A Visit to Mitterand Hollow
- Thread starter dj_wylie
- Start date
Nice video. I've been there twice and it is one of the more interesting places in the bubble. I would like to try Kepler-78 I saw on Science channel. Kepler-78B rotates around its sun every ~8.5 hours. That might be cool except I doubt you can land on it (but I don't know for sure) since its a lava planet. [plus from my location its about 2k ly away and I'm busy making money atm]
Nice video... I keep meaning to go there, that and Pomeche 2c are on my bucket list. Out of curiosity, what was the paint job on the cobra - it looks sweet!
Go there and land in VR, you'll lose your lunch.
So what seems weird to me is that the background stars don't seem to move, but the parent world moves in the sky. So the world seems to be tidally locked.... to the parent star, but not the parent planet, and I guess the planet's year is too slow to see stars moving?
This doesn't seem right.
This doesn't seem right.
It isn't! But it's been left in, since fixing it would probably break the galaxy. Call it one of those phenomena that in-game pseudo-science still needs to explain.
S
Now I’m trying not to handwavium it away by saying it’s ancient alien technology on its parent planet that also probably makes Édouarde Roche do a grave-spin at a similar rate, but, yeah:
”aLiEnS”
also: supernovas aren’t a natural phenomenon, they’re industrial accidents...
This is easy.Now I’m trying not to handwavium it away by saying it’s ancient alien technology on its parent planet that also probably makes Édouarde Roche do a grave-spin at a similar rate, but, yeah:
”aLiEnS”
also: supernovas aren’t a natural phenomenon, they’re industrial accidents...
Whatever unusual circumstances lead to the formation of such a close, fast moon also gave it a retrograde spin that happens to be exactly the same as the orbital period... OF THE PLANET/STAR!!!! What an amazing coincidence!
The galaxy is a big place; almost everything is bound to happen at least once.
(and just pretend the tidal forces wouldn't quickly fix that spin into tidal lock... or more likely rip the thing into a ring.)
A few years back I remember reading some maths calculations people had done - although Mitterand Hollow is about 2000km outside of the Roche limit, for the moon to be orbiting at that speed and not flying off into space, New Africa would require a mass of about 100 Jupiters which would mean a bigger Roche limit and rubble-time for our speedy moon.
So I’m going with either:
a) misplaced decimal point when inputting the data into the Stellar Forge (unlikely)
b) aLiEnS (defo, yeah?)
I remember being sent there on somekind of mission once. And for the life me couldn’t work out why it kept getting away from me. I couldn’t catch this body up! Then, I changed my approach by 180 degrees, flying in the opposite direction on the orbital plane. And finally landed and watched the show, realising why I could catch this moon in the first place.
Flimley
Flimley
Nice discussion. I like MH even though it may be a bit contrived. I saw the bit I mentioned above about Kepler-78B on Sci Channel and it was interesting. Iirc, one person mentioned the phenominon there may have been ET influenced to gather high grade minerals because they think it was a gas giant before it boiled down to a rock. (I need to watch that one again - it was a fun viewing)
In the interests of Science! I have used my time machine to leap back just over a century and have made a shocking discovery 
...we can clearly see the orbit is around 3 days - so whatever caused Mitterand Hollow to go all Speedy Gonzales, and totally wasn't aLiEn tech which led to the development of modern SuperCruise engines, happened sometime since then.
Edit: I’ve popped back to the present time, and it looks like not only has Mitterand Hollow sped up, it has also swapped orbits with Schneider Relay!
...we can clearly see the orbit is around 3 days - so whatever caused Mitterand Hollow to go all Speedy Gonzales, and totally wasn't aLiEn tech which led to the development of modern SuperCruise engines, happened sometime since then.
Edit: I’ve popped back to the present time, and it looks like not only has Mitterand Hollow sped up, it has also swapped orbits with Schneider Relay!
Last edited:
Hey, its the paintjob that came with the Mercenary edition of the game that you could pre-order back when it launched
Dont think its available any longer unfortunately.