Yeah. The region I wanted to explore at the time was very unstable. Not saying anything was there but for a long time. Certain galatic regions would load incorretly and crash the system the game was running on. This was back in late 2016.This is something I looked into a while back. I suspect the glowy spots are blurred stars from a screenshot within the GalMap -- hence the visible grid lines -- and another view of the galaxy with sector lines are superimposed. An insanely gifted individual might be able to triangulate which grouping of stars they are in the galaxy
As for the sectors, this is what the view is showing - colour shifted and aligned more "upright" to galactic north:
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The theory of glowing spots as "pointers" means bubble-sized search areas.
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I'll have to put my hunt for TDW on ice for a while for another kind of hunt.
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This is something I looked into a while back. I suspect the glowy spots are blurred stars from a screenshot within the GalMap -- hence the visible grid lines -- and another view of the galaxy with sector lines are superimposed. An insanely gifted individual might be able to triangulate which grouping of stars they are in the galaxy
As for the sectors, this is what the view is showing - colour shifted and aligned more "upright" to galactic north:
The theory of glowing spots as "pointers" means bubble-sized search areas.
Oh, that's nice. Also, given it is rotated it sort of makes it more plausible - if there was nothing to it, why in the world would you rotate this and highlight some places?
When you showed the rotated pic, at first I thought 'why would someone rotate it?" Then I realized I know this POV on the galaxy.
The original pic is taken from CD-37 10033 (a little zoomed out and cropped).
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Also, fun little detail, this is more commonly NGC 5873 (which also works ingame to get you there), and it's NOT a bug that this is where it is:
The coordinates are from measurements ca 2010 which place it roughly where it's in the game - directionally it matches up, and the distance may be slightly inflated - the measurements place it at 5.5kpc +/- 1kpc which is ~17 k LY +/- 3 kLY and ingame it's ~30k LY but this is a relatively small margin of error for astronomical measurements of distance (of course it matters to us a lot since the difference between 20kLY and 30kLY is day and night in this case in terms of how reachable it would be).
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there is something about CD-37 10033. i took my carrier out there probably a year ago. spent a couple weeks getting as close as i could. the closest i got was quenio rx-u d2-o. 2688ly high 6287.91ly from CD-37 10033. i did alot of listening, when pointing at CD-37 10033 i only heard very rare quick blips, like R2D2 sounds. theres ALOT of neutron stars up there. i was hoping to find a portal or a rogue planet. but nothing but peace and quiet. i want to go back. i think there is something there at CD-37 10033
Technically also ticks a lot of boxes in the toast: yearning (explorers definitely would love to go there), siren in the void, jewel (it's a Wolf Rayet), maybe more if we could actually get there?
The nebula is sort of odd shape, too - if you zoom in on it, it looks like a neutron star, and when you rotate view around it, it blinks at you. But yea, there is absolutely nothing remotely close to it to get anywhere there. Compared to something like Skull Nebula (which is remote but reachable), this is absolutely out of the galaxy basically.
Is there something special about the reward for this CG? Haven't had time (or PC) to look into it, but all my ships have already got 5* upgraded surface scanner probes...
So if this isn't how the line is supposed to be interpreted, then someone at FDev really dropped the ball, and since Raxxla is still hidden, FDev needs to retroactively fix that mistake!
So... Who else is "mother of galaxies", preferably someone often depicted with a headpiece?
The first line of the toast in my opinion is a paraphrastic rendition of the text from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
That text was alluded to in the relatively recent Brookes Tours where the motif is repeated.
Milton. A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Louis L Martz. P1966.
‘Milton, having established map-consciousness and space-through-eye movement, adds actual physical movement (both of flying and of sturdily plowing ships) as Satan starts the first of many journeys. Circling with him over the whole universe familiarizes us with the vast locale of the poem, thoroughly explored muscularly with swift ease or laborious difficulty by flying, walking, crawling, wading, swimming, climbing. We are even privileged through Satan's eyes to see the whole world, not just the earth, in relation to Empyrean from outside, shrunk to relative insignificance in the immense cosmos: And fast by hanging in a golden chain. This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.’
Who else could the reference to mother of galaxies be?
I believe this is a reference to the zone of Chaos from Paradise Lost, whom Milton called ‘the womb of creation’. And where in that part of text, Eden was situated, upon its outer rim.
