Hasta La Gadget!

Richard Garriott, the developer of the Ultima RPG series and also known as Lord British, seems to think he owns a piece of the moon.

This stems from last week’s announcement that NASA scientists finally located the Lunokhod 2 (pictured), a moon rover that the agency lost track of 37 years ago. Garriott had purchased it an auction along with the Soviet Union’s Luna 21 lander back in 1993 for $68,000.

That’s fine–although weird, in a way. But now Garriott is claiming that owning these devices on the moon may entitle him to ownership of the property they rest on, as TechEYE.net reports.

“I think I can truly make the only private, legitimate claim to territory – at the very least around my rover and, potentially, along its point of travel…to give me some actual property rights on the moon,” Garriott said in the report.

Hey Richard, any chance you can go back and deliver us a proper Ultima X, and stop wasting time fantasizing about how to improve the plot of Ultima II?