History Trivia / EliteDangerous

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Some Commanders will entice new players with suggestions of free or heavily discounted Anacondas (one of the largest ships currently available to players, a solid JackOfAllTrades you can use for almost anything) available at Hutton Orbital. A station that is around ''an hour and a half'' of real-time flying at full speed to get there, given it's a bit short of a quarter of a lightyear away from the jump-in point.
* TheWikiRule: [[https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Wiki Right here]].

* ReferencedBy: The LightNovel series ''Literature/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'' is ''E:D'' [[RecycledInSpace as an]] {{isekai}}. The author is a fan of the game.

* ReferencedBy: The LightNovel series ''LightNovel/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'' is ''E:D'' [[RecycledInSpace as an]] {{isekai}}. The author is a fan of the game.

* PreorderBonus: Kickstarter backers received a number of cosmetic bonuses based on the tier. All backers received the Planet decal, the Mercenary Tier received unique liveries for the Sidewinder, Eagle, Cobra, and Viper and a skull decal. Different tiers allowed for MultipleGameOpenings such as starting in a basic Cobra MKIII instead of the standard Sidewinder. More directly, preordering the ''Horizons'' ExpansionPack unlocked the Cobra MKIV, a variant of the MKIII which trades speed for better hardpoint placement and an additional small slot.

** Those who had pledged 4,500 Pounds or more to the game's kickstarter were able to write novels that would be considered as {{Canon}} within the ''Elite: Dangerous'' universe. A few of these novels include: ''Elite: Dangerous - Docking is Difficult'', ''Elite: Dangerous - Nemorensis'', and ''Elite: Dangerous - Wanted''.

* NoDubForYou: The game only had localization on British English, French, European Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian, being the latter the only non-Latin language the game supports. While players using non-Latin or non-Cyrillic alphabets, such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc., can play the game, typing in their local languages is impossible, as the game doesn't support typing using the [=IME=] systems required to type on those languages, requiring them to type either on English or using Romanized words instead. That hadn't stop the game from being popular in some East Asian countries, like Japan. (see below)

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The game had languished in DevelopmentHell for '''14 years''' - three years longer than ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' - before finally releasing into version 1.0 in December of 2014.

* FanNickname:
** "Space Toyota" for the Adder.[[note]]As it's fairly cheap and reliable for its type.[[/note]]
** "Space truckin'" for one of the primary activities and money-makers in the game, which is buying cargo from one station and hauling it to another one to sell it for a profit.
** "[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Space Whale]]" for the Type-9 Heavy.[[note]]because it's big, heavy, and slow, managing to have the worst maneuverability of any ship in the game.[[/note]]
*** The Type-10, naturally, inherits this and is even called a "superwhale" or "blue whale" sometimes.[[note]]The 10 is a modified 9, being ''twice'' as wide and even heavier to accommodate the veritable armory you can strap to the thing.[[/note]]
** "The Beefy Chiefy" for the Alliance Chieftain.[[note]]because, being intended as a front-line combat ship, it's quite durable and has a lot of weapon hardpoints[[/note]]
** Players will occasionally refer to Federation forces as "the Federales".
** "iCourier" and "iEagle" for the Imperial Courier and Imperial Eagle respectively, no doubt due to the Empire's EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture aesthetic.
** "The bubble" is a term used to refer to human-settled space.
** "Space legs", a term for the idea of the player character being able to move about on foot and not simply pilot a ship or SRV. This mode of play was long speculated upon by the player base and was finally introduced in the ''Odyssey'' expansion.

** "Space legs", a term for the idea of the player character being able to move about on foot and not simply pilot a ship or SRV. This mode of play was long speculated upon by the player base and will be introduced in the ''Odyssey'' expansion.

** While not to the same extent as the above, the Fuel Rats have been mentioned on GalNet News in the past and the tie-in pen-and-paper RPG allows player-characters to have been former members of the charitable rescue organisation.

* SequelGap: December 2014? That's a good '''19 years''' after ''Frontier: First Encounters'' released in 1995!

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The game had languished in DevelopmentHell for '''14 years''' - three years longer than ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' - before finally releasing into version 1.0 in December of 2014.

** "Space Whale" for the Type-9 Heavy.[[note]]because it's big, heavy, and slow.[[/note]]

* FanNickname: "Space Toyota" for the Adder.[[note]]As it's fairly cheap and reliable for its type.[[/note]]

* FanNickname: "Space Toyota" for the Adder[[note]]As it's fairly cheap and reliable for its type.[[/note]].

** In an example that's also a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, the space station orbiting the planet Vulcan in LHS 306 was renamed "Leonard Nimoy", in honor of the actor's passing.

* FanNickname: "Space Toyota" for the Adder.