modern physics (100% wrong) and more likely to be the reality of war in less than 200 years.

its great sci-fi it really is, but its so short of 1000 years its not even funny.

so the dust 514 universe is sort of similar too the Empire in the Empire series by Asimov, they are sort devolved technologically and tactically? more like using startrek replicators to make colt 1911's because its the only schematic we know how to load into it?

I only used it as a very simple analogy to anchor myself, and show you where i was anchored at.

Basically Dust is a game with 1000 years in the future tech, and a bunch of duct tape holding it together with some super simple technology strapped too it with bailing wire. because advanced tech is actually more like artifacts and relics, war is more likely to be waged with whatever can be spit out from the matter reconstitution factory's without breaking them.


seems like the whole universe was designed around "how can we balance a game with such futuristic gubbins??" I don't know! lets just make it all broken, so we can overlook some things and think less about how such technology is used and countered.

Although I do like the idea of not making missiles too smart that they can't be hacked, but at the current rate Encryption is growing it is outpacing computing to the point that in 100 years you will need to wait 1000 years till you have a computer powerful enough to crack it. and if its communication was based around entanglement, there is no way too mimic the signal and take over the missile because its literally tied to its controller in the most unshakable way.

Although I do like the idea of not making missiles too smart that they can't be hacked, but at the current rate Encryption is growing it is outpacing computing to the point that in 100 years you will need to wait 1000 years till you have a computer powerful enough to crack it. and if its communication was based around entanglement, there is no way too mimic the signal and take over the missile because its literally tied to its controller in the most unshakable way.

lovely history lesson on some interesting and inspired lore.

yet its a poor excuse for the lack of imaginative warfare/game-play.

Now i am left wondering, do all of the eve universe get their warp drives from some super advanced race that is kind enough to offer such tech to further galactic trade?

this would be similar too the Revelation Universe of Alastair reynolds, where relativistic engines near the speed of light have not actually been invented by most races/forgotten and one rather mysterious race of super modified humanoids (they overclocked their brains to the point of needing heat-sinks and over 10,000 calories a day) are the care takers of these drives. Although is such a universe FTL is not possible, the technology for weapons and warfare makes Dust look like rocks and sticks.

tell me of this magic device?

With all the eve lore running around here, is there any on terrans? I have heard of the super Wedon the amarrians feared but not much else. I'd love to see some stuff on them.

yeah, unfortunately that tech is still 50 years away, and current encryption that is used in common place is designed to be cracked in case of emergency need. We have encryption technology, if we ever needed it that is too hard to crack.

But the idea off hacking a smart missile just brings along an all new game-play mechanic, a gun that hacks missiles mid fight and sends them to the nearest enemy vessel/sender.

again, not really a lack of tech i suppose, just a lack of imaginative game play mechanics.

What did I start reading... so many walls of text.

Besides the chronicles, there are three published books, in publication order:

The Empyrean Age

The Burning Life

Templar One

Templar One is the DUST tie in book.

One of the things I've grown to like about the EVE milieu is the "high tech-low life" aspect.

You have, on one hand immortal pod pilots that can harness god-like powers who hold the wealth of nations in their hands and on the other, poor dirt sucking slobs chipping knives from flint or slaving away for their Amarr masters . . . all in the same setting.

Also, there is some rather good EVE machime in the form of Clear Skies Not exactly cannon, but there are no big inconsistencies, and it's won some awards.