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Found this gas giant orbiting a ringed M-class orbiting a black hole some time during my first visit to Jacques. It's pretty close to what is now Colonia. If anybody is interested I can dig up system name later, blacked it out at the time to put a name on it 
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I've taken to keeping track of black holes I run across in my travels. I don't know why, no specific goal, I just do.
I've no pictures to post just yet, but my travels the past few days have yielded the following; 2 ELWs, 1 pair of WWs closely orbiting each other, and a pair of icy bodies orbiting each other so close that their OC (Orbital Cruise) boundaries are actually within each other... both of which have an ample helping of Geo POIs.
I also had an odd experience at game startup today. I'd parked myself overnight on an icy body out in the middle of nowhere. When the game started, I was hearing that odd jumble of radio chatter one hears as they start to get close to the inhabited areas of the bubble. It was obvious there was something, or someone, nearby, like maybe the next system over. I'm in Open mind you, so another human being out there near me is a possibility. I took off from the planet and jumped into SC, to see if anyone was in the system with me... but there wasn't. Also, after jumping into SC, the jumbled chatter quit. It just struck me as odd, I've never had it happen before.
I've taken to keeping track of black holes I run across in my travels. I don't know why, no specific goal, I just do.
I've no pictures to post just yet, but my travels the past few days have yielded the following; 2 ELWs, 1 pair of WWs closely orbiting each other, and a pair of icy bodies orbiting each other so close that their OC (Orbital Cruise) boundaries are actually within each other... both of which have an ample helping of Geo POIs.
I also had an odd experience at game startup today. I'd parked myself overnight on an icy body out in the middle of nowhere. When the game started, I was hearing that odd jumble of radio chatter one hears as they start to get close to the inhabited areas of the bubble. It was obvious there was something, or someone, nearby, like maybe the next system over. I'm in Open mind you, so another human being out there near me is a possibility. I took off from the planet and jumped into SC, to see if anyone was in the system with me... but there wasn't. Also, after jumping into SC, the jumbled chatter quit. It just struck me as odd, I've never had it happen before.
First the two which are not my own discoveries, but which I was curious about. The first is body 2 in [Aucoks DC-B a13-3]. That's an Earth-like world orbiting a class T brown dwarf. It was a bit underwhelming though... I thought I'd get an ELW dipped in blood-red light, but alas, not quite:
It's just darker, that's all. I guess they might look better in systems with a class L dwarf. Anyway, here's the quasi-star as seen from the planets immediate vicinity:
The second thing are the mountain ridges on body AB 1 D in the system [Qeajo CZ-N c20-15] (which features a second world with such high mountains). Please note that the following three photos have been post-processed as they were subjectively too dark. As such, brightness was increased by +29% on all three.
Approach:
Even from this far away you can see the mountains. By the way, I've never visited rocky ice worlds before actually... But at least this one looks awesome! Let's have a closer look:
They look at bit more massive on the photos as when compared to how I perceived them while flying over the planet, but yep, they still are very large. While I didn't do any measurements, they're said to be 20-30km high. I chose to take pictures of the ones on the polar region, because they just look cool with some ice on top.
And finally, a rather normal find I assume. Not sure if this is a "failed Earth" or rather something like a "Proto-Earth", but in any case, it's a high metal content world sitting in the habitable zone of its class A blue-white star. On top of that, it is covered by a water-rich atmosphere, and it appears there is lots of rain to be had there, because the planet features large water oceans as well:
Looks almost like an Earth-like, huh? It's terraformable as well. Kinda found that interesting. Just like an ELW, but without life. I assume those are abundant, but with enough light, the oceans look really cool. Take a good look, this is what our Earth might look like in a few hundred years' time!
Guess I'd call that a "post-Human Earth" then...
It's just darker, that's all. I guess they might look better in systems with a class L dwarf. Anyway, here's the quasi-star as seen from the planets immediate vicinity:
The second thing are the mountain ridges on body AB 1 D in the system [Qeajo CZ-N c20-15] (which features a second world with such high mountains). Please note that the following three photos have been post-processed as they were subjectively too dark. As such, brightness was increased by +29% on all three.
