Sapyx's ED7K Project is underway
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OK, I decided to wait in the Bubble until the September update before heading off (since I was so close to it anyhow), becuse there has been a history of updates borking explorers out in the middle of nowhere. The Update has now arrived, and since the Exploration subforum did not turn into a river of flame, I'm confident enough to head out. Hopefully I'll have at least the next two sectors done by the time the December Update rolls down.
Have you seen the rest of the forums?
River of flames indeed. It's mostly justified though, a lot of things are seriously broken.Although for exploration, it's mostly just that you get much more Arx for selling your exploration data than you get for actually exploring.
Thank you … that's all I need (and wanted) to hear … not the arx for selling, but that exploration didn't break.
Is the codex commander stats not showing bug already fixed?
Otherwise it's unclear if they will be updated, I. e. the 'ly travelled' and such...
Otherwise it's unclear if they will be updated, I. e. the 'ly travelled' and such...
It sounds like there still weren't any fixes for the things that aren't scanning into the codex. Otherwise, I doubt it's impacting explorers much more than anyone else. The annoying for me is that I'm in the bubble and want to swap some modules around, but I can't tell what's what while the engineering mods are hidden from view (though I suppose that was fixed today? Haven't had a chance to look yet).
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Finally, back out in the black and finished the B-class survey for Sector 3. I had not realised when I chose it, that this sector is on the Cross of Suppression, the direct line North of Sol where large, heavy stars are forbidden and the mass-codes that usually contain them contain... something else. The western three-quarters of the Sector lie outside the Cross and the stars are "normal". The Eastern Quarter is quite different. Within the Eastern Quarter, B-class stars are non-existent, while L-class stars are commonplace, elsewhere, B-class stars are common and L-class stars are extremely scarce. So,my usual method of transecting the Sector doing B-class and L-class simultaneously didn't quite work out; I've had to drunkards-walk my way across the Western Quarters looking for b-mass-code L-class stars, then dash across the Eastern Quarter through d-mass-code L-class stars. As a result, I've had to make a couple dozen out-of-code-order refuelling stops within the Western Quarter. I've found just one ELW so far, but it was in a refuelling G-class star so will be dealt with when I finish the G-class survey. But enough waffling, you want numbers, so here are some numbers.
Results for Sector 3, B-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 568 (average number of stars per system: 2.84)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 68 (34%)
"Colonizable" systems (systems with at least one ELW or TFC): 18 (9%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 16 (8%)
Total number of planets found: 1626
Number of ELWs discovered: 0
Number of TFCs discovered: 27
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 0
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 11
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 1
Observations: As noted above, B-class stars were effectively non-existent within the Cross of Suppression. I found just one, and it was mass-code g. There are almost exactly the same number of stars-per-system as in Wepooe, but the systems in Sector 3 are richer and "more interesting", being closer to Thraikoo's statistics.Still haven't seen any Ammonia Worlds around a B-class star, though. There is a 50% increase in the number of Terraformables.
Besides the mass-code g system, there were 11 mass-code f systems in this survey. Since I'm still in the Core zone, as defined by the Helium-Rich limit, no helium-rich giants were found. There were just over 300 gas giants found, with 198 - that's two-thirds - Class III.
Just one system had been previously visited, with the star Tagged by Cmdr Duck of Death. The rest of the system was untagged. Sector 3 is in the Upper Bulge, and the stars are rather thin at the topmost fringe of the sector, and I've already spotted some other previously-Tagged stars up there, but they weren't in this class.
Surprise of the trip: You've heard of the "World of Death"? I call this one the "System of Death". Two Class B stars of roughly equal mass, 34,000 Ls apart. 5 protostars and 11 planets/moons, comprising 7 Class V giants and four metal-rich worlds. I don't know if seven Class V giants in one system is a record, but it's quite impressive. The coldest place in the system is that little metal-rich moon of the last protostar, at 1350 K. Come and drive around if you wish, but make sure your SRV has foamed-tungsten tyres.
Results for Sector 3, B-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 568 (average number of stars per system: 2.84)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 68 (34%)
"Colonizable" systems (systems with at least one ELW or TFC): 18 (9%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 16 (8%)
Total number of planets found: 1626
Number of ELWs discovered: 0
Number of TFCs discovered: 27
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 0
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 11
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 1
Observations: As noted above, B-class stars were effectively non-existent within the Cross of Suppression. I found just one, and it was mass-code g. There are almost exactly the same number of stars-per-system as in Wepooe, but the systems in Sector 3 are richer and "more interesting", being closer to Thraikoo's statistics.Still haven't seen any Ammonia Worlds around a B-class star, though. There is a 50% increase in the number of Terraformables.
Besides the mass-code g system, there were 11 mass-code f systems in this survey. Since I'm still in the Core zone, as defined by the Helium-Rich limit, no helium-rich giants were found. There were just over 300 gas giants found, with 198 - that's two-thirds - Class III.
