User:Selezen

Dave "Selezen" Hughes, is a long-time Elite player and contributor to Oolite.

Contributions to the Elite community include mending his troll-like ways on the EBBS, writing several ship OXPs for Oolite and co-writing the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard OXP. He was part of the "dream team" producing new ship textures for vanilla Oolite as shaders were introduced after Aegidian stepped down as Lead Developer in 2006.

He is best known for out of date bio pages, failed attempts at blogging and never finishing anything he starts if it takes longer than a week.

Although he has been involved with Elite and the spin-off games since 1984, he has only become active in the community since 2005, at which time he developed a troubling tendency to talk about himself in the third person. Before this, his biggest contribution to the community was the creation of an Elite universe roleplaying game which was played around the campus of Nottingham Trent University for over two years.

Interests include programming, web design and graphic design. He penned a webcomic called Battle Barge, based on wargaming and roleplaying, which was completed in 2009 after four years. Oolite is in it at one point, too.

In 2010 he and his wife started an online support network for adults and children suffering from ADHD and its effects.

For some reason Selezen has been given admin status on this wiki. And he didn't even need to kiss anyone's ass. Unusual.

With the long-awaited news that Elite IV was finally coming (otherwise known as Elite Dangerous) Selezen eventually realised that this was a great opportunity to seek the license to write the first official Elite RPG and realise the dream of nearly 20 years.

Elite: Encounters RPG Site

Main Homepage

Selezen's Elite site

Oolite Image Repository - Gallery

The Battle Barge Webcomic

Butterflies Derbyshire ADHD Support Network

Note Selezen's old daftworks site has been replaced by his newer daftworks site: https://daftworks.co.uk/tag/selezen/

• Classic Elite Fiction is here
• YouTube site

• Personalities OXP

    "personalities-selezen" = {
        insurance = 500; 
        name = "Commander Tomas David Selezen"; 
        "random_seed" = "0 0 0 0 0 0"; 
        "short_description" = "a short, furry humanoid"; 
    }; 

Added by other hands

• Selezen's role in developing the Oolite lore was crucial in the early days.
  • He crafted OXPs which added elements from Elite lore and also tried to bring in the battle between the Federation and the Empire from Frontier.
  • He also crafted a history of the Ooniverse which fitted with both Classic Elite and Frontier (see the discussion in Lore).
• Selezen was a member of the Dream Team, reworking Aegidian's original Oolite ships to take advantage of the introduction of shaders and other improvements

Selezen's OXP's

Elite Lore

• Tionisla Orbital Graveyard - Selezen was the one who got this mammoth project off the ground
• Selezen's S-Ships - a souped up, prettied up GalCop SWAT Viper plus the Oresrian Trader.

Frontier Lore

• Eagle Mk II - was intended to start bringing the world of Frontier into Oolite, together with the rivalry between the Federation and the Empire
• Imperial Courier (Oolite) - there are now several newer versions of this
• Spy Hunter OXP - mission

Oolite

• Cobra III NjX
• Thargoid Carrier - updated since Selezen's original

Other

• Capisastra OXP
• Chelonian bulk cargo carrier (2012) - pictures on previous page of thread
• Icarus (Oolite)