It was a less than half serious jest, but the SRV can do astonishing things on low-g planets/moons.
Not so spectacular, but interesting finds. :)
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Busted radiator hose, overheated. Now I have to push it back to the ship. Where's my legs?
j/k
At first, when I turned around, I thought it was a mountain...
j/k
At first, when I turned around, I thought it was a mountain...
This is an interesting one, if you have good look you will see I am mass locked, directly ahead is a small rock I circled.
I discovered a system with a gas giant with a large invisible ring, we've all encountered them. I have a quick look to confirm it was invisible and not worth the screenshot so I just hit max throttle and started to point to my next system, only to crash out of SC in seemingly empty space, as you can see I am 4.6ls from the gas giant, nothing else anywhere around. Just these little rocks all over the place. You can't get near them, they just move around behind you. Not dense enough to see but dense enough to pull you out of SC, and I can't tell which direction I need to go to get out of mass lock, very nice touch!
I discovered a system with a gas giant with a large invisible ring, we've all encountered them. I have a quick look to confirm it was invisible and not worth the screenshot so I just hit max throttle and started to point to my next system, only to crash out of SC in seemingly empty space, as you can see I am 4.6ls from the gas giant, nothing else anywhere around. Just these little rocks all over the place. You can't get near them, they just move around behind you. Not dense enough to see but dense enough to pull you out of SC, and I can't tell which direction I need to go to get out of mass lock, very nice touch!
I stumbled into a system that was almost really interesting, but not quite. However, the more I looked, the more interesting this system became. And not because of WHAT was there, but the trail it led me down.
I'm on my way to Colonia for some random "side project" of mine to visit an engineer out there. Something to do with hot rodding up a Viper MK III... but that's not important. As I travel, on my second monitor, I watch my EDSM dashboard scroll along with me to alert me of any high value targets. While cruising along I find some system that I had tagged a note on a couple years ago that just said "Have to visit here some day". I couldn't remember for the life of me why, but who am I to argue with myself, so off I go.
When I arrive I see that I'm not the first to visit here. It is a rather large system of 65 total bodies but nothing rather spectacular stands out. In fact, I had visited here prior to Chapter 4, so other than a basic scan I had no details of what else was out there. So I have no idea why I even made a note here. But then I see the NSP signal source... I mean sources. This is a first for me! I've never hit the scanner and discovered NSPs on my own. In fact, there are 3 different NSP sources in the rings of 3 different bodies. I went to visit each and claim some Codex data, and even had a rather nice first contact with a friendly little Albulum Gourd Mollusk. At least I thought he was friendly. He bumped my shields but I think he just didn't understand me. I backed away and left him be.
I was still trying to figure out why I had noted this system, and trying to understand the First Discovery tags. I have the first discovered tag in game on the primary star, but not the other 3. I presume that is a pre-chapter 4 scan vs post chapter 4 scan difference??? And no other bodies had been scanned, so it seems rather untouched out here. Yet further digging reveals that the system, but no bodies, were first submitted to EDSM by one CMDR Maximilian Reach. Looking at his EDSM profile I see that he had traveled on DW2 and posted some amazing videos of the journey as well. Yet there, according to EDSM, his ship sits near the end of DW2, at Ceeckia UI-B c16-0. For nearly 6 months it has sat. A Type 9 named "The last voyage". His last video on DW2 also states "What a way to end it." It seems he traveled to the far side of the known galaxy, turned off all systems, and walked away.
I found the whole process of discovering this system and crossing paths that are so disconnected in time with a fellow CMDR to be rather fitting for this thread. If he happens to ever rejoin back here and come across this thread, I hope his Type-9 fires up again and returns him home, whever that may be. o7 CMDR Maximilian Reach.
Just a couple screenshots now of this system: Flyiedge EL-K c10-7
I'm on my way to Colonia for some random "side project" of mine to visit an engineer out there. Something to do with hot rodding up a Viper MK III... but that's not important. As I travel, on my second monitor, I watch my EDSM dashboard scroll along with me to alert me of any high value targets. While cruising along I find some system that I had tagged a note on a couple years ago that just said "Have to visit here some day". I couldn't remember for the life of me why, but who am I to argue with myself, so off I go.
When I arrive I see that I'm not the first to visit here. It is a rather large system of 65 total bodies but nothing rather spectacular stands out. In fact, I had visited here prior to Chapter 4, so other than a basic scan I had no details of what else was out there. So I have no idea why I even made a note here. But then I see the NSP signal source... I mean sources. This is a first for me! I've never hit the scanner and discovered NSPs on my own. In fact, there are 3 different NSP sources in the rings of 3 different bodies. I went to visit each and claim some Codex data, and even had a rather nice first contact with a friendly little Albulum Gourd Mollusk. At least I thought he was friendly. He bumped my shields but I think he just didn't understand me. I backed away and left him be.