Just one system had been previously visited, with the star Tagged by Cmdr Duck of Death. The rest of the system was untagged. Sector 3 is in the Upper Bulge, and the stars are rather thin at the topmost fringe of the sector, and I've already spotted some other previously-Tagged stars up there, but they weren't in this class.
Surprise of the trip: You've heard of the "World of Death"? I call this one the "System of Death". Two Class B stars of roughly equal mass, 34,000 Ls apart. 5 protostars and 11 planets/moons, comprising 7 Class V giants and four metal-rich worlds. I don't know if seven Class V giants in one system is a record, but it's quite impressive. The coldest place in the system is that little metal-rich moon of the last protostar, at 1350 K. Come and drive around if you wish, but make sure your SRV has foamed-tungsten tyres.
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Results for Sector 3, L-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 312 (average number of stars per system: 1.56)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 49 (24.5%)
"Colonizable" systems: 5 (2.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 3 (1.5%)
Total number of planets found: 1594
Number of ELWs discovered: 0
Number of TFCs discovered: 5
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 0
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 2
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 2
Observations: As with Wepooe, there are two unequal halves of the survey, caused by the shape of the galaxy. In this case, the Cross of Suppression made d-mass-code L-class stars quite common in the Eastern Quarter. The total breakdown was: 59 mass-code B systems, mostly in the Western Quarters, and 138 mass-code-d and 3 mass-code-e systems all in the Eastern Quarter. The d-code systems seem overall to be less interesting - of the five terraformables, two (including the terraformable Water World) were in B-code systems, while three were in d-code.This does seem to me that the general rule of "d-mass-code systems are the best" does not extend to L-class brown dwarfs in the Cross. "Nothing but iceballs" seem to be more common there.
No ELWs or ammonia worlds once again; no surprises there. 55 gas giants, of which 52 were Class I - again, no surprises there.
Two systems way up near the top of the Sector 3 cube were already fully explored by other CMDRs; encountering CMDR Tags was not surprising, encountering them in L-class systems was. Shout out to CMDRs Zoggeh and Sakrem: I found your planets.
Surprise of the trip: two surprising systems, actually. The first, a GGWBL - the only one found in this survey - in a highly eccentric orbit around the secondary star of a distant binary. Eccentricity factor over 0.98. Life there must get super-toasty every 3.6 earth-years.
The second system was the system with the TWW in it; two of the other planets in the system had shepherd moons orbiting at the outer edge of their rings; planet 5 had a non-landable moon that was so close to the ring edge that you could see the ring-rocks whizzing by while dropped down on the equator at the moon's exclusion zone. Thanks to Elite Observatory for helping me spot that one.
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 312 (average number of stars per system: 1.56)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 49 (24.5%)
"Colonizable" systems: 5 (2.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 3 (1.5%)
Total number of planets found: 1594
Number of ELWs discovered: 0
Number of TFCs discovered: 5
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 0
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 2
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 2
Observations: As with Wepooe, there are two unequal halves of the survey, caused by the shape of the galaxy. In this case, the Cross of Suppression made d-mass-code L-class stars quite common in the Eastern Quarter. The total breakdown was: 59 mass-code B systems, mostly in the Western Quarters, and 138 mass-code-d and 3 mass-code-e systems all in the Eastern Quarter. The d-code systems seem overall to be less interesting - of the five terraformables, two (including the terraformable Water World) were in B-code systems, while three were in d-code.This does seem to me that the general rule of "d-mass-code systems are the best" does not extend to L-class brown dwarfs in the Cross. "Nothing but iceballs" seem to be more common there.
No ELWs or ammonia worlds once again; no surprises there. 55 gas giants, of which 52 were Class I - again, no surprises there.
Two systems way up near the top of the Sector 3 cube were already fully explored by other CMDRs; encountering CMDR Tags was not surprising, encountering them in L-class systems was. Shout out to CMDRs Zoggeh and Sakrem: I found your planets.
Surprise of the trip: two surprising systems, actually. The first, a GGWBL - the only one found in this survey - in a highly eccentric orbit around the secondary star of a distant binary. Eccentricity factor over 0.98. Life there must get super-toasty every 3.6 earth-years.
The second system was the system with the TWW in it; two of the other planets in the system had shepherd moons orbiting at the outer edge of their rings; planet 5 had a non-landable moon that was so close to the ring edge that you could see the ring-rocks whizzing by while dropped down on the equator at the moon's exclusion zone. Thanks to Elite Observatory for helping me spot that one.
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Results for Sector 3, A-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 401 (average number of stars per system: 2.01)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 45 (22.5%)
"Colonizable" systems: 67 (34%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 73 (36.5%)
Total number of planets found: 2255
Number of ELWs discovered: 3
Number of TFCs discovered: 129
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 4
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 51
Number of systems previously explored by other CMDRs: 1
Observations:the Cross of Suppression made less of an impact in this survey, as A-class stars are common enough within the Cross to allow for more-or-less straight-line transects to be conducted. The only exception being at the extreme upper edge of the sector, where they became too thin to continue upwards.
