Lave Radio is a regular collaborative podcast about Elite Dangerous featuring Allen Stroud, Chris "Fozza" Forrester, Chris Jarvis and John Stabler. It is currently on a weekly release schedule and also includes regular interviews with licensed fiction writers as separate downloads.[1] It typically airs live outside of Lave Station every Tuesday at 8:30pm GBT. Information on how to listen to the live broadcast is available on their website.
Lave Radio is also an independent player group represented by the Player Minor Faction Lave Radio Network, which is based in the Lave system.
Features[]
Due to licensing issues, Lave Radio cannot be streamed in the United States on its website, though this can be circumvented by using another website such as Live Online Radio.
Regular features include:
- Latest news about the game
- News and information on licensed creative projects and community projects
- Information on Dev/Fiction diary videos, newsletters and from the Design Decision Forum
- Community corner - a collection of listener memories and happenings in the forums
- Listener feedback and questions
- Music from a variety of genres, from original music made by various contributors, to actual songs from artists such as Weird Al Yankovic, Queen, Guns n' Roses, Tenacious D, and CeeLo Green, just to name a few; songs from video games (such as Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect) and Broadway shows (such as Avenue Q and School of Rock) are also heard occassionally
- Bumpers voiced by celebrities such as Tom Baker and Brian Blessed, as well as David Braben
- GalNet news updates
- In-universe commercials from organizations such as the Fuel Rats, the Federal Navy, Astrogator Tours, and We Buy Any Ship (Bar None)
- Infomercials about the Lave system
- Audio skits starring second technician Chris Forrester, who is always fixing vending machines simply by whacking them with a wrench; this somehow ends up getting him maimed
Lave Radio Ship[]
Lave Radio is also an in-game Sidewinder located near the planet Lave in the Lave system. Players approaching the Sidewinder will hear a Lave Radio broadcast: "An orange sidewinder, hosted by a vending machine technician."
Shooting the ship will provoke the transmission: "All you'll hear is Radio Boom Boom! Radio Pew Pew! Radio it's true. Lave Radio just shot you." The attacker will be tagged with a bounty and system security will be alerted.[2]