Distant Worlds - A journey beyond the Abyss

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Qohen Leth

Qohen Leth
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Mengy

Mengy
So after an extended Valentine's break from deep space exploring I finally got back into the cockpit last night and flew over 4000ly's quickly passing through WP9 (no one was there, I landed just to check) to catch up to WP10. Didn't get to land at WP10 yet but I'll do that tonight before making the "short" hop over to (at long last!) Sagittarius A, my first visit to the core of the galaxy.


I've only been out of the game for a couple of days but man I feel like I took a month long break or something, LOL.
 

robbyp

robbyp
Hoping some of you will be around at saga* tomorrow and not moved on.

After this weekend, I'll be moving on fast to get some head start. Three days to do a decent distance. Off on holiday for a week and will need to make up some time.
 
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Eisen

Eisen
Best wishes and o7 from the Rock Rats @ Sagittarius A.
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Commanders on the pic: Baroness Galaxy, Montague Druitt, OlFart, Lyneira, Greytest, iDragox, and Eisen. Pictures courtesy of CMDR Nightstrider and Kensei.

And us leaving the supermassive Black Hole:

[video=youtube_share;QwbtmFg_79s]https://youtu.be/QwbtmFg_79s[/video]
 
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Iron Body

Iron Body
Iron Body said:
OK, as mentioned last week, I have gone ahead towards WP12, cos I'm away till Feb 23.
There are new records, for me , using quite a bit of j2 and j3, managing to get to -2908 and to +2853, below and above SagA*.
A few stars are visible beyond +/-3000 but they are not reachable in the time available and with current technology. Holly the Asp only has a max j3 jump of about 70LY

Am now resting at SYROOMEOU HW-N E6-5 at (-90.34,2853.06,25673.87), with blackness on one side and blazing light on the other.
If anyone would like the considerable challenge of meeting me here on the 23rd, then let me know.
I guess it shouldn't be too far from WP12, there is nothing here, only 2 t tauri stars, which I have called ying and yang.

Just getting here was a real pleasure, but getting back will be even better.
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Anyone got near here yet?
 

Waylander Sagan

Waylander Sagan
Got myself into a brown trousers scenario yesterday at Sgr A*. All my experience of black holes in the game so far has shown me that you can get right up to the event horizon without taking any heat damage. I decided to show the big one a little more respect and I hung back about 50 ls and went into external camera mode for a flyby video, when I returned to my cockpit I was at 145% heat and climbing! Took a lot of module damage but luckily only 1% power plant damage and 17% AFMU damage with no damage to hull. I got out of there and did a full repair cycle at WP11. Scary! I guess you can never be complacent out in the black.
 

Simon Darkstep

Simon Darkstep
Waylander Sagan said:
Got myself into a brown trousers scenario yesterday at Sgr A*. All my experience of black holes in the game so far has shown me that you can get right up to the event horizon without taking any heat damage. I decided to show the big one a little more respect and I hung back about 50 ls and went into external camera mode for a flyby video, when I returned to my cockpit I was at 145% heat and climbing! Took a lot of module damage but luckily only 1% power plant damage and 17% AFMU damage with no damage to hull. I got out of there and did a full repair cycle at WP11. Scary! I guess you can never be complacent out in the black.
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I had one near there, shortly after meeting up with some Commanders at the waypoint. I arrived closer than usual to a neutron star, and wound up in the exclusion zone, dropping out. It was too hot to high-wake out, and it took a couple of partial tries low-waking, to be lined up with the escape vector before having to cancel.

I finally got out into supercruise, with a heat sink, and got well away to effect repairs.
 

Eisen

Eisen
domaq said:
Awh booger me. Thought the picture party was tonight.
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I'm sorry, Domaq. The decision to go to SagA was made quite spontaneously yesterday evening in the prospectors-chat, while we were sitting at the WP 10 meetup. We were thinking to prospect the systems around Sagittarius A more thoroughly as it is a very important waypoint and stopping-point for litterally everybody on his way to the other side of the galaxy in the future. So 2-3 green systems may be good to know about in the vicinity. However most of the time spent was used to align the ships correctly for the pic:D
 
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drkaii

drkaii
Eisen said:
Hi Arubeto,
there is a thread which helps a lot: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=151389 In Discord you will find a tool, that does these calculations for you.
When I last visited the core I plotted in small legs, too, and waited for minutes. Yesterday I managed to plot a 985 ly-Route to within 600 ly of SagA in only 15 seconds after having found that to be the optimal distance for my ship with the tool. This is a great help.
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I also made a vid, in case you missed it guys:

[video=youtube;_ysqGpTD1NM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ysqGpTD1NM[/video]
 
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