This survey is the new record-holder for number of Waterworlds; those 51 worlds are evenly divided (25:26) between terraformables and nonterraformables. That high number of WW-CFTs has added to the new record-highest proportion of colonizable star systems, even thought he total number of terraformables, at 137, is slightly smaller than in Wepooe sector A class stars. Once again, Ammonia worlds outnumbered ELWs, at the same 3:2 ratio seen in Wepooe. The three earth-likes found are nothing exceptional.
In life-bearing gas giants, the ratio in this survey is 36:8. The overall ratio in A-class stars is now 4.25:1. For the Sudarsky non-life-bearing giants, the stats are 27:45:115:16:0. There was also one water giant. As we're still well inside the "galactic bulge", again no helium-rich were detected.
There were 11 mass code e systems in this survey, slightly fewer than in the previous sector. Only one system was previously explored, a random system with no planets.
Surprise of the trip: in a generally uninteresting survey, the most impressive sight was one of the ELW systems. Besides the ELW itself (planet A8), there are four other waterworlds (A7, B1, B3 and B5), two of which are terraformable, plus two extra terraformable HMCs. Quite a valuable system, for anyone mapping everything. I generally only map Earth-likes, so that won't be me.
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 401 (average number of stars per system: 2.01)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 45 (22.5%)
"Colonizable" systems: 67 (34%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 73 (36.5%)
Total number of planets found: 2255
Number of ELWs discovered: 3
Number of TFCs discovered: 129
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 4
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 51
Number of systems previously explored by other CMDRs: 1
Observations:the Cross of Suppression made less of an impact in this survey, as A-class stars are common enough within the Cross to allow for more-or-less straight-line transects to be conducted. The only exception being at the extreme upper edge of the sector, where they became too thin to continue upwards.
This survey is the new record-holder for number of Waterworlds; those 51 worlds are evenly divided (25:26) between terraformables and nonterraformables. That high number of WW-CFTs has added to the new record-highest proportion of colonizable star systems, even thought he total number of terraformables, at 137, is slightly smaller than in Wepooe sector A class stars. Once again, Ammonia worlds outnumbered ELWs, at the same 3:2 ratio seen in Wepooe. The three earth-likes found are nothing exceptional.
In life-bearing gas giants, the ratio in this survey is 36:8. The overall ratio in A-class stars is now 4.25:1. For the Sudarsky non-life-bearing giants, the stats are 27:45:115:16:0. There was also one water giant. As we're still well inside the "galactic bulge", again no helium-rich were detected.
There were 11 mass code e systems in this survey, slightly fewer than in the previous sector. Only one system was previously explored, a random system with no planets.
Surprise of the trip: in a generally uninteresting survey, the most impressive sight was one of the ELW systems. Besides the ELW itself (planet A8), there are four other waterworlds (A7, B1, B3 and B5), two of which are terraformable, plus two extra terraformable HMCs. Quite a valuable system, for anyone mapping everything. I generally only map Earth-likes, so that won't be me.
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Results for Sector 3, F-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 387 (average number of stars per system: 1.94%)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 52 (26%)
"Colonizable" systems: 53 (26.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 72 (36%)
Total number of planets found: 2363
Number of ELWs discovered: 3
Number of TFCs discovered: 103
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 6
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 34
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 7 plus 1 EDSM-only
Observations: The stats for this sector are very, very similar than those for Wepooe, with a few notable differences. The amount of TFCs and colonizable systems, for starters, is much lower in sector 3. The seven systems already Tagged and/or Mapped by others (all by different CMDRs) were all at the extreme upper edge of the sector and directly on the Sol-Beagle flightpath; as I had originally speculated, there seems to have been plenty of CMDRs trying to loop the galaxy pole-to-pole, with Class F stars set in the filter. That line wasn't thoroughly explored-out, though; one of my three ELWs in this survey was right along that same line. The ELWs themselves weren't too much to write home about, statistically.
Almost all the systems surveyed were mass code d; only two systems within the Cross were mass code e. The WW:AW:ELW ratio in this survey was 34:6:3, which is very close to 10:2:1. The Waterworld breakdown was 16 non-terraformable to 18 terraformable, again near enough to a 1:1 split. In life-bearing giants, the water/ammonia ratio was 34:22, which is close enough to 3:2. The Sudarsky ratios were 76:37:79:12:2 - those two Class V giants were a bit of a surprise, given I had seen none in the A-class survey. Water Giant count: 7.
Surprise of the trip: two relatively minor surprises int his survey. The first being that ELW up near the roof of the Galactic Core on the Beagle Line which I mentioned earlier. The previous five systems I had jumped into had been previously explored, so I was surprised to find this one not only with an ELW but with everything still completely Untagged. Posting a shot of the planet and its little "moon" (actually a co-orbiting Waterworld), just for the sake of it.
