Elite Dangerous Lore, The Timeline Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
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If you're a new player, or just want a handy reference to the history of Elite Dangerous, this video will lay out all the major events, century by century. This is the Elite Dangerous Timeline, Part 1.
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Drew Wagar is an official author for Elite Dangerous, having written many missions, lore entries, in-game narrative and two official books - Reclamation and Premonition. Find out more from his website - www.drewwagar.com
I'm not even a new player and I learnt new things, I always found the lore complicated so it's nice to see a video like this!
Bloodyhellfire Drew, another excellent addition to the ED lexicon. Starting to get seriously impressed dude.
After an 8 month break, I'm ready to play again after watching just half of this. (I'm gonna wait to watch the rest during those long, multiple jump trips) Thanks for all your efforts to make this game as complete as it can be.
I just learned about this game last year and I have to say you guys did a remarkable job just listening through the codex tapes gave me chills with the story telling I genuinely hope this doesn't die out anytime soon
This is so cool, i think I'm falling in love with the Elite Dangerous universe
Amazing as usual. You truly bring a passion to the game that I don't even think fdev possesses! Keep up the amazing work Drew. You are an inspiration.
You are probably the best content creator for this game.
Fitting given you wrote the lore to an extent :D
2:00 my eyes rolled back so much they did a 360. Great video tho!
addicted to elite dangerous for about a year now.i don't eat,i don't sleep,i don't wash,and i don't care!
i just fly!
If not the best, one of the most enjoyable and instructional Elite Videos I watch over the years. Thank you Commander!
FYI I would re-title this video, not sure If the “guide for new players” sticks, and is for everyone old and new players
Loved your content enough to order both of your books.
Thank you! :)
Exactly what I needed I hope this is a huge series!
Definitely more coming. I have quite a back catalogue of stuff to work through over the next few months. :) Should keep me busy in lockdown!
@@drewwagar awesome! Thanks!
Fantastic video. It's cool that in the time range that the Elite games are set in, the 21st century is as distant as the dark ages are from us now.
I love your videos drew they always cheer me up
New player. This is useful. I have many games and sims, starting this one is daunting. A background guide like this helps. 👍
You're a great narrator, thanks for the informative chronology!
The auto captions called you 'Druegar' lol, cool name. Said it before but appreciate these videos man.
Fantastic narration and fantastically explained! Marvelous 😎
Liked and subscribed Drew.. Hello from an old £200 Alpha backer :)
I couldn't hit that Sub button quick enough. Thank you for providing this level of quality.
Great narration! Thanks again Drew!
Amazing, I was on the fence on whether to get this game and this convinced me to get it
This is nice. Thank you very much, things are becoming clear
Very nice, Drew! Looking forward to the next one and the Jameson story!
CMDR Shorty. o7
Thank you for that. Answered a few questions I've been having. Can't wait for the next one. You have a new subscriber good sir.
Thank you - more explanatory videos are coming in due course! :)
Excellent work, I look forward to the next instalment.
If anyone including Drew or David Braben know.. My question is how much of the story and the secrets have the player base discovered and are there any mysterious forces lurking in the gaming world of elite or new audio logs to discover.🤔
Now that was a good sumary that i was hoping for
THESE VIDEOS MUST BE IN THE GAME. Its so unfair that they do not move a finger about this and others do this job and do not get a credit
nor financial support. I wonder why their games is going down the pipe.....
Great stuff, Drew!
You should do a super cut version when this series is done also!
Thanks Drew. This is 😎 cool.
Impressive 💫✨Thank you
Premo uploads!
very nice video!
Excellent listening 👍
Long time player here...this is perfect, thank you! When can we expect your next book? ;)
OK so hear me out. If one of the "dangers of a misconfigured jump" is time displacement.... Does that not mean the thargoid could intentionally do the same thing?
Love this!!!
I LOVE videos like this! I've been "head canoning" in the Elite galaxy since the '80s, and am always hungry for anything that adds more depth to this fascinating universe, so thank you!
Two things jump out at me:
1) It never really occurred to me that Lave Station is over 500 years old! Probably not a single original part left in her, but it's always stuck me as odd how long certain organizations, locations, and ship designs persist in Elite.
2) This vid seems to state that the Quirium drive predates the Faraway network. Is that right? It seems backwards. I was under the impression that Faraway was used by the very first FTL-capable ships, requiring that a Faraway station be established at the destination pointbeforehand, presumably by conventional sub-light means. Wasn't the lack of need for this one of the reasons why Quirium dominated? Or was Quirium technology simply not available outside GalCop?
BTW, I love the idea that GalCop star charts omitted Fed and Imperial systems. Excellent retcon!
Quirium is exclusive to GalCop and wasn't available to the Federation or the Empire, the secret of its use being lost when GalCop fell. The Quirium hyperspace drive wasn't available prior to the "Faraway" system, as the limiting factors were the size and modularity of hyperspace technology, which remained a problem until the 28th century. Quirium was a power source prior to this point though. The "Faraway" system did indeed need stations at the destination though, meaning it was very expensive and complex to set up in the first place. Once the navigation issues of hyperspace travel were cracked in the late 31st century, the "Faraway" system became obsolete.
@@drewwagar Ah! That makes perfect sense. Thank you for the reply! I'd never considered the use of Quirium outside of FTL travel before.
nice one.
This is awesome.
I dont even play this game and want to read a book on this lore, such a great story. Great sci-fi.
Seriously, I've had it on my Xbox since probably when it first released but it was so complicated and back then the tutorials were links to TH-cam videos that weren't very... Comprehensive.