Approach:
Even from this far away you can see the mountains. By the way, I've never visited rocky ice worlds before actually... But at least this one looks awesome! Let's have a closer look:
They look at bit more massive on the photos as when compared to how I perceived them while flying over the planet, but yep, they still are very large. While I didn't do any measurements, they're said to be 20-30km high. I chose to take pictures of the ones on the polar region, because they just look cool with some ice on top.
And finally, a rather normal find I assume. Not sure if this is a "failed Earth" or rather something like a "Proto-Earth", but in any case, it's a high metal content world sitting in the habitable zone of its class A blue-white star. On top of that, it is covered by a water-rich atmosphere, and it appears there is lots of rain to be had there, because the planet features large water oceans as well:
Looks almost like an Earth-like, huh? It's terraformable as well. Kinda found that interesting. Just like an ELW, but without life. I assume those are abundant, but with enough light, the oceans look really cool. Take a good look, this is what our Earth might look like in a few hundred years' time!
Guess I'd call that a "post-Human Earth" then...
I just want to know the history behind this system. Like how is it this way. There was a main sequence star with only one ELW and then it blew up into neutron star. Or maybe other planets got ejected from the system. Wonder if stellar forge models ejected and rogue planets.Just found this yesterday, it has it's own thread but I thought I would drop it here in case some of you hadn't seen it.
I would have to say to the first, it couldn't happen that way, the habitable zone for a neutron star and a regular star is hugely different, so it would have had to be a cold world to start with that was warmed and developed life after the neutron star developed as a neutron star. It couldn't capture the body as a rogue because a two body capture isn't possible, you need three or more, maybe the other bodies were ejected as you suggest, but I would expect a huge disruption to the orbit in that case and the orbital eccentricity is quite small, as it should be for an ELW.
One question that did occur to me on coming across it, would intelligent life on such a body be able to develop a heliocentric model for the solar system? Our own ideas were developed from observing other planets with moons and developing models that would account for the observed motion of planets, with nothing to observe other than the neutron star could they develop their solar system model accurately?
I don't know. I still fancy an idea of it being ejected from other system and maybe captured into orbit around this star? Also, IRL neutron stars are very dim. This planet would live in total darkness. I doubt it would have very rich flora and fauna.
I think a "second wind" is also possible. I think that was the term I read somewhere about this.. In essence, the material ejected by the supernova could form a second protoplanetary disc around the Neutron star, from which new planets could form. So if it formed like that, then that Earth-like world might've never experienced any extinction level events.
A cold world heated up, or a greenhouse world having its atmosphere blown off by the supernova (and the moon broken up in the process, forming the ring). With that distant an orbit (it is about as far away from the neutron star as Jupiter is from the Sun), I like the former idea. It would also have to survive the initial bloating phase of the star. Any life on the planet before the star went boom is probably unrelated to the current infection.
Cool find! I've seen terraformables around neutron stars. Maybe this one was terraformed? By somebody not us?
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Cool find! I've seen terraformables around neutron stars. Maybe this one was terraformed? By somebody not us?
SWell I do know about orbital mechanics and there is no possibility of a single body capturing another just through gravitational interaction. As for flora and fauna, you are thinking of what we class as visible light, you are right there wouldn't be very much visible light, but just consider, this body is 2,483 ls from the neutron star, for comparison the earth is around 480 ls from the sun, so there is plenty of energy reaching the planet to provide a water environment and 300k temperatures, and that's all life requires to develop a rich flora and fauna, energy. Life will make use of the energy being provided and evolutionary adaptions would probably create an ecosystem as rich as our own, but just adapted to different energy levels. There are plenty of examples of life developing without any visible light even one earth. It would be interesting to explore, maybe one day when we finally have atmosphere we will be able to explore the life forms of such a planet.
I don't think stellar forge does eccentric orbits very well. Not sure I've seen many highly elliptical orbits, if any. Unless in handcrafted systems.