CMDR Datan0de
@cmdr-datan0de
Feed of Kallisto Rigg, fictional space cowboy and my Elite Dangerous alter ego. I post both in and out of character. Avatar credit: The High Wake
Holy frijoles! Big Trouble in Little China was released 40 years ago today! Looks like an excuse to rewatch it while working/Operationsing!
I know that ship! It's the TTA Colonial III! 😎 (Or at least that's what I know of it as.) You can see this painting turned into animation here: youtu.be/FQunbwFw2VI?...
When the combat zone is literally right above home, seeing my beautiful Leesti inspires me to fight harder. I wanted to ring my mother mid-battle and tell her to go outside & look up. Of course I didn't. I'm far more afraid of her wrath than I am of these Sirius goons! #IndependentLeestiForEquality
Somehow, 102 CMDRs were able to get into the instance together! #DW3 #DistantWorlds3
Last (?) mass jump of the Distant Worlds 3 expedition. Sideys leading the charge! 😀 #DistantWorlds3 #DW3
It's all just so damn pretty out there. So why does my uncle have to ruin it with his commentary? #CrimsonJakk: "You'd see things like this if you got out from under yer mum's skirt and left the Bubble, boy!" Me: "Nice Sidewinder you got there, Jakk. You steal that one too?" He means well. Maybe.
The thrill of scanning the beacon to get the DW3 ship decal... ...and the less than spectacular display on Crimson Jakk's paint-worn Mandalay. I still wear both the white smudge and the worn paint with pride! #DistantWorlds3 #DW3 #CrimsonJakk
This looked much better once we got a new formation set up. #DistantWorlds3 #DW3 #MassJump
"V" was such a huge event! Or at least, it was among my junior high friends and I. I looked forward to it for months, and when it finally aired it did not disappoint! Pity its lessons seem to have been forgotten by so many here. The opening dedication still sticks with me.
I slide into the jet cone, but can't stay in it long enough to get a supercharge. I try again and again, getting more aggressive with each approach. Growing frustrated, I try entering the cone flying *toward* the dwarf. Bad things happen fast.
[THREAD] Last night I was so embarrassingly daft that I *have* to share my humiliating boneheadedness with all of you. Your mockery is welcome. I've earned it. I pick up my spiffy new Lynx, do some quick engineering, swap the docking computer for a module reinforcement, and head out to Lhou Mans.
I'm not apologizing for this. The Lynx is a prisoner transport. (See alt text) I now own two of them.
Had to stop to surface mine Niobium to synth the jumponium to get here, but SO worth it! #RainbowsEnd #DistantWorlds #StellarScreenshots
Do silent movie count? (This poster is hanging outside my office door.) I could easily name a dozen and not be able to pick a single favorite, but Metropolis was the first that jumped in my head.
I don't care if it's gaudy. This is the laser pistol I want in real life. Ever wonder what guns would look like if Miami Vice had been a sci-fi show? Now you know! 🌴🚀🔫🌴🌇 #TKZenith #EliteDangerous www.elitedangerous.com/store/produc...
But I can't stay here forever. The expedition has moved on and I need to catch up. I cruise low over Salomé's Reach and fire off a private fireworks display to thank this place for the rest. I lift off, and briefly have everything behind me and nothing but void ahead before turning. (2/2)
I've long said that even jumping dozens of light years in seconds isn't fast enough to outrun the ghosts in my head, but out here at the very edge, as the Farthest Man From Home, I feel a quiet sense of peace I haven't known in a very long time. Part of me yearns to stay here. (1/2) #CrimsonJakk
Having fallen behind most of the rest of the expedition, but driving hard all day to catch up, today Crimson Jakk paid his respects at VonRictofen's Rescue before heading out to the Semotus Beacon, finally camping for the night beneath the Milky Way on Salome's Reach. #DistantWorlds3 #DW3