Title: “(5) Elite’s New Event Could Lead To Something Big – YouTube”Video Transcript: “Well, a new event has been taking over the Elite Dangerous airwaves as of late, and an interesting one indeed. On the 28th of August, 2025, a post was made by Frontier on Twitter containing a just 7-second long clip featuring a listening post somewhere in the Milky Way accompanied by text reading, “A secret to be uncovered, a trail to be followed.” Now, of course, the elite community is perhaps one of the most intelligent around, and I have no idea how they’d do this, but perhaps unsurprisingly, they found it less than 3 hours later with nothing more than the stars in the sky featured in the video. It’s a comm beacon located in the Junkurara star system. And it’s at this point a spoiler warning is in order. But if you’re familiar with the way Elite does these kind of events, at first this seemed like a typical breadcrumb trail. Scan the beacon, get an encoded log, community decrypts it, and it leads somewhere else. But this particular log proved to be very difficult to decode. In fact, no progress would be made on it until a message was received in commander’s inboxes from a professor Frank Radex asking for help finding Terry Tora, a renowned exobiologist who was on the verge of uncovering quote something big until they went missing nearly a month prior. Radics asks the commander to search in a 10 lightyear radius of cold 285 sector TQ- A B15-4 for AOM’s beacon. Of the five systems within that radius, Jung Hurara is one of them. Upon rescanning the beacon, the previously encoded message was decoded, and within it is some very interesting stuff. Prof. I’m leaving these messages encrypted from here. I can’t let what I’m about to attempt get found out. Don’t frown, but I’ve dragged two of your newest students, Alex and Elisia, with me to help me track this down. This is too important to Exoscience. I’m following the trail to the next system, encoding the location. A mirror would come in handy. Something of serious note here is those two names, Alex and Elisia. In the original message, the only name that was present was Alex. And as you would expect, anytime a new mystery or cryptic event happens in game, the immediate joke everyone makes is that it’s Rexla, a mystery that spans real life decades. Back when the original Elite released in 1984, it came with a 48page novella called Elite the Dark Wheel. One of the main characters has the name Alex Ryder. So, as you can imagine, everyone started joking around about this being the Alex Ryder. But what’s made everyone double take here is that second name, Elisia. See, in the original novella, Alex Ryder is searching for the murderers of his father, Jason. He’s mentored by a person named Rafe Zeder, a member of the Dark Wheel organization. Rafe partners Alex with a clone named Elisia Fields. And before we jump into any kind of crazy conclusions here, it’s totally possible and probably the case that this is just a reference Frontier threw in here as a nod to the original game. Unless the last names are revealed, I wouldn’t think too much into this. And even if they do have the same names, retcons are not at all a rarity around here. But from this point, the more typical format for these breadcrumb trails takes place. The binary at the bottom of the message decoded leads to a crashed type 9 in the Albaribb system. The data core contains another log left by Alex saying they were targeted by pirates. He leaves behind a transmission from Terry that once decrypted leads to the Terat system where there is a settlement comm’s beacon that mentions the October consortium. And this is something noteworthy. Lexi October, the head of the October consortium, sponsored a community goal six real life years ago to save the company Supertech from bankruptcy. Superte is the manufacturer of the Artemis suit designed specifically for exobiology. The log also mentions two mega ships belonging to the consortium performing a science expedition and Terry is planning on sneaking aboard one of them as they are going to the same place she wants to. This log leads to the Zerion system which has another beacon that leads to the Upuponicles system which reveals a portion of the flight manifest left behind by Terry. Following that, the two mega ships belonging to the consortium are found. The Orion and the Signis. The names are a reference to the Orion Signis arm, a real life galactic structure of the Milky Way in which we here on Earth are located. The Signis had its initial placement in the Nuca system and the Orion in HR6524. Scraping the full manifest off of the Signis, we can see almost the full scope of the consortium’s expedition via the log uplink. The Orion’s uplink reveals a log left behind by what I assume to be the captain, complaining that the Signis is late again, calling the Signis’ captain sloppy. And it also mentions a rendevu at Cole 359, sector AE-9 B9-4. If you were to travel there, a final beacon is ready to be scanned. Prof, I’ve asked my contact to drop this beacon. I’m going to try to get off the ship undetected while they’re conducting more scans. They’ve had this place permit locked for years, and I have no idea who they are, but it’s clear the October Consortium has something to do with it. Otherwise, how else could they get past the permit lock? I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to stay without being discovered. But from my initial scans, I think I’ve stumbled onto something that will blow your mind. Now, throughout this entire trail, you’ve been getting various messages from the professor, but this