I'm on an epic journey to the galactic centre! Foollow my adventures!

BACKER#50040 · Dec 31, 2014

Hey everyone, I've been playing since beta and with the launch in combination with christmas and new years holiday I've taken it upon myself to visit the galatic centre.

I've started a travel log on reddit if you are interested in following my journey through space!
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2qsxc0/bye_everyone_see_you_soon_epic_journy_ahead/

Hope you find it interesting!

bullytarget · Dec 31, 2014

The systems around the core are broken. Have fun!

BACKER#50040 · Dec 31, 2014

Could you please elaborate on that?

rdizz · Dec 31, 2014

bullytarget said:
The systems around the core are broken. Have fun!

Go on... was thinking of making the same journey. Backer want a partner?

Heathy · Dec 31, 2014

neutron stars are a pain, i think i jumped into a system with one and thought 'ooo look how cute it is' OMG ITS KILLING ME AHH.

interesting though I shall follow your progress ... for science!

dementia · Dec 31, 2014

Heathy said:
neutron stars are a pain, i think i jumped into a system with one and thought 'ooo look how cute it is' OMG ITS KILLING ME AHH.

I've been wondering what is like to jump into a system with a Neutron star or even a black hole. What is it like? What are the dangers you face?

Heathy · Dec 31, 2014

I haven't seen a black hole yet but the neutrons are small maybe moon/planet sized and the green sphere is ofc right there when you land in so if you don't decelerate you will probably fly right into it. larger stars are larger ofc so the green sphere is more to scale, where as for a neutron the star is quite small and the sphere is still really large.

Arktac13 · Dec 31, 2014

Fascinating finds! I Hope you come back alive so you can profit from all your hard work! And please tell us how much you make out of your endeavor, I'm very interested to know!

BACKER#50040 · Dec 31, 2014

The fact you cannot see the neutron star, they are so tiny and emit so little light that they look like a distant star yet have a huge emergency drop out boundry around them. So you emergency exit and take damage. This is why I always try to hit X as soon as i enter one of those systems. Neutron stars scare the crap out of me. Black holes can at least be seen against a luminous background due to the gravitational lensing effect.

dementia · Dec 31, 2014

BACKER#50040 said:
Hey everyone, I've been playing since beta and with the launch in combination with christmas and new years holiday I've taken it upon myself to visit the galatic centre.

I've started a travel log on reddit if you are interested in following my journey through space!
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2qsxc0/bye_everyone_see_you_soon_epic_journy_ahead/

Hope you find it interesting!

I thought of doing the same but I worked out the maths on it.

25,500 ly is 2125 jumps (based on a stripped down Cobra doing say 12ly jumps at a time).

That is a looooooooong hall and that is assuming you can even navigate there. I also think you need to navigate there manually as the auto-routing won't help you so far away (it didn't seem to when I tried it anyway).

Would be interesting though. The system density really ramps up when you look at the galactic map and search for "Sagittarius A*"

Agony_Aunt · Dec 31, 2014

dementia said:
What are the dangers you face?

Distraction by wife, kids, or attack of the cat, just as you jump in system. XD

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dementia said:
25,500 ly is 2125 jumps (based on a stripped down Cobra doing say 12ly jumps at a time).

If you are going for that journey, you are wanting a minumum of 20LY jumps. Ideally over 25.

Also its not direct division. You don't ever fly in a straight line. Id add any final number by about +30% with a 20+ LY ship to take into account this. In a 12LY ship, i'd add by at least +50%, perhaps +100%, because you are going to be detouring all over the place.

BACKER#50040 · Dec 31, 2014

Arktac13 said:
Fascinating finds! I Hope you come back alive so you can profit from all your hard work! And please tell us how much you make out of your endeavor, I'm very interested to know!

Thank you! I will continually update the thread on reddit with my finds and experiences! Currently I've visited just over 800 systems, i reckon about 650 or so of those are from my journey so far, rest is trading and bounty hunting in known space. I too hope i come back alive. Currently my canopy is a bit cracked and hull is at 77% due to some mistakes and neutron stars.

Achilles Maelstrom · Dec 31, 2014

Don't get lost out there, Cmdr.