The second surprise was a triple-shepherd-moon system - there are three moons orbiting in between the small inner ring and the large outer ring of this otherwise unremarkable gas giant. Again, wouldn't have noticed this without ED Observatory acting as my science officer.
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 387 (average number of stars per system: 1.94%)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 52 (26%)
"Colonizable" systems: 53 (26.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 72 (36%)
Total number of planets found: 2363
Number of ELWs discovered: 3
Number of TFCs discovered: 103
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 6
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 34
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 7 plus 1 EDSM-only
Observations: The stats for this sector are very, very similar than those for Wepooe, with a few notable differences. The amount of TFCs and colonizable systems, for starters, is much lower in sector 3. The seven systems already Tagged and/or Mapped by others (all by different CMDRs) were all at the extreme upper edge of the sector and directly on the Sol-Beagle flightpath; as I had originally speculated, there seems to have been plenty of CMDRs trying to loop the galaxy pole-to-pole, with Class F stars set in the filter. That line wasn't thoroughly explored-out, though; one of my three ELWs in this survey was right along that same line. The ELWs themselves weren't too much to write home about, statistically.
Almost all the systems surveyed were mass code d; only two systems within the Cross were mass code e. The WW:AW:ELW ratio in this survey was 34:6:3, which is very close to 10:2:1. The Waterworld breakdown was 16 non-terraformable to 18 terraformable, again near enough to a 1:1 split. In life-bearing giants, the water/ammonia ratio was 34:22, which is close enough to 3:2. The Sudarsky ratios were 76:37:79:12:2 - those two Class V giants were a bit of a surprise, given I had seen none in the A-class survey. Water Giant count: 7.
Surprise of the trip: two relatively minor surprises int his survey. The first being that ELW up near the roof of the Galactic Core on the Beagle Line which I mentioned earlier. The previous five systems I had jumped into had been previously explored, so I was surprised to find this one not only with an ELW but with everything still completely Untagged. Posting a shot of the planet and its little "moon" (actually a co-orbiting Waterworld), just for the sake of it.
The second surprise was a triple-shepherd-moon system - there are three moons orbiting in between the small inner ring and the large outer ring of this otherwise unremarkable gas giant. Again, wouldn't have noticed this without ED Observatory acting as my science officer.
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Results for Sector 3, G-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 368 (average number of stars per system: 1.85)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 60 (30%)
"Colonizable" systems: 41 (20.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 61 (30.5%)
Total number of planets found: 2410
Number of ELWs discovered: 3
Number of TFCs discovered: 70
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 4
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 22
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 2 plus 2 EDSM-only
Observations: A far bleaker survey of G-class stars than for the previous sector Wepooe, and much more in line with Thraikoo. Despite the total planet count being higher, Earth-likes and waterworlds are both halved in number compared to Wepooe and both colonizable and life-bearing systems are down, as is the TFC count, while the count of planet-less systems is up. And once again, in the corner of the sector that's almost directly above Sag A, at the uppermost extreme, several systems there were already Tagged, or at least explored by EDSM.
The Cross of Suppression wasn't really noticeable, except that there were two e-mass-code systems this time, both within the Cross. Mass code d outnumbered c considerably, this time, with a ratio of 145:53. The ELWs were similarly split, 2:1. The ELWs themselves are actually rather good, nice comfortable planets to colonize compared to the other ELWs found so far in the sector.
This survey is noticeably drier - this time the WW:AW:ELW ratio is radically skewed not by the much higher than usual number of ELWs, but by the low number of WWs: at 22:3:4, that's about a 7:1:1 ratio, which is actually not too far off from the 6:1:1 Wepooe ratio. The waterworld terraformability ratio is 13 NT : 9 T. In the life-bearing gas giants, the numbers are also up but the water:ammonia ratio is slightly more biased towards water, at 33:19. The Sudarsky ratios were 115:36:78:10:0 - Class I giants have out-numbered Class III in the previous sectors too, so I think we can now definitively state that the "Class III is the most common" rule does not hold for G-class stars.
The three regular "ELW-hunting stars" surveys in this sector - A, F and G stars - have turned up three ELW each. That's relatively low; only nine ELWs for the sector so far. Unless I get a major surprise with the K and M stars, this will be the poorest sector of the project so far. And seems to fly in the face of earlier data-mining which seemed to indicate that ELWs became more common as you got further from the galactic plane, not less common.
Surprise of the trip: once again, a quite mundane survey with few surprises. However, I did finally gain some evidence for something I had long asserted, but could never find proof of: that there is a "secret" classification of "lava worlds", and that these lava worlds, like water worlds and ammonia worlds, are non-landable, even if they are rated as "no atmosphere". Here's a metal-rich airless non-landable lava world; I would postulate that high-metal-content airless non-landable lava worlds also exist, as well. Curiously, though the atmosphere is rated as "none" in-game and on EDSM, EDSM gives a surface pressure of 0.00009391 atmospheres.