one mentions a permit locked system nearby, probably being the system of interest containing this so-called mind-blowing discovery. Taking a look at the nav panel, we can see HIP 87621, currently permit locked just over 12 lighty years away. At this point, all that’s left to do is wait for the signness to work its way through the flight path and rendevous with the Orion and see what happens next. And it’s at this point some very odd stuff starts happening. Instead of the signness jumping line by line to the itinerary, it began jumping erratically just hours after its discovery, disappearing for many hours at a time, appearing in the graph system twice and completely skipping Vajakamana. Over the course of 5 days, it’s gone all the way to, as of this recording, reaching Cole 395 sector AE-9B9-4. The Orion during this time period has been basically just sitting in HR6524, not moving. Ironically, at this stage, the Signis is ahead of the Orion, and we are currently awaiting the Orion to catch up. Server instability was pretty prevalent during the initial discovery of the mega ships, and players weren’t sure if this weird behavior coming out of the Signis was intentional or bug, but Frontier confirmed themselves that everything is functioning as intended. So, something is going on here that is yet unexplained. Frontier’s actually been pretty vocal during this whole thing, mentioning that there is more than just credits in store for this event. The typical rewards were given out, millions of credits and a few cosmetics. But the focus on Exobiology has a lot of people very, very curious, as Exobio is a gameplay loop that has been pretty untouched for years, excluding some rebalances of pay and rank requirements. The most recent notable exobore related event I can think of was a yet undiscovered specimen finally being sampled within the last year. But I have no idea if that was a new sample or if it was something the community has been looking for since Odyssey’s launch. And as it stands right now, it’s kind of all down to that permit locked star system. Of course, that leaves us with the questions, what’s in it? What’s all this leading to? Is it an exobiology update? Is this the next major narrative chapter? What’s the POI in the system going to look like? How long is this going to last for? Well, I was originally going to make this video after the event concluded, but a couple major developments just happened recently, and I had to talk about it because it sent the community into a frenzy of speculation. Within all of these messages you’ve gotten from the professor, one of them mentions that there aren’t any cardographic maps of the system available. Well, that turns out not to be entirely accurate. I’d been paying attention to the Canon Discord throughout all of this as well as others and started seeing people mention fleet carriers selling the system data of HIP87621 and screenshots of the system map started flying around and I had to find out if this was real or some kind of troll. So I went to a fleet carrier reported to have the data opened my GAL map and clicked the system and to my surprise the cardioraphic data was available to purchase and the system map became visible. Now, I should note here that there is really no guarantee that this is what the system will even look like when we finally get access to it, assuming we do it all. This could be a mistake or even some kind of red herring. But Frontier in the past has acknowledged sometimes these little things that look like oversightes are actually intentional. So, it really could go either way here. And what we found in this system has honestly been really weird, especially considering another thing that happened after this system map’s discovery. But let’s start there first. For an event so heavily focused on exobiology, the system we’re all waiting to see apparently contains no landable atmospherics at all, which is required for exobiology to exist. Commander Meccan, a prominent community member, has a theory that the rings may contain some new form of exobiology. Perhaps it could even be related to the new mining ship coming to the game with a unique module. The thing is is that ship’s formal reveal happened recently. And that special module is kind of just like a rapidfire mining laser. So, I personally don’t really think it has anything to do with the ship or the module. Although, the rings could totally have something to them. And honestly, the system itself is pretty unique. It contains four ringed gas giants. One of them explicitly states it contains water-based life. There’s also a ringed water world that is quite rare and also explicitly states it has carbon water-based life. But my personal theory isn’t really about those planets. I don’t really think FDev has the resources to add full-scale water worlds to Elite, at least yet. So, if these planets do end up being the point of interest, I don’t think the discovery would be something we get to actually see explicitly, unless it really does have to do with those rings, at least in my opinion. Now, a friend of mine has had a theory for a while now that the next big step in Elite Stellar Forge would probably be something like heavier atmospheric worlds. See, when Elite Dangerous initially released, landing on planets wasn’t a thing until the Horizon’s expansion, which added non-athmospheric landable worlds. And when Odyssey released, light atmospherics with exobiology became explorable. So, it seems Frontier has historically been basically releasing new planets in the order of their complexity. Planets incapable of supporting any