So by my assessment, in relation to the above, we likely are looking for a system named after chaos. One strong candidate in my opinion is Tiamat the goddess of creation and of chaos.
The significance of Tiamat as a candidate increases in game when we consider that M Brookes wrote a Drabble about her, Tiamat also falls in a zone denoted by systems named aft ‘storm gods’, which forms a bubble around Sol. In respect to Paradise Lost parallels such a zone in game likewise exists above a zone of systems named after the underworld, and below systems named after heaven.
The jewel (the pendant glove) that burns (shines as it like a star beside the magnitude of the moon) upon the brow (hanging from the hill (wall) of heaven, or outer rim of) the mother of galaxies (the womb of creation).
In my opinion the toast is advocating a locational direction in game, the area is likely signposted by various systems named applicably to mirror this cosmological model.
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Standard pre-engineered DSS V1, as fat as we know, so same as tech merchant provides. Given to everyone who hands in anything.
4x payout for universal cartographics. Not entirely clear if it is only for FSS/DSS for MR, HMC, Rocky, Icy, but not GG, ELW, ... in the core system, or if anything goes. Probably the latter.
Additional payout for 25/50/75/100% tier participants.
Not that special, no - you're right about the surface scanned probes being already available (apparently the tech broker has it too). I'm also mystified about the level of participation and the furor surrounding it.
People are pitching in to break the lockdown because several explorers are stuck with exploration data and, of course, are unable to bounty hunt without risk.
The pre-engineered DSS is superior to even a grade-5 engineered DSS (the probe radius is significantly larger), but yeah, an even-larger radius is nice but hardly essential
What's nice about getting the DSS from the CG is that it is effectively free; you don't need to reach any threshold of work, data from a single scan is enough to mark you as a contributor
What's nice about getting the DSS from the CG is that it is effectively free; you don't need to reach any threshold of work, data from a single scan is enough to mark you as a contributor
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Thanks for the correction!
Latest feedback is that the lockdown will be broken by Saturday at the latest unless current trends drastically change.
Yeah, but what would be the diadem in this case?
I think the closest thing to that line of thought is Corona Borealis aka Northern Crown.
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Aphekka is the primary star in that constellation, it's in the top half of the bubble, not particularly remote, unpopulated anarchy system.
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And how is Corona Borealis linked to Hera?
It's not, but neither is anything else here. But if we're talking about jewels on a brow, then Corona Borealis fits. Corona Borealis hypothetically represents crown given to Ariadne.
Sure, I've said before Alphekka fits perfectly as the jewel, but not as the mother of galaxies.
Hera's Crown is a named entity in greek mythology. It has a very specific look that was later adopted by Christians to depict halos of saints with rays in all directions coming out of them. I don't believe there is a constellation, but you can come up probably with half a dozen astronomical analogues.
Polos crown is a more generic term for a crown worn by goddesses:
Polos - Wikipedia
It's possible that Ariadne's crown was a polos, it was given to her by Dionysus, and it was jeweled according to mythology. Whether that crown is related in any way to Hera, I don't know.
And speaking of mythological crowns, the big problem with Cassiopeia is that she isn't even depicted anywhere with a crown in the constellation. According to the myth, she was thrown into heavens by Poseidon as a punishment for her vanity which got her to try to sacrifice Andromeda, so Poseidon tied her to a chair in the heavens, so half the time she'd be upside down. Basically, no art whatsoever has her wearing any crown because she's there in punishment. Separately, there are pictures around the 5 main stars with her on a chair in basically any orientation you can imagine, so what is the "jewel on her brow" is, that's completely arbitrary - there isn't even consensus whether Caph is her foot or her arm or her head. And we've probably all visited Caph at this point and a half a dozen other primary candidates from that constellation.
Yeah, I don't think Hera is it. Cassiopeia also think we can discard, she is the mother of A galaxy, not of multiple galaxies or of all galaxies, plus Cassiopeia has been theorized to exhaustion.
For me just makes sense it's a more literal galaxy, like Andromeda, or even the Milky Way.
For me just makes sense it's a more literal galaxy, like Andromeda, or even the Milky Way.
One thing to remember - Hera is also Juno in Roman mythology.
Ok, and does Juno have a "jewel" on its brow? I haven't checked that system recently.