Hi there,
I wouldn't call myself a truly dedicated explorer, I like to do a bit of everything. I have only done a couple of runs, the largest of which I got just over halfway to the North America Nebulae. But I do love it. When you get out there, leaving the bubble behind, it's just you and the galaxy, with only your ship between you and the cold hard void. The light and shadow dancing across your cockpit view as you wheel through the star systems, there is something almost magical/mystical about it! My screenshot folder is starting to fill up with postcards from the edge ( well MY edge - I know all of you have travelled much further ! )
I have a number of first time systems with my name against them now and I wanted to share a few of my pics of them with you if I may.
This is a view of the first waterworld I discovered. Interestingly when I did an orbit I discovered it was nearly half covered in a vast ice shelf. I was the first to discover it too!
This is my first earthlike - but not the first to discover it sadly, still searching for that!
By contrast to the first two pictures this is one of what I like to call a Demon planet. So close to it's parent yellow/white sun that its surface is just a scorched black, broken only by large oceans and rivers of lava. So desolate and inhospitable, made me feel a little sad to think this world will never have a chance to nuture life and its surface will know only violent extremes of heat and volcanic activity.
This was a classic moment of seeing a sunrise lighting up the edge of planets atmosphere. If you look to the top of the planet you may see that although the surface is in darkness, the edges of the continents are just starting to be touched by the rising sun, showing their contours, like delicate strings of light!
A double sunrise! Quintissential Sci-fi !
And finally - while I am on the subject of sunrise - here is a sunrise over a sun. By coincidence you can just see the beginnings of a solar eruption on the orbiting sun.
Thank you for looking at my humble collection of pictures - I was inspired by all you explorers out their!
I will leave you all with a quote out of a poem from Yeats that I think frames the mind of the explorer in us all
"Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;"
Safe journeys people
I wouldn't call myself a truly dedicated explorer, I like to do a bit of everything. I have only done a couple of runs, the largest of which I got just over halfway to the North America Nebulae. But I do love it. When you get out there, leaving the bubble behind, it's just you and the galaxy, with only your ship between you and the cold hard void. The light and shadow dancing across your cockpit view as you wheel through the star systems, there is something almost magical/mystical about it! My screenshot folder is starting to fill up with postcards from the edge ( well MY edge - I know all of you have travelled much further ! )
I have a number of first time systems with my name against them now and I wanted to share a few of my pics of them with you if I may.This is a view of the first waterworld I discovered. Interestingly when I did an orbit I discovered it was nearly half covered in a vast ice shelf. I was the first to discover it too!
This is my first earthlike - but not the first to discover it sadly, still searching for that!
By contrast to the first two pictures this is one of what I like to call a Demon planet. So close to it's parent yellow/white sun that its surface is just a scorched black, broken only by large oceans and rivers of lava. So desolate and inhospitable, made me feel a little sad to think this world will never have a chance to nuture life and its surface will know only violent extremes of heat and volcanic activity.
This was a classic moment of seeing a sunrise lighting up the edge of planets atmosphere. If you look to the top of the planet you may see that although the surface is in darkness, the edges of the continents are just starting to be touched by the rising sun, showing their contours, like delicate strings of light!
A double sunrise! Quintissential Sci-fi !
And finally - while I am on the subject of sunrise - here is a sunrise over a sun. By coincidence you can just see the beginnings of a solar eruption on the orbiting sun.
Thank you for looking at my humble collection of pictures - I was inspired by all you explorers out their!
I will leave you all with a quote out of a poem from Yeats that I think frames the mind of the explorer in us all
"Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;"
Safe journeys people
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