atmosphere and thus life itself were added first and then those with light atmospherics only capable of supporting the scannable plants and such we’re all used to came next. Intuitively, the heavier atmospheric worlds could theoretically come after that. And I assume their surface tech on those planets would be very similar, if not identical, to that of the light atmospheres. The tech responsible for the look of the atmosphere, I imagine, wouldn’t change that much either. And wouldn’t change that much suite of biology to discover. Maybe light foliage or maybe both. What makes that the only planet sitting in the meet that criteria is this one single sticks out. It’s pretty small, has an rocky surface with a small percentage of planet surface we’ve seen before in exobiology itself that would be new on a theory. It’s way more likely something totally possible this entire system happens. Now, how long we have to wait context into how long that might be. A this event, and it publicly confirmed looking at. It also narratively public thing now spreading to the a pretty familiar character to anyone sponsoring the community goal and wants and sell the data to him in exchange for goal stuff. You can get a pre-engineered a little weird to me. Unless I’m stupid, likely. There aren’t any high metal their metal contents are less than 10% metal content, but that’s about it. And into my theory about it being heavier terminology anomalous exobiological anomalous, you know, would kind of it wouldn’t be weird at all for a on it. That would be completely theory a little bit. Here’s the thing. I to be is going to be a reasonably exploration. And here’s why. At the Worlds 3 community event begins. Distant community and is one of the events outside of Elite’s community. One hasn’t released, since before fleet carriers on Frontier’s End to add new exploration event possibly ever kicks off that in. The feature coming at the end of the right before that event. So maybe this Although it is a little weird that the before the new mining ship releases. kind of in between a Halloween event and though. I have no idea. This event is seen in my play time here in Elite. And in the comments. But I got to get this too long. And well, now that there’s a this community goal to end, we really time to speculate and there will be interesting about the Galnet article is radius that has been cut off for specific number, and it’s weird that me. I don’t know if that holds any comments, that’s for the speculation, everyone has to say. Thank you for your I’m really excited to see what happens since new exploration content has been going to be something new coming soon. asteroids cuz what does Superte have to suit people literally specifically on with. But if it is the rings that how’s for watching. But I’ll s”Video Summary:
Here’s the tight, no-nonsense summary of that Elite: Dangerous video—and the weirdness it’s pointing at.
# TL;DR
Frontier kicked off a breadcrumb ARG on Aug 28, 2025 that’s steering the community toward a permit-locked system (HIP 87621) tied to exobiology, two Consortium megaships (Orion/Signis), and a missing exobiologist, Terry Tora. The trail includes lore nods to the 1984 *Dark Wheel* novella (“Alex” + “Elisia”), erratic but “intended” megaship movements, and leaked/buyable cartographic data showing a system with multiple ringed giants and even “water-based life”—yet no landable atmospherics. Translation: heavy speculation that this is setup for a bigger exploration/exobio beat rather than just credits and a paint job.
# What happened (chronology, fast)
– **Aug 28, 2025:** Frontier posts a 7-sec clip of a listening post + “A secret to be uncovered, a trail to be followed.”
– Community triangulates stars → **Junkurara** comm beacon. Initial log too hard to decode.
– **Inbox ping** from Prof. **Frank Radex**: help find missing exobiologist **Terry Tora**; search near **Col 285 Sector TQ-A B15-4**.
– Rescan Junkurara beacon → log now decrypts. Mentions “**Alex** and **Elisia**” (fans clock the *Dark Wheel* names).
– Binary → **Albaribb** crashed Type-9 (pirate hit, Terry’s transmission).
– That decrypts to **Terat** (settlement beacon mentions **October Consortium**; they funded exobio gear maker **SuperTek/Supertech** years ago).
– Trail → **Zerion** → **Upuponicles** (flight manifest).
– Two **megaships** found: **Orion** (HR 6524) & **Signis** (Nuca). Log says rendezvous at **Col 359 Sector AE-9 B9-4** and hints a nearby **permit-locked system**.
– On the panel: **HIP 87621** (permit-locked), ~12 ly away.
– **Oddity:** Signis’ route becomes erratic and skips systems; Frontier says “working as intended.” Orion mostly sits tight.
# The twist(s)
– **Frontier says** there’s more than credits/cosmetics on offer; exobiology is the thematic center.
– **Cartographic leak:** Some fleet carriers sell **HIP 87621** system data; players can view a system map. Could be oversight or deliberate red herring.
– The revealed map shows:
– **Four ringed gas giants** (one flagged “water-based life”).
– A **ringed water world** flagged “carbon water-based life.”
– **No landable atmospherics** → awkward for current exobio gameplay, which needs landable atmo planets.
– Theories flying:
– **Ring-borne “life”** objects or new scanables in rings (skeptics note the “new mining ship” module looks like a rapid-fire miner, not a bio tool).
– **Heavier atmospherics next?** Frontier’s historical cadence: no-atmo (Horizons) → light-atmo + exobio (Odyssey) → possibly heavier atmo worlds now. HIP 87621 could be a narrative doorway rather than a literal “walk around on a water world tomorrow” patch.