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 368 (average number of stars per system: 1.85)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 60 (30%)
"Colonizable" systems: 41 (20.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 61 (30.5%)
Total number of planets found: 2410
Number of ELWs discovered: 3
Number of TFCs discovered: 70
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 4
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 22
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 2 plus 2 EDSM-only
Observations: A far bleaker survey of G-class stars than for the previous sector Wepooe, and much more in line with Thraikoo. Despite the total planet count being higher, Earth-likes and waterworlds are both halved in number compared to Wepooe and both colonizable and life-bearing systems are down, as is the TFC count, while the count of planet-less systems is up. And once again, in the corner of the sector that's almost directly above Sag A, at the uppermost extreme, several systems there were already Tagged, or at least explored by EDSM.
The Cross of Suppression wasn't really noticeable, except that there were two e-mass-code systems this time, both within the Cross. Mass code d outnumbered c considerably, this time, with a ratio of 145:53. The ELWs were similarly split, 2:1. The ELWs themselves are actually rather good, nice comfortable planets to colonize compared to the other ELWs found so far in the sector.
This survey is noticeably drier - this time the WW:AW:ELW ratio is radically skewed not by the much higher than usual number of ELWs, but by the low number of WWs: at 22:3:4, that's about a 7:1:1 ratio, which is actually not too far off from the 6:1:1 Wepooe ratio. The waterworld terraformability ratio is 13 NT : 9 T. In the life-bearing gas giants, the numbers are also up but the water:ammonia ratio is slightly more biased towards water, at 33:19. The Sudarsky ratios were 115:36:78:10:0 - Class I giants have out-numbered Class III in the previous sectors too, so I think we can now definitively state that the "Class III is the most common" rule does not hold for G-class stars.
The three regular "ELW-hunting stars" surveys in this sector - A, F and G stars - have turned up three ELW each. That's relatively low; only nine ELWs for the sector so far. Unless I get a major surprise with the K and M stars, this will be the poorest sector of the project so far. And seems to fly in the face of earlier data-mining which seemed to indicate that ELWs became more common as you got further from the galactic plane, not less common.
Surprise of the trip: once again, a quite mundane survey with few surprises. However, I did finally gain some evidence for something I had long asserted, but could never find proof of: that there is a "secret" classification of "lava worlds", and that these lava worlds, like water worlds and ammonia worlds, are non-landable, even if they are rated as "no atmosphere". Here's a metal-rich airless non-landable lava world; I would postulate that high-metal-content airless non-landable lava worlds also exist, as well. Curiously, though the atmosphere is rated as "none" in-game and on EDSM, EDSM gives a surface pressure of 0.00009391 atmospheres.
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Results for Sector 3, K-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 385 (average number of stars per system: 1.93)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 59 (30%)
"Colonizable" systems: 37 (18.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 51 (25.5%)
Total number of planets found: 2250
Number of ELWs discovered: 2
Number of TFCs discovered: 62
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 4
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 18
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 4
Observations: The K survey was much better, comparatively, than the surveys for the higher planetary classes. Average number of stars per system is down below 2 this time, while the total number of worlds is up by a couple of hundred. The counts for valuable/life bearing planets are still lower than the counts for A, F and G stars, but it's much closer to a match this time. 2 ELWs seems to be about average for K class surveys. At 18 waterworlds, the count is quite good, and evenly split 9:9 (half-and-half) for terraformability.
The mass codes for this survey are a much more mixed bag than in previous surveys, due to the combination of Cross of Suppression and being way Up int he galactic bulge. The large majority of systems were still mass code c (174); there was a single mass code b system, 21 code d systems, two code e and two code g. There were three K-class orange giant stars this time (both of the code e and one code d system); the presence of the giants added a few extra hot gas giant planets not normally found in K-class systems but otherwise didn't affect the stats much. The two code g systems were ordinary K dwarf stars, sitting inside those "fuzzy blob" mini-nebulae. I found and targeted two such fuzzy blobs in this survey and it shouldn't surprise anyone that two out of the four "previously explored" systems in this survey were those two fuzzy g-code systems. The other two previously explored systems were (once again) up in the topmost border regions of the sector, where stars of any kind get thin on the ground.
The WW:AW:ELW ratio in this survey was 18:4:2, which is near enough to 10:2:1. 2:1 is about the best AW:ELW ratio I've managed to get, so it seems my original hypothesis of 3:1 might be too high. The life-bearing gas giants ratio is 31:13, while the Sudarsky ratios are 136:27:40:4:1. Once again, no water giants, helium-rich giants or terraformable rocky moons were found.
