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An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it

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Elite: Dangerous
Genres · adventure, fps, rpg, simulation, strategy
Release · Dec 16, 2014
Developer · Frontier Developments
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55 articles 42 writers 8 reviews
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