[Distant Stars] Unfound Origins - a Distant Worlds saga expedition

Launch date?

  • January 10th, with or without multi-crew

    Votes: 59 46.5%

  • Wait until multicrew (even if it's well after january)

    Votes: 68 53.5%
  • Total voters
    127
  • Poll closed .

NW3

NW3
Flimsey said:
Was in and looked at Obsidians last videos, when i saw drkaiis video about distant stars... I got cold... Could they have departed already, without me? Yep so was it, was ment to be on this exploration, i thought I had time multicrew had not even went to beta.

So I am a bit disappointed at the moment, most on myself for not checking this thread but also a little on the expedition to not wait for multicrew.

So now I am trying to decide if I have the time to catch up on the expedition. Have to fix the last pieces on the anaconda and check so I got enough jumpinium, shouldn't take long.

So cya later, maby by the distant stars��
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You absolutely have time to catch up. We gave up waiting for multicrew, since there was no ETA from FD as to when it would actually arrive.

Due to real life obligations, I'm not yet there, but it's easily doable in a day (assuming you have a ship capable of ~56 lyr jumps (on fumes) and enough jumponium). I spent less than an hour getting to Maia and will have spent another 3-4 hours getting to M67.

The mass suicide is still over a week away.

[updated] I made it!

I must have entered a wrong number into Dr. Kaii's calculator, since I wound up with too much fuel and had to shuttle back and forth between the white dwarf and the neutron star to burn off fuel, but I did finally make it to AH Cancri.

Here's the pic to prove it: https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aj2gdTGJyh_3zVXQsPX-AHGsZLmP

Note the (relatively) dirt cheap rebuy cost. :)
 
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fieval

fieval
Well, if at first you don't succeed...

Fell victim to HD 49368 Planet 2 Gravity!! (Very stripped down Anaconda, 58LY jump, not very sturdy!)

I shall return....
 

Yanick

Yanick
Corbin Moran said:
I wonder how you will RP your return to the bubble - except of course you all plan to stay up at the Cancer Cluster :)

Seriously though - thanks for sharing all these images and videos - and have fun up there :)
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Maybe we'll find an Alien Portal, but only the CMDRs can make it back through.... ;)
 

Martin Afonso

Martin Afonso
(5D thrusters + 1D distributor)/3G planet = 12 million rebuy screen.

Well... heading up again... i'm glad I left the probe and the artifact at an Ammonia world yesterday...
 
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drkaii

drkaii
This being an organisationally 'lite' expedition (still involved tons of work), we didn't get round to a high G training program. For Distant Worlds 2, we will do such things
 

Sylon

Sylon
Martin Afonso said:
(5D thrusters + 1D distributor)/3G planet = 12 million rebuy screen.

Well... heading up again... i'm glad I left the probe and the artifact at an Ammonia world yesterday...
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drkaii said:
This being an organisationally 'lite' expedition (still involved tons of work), we didn't get round to a high G training program. For Distant Worlds 2, we will do such things
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Obsidian Ant has a really great video for landing on a high G world. I saw another one too that was really good, I'll link them both below.


Obsidian Ant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_o216dG1Yc

shadmar9 (really good video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usm21vm0zkk
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
Obsidian did a pretty bad job of landing and takeoff in that video. Not an example of what to do correctly.
Shadmar9 does a good job landing but doesn't show takeoff or demonstrate what happens when you tilt too far or cut vertical thrust too quickly.

Here's another instructional video on High G landings @ HD 148937 3. (9.77G)
https://youtu.be/0nErX1tFyC4
Including a demo of what happens when you neutralize vertical thrust too quickly for FA to compensate or bank to the side too far.

This thread on Thruster performance under various gravity conditions is also worth read.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/218171-Thrusters-Acceleration-and-High-G-Planets
The gist is that over ~0.6G, all thrusters perform the same.
Side, Bow and Dorsal thrusters can't hold you in the air over ~0.3G so you need to stay level and watch your momentum.

Mapping an analog control to your vertical thrusters is also highly recommended.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=220859
 
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ShadowWolf Kell

ShadowWolf Kell
One of the ELW's discovered on the Distant Stars Expedition. I might just decide to stay here. :)
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Adidane

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I've been reporting my experience of M67 in a series of short Galnet video reports which I've called "Postcards from M67"
Here's the second report - getting into M67

[video=youtube;JBVXv0Zh_XY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBVXv0Zh_XY&list=PLEQQHYd7bwWcLdTrzp0UxJFYPXN8ee3b3&index=101[/video]
 

Void-Hugger

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Captain Gene Cerman tribute in the M67 Cluster.

Here's a group photo took at a tribute meetup to celebrate the life of Captain Gene Cerman.
Thanks to Cmdr Yanick for helping me to attend and his kind thoughts regarding legendary astronaut Captain Gene Cerman.

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Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel

Kolato

Kolato
Martin Afonso said:
(5D thrusters + 1D distributor)/3G planet = 12 million rebuy screen.

Well... heading up again... i'm glad I left the probe and the artifact at an Ammonia world yesterday...
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Sometimes you just have to remember the timeless saying of "Better safe than sorry" and just not do it. I wish you luck on your tour back up again!
 

Martin Afonso

Martin Afonso
Kola2 said:
Sometimes you just have to remember the timeless saying of "Better safe than sorry" and just not do it. I wish you luck on your tour back up again!
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Came back a couple of hours later. The Stairway is pretty fun to navigate. And It was a bad idea, of course, I knew It but it was a major silicate volcanic activity planet.
 
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Mengy

Mengy
CMDR Murf said:
219 Systems Visited, and stopped for everything interesting along the way

https://screenshotscontent-t2002.xb...312-9ec6-c9b905fd2b6e/Screenshot-Original.png
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That makes me wonder, here’s a question I don’t know the answer to:

When we die we lose all exploration data, but does the “visited” status get erased from our galaxy maps too? And do we lose the ability to look at the system maps of systems we died before submitting data to? It’s been a long time since I died on an exploration trip…
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
Mengy said:
That makes me wonder, here’s a question I don’t know the answer to:

When we die we lose all exploration data, but does the “visited” status get erased from our galaxy maps too? And do we lose the ability to look at the system maps of systems we died before submitting data to? It’s been a long time since I died on an exploration trip…
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You retain some of the the system data.. mainly the primary star and sometimes some of the major gas giants. So it'll be classed as visited on your galactic map, with partial info on what's there. ( A bit like a scan with a basic scanner).

I'm not sure if detailed scans survive though, so if you scan a world for its stats and mats for example, I don't think you retain that kind of data.

So basically screenshot everything and make your own imgur album if you want a record of what you discovered ;)
 
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