Elite pilots hunt down an ancient starship packed with sick colonists

Sometimes, it’s worth reading the news. When a story in Elite: Dangerous‘ fictional feed ended with an unexpected call for supplies in the Upaniklis system, most would’ve thought it flavour text. Not Malic_VR, a pilot and Elite streamer, who went to see what this minor fuss was all about.

What he found was a dilemma that’d make a brilliant Star Trek plot – an ancient human starship, packing thousands of colonists, a plague, and an isolationist movement that’ll refuse outside help if it kills them.

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