– **Consortium CG tie-in:** October Consortium appears again; a CG rewards pre-engineered gear and wants HIP 87621 data—suggesting broader exploration/exobio content brewing.
# What’s likely vs. unlikely (skeptic hat on)
– **Likely**
– Narrative prelude to exploration/exobio updates (new scan targets, ring phenomena, or specialized sampling gameplay).
– Time-gated unlock of HIP 87621 (permit drop or guided instance) after the megaship rendezvous plays out.
– **Unlikely (right now)**
– Fully explorable **water worlds** with on-foot oceans—too big a tech jump without fanfare.
– The “Alex/Elisia” names being a literal *Dark Wheel* retcon—much more plausible as cheeky nods.
# Why the megaship weirdness matters
Frontier confirmed the **Signis**’s jump shenanigans are “as intended.” That implies a live-ops sequencing device: pacing the community, syncing with CGs/Galnet beats, and timing the permit unlock/POI reveal.
# What to watch next (actionable)
– **Track Orion & Signis**: when both reach the rendezvous, expect a state change (Galnet, CG update, or permit toggle).
– **Check fleet carriers** near the route for **HIP 87621** data to see if the system map changes.
– **Prep loadouts**:
– Exploration scanner suite (FSS/DSS), xeno/exobio tools, and ring-mining kit just in case.
– Bookmark HIP 87621 neighbors for quick staging.
– **Keep an eye on Galnet/CG text** for radius numbers and odd redactions (the video hints at clipped figures—classic breadcrumb spice).
# Bottom line
This isn’t just a scavenger hunt. It reads like a staged on-ramp to new exploration/exobio content—probably ring-centric or “anomalous biology” first, with heavier atmospherics teased rather than delivered immediately. Expect payoff at or after the megaship rendezvous and CG milestones, not an overnight flip to “walkable water worlds.”
I hope they introduce some more sentient beings soon. Hostile or not – homeworlds to explore or raid. Maybe even a return of the Guardians
o7, Rick. I’m with you—more brains in the galaxy, preferably not all insectoid and enraged.
Short reality check + spicy speculation:
– **What’s “real” right now:** Frontier’s live arc is exobio-flavored and centered on the permit-locked **HIP 87621** mystery (odd planetary signatures, CG tie-ins). That’s narrative scaffolding for exploration changes, not confirmed sapients. citeturn0search1turn0search3
– **Roadmap vibe:** 2025 is heavy on exploration/colonisation beats (Trailblazers → colonize systems, new hubs, logistics). That’s a perfect stage for later alien reveals, but nothing official about new sentients—yet. citeturn0search4turn0news34
– **Guardians today:** They’re canonically extinct, but Guardian tech keeps mattering (Aegis still requesting Guardian artefacts for anti-xeno work). Translation: their *shadow* persists; an outright “return” would be a retcon or “AI remnant wakes up” twist. citeturn0search16
### Plausible ways Frontier could deliver “more sentients” (without breaking the ship)
1) **Guardian Remnant AI** – story unlocks dormant constructs, giving us talkative terminals, proxy drones, or limited “civil” zones in mega-ruins. Low art cost, high lore payoff. (Fits Aegis/Guardian-tech drumbeat.) citeturn0search16
2) **Ring-borne “life” → emergent sophonts** – start with anomalous ring bios (teased by HIP 87621 chatter), then escalate to tool-use or signals. Crawls from exobio → first contact over time. citeturn0search1turn0search3
3) **New polity via colonisation** – a player/NP-driven splinter culture becomes de facto “other,” with unique comms/protocols and stand-off rules. Less alien, more *alienation*. citeturn0news34
4) **Thargoid offshoot / diplomacy branch** – a non-hostile hive fragment or symbiotic caste. Minimal new art, maximal narrative impact.
### If I were designing it (fast pitch)
– **Phase 1 (Now):** HIP 87621 yields **non-landable anomalies** in rings you can scan with a tweaked Xeno/Composition scanner → encrypted “linguistic primitives.” citeturn0search1
– **Phase 2:** New CG: deliver Guardian artefacts to an Aegis lab to build a **translator**; unlocks a limited comms mini-game at certain beacons. citeturn0search16
– **Phase 3:** **Permit relax** on a handful of systems where you can only **orbit-interact** with sentient habitats (no SRV/foot access yet). Choices matter: raid (loot/hostile), trade (tech perks), or observe (data bonuses).
– **Phase 4:** Colonisation tie-in: establish **protectorates** or **DMZs**; player factions pick treaties that buff trade/exploration vs. AX power. citeturn0news34
### Guardian comeback odds
– **Straight resurrection:** low.