About 2 months ago I got tired of No Man's Sky and it's essentially endless plotline and tried to pick up elite again. Games MUCH better and tutorial missions exist BUT the biggest thing that got me playing again was the ED community! I literally don't even have Xbox live Gold at the moment so I'm playing solo, but the sheer amount of support, information, walkthroughs, tips, summaries, and lore videos just really complete this game! Without it I think it would just be another dead space simulator with untapped potential.
I went from being a novice commander who couldn't get flight assist back on to stop bumping into my first space station.... Lol to being a decently equipped commander who knows how to use road to riches on major trips and cruise the neutron highway - and I owe it all to he amazing community of commanders that literally MAKE this game more playable.
These lore videos especially just drive me to go back into my ship and take on the cosmos.
I'm not a super lazy gamer. I'll read the small detail text and never skip any side cutscene or text just in fear of missing some juicy context.
But even then I was finding the entirety of the ED lore impossible to digest. Too much blur between what's game controlled events and community triggered events from after the game was out.
Long winded paragraph aside I just wanted to say Thank You Drew. ❤️ Amazing job mate 👌🏽
i love your narration, and the entire lore of this game. However you did make a mistake at 10:00 where you repeat yourself. just thought you should know... :)
@drew Love your work and commitment to this game, but I've gotta ask where "definitive" comes from - Cannon? FDEV approved? not retconned? etc.and also if that basis for this video will be the basis for similar videos to come.
Definitive in the sense that I've cross referenced all available canon material; historic, in-game and citable. I've removed information that is unreliable, can't be verified or is contradictory. I've removed fan speculation both old and current. Is it Fdev approved? No. But as they haven't curated their lore, this is far more accurate than anything else available until such time as they decide (if they ever do) to produce an authoritative version. Definitely more videos to come. :)
@@drewwagar Thanks Drew. If FDEV ever do decide to curate their lore, there will only be you in the running to do it, so you'll be a star. And if they don't, you'll continue to curate it. And be a star!
Greatness is in those pages
Thank you in so many ways! 💯 o7
Drew Wagar: Which year did the first FSD jump drive appear? Iam trying to find Raxxla and it seems that the jump type FSD was later than 2296. If only large ships had the supercruise FSD drive and most likely a small ship was the one that find Raxxla. It means it has to be a planet INSIDE a system since if it was a large ship we would have more information about it(people talk)
The FSD first appeared in 3297. If you're referring to the first hyperspace jump itself, there is no particular date I'm afraid, but it would have been towards the end of the 22nd century or early 23rd.
this is top!
What soundtrack are you using for the background?
BTW, could you please number these lore videos from one to one hundred for example that we can watch it uninterrupted. Now it's a bit confusing. TH-cam does not arrange them correctly as thee is Thargoids part one and part two. It thinks those are separate from the lore...
Great content marred by far too many adverts
I'll see what I can do. :)
Oh thank you for this informative video. I'm not new player, over 1000 huors played. Still I had no clue of these historic events. This gives new depth to my gaming experience. :)
Is that breath in the intro from a Mr Bowman by any chance?
Watching this in 2025 January! Am a new Cmdr and this storyline just makes the game more immersed and with a purpose...
9:55 must be a clue on the location of Raxxla.
How?
Im really curious what youre thinking.
Why is this not within the Codex? Drew.. seriously... all players and Fans of Wagar need to lobby to make this happen.
*shiver* 21st century... Praying and knocking wood
It took 200 years for the planet to return to normalcy so yeah I hope that doesn't happen
If hyperdrives weren't available until much later, how did the older ships travel to different star systems that are dozens or even hundreds of light years away? What technology was used before hyperdrive became mainstream?
Generation ships, sublight vessels. Covered in another episode. :)
What I still don't understand about the Empire is if "Female children in the family were prevented with genetic techniques", how did Hengist Duval and Florence Lavigny have Arissa (Born 3243). Not to mention how did Harold Duval and Imogen Gabrielini have Aisling.
Essentially there was, up until recent years, a "favoured line" within the Duval Dynasty that was pruned for only male descendants. It was actually the birth of Harold Duval that partly put paid to this, as he wasn't intelligent enough to pick up the mantle of Emperor, despite being the 'correct' genetic descendant. Thus the Empire was forced to look around at closely related "unpruned" family members for the succession.
1:28 GITS
Wait, did you voice the default COVAS? Your voice is familiar
Not me, I don't think my voice is in ED anywhere.
If the ships couldn't land on Tau Ceti in order to accomplish their objective, I'd say that was a successful repulsion of enemy forces.
@9:56 The period was fraught with minor skirmishes and system to system wars....the period was fraught with minor skirmishes and system to system wars.
Good spot - apologies for that. An audio editing error I'm afraid.
the period was fraught with minor skirmishes and system-to-system wars
vast tracts of land
::tips cap::
Dude, excellent video but I've just got to say that you sound like Obsidian Ant putting on a posh accent 🤔
Ha ha! That's my normal voice... posh with a capital "P" ;)
Generally a pretty cool timeline but some of the known ships being invented 500 years before the game is just ridiculous. Imagine racing your Ferrari against a horse carriage that has merely been equipped with new rocket boosters. Or a WW2 cruiser fighting the HMS Victory
I didn't write the lore, I just chronicled it. :)
O7
SO SICK OF MAN SCAPE 2.0 adds already
your mic gain is too high, sorry cant listen to it. its clippling badly and distorting.
Extremely cringe lore