The Boron - Discussion, Speculation and Fanart

[DancingPengiun]

What a pleasant surprise indeed.

[Axeface]

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The fact they they have a model and are voiced... it all gives me so much hope that we'll see them in the game and playable soon. So excited.
Please playable Egosoft!!! No half measures!

[fobboy]

Could you please add the roleplay option of marrying Princess Menelaus? Maybe add in some art assets for her?

I've always dreamed of how this marriage would go between terran and boron, and what she would look like in-game.

For inspiration: https://www.deviantart.com/zixtalon/art ... s-96684673

[ZombiePotatoSalad]

Could you please add the roleplay option of marrying Princess Menelaus? Maybe add in some art assets for her?

I've always dreamed of how this marriage would go between terran and boron, and what she would look like in-game.

For inspiration: https://www.deviantart.com/zixtalon/art ... s-96684673

I'm sure there's a section for fanfics. This isn't it.

[DaMuncha]

Like a sturgeon

[Tomonor]

Could you please add the roleplay option of marrying Princess Menelaus? Maybe add in some art assets for her?

I've always dreamed of how this marriage would go between terran and boron, and what she would look like in-game.

For inspiration: https://www.deviantart.com/zixtalon/art ... s-96684673

Oh my god.

[Axeface]

So now that the dust has settled and everyone knows the surprise character we meet in X4 - lets speculate!
Anyone that has the Collectors Edition, if you havent done so yet take a look at the artbook! There are a few pages of designs for the Boron and how they will get around. While I think they are all great ideas and awesome drawings (one of which is so close to my model ) some of them do worry me. One of the main things we see is variations of the 'bubble suit'. It looks cool visually and everything, but if thats how Boron get around, if they are going to be submerged in liquid, how are their ships going to work? It makes me worry about whether we are going to be able to use their ships, or play as a Boron - something that I really want to do (and always did in X3).
Another theme in the concepts is a walking suit... again, it looks pretty cool and its a great drawing, but why? They are so advanced, everyone has anti-grav, why have a mech suit and walk?

Im very excited to see what Ego does with their ships too. Will we see a total redesign/moderisation like we saw with Teladi? A complete shift? Or something much like the X3 models like we see with the Paranid X4 ships.


Oh, as for Boso Ta and the new canon Boron design, I really like it! Its a mix between the old X3 models, the white concept from about a decade ago, and the new one. It is canon now, so I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of variations the Boron get once they are fully fleshed out.

[kyoo]

it would be pretty straightforward for them to add a boron habitat room to stations where you can go talk to them in their fish tanks, but iirc in the lore they hover around in little environmental suits made from a clear membrame,

[Nort The Fragrent]

Boron Ships , my favorite of the X games, they are the only ships that have style. Beautiful curves. Just to fly alongside them is visually brilliant. And those last ships in AP ( NICE )
So why not in X4? We could fly them in X3 TC!
This concept that the environment is the stumbling block is silly. We as humans can cope underwater, for a limited time! And is not the X4 universe set in the future! No doubt humans have invented advanced underwater tec to allow us free un hindered movement in a Boron ship.
Also the Boron are equally adapt at solving this problem, so they can move freely in a human environment.
A thin vail of moisture, and with similar tec as us they can be an equal.
X4 is seriously lacking in good looking ships, the reintroduction of the Boron would make such a huge visual advance to the dull communist looking ships we are enduring at the moment.
Yoda, got about pretty well on his hover seat!

My main reason for playing X4 was for the anticipated beauty of the new universe, the rebirth game was a flop we all know, but it did have some stunning backdrops. Where are they in X4? (Dull as dishwater at the moment )

Bring back the boron ships, at least there abandoned, disused, renovated ships for us lovers of style.

[Requiemfang]

Boron Ships , my favorite of the X games, they are the only ships that have style. Beautiful curves. Just to fly alongside them is visually brilliant. And those last ships in AP ( NICE )
So why not in X4? We could fly them in X3 TC!
This concept that the environment is the stumbling block is silly. We as humans can cope underwater, for a limited time! And is not the X4 universe set in the future! No doubt humans have invented advanced underwater tec to allow us free un hindered movement in a Boron ship.
Also the Boron are equally adapt at solving this problem, so they can move freely in a human environment.
A thin vail of moisture, and with similar tec as us they can be an equal.
X4 is seriously lacking in good looking ships, the reintroduction of the Boron would make such a huge visual advance to the dull communist looking ships we are enduring at the moment.
Yoda, got about pretty well on his hover seat!

My main reason for playing X4 was for the anticipated beauty of the new universe, the rebirth game was a flop we all know, but it did have some stunning backdrops. Where are they in X4? (Dull as dishwater at the moment )

Bring back the boron ships, at least there abandoned, disused, renovated ships for us lovers of style.

Got a feeling we'll be seeing them in a future DLC as well as the Split and possibly Terran's, that maybe pushing it with the Terran's, though it's quite possible seeing as the gate shutdown probably stranded a LOT of Terran's in the various sectors of non-Terran controlled space. I too would love to see the return of Boron's just for the fact that I loved their ships in X3R-X3AP.