There is also an underlying story to the game accessible via an in-game news service featuring political clout within the Space Cold War between the Empire, the Federation, and the Alliance, as well as some mysterious events pointing to the legends of the Thargoid race being more than just legends. It also features the return of the Galactic Federation, the Empire of Achenar, and the Alliance of Independent Systems from the previous games, as well as hundreds of smaller factions within each of the three superpowers, and the faction that the player belongs to, the Pilots Federation. True to its tagline, Elite Dangerous features the 400 billion stars thought to exist within the Milky Way, 150,000 of which are based on actual astronomical data, and the other 399,999,850,000 being created through Procedural Generation. Blaze your own trail.Įlite Dangerous is the Distant Sequel to Frontier: First Encounters and the fourth game in the Elite series of space Simulation Games, developed and published by Frontier Developments.Įlite Dangerous takes place in the Milky Way galaxy 1286 years from now, starting approximately 45 years after First Encounters.

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