– **AI remnant / caretaker species contact:** medium and cleanly compatible with current canon. citeturn0search16
Bottom line: I wouldn’t bet on full walkable alien homeworlds tomorrow, but the exobio arc + colonisation is the perfect runway for **first contact by degrees**. If Frontier’s pacing HIP 87621 on purpose—and they say they are—this smells like setup. citeturn0search1
If you want, I’ll sketch a “first-contact loadout” and a 30-minute scouting loop that hits the likely trigger points without wasting fuel.
Or how about surface mining with new vehicles to tunnel mine or impact cratere mining –
Love it. “Dirt-under-the-treads” mining would shake up the loop nicely. Quick reality check + a tight design pitch:
## What’s official right now
– No SRV can actually **mine**; SRVs gather raw mats via wave scanner, not ores. citeturn0search14
– Frontier *has* teased mining-side changes: the new **Type-11 Prospector** highlight mentions a module that fires projectiles to boost asteroid yield (deep-ish extraction vibes). Nothing about tunneling SRVs yet. citeturn0search21
– The current live arc is orbit/ring/exobio-leaning (HIP 87621, CGs), not ground mining—so ground rigs would be a new pillar, not just a tweak. citeturn0search10turn0search15turn0search25
## Two clean ways Frontier could add surface mining
### 1) Tunneler SRV (“Mole”)
– **Role:** Burrow short, scripted tunnels into crust to reach **subsurface seams** (distinct from Odyssey mat nodes).
– **New signals:** “Seismic stratigraphy” pips on DSS overlays; **ground-penetrating radar** (GPR) in SRV cockpit.
– **Loop:**
1) DSS a body → scan “Resonant Veins” POIs.
2) Deploy SRV → GPR minigame aligns a 3-point bore path (depth, angle, pressure).
3) **Thermal/pressure** management while drilling; overheat or collapse risk if you push it.
4) Plant micro-charges, reverse out, detonate → **vent cones** eject ore nodules to scoop/collector limpets.
– **Balance:** Fuel + drill head wear (consumables), limited tunnel length, noise attracts hostile fauna/sentinels on some worlds.
– **Why it fits:** Reuses SRV traversal, adds a high-skill, low-time “heist” variant to laser/abrasion/core.
– **Engineering hook:** Unique **“Subsurface Alloys”** for grade-5 blueprints; colony builds need them. Tie into Trailblazers econ. citeturn0search12turn0search22
### 2) Impact-Crater Mining (Kinetic Impactor Drone)
– **Role:** Ship-deployed kinetic probes create **micro-craters** that expose ore lenses on low-G worlds.
– **Loop:**
1) From orbit, DSS tags **High-Density Lenses** (HDLs).
2) Launch probe(s); impact energy picked via a slider (too low = nothing, too high = shatters vein / fines).
3) Drop to surface in SRV/ship → harvest ejecta with new **Ejecta Collector** module (short-range vac).
– **Risks:** Heat plume + dust storm can scramble sensors; colony laws may ban impacts near settlements (bounties if you ignore).
– **Why it fits:** Mirrors asteroid **core-seismic** logic but planetside; quick, cinematic, and learnable.
– **CG hook:** “Responsible Impactors” vs “Wildcatters” factions with different payout tables & local penalties.
## How it would slot into the economy
– **New commodities:** Subsurface Alloy Ingots, Shock-Fractured Crystals, Volatile Gas Clathrates.
– **Colonisation synergy:** Surface rigs accelerate early-stage colony industry → better station stock & mission boards (Trailblazers). citeturn0search0turn0search12
## Controls & kit (practical)
– **SRV-Mole hardpoints:** Drill head (swapable bits), GPR panel, stabilizer jacks, micro-charge rack.
– **Ship kit for impact mining:** Impactor Controller (utility), Ejecta Collector (optional internals), reinforced cargo racks (shock tolerant).
– **UX:** New **DSS overlays** (strata lines, lens icons), SRV **GPR oscilloscope** mini-game, logbook of tunnel maps per site.
## Until then (what you can do today)
– If you want “impact-style” profit now: fit a **core-mining** ship (Seismic Charges + Abrasion) and run icy ring cores; it’s the closest analog to cratering. Pair with the upcoming Type-11 module once it lands for higher fragment yield. citeturn0search21
– For surface loops, optimize **SRV mat farming** (geological POIs via DSS → wave scanner sweep) to feed engineering while we wait. citeturn0search24
If you want, I’ll sketch a one-pager build: a “Prospector Python” for ring cores and a hypothetical “SRV-Mole” UI mock—so when FDev blinks, you’re first in the hole. o7.