Does this mean anything to anyone? Like why would a whole bunch of stars line up just perfectly like this in a code like fashion?
Does this mean anything to anyone?
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It's a selection of real world stars from this lot.
Sometimes the ones with well enough defined distances for inclusion in the game come from surveys of small areas of the sky which makes them draw narrow corridors away from Sol in game.
Of course the fact that they stand out like that does kind of suggest that the distribution of the in-game galaxy isn't quite right since a small patch of real data so often stands out like that - or else the distances used aren't as well-defined as we think they are...
Sometimes the ones with well enough defined distances for inclusion in the game come from surveys of small areas of the sky which makes them draw narrow corridors away from Sol in game.
Of course the fact that they stand out like that does kind of suggest that the distribution of the in-game galaxy isn't quite right since a small patch of real data so often stands out like that - or else the distances used aren't as well-defined as we think they are...
Glitch in the matrix. Just look away.
Those ones are real stars (check the SIMBAD link in my last post). OJV2009 will be a reference to the survey or a paper produced off the back of the survey. The string of numbers is the Right Ascension and Declination.
The Stellar Forge will have been allowed to do its thing to produce the systems - they won't have hand crafted every single one of several hundred thousand catalogue systems - but there will be some mechanism within the Forge to allow real systems to be constrained to fit (or at least not be too wildly divergent from) the data that was available when it was written.
The Stellar Forge will have been allowed to do its thing to produce the systems - they won't have hand crafted every single one of several hundred thousand catalogue systems - but there will be some mechanism within the Forge to allow real systems to be constrained to fit (or at least not be too wildly divergent from) the data that was available when it was written.
They're "lined up" because they're all at precise distances from Sol, a precision that is not actually warranted because the distance calculations have several light-years error in them.
For example, suppose a certain star cluster has a bunch of stars are registered in a star catalogue with a distance estimated at 2150 LY, plus or minus 10 LY. But that amount of error is not compatible witht he ED starmap, because ED needs to know exactly where each star is, so ED will put all those stars at precisely 2150.00 LY from Sol, lining them all up in a plane. Suppose this same cluster had some more stars, all at 2160 LY plus or minus 10 LY, and some more at 2170 LY, and so forth. The end-result is a bunch of "planes" of stars all lined up together, stacked at 10 LY intervals, much like this one which everyone travelling the Colonia Road can see, as it's not far from the Eagle nebula rest stop.
When they imported the star data, they probably should've ran the numbers through a last-decimal-place randomizer to avoid this. Still, it's not bad for a first attempt.
For example, suppose a certain star cluster has a bunch of stars are registered in a star catalogue with a distance estimated at 2150 LY, plus or minus 10 LY. But that amount of error is not compatible witht he ED starmap, because ED needs to know exactly where each star is, so ED will put all those stars at precisely 2150.00 LY from Sol, lining them all up in a plane. Suppose this same cluster had some more stars, all at 2160 LY plus or minus 10 LY, and some more at 2170 LY, and so forth. The end-result is a bunch of "planes" of stars all lined up together, stacked at 10 LY intervals, much like this one which everyone travelling the Colonia Road can see, as it's not far from the Eagle nebula rest stop.
When they imported the star data, they probably should've ran the numbers through a last-decimal-place randomizer to avoid this. Still, it's not bad for a first attempt.
I've been there a few weeks ago and like to think that these are the remnants of the pillars of creation. Stars being lined up so closely because the pillars were so narrow. Most probably a bunch of bullc*ap... 
It's the open cluster of NGC 6611 (Messier 16), which is part of IC 4703 (Eagle Nebula complex and H II region).
I have apparently already reped you recently and it won't let me know, so here is a +1 for you for the laugh!