Game Lore

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages, and they may not be accurate post v2.4 of Elite Dangerous.

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages.

Hyperspace. Precisely how it works is something of a mystery, and by the time of Elite: Dangerous it appears to be part of the dual function ‘Frame Shift Drive’.

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages.

The Thargoids need little introduction to those well versed in Elite lore, but not all players of Elite: Dangerous may be au fait with their complete background.

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages.

The Dark Wheel is another legend of Elite Dangerous that stretches back to the dim and distant past, perhaps second only to the legendary planet Raxxla in its elusiveness.

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages.

Raxxla is, perhaps, the biggest mystery of the Elite Dangerous universe. Despite that, it is also the most obscure. There is virtually no information about it whatsoever.

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages.

The Elite franchise has been around since 1984 and the Elite Dangerous game is the fourth in the series. As a result there is an abundance of background detail, thousands of websites and millions of forum and reddit threads discussing every detail. Trying to make sense of all this could well be overwhelming, so a summary may prove helpful.

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages.

This is an archive of Drew Wagar’s lore guide, available here with his kind permission. Drew is no longer actively maintaining his lore pages