Hi fellow commanders,
I would like to share with you my experience as an explorer noob about my trip to Sagittarius A*,
It was the first time I was going out to do some seriously exploring so far away from human inhabited space, and to be honest I did not really know what to expect. First of all, when I posted a message on the exploration forum, I was surprised to be added as a friend by about 20 other commanders, each of which heading to a different region of the galaxy. I have had some very nice discussions while out there, and the exploration community is a great one!
When I started my trip, I was a bit scared that I would get bored quickly, but this never really happened in fact. What I did not expect was this feeling of profound loneliness and of humility, while being fully immerged in this mind blowing quantity of stars. The trip to the center is long, very long, and I believe this should never change, as it gives its sense to the scale of distances. In some way, jumping from a system to an other 34Ly away feels like cheating, as light itself would spend 34Y to reach the destination. But even by doing so, you spend hours and hours to reach the center of the galaxy.
I have truely seen wonders on the way, weird configurations of stars, gaz giants with amazing colours. I remember in particular an earth like planet with metalic rings, amazing view with with the very numerous bright stars in the background, if someday we can land on planets and install small outputs, it's definitely where I will head to!
There was also the gas giant that I would qualify as the most beautiful one I have ever seen, with armonious, green, wine and cream colours. I saw also a few stars with rings, and a netron star in the midle of a blue / violet gas cloud (see all the photos below).
Homesickness, that is crazy, I really did not expect that! How the hell did you manage to give me this feeling in a video game FD? that's crazy, you guys are geniuses Elite is not a game, it's a feeling generating program, it's awesome! I felt it strongly, especially on the way back. I was missing the low density of stars, I was missing the yellow, orange and red stars, I was missing seeing other ships flying around.
I was very much looking forward to land in my home station after such a long trip, and I was stressed that a simple mistake could destroy all the data I had collected so far, it that trip that lasted three weeks I think.
I'm looking forward to your comments, I'm glad to be part of this community
Commander TNX
I would like to share with you my experience as an explorer noob about my trip to Sagittarius A*,
It was the first time I was going out to do some seriously exploring so far away from human inhabited space, and to be honest I did not really know what to expect. First of all, when I posted a message on the exploration forum, I was surprised to be added as a friend by about 20 other commanders, each of which heading to a different region of the galaxy. I have had some very nice discussions while out there, and the exploration community is a great one!
When I started my trip, I was a bit scared that I would get bored quickly, but this never really happened in fact. What I did not expect was this feeling of profound loneliness and of humility, while being fully immerged in this mind blowing quantity of stars. The trip to the center is long, very long, and I believe this should never change, as it gives its sense to the scale of distances. In some way, jumping from a system to an other 34Ly away feels like cheating, as light itself would spend 34Y to reach the destination. But even by doing so, you spend hours and hours to reach the center of the galaxy.
I have truely seen wonders on the way, weird configurations of stars, gaz giants with amazing colours. I remember in particular an earth like planet with metalic rings, amazing view with with the very numerous bright stars in the background, if someday we can land on planets and install small outputs, it's definitely where I will head to!
There was also the gas giant that I would qualify as the most beautiful one I have ever seen, with armonious, green, wine and cream colours. I saw also a few stars with rings, and a netron star in the midle of a blue / violet gas cloud (see all the photos below).
Homesickness, that is crazy, I really did not expect that! How the hell did you manage to give me this feeling in a video game FD? that's crazy, you guys are geniuses
Elite is not a game, it's a feeling generating program, it's awesome! I felt it strongly, especially on the way back. I was missing the low density of stars, I was missing the yellow, orange and red stars, I was missing seeing other ships flying around.I was very much looking forward to land in my home station after such a long trip, and I was stressed that a simple mistake could destroy all the data I had collected so far, it that trip that lasted three weeks I think.
I'm looking forward to your comments, I'm glad to be part of this community
Commander TNX
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