Surprise of the trip: once again, a survey with few surprises. But I did think this one was odd enough to make note of. I call this "evidence for panspermia": a star system where almost all the larger planets had been colonized by life: 2 GGWBLs, 2 GGABLS and one terrestrial Ammonia world. Only the last two planets - one small cold gas giant and one iceball - remain uninfected.
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 385 (average number of stars per system: 1.93)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 59 (30%)
"Colonizable" systems: 37 (18.5%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 51 (25.5%)
Total number of planets found: 2250
Number of ELWs discovered: 2
Number of TFCs discovered: 62
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 4
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 18
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 4
Observations: The K survey was much better, comparatively, than the surveys for the higher planetary classes. Average number of stars per system is down below 2 this time, while the total number of worlds is up by a couple of hundred. The counts for valuable/life bearing planets are still lower than the counts for A, F and G stars, but it's much closer to a match this time. 2 ELWs seems to be about average for K class surveys. At 18 waterworlds, the count is quite good, and evenly split 9:9 (half-and-half) for terraformability.
The mass codes for this survey are a much more mixed bag than in previous surveys, due to the combination of Cross of Suppression and being way Up int he galactic bulge. The large majority of systems were still mass code c (174); there was a single mass code b system, 21 code d systems, two code e and two code g. There were three K-class orange giant stars this time (both of the code e and one code d system); the presence of the giants added a few extra hot gas giant planets not normally found in K-class systems but otherwise didn't affect the stats much. The two code g systems were ordinary K dwarf stars, sitting inside those "fuzzy blob" mini-nebulae. I found and targeted two such fuzzy blobs in this survey and it shouldn't surprise anyone that two out of the four "previously explored" systems in this survey were those two fuzzy g-code systems. The other two previously explored systems were (once again) up in the topmost border regions of the sector, where stars of any kind get thin on the ground.
The WW:AW:ELW ratio in this survey was 18:4:2, which is near enough to 10:2:1. 2:1 is about the best AW:ELW ratio I've managed to get, so it seems my original hypothesis of 3:1 might be too high. The life-bearing gas giants ratio is 31:13, while the Sudarsky ratios are 136:27:40:4:1. Once again, no water giants, helium-rich giants or terraformable rocky moons were found.
Surprise of the trip: once again, a survey with few surprises. But I did think this one was odd enough to make note of. I call this "evidence for panspermia": a star system where almost all the larger planets had been colonized by life: 2 GGWBLs, 2 GGABLS and one terrestrial Ammonia world. Only the last two planets - one small cold gas giant and one iceball - remain uninfected.
Gas giants in L class systems are uncommon; they are almost always small Class I gas giants. They are perhaps more common than they may seem, as a small, super-cold Class I gas giant can look almost identical to a large iceball planet. The three sectors worth of L class stars have so far found 68, 59 and 52 Class 1 giants, so 179 such planets out of 600 star systems. By comparison, I have found precisely one each of Class II and Class III per survey (for a total of 3 each), no Class IV or Class V, no Water Giants and a single ammonia-life-bearing gas giant which I mentioned in the Wepooe survey. And that's it. The total numbers of Gas giants aorund L class stars is less than half the number found around M class stars.
As for why I didn't include T and Y dwarfs, I found just skimming around the map that those are actually not very common, outside of the Brown Dwarf Disc around the galactic equator. I was not confident of being able to easily find 200 T class and Y class stars in each of the five selected sectors. Finding the quota of L-class stars in Sector 3 was only possible because the Cross of Suppression created a bunch of extra ones. The same goes for black holes, neutron stars, T Tauris and other exotic star types - there just aren't enough of them to get a good set of 200 stars in each sector.
As for why I didn't include T and Y dwarfs, I found just skimming around the map that those are actually not very common, outside of the Brown Dwarf Disc around the galactic equator. I was not confident of being able to easily find 200 T class and Y class stars in each of the five selected sectors. Finding the quota of L-class stars in Sector 3 was only possible because the Cross of Suppression created a bunch of extra ones. The same goes for black holes, neutron stars, T Tauris and other exotic star types - there just aren't enough of them to get a good set of 200 stars in each sector.
Results for Sector 3, M-class stars:
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 368 (average number of stars per system: 1.84)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 62 (31%)
"Colonizable" systems: 18 (9%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 27 (13.5%)
Total number of planets found: 1902
Number of ELWs discovered: 0
Number of TFCs discovered: 23
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 2
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 12
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 1
Observations: Except for the notable lack of an Earth-like this time, this survey is my "best-ever" M-class survey. All other counts are up: waterworlds, TFCs, ammonia worlds, life-bearing giants, and total number of planets found. The relative fecundity of these M-class stars may have something to do with their age; being far away from the main disc, they are mostly over 10 billion years old. I assume the Stellar Forge makes life more probable, the older the star system is?