Good luck, Sir!

dementia · Dec 31, 2014

BACKER#50040 said:
The fact you cannot see the neutron star, they are so tiny and emit so little light that they look like a distant star yet have a huge emergency drop out boundry around them. So you emergency exit and take damage. This is why I always try to hit X as soon as i enter one of those systems. Neutron stars scare the crap out of me. Black holes can at least be seen against a luminous background due to the gravitational lensing effect.

That must be a bug then as Neutron stars are amazing sources of light. After all they are used as standard beacons in cosmology to determine distances. Also, yes they have massive gravities but their gravity well is the same as their equivalent mass stars so shouldn't affect you any differently. FD needs to fix this.

What they would affect is the amount of radiation (solar wind if you like) that comes from them but since ED doesn't have radiation effects then you'd be fine.

As for the size, yes they are small (typically about 10-15km in diameter but weigh over 1.4 solar masses) but they would likely have massive accretion disks too thus making them easy to spot.

Jesters09 · Dec 31, 2014

BACKER#50040 said:
Hey everyone, I've been playing since beta and with the launch in combination with christmas and new years holiday I've taken it upon myself to visit the galatic centre.

I've started a travel log on reddit if you are interested in following my journey through space!
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2qsxc0/bye_everyone_see_you_soon_epic_journy_ahead/

Hope you find it interesting!

Very best of luck there commander, I, at some point, will be going to the edge.
As far as I can get with a max jump range anyhow.

SpacialKatana · Dec 31, 2014

dementia said:
I thought of doing the same but I worked out the maths on it.

25,500 ly is 2125 jumps (based on a stripped down Cobra doing say 12ly jumps at a time).

That is a looooooooong hall and that is assuming you can even navigate there. I also think you need to navigate there manually as the auto-routing won't help you so far away (it didn't seem to when I tried it anyway).

Would be interesting though. The system density really ramps up when you look at the galactic map and search for "Sagittarius A*"

Which is why we use Asps with 30+ ly range

BACKER#50040 · Dec 31, 2014

dementia said:
That must be a bug then as Neutron stars are amazing sources of light. After all they are used as standard beacons in cosmology to determine distances. Also, yes they have massive gravities but their gravity well is the same as their equivalent mass stars so shouldn't affect you any differently. FD needs to fix this.

What they would affect is the amount of radiation (solar wind if you like) that comes from them but since ED doesn't have radiation effects then you'd be fine.

Well aparantly. This is how they look like in game... http://imgur.com/a/fG3U8

dementia · Dec 31, 2014

BACKER#50040 said:
Well aparantly. This is how they look like in game... http://imgur.com/a/fG3U8

I'm no cosmologist but I'd say that is a render bug. They should shine much more brightly but the gravity well part the experience worries me the most.

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SpacialKatana said:
Which is why we use Asps with 30+ ly range

Even then, that is still 850 jumps using 30ly increments.

Dedication!

Best take along a fuel scoop and an AFM!

SpacialKatana · Dec 31, 2014

Netron stars are almost black holes, about the size of a city that give off ridiculous amounts of gamma radiation. I've scanned loads of them (and black holes), and all you'll see is a little tiny white speck. If you get closer, to actually see them your ship will heat up crazy fast and you will die.

Like someone else said, they are far more dangerous than black holes, although the tiny black holes have the same effect, you'll heat up and go boom if you try to get close enough to see the lense effect.

Proceed with caution and you'll live to bring the data home.

Wurmfist · Dec 31, 2014

As a good practice, when I go to any system at all, I always throttle to zero before I reach the next star system. If you get in the habit of doing that you should be fine. Good luck on your journey. Hopefully you make it back in one piece. I think those that have done it before you, was sure to take a auto repair kit with them.

To the person that suggested the cobra... I'd rather do it in a properly fitted Hauler than a cobra. My Hauler can do a 25LY jump and works just as well as anything else for exploration.

Also on the subject of how something should look, keep in mind that most if not all of the pictures we see of nebulas, stars, and other far away places are color corrected, meaning they add a false color to the pictures instead of making them just look black and white. Even most photographers add a yellow tint to our sun, even though our sun is actually white when seen from space. All these pretty things in space, may turn out to be less colorful than we know it because much of the color would be in a spectrum our eyes couldn't see. So in ED, there is much artistic license on the color of things in space.