Lore Collection (Classic Elite)

This OXP downloads a collection of other OXPs to help emulate the cosmos described in the Lore of Classic Elite

FPO Lave

Tionisla Orbital GraveYard

Generation Ship

Deep Space Dredger

Emerald-class Liner

Ophidian yacht

Energy bomb

Overview

This OXP installs the following OXP's:

• FPO Lave - Stranger's lore-based depiction of Lave
• Lave Academy - the academy for training pilots
• Tionisla Orbital Graveyard - described in the Dark Wheel
• Jane's Galactic Shipset - restores the ship descriptions of Classic Elite
• Generation Ships - described in the The Space Traders Flight Training Manual
• Deep Space Dredgers - described in the The Space Traders Flight Training Manual
• Liners - mentioned in the Dark Wheel (with Liners Markets & BigShips added for functionality)
• Griff Ophidian - contains the Ophidian described in the Dark Wheel
• Energy Bomb - (almost) as exists in Classic Elite and as described in The Space Traders Flight Training Manual & the Dark Wheel
• New Cargoes - allows trade in Vargon mind-silk and Shanaskilk furs as described in the Dark Wheel.

Missing from this OXP

The following OXP's contain elements described in the Classic Elite Lore but are not included for the reasons mentioned:

• Lave OXP - vital! But is not on the Expansions Manager for licensing reasons. Download from the Lave OXP page and place in your AddOns Folder.

It adds advertising droids, restaurant craft, trainee pilots & instructors, as well as Lave's moon, Basta.

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  Advertising Droid

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  Instructor for trainee pilots

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  Lave's moon

• Planet Forests & Planet Oceans ensure that the Classic Elite descriptions are matched by what you see on your viewscreens. Not yet on the Expansions Manager, download from here
• Oresrian Trader. The link to this - OXP - has expired, and spare copies have yet to be found!
• Dark Wheel Cobra (2011) or DWCobra (2006)
• Renegade Pirates OXP (2008): The Dark Wheel society?

Non-BBC variants

This OXP does not include the variants of Classic Elite for other platforms, many of which added more ships, missions etc. For a list of such ships see Jason Togneri's list here: Complete ship object list & Complete Ship List. And see Griff's ArcElite under Links, below.

Missing from Oolite entirely

• Raxxla
• The Dark Wheel society
• The unregistered planet Cirag
• Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy (unfinished, only an alpha version exists) - but you might like the Galactic Navy OXP which may need tweaking, depending on your computer.

But if you have the skills, you could create some of these for Oolite!

Tip

Read New Cargoes Trading Advice! And take some of the training courses at the Lave Academy!

Links

• Lore meta-oxp's (2021)
• Classic Elite
• The Dark Wheel
• The Space Traders Flight Training Manual
• Lore

Also

• Griff ArcElite - new versions of the native Oolite ships textured & shaded to resemble how they originally appeared in the Acorn Archimedes version of Elite, adds some extra ships from Elite 'A', Elite2 and BBC\C64 Elite.

Download, License and other gubbins

• Downloadable through the in-game Expansions Manager or from File:Oolite.oxp.Cholmondeley.Lore Collection (Classic Elite).oxz.
• Author: Cholmondely
• License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Gratifications

Thanks to Spara & Phkb for helping give me the skills to do this. This meta-oxp is based on Norby's - and he was very encouraging. Others also helped & encouraged: Stranger, cag, Montana05 & Hiran.

Version History

• Version 1.1 adopting recommendations from Phkb, Montana05 & Ramen
• Version 1.0 Original concept, based on Classic Elite game code, The Space Traders Flight Training Manual & Holdstock's The Dark Wheel. Not enough of Imprint's lore seems to have been transmogrified into oxp's to make emulating it feasible.

Gameplay and Balance Indicator

Adds markets (Dredger & Liners), training (Lave Academy) and the player-favouring energy bomb. The more challenging (and avoidable) New Cargoes does not counterbalance these benefits.