Once again, there was a diverse mixture of mass codes in this survey: the dominant code in this survey was mass code c with 92, followed by 82 in mass code b. Red Giants were quite common in this survey, with 10 out of a total of 25 code-d stars being red giants (the other 15 being "normal" red dwarfs in the Cross of Suppression.Curiously, one of those 15 "normal dwarf code d" stars had a "baby red giant" as a secondary star, smaller than the normal red dwarf primary! There was also a single solitary code e red dwarf, up in the Cross. The increased overall quality of Class M systems in this survey may have something to do with the increased number of code c systems; further examination of the data may be warranted. One of the red dwarfs in the Cross was previously explored by another CMDR; none of the red giants were.
The WW:AW:ELW ratio in this survey was 12:2:0, which puts the overall ratio from combining all three M-class surveys at 25:6:1; while more surveys might give us some more precise figures, it seems to me on these preliminary results that ammonia worlds far outnumber Earth-likes in M-class systems. In the life-bearing gas giants, water life out-numbered ammonia again, with a ratio of 13:7, giving an overall across the three sectors of 25:19. The larger number of red giants has, however, pumped up the numbers of "hotter" gas giants; with the Sudarsky ratios at 114:16:12:2:0, Class 1 are still dominant.
Surprise of the trip: again, nothing really stood out as interesting or surprising in this survey - except, perhaps, for the lack of any Earth-likes, given the otherwise overall "life-friendliness" of the survey results. That "baby giant secondary star" is perhaps the oddest thing I found in this survey.
Now I'm off to Explorer's Anchorage to cash in this small collection of ELWs.
Systems surveyed: 200
Stars within systems surveyed: 368 (average number of stars per system: 1.84)
Systems with no planets, only other stars: 62 (31%)
"Colonizable" systems: 18 (9%)
"Life-bearing" systems: 27 (13.5%)
Total number of planets found: 1902
Number of ELWs discovered: 0
Number of TFCs discovered: 23
Number of Ammonia Worlds discovered: 2
Number of Water Worlds (all types): 12
Number of systems previous explored by other CMDRs: 1
Observations: Except for the notable lack of an Earth-like this time, this survey is my "best-ever" M-class survey. All other counts are up: waterworlds, TFCs, ammonia worlds, life-bearing giants, and total number of planets found. The relative fecundity of these M-class stars may have something to do with their age; being far away from the main disc, they are mostly over 10 billion years old. I assume the Stellar Forge makes life more probable, the older the star system is?
Once again, there was a diverse mixture of mass codes in this survey: the dominant code in this survey was mass code c with 92, followed by 82 in mass code b. Red Giants were quite common in this survey, with 10 out of a total of 25 code-d stars being red giants (the other 15 being "normal" red dwarfs in the Cross of Suppression.Curiously, one of those 15 "normal dwarf code d" stars had a "baby red giant" as a secondary star, smaller than the normal red dwarf primary! There was also a single solitary code e red dwarf, up in the Cross. The increased overall quality of Class M systems in this survey may have something to do with the increased number of code c systems; further examination of the data may be warranted. One of the red dwarfs in the Cross was previously explored by another CMDR; none of the red giants were.
The WW:AW:ELW ratio in this survey was 12:2:0, which puts the overall ratio from combining all three M-class surveys at 25:6:1; while more surveys might give us some more precise figures, it seems to me on these preliminary results that ammonia worlds far outnumber Earth-likes in M-class systems. In the life-bearing gas giants, water life out-numbered ammonia again, with a ratio of 13:7, giving an overall across the three sectors of 25:19. The larger number of red giants has, however, pumped up the numbers of "hotter" gas giants; with the Sudarsky ratios at 114:16:12:2:0, Class 1 are still dominant.
Surprise of the trip: again, nothing really stood out as interesting or surprising in this survey - except, perhaps, for the lack of any Earth-likes, given the otherwise overall "life-friendliness" of the survey results. That "baby giant secondary star" is perhaps the oddest thing I found in this survey.
Now I'm off to Explorer's Anchorage to cash in this small collection of ELWs.
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And now I can reveal the identity of Sector 3:
Croomaa, the crown of the Galaxy
My previous Sector planet montages have been somewhat hodgepodge, with planet images taken at random distances and orientations. This time, I've been a bit more systematic about it. The planets were all imaged at 20,000 km distance, so "large" planets in the montage actually are larger. And the orientation is always with the plane of the planet's orbit around the star being directly horizontal, so planets that look "sideways" actually are orbiting with a high axial tilt.
A couple more scenic shots I haven't posted in this thread up to now. Here's a pic of planet JG-O d6-1061, from a slighly different angle to the one in the montage, to grab a shot of the moon too.
As usual, doing the L-class survey was really boring, so when I found a rare-in-L-systems volcanic landable HMC (Croomaa AK-I d9-2402 planet 1), I did some mats harvesting at the lava vents. Here's a screenshot that I liked...
