What’s strange is the fact that Luna’s Shadow wasn’t placed here on purpose by Elite’s creators, the U.K.-based studio Frontier Developments. Here, inside Elite’s virtual simulacrum of our Milky Way, that makes the lonely water world on the horizon a shadow Earth. But this particular patch of the void just happens to be a point in three-dimensional space exactly on the opposite side of the galaxy from our own moon. Luna’s Shadow is an unremarkable hunk of rock floating in the void. But unlike the vast majority of those other moons, this one has a name. This moon is just one of trillions like it in a spacefaring game called Elite: Dangerous, which puts players in the cockpit of a starship and sets them loose from a first-person perspective. Hanging in the sky on the other side of the canopy is a water world, its wispy white clouds revealing an endless sea.
My starship is perched along the rim of a crater on an airless moon some 55,000 light-years from home.
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