There are two planetary nebulae in the Croomaa Sector, way down on the lower face of the cube; both of them were thoroughly explored before I got there. But still scenic enough; here's a quick snapshot of a waterworld inside the Croomaa NM-W e1-2366 Nebula with a very close-orbiting giant moon.
Actually saw very little to shock and amaze a tourist while travelling to and from Croomaa, so there are no Getting There tourist notes for this survey. I did stop and check out Agatosh's ELW Trojan planet in the Eok Flyuae RJ-O d7-2577 system since it was on the way, but it's moonless and generally uninteresting, as Trojan ELWs go. I only found one other ELW of my own, just a couple of jumps away from the Trojan in the Eok Flyuae TY-Y d1-336 system. Here's a pic, using my standard distance-and-orientation formula. The nebula in the upper left background is the Boepp Nebula, with of course the Magellanic Clouds nearby.
Croomaa, the crown of the Galaxy
My previous Sector planet montages have been somewhat hodgepodge, with planet images taken at random distances and orientations. This time, I've been a bit more systematic about it. The planets were all imaged at 20,000 km distance, so "large" planets in the montage actually are larger. And the orientation is always with the plane of the planet's orbit around the star being directly horizontal, so planets that look "sideways" actually are orbiting with a high axial tilt.
A couple more scenic shots I haven't posted in this thread up to now. Here's a pic of planet JG-O d6-1061, from a slighly different angle to the one in the montage, to grab a shot of the moon too.
As usual, doing the L-class survey was really boring, so when I found a rare-in-L-systems volcanic landable HMC (Croomaa AK-I d9-2402 planet 1), I did some mats harvesting at the lava vents. Here's a screenshot that I liked...
There are two planetary nebulae in the Croomaa Sector, way down on the lower face of the cube; both of them were thoroughly explored before I got there. But still scenic enough; here's a quick snapshot of a waterworld inside the Croomaa NM-W e1-2366 Nebula with a very close-orbiting giant moon.
Actually saw very little to shock and amaze a tourist while travelling to and from Croomaa, so there are no Getting There tourist notes for this survey. I did stop and check out Agatosh's ELW Trojan planet in the Eok Flyuae RJ-O d7-2577 system since it was on the way, but it's moonless and generally uninteresting, as Trojan ELWs go. I only found one other ELW of my own, just a couple of jumps away from the Trojan in the Eok Flyuae TY-Y d1-336 system. Here's a pic, using my standard distance-and-orientation formula. The nebula in the upper left background is the Boepp Nebula, with of course the Magellanic Clouds nearby.
I'm going to have to put the Project on hold for a month or two once more. Yep, I died again, while enroute to Sector 4. This time, I know exactly what went wrong: I went AFK (Yeah, yeah, after what happened last time, I know, but bear with me) while in hyperspace to answer an urgent IRL phone call, and the system I jumped into had a close-orbiting secondary star, a red dwarf star just 6 Ls away from the arrival point. Yep, it was a near-contact-binary coronal insertion, with instant heat-up. Only the third time this had ever happened to me while exploring, and the first while AFK.
According to the logs the first heat warning was given just 9 seconds after arrival and I died from hull death just two minutes after arriving (arrival at 09:29.58, heat damage began at 09:30.35, exploded at 09:32.00). If I'd had the sound turned on I would have noticed, but alas I had been listening on headphones and couldn't hear the sirens blaring away. The phone call lasted five minutes, but it was still three minutes too long to save my ship. The only data not lost were the 19 Earth-likes I sold at Explorer's Anchorage. The star that killed me was in Shrogea OI-B d13-12, for anyone morbidly fascinated enough to visit it.
My stupid mistake, I know what went wrong, and I'll wear it. Not going to ask for any hand-of-God restoration this time; there's nothing else for it but to retrace my steps from Explorer's Anchorage back through Croomaa to rescan those 1383 systems. I only lost about 38 pages of data this time.
According to the logs the first heat warning was given just 9 seconds after arrival and I died from hull death just two minutes after arriving (arrival at 09:29.58, heat damage began at 09:30.35, exploded at 09:32.00). If I'd had the sound turned on I would have noticed, but alas I had been listening on headphones and couldn't hear the sirens blaring away. The phone call lasted five minutes, but it was still three minutes too long to save my ship. The only data not lost were the 19 Earth-likes I sold at Explorer's Anchorage. The star that killed me was in Shrogea OI-B d13-12, for anyone morbidly fascinated enough to visit it.
My stupid mistake, I know what went wrong, and I'll wear it. Not going to ask for any hand-of-God restoration this time; there's nothing else for it but to retrace my steps from Explorer's Anchorage back through Croomaa to rescan those 1383 systems. I only lost about 38 pages of data this time.
Oh that must be frustrating
Sorry to hear of your misfortune; hope you can get back out there before too long.
Sorry to hear of your misfortune; hope you can get back out there before too long.