I was still trying to figure out why I had noted this system, and trying to understand the First Discovery tags. I have the first discovered tag in game on the primary star, but not the other 3. I presume that is a pre-chapter 4 scan vs post chapter 4 scan difference??? And no other bodies had been scanned, so it seems rather untouched out here. Yet further digging reveals that the system, but no bodies, were first submitted to EDSM by one CMDR Maximilian Reach. Looking at his EDSM profile I see that he had traveled on DW2 and posted some amazing videos of the journey as well. Yet there, according to EDSM, his ship sits near the end of DW2, at Ceeckia UI-B c16-0. For nearly 6 months it has sat. A Type 9 named "The last voyage". His last video on DW2 also states "What a way to end it." It seems he traveled to the far side of the known galaxy, turned off all systems, and walked away.
I found the whole process of discovering this system and crossing paths that are so disconnected in time with a fellow CMDR to be rather fitting for this thread. If he happens to ever rejoin back here and come across this thread, I hope his Type-9 fires up again and returns him home, whever that may be. o7 CMDR Maximilian Reach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9l3l_Py6FY
Just a couple screenshots now of this system: Flyiedge EL-K c10-7
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Rings are fairly thin, so it was just a matter of flying in a couple of different directions for a few minutes until the masslock message turned off.
As for probing, so far we have found that none of these rings far from the main body has been able to be probed, so no that won't work, would be nice if it did.
I ran into a similar situation a while back, huge rings that is, not that I was stuck. The inner A ring I was able to DSS; the outer B ring however was so far from the body that probes wouldn't reach, not even sitting at the limit of DSS range. And I agree, it would be nice if one could fly closer and DSS such far flung rings... so huge, the mining resource potentials they could hold.
A little black hole, from 38km away... can't get any closer (exclusion zone reached).
Another close encounter, a neutron star.
Another close encounter, a neutron star.
Oh but you can. With thrusters. It's just 38km, that's a distance you won't need the FSD for. I've flewn into black hole exclusion zones myself before (scary stuff), but haven't found one cool enough to get really close.
Hummm... I'll have to try that next time. Am I to understand correctly that heat increases the closer you get? I thought I'd read that somewhere here on the forums.
I've got down to 9m (yes, metres). That was in 1.x, it may no longer be possible.
Black holes themselves are very cool, the fact that out ships heat up close to the big ones is presumably due to gravitational stresses (which they handle supernaturally well, all things considered). Hawking radiation is a thing but it's inversely proportional to mass, enough mass to be a black hole means its cold. One of those tiny black holes the tabloids pretended to be worried the LHC would make would be really hot but equally would evaporate in barely any time at all.
On my way from Beagle Point to Colonia I decided to look for Black Holes and came across this one with an Earth-Like orbiting an M Class Star.
A little further on I came across this already discovered double Black Hole, a first for me.
A little further on I came across this already discovered double Black Hole, a first for me.
Getting 'up close and friendly' with a tiny black hole - accidental as I was still scanning at the time
"O" Class system taking a peek at the Bio - the purple/blue cast from the star is amazing!
"O" Class system taking a peek at the Bio - the purple/blue cast from the star is amazing!
I like running across black holes. I keep my own personal list of ones I do. Most are already discovered, but a few are finds of my own.
Today's adventure;
I'm in a new region, the Norma Expanse. I FSS a system and find a body that supposedly has Iron Magma Lava Spouts. I DSS the body and find 5 Geo POIs, so I drop in to visit. Checking 3 of the 5 POIs, I'm finding nothing but Sulphur Dioxide Gas Vents. I didn't bother checking the other POIs. This isn't the first time this has happened to me. On the other hand, I still find numerous HMC bodies that show nothing on FSS, but turn up (usually) Geo POIs on DSS... which I take as a win win.
Today's adventure;
I'm in a new region, the Norma Expanse. I FSS a system and find a body that supposedly has Iron Magma Lava Spouts. I DSS the body and find 5 Geo POIs, so I drop in to visit. Checking 3 of the 5 POIs, I'm finding nothing but Sulphur Dioxide Gas Vents.
I didn't bother checking the other POIs. This isn't the first time this has happened to me. On the other hand, I still find numerous HMC bodies that show nothing on FSS, but turn up (usually) Geo POIs on DSS... which I take as a win win.Update:
In a system two jumps away, I've found my Iron Magma Lava Spouts, just as FSS indicated. A 50k Codex hit for me (new region). Yay me.
In a system two jumps away, I've found my Iron Magma Lava Spouts, just as FSS indicated. A 50k Codex hit for me (new region). Yay me.
There's a little black spot on the sun today...
Most interesting find I've found so far is this pair of worlds here;
Interesting why, you ask? Well;
They're REAL close together!
That's at max zoom.
On the surface I found this;
In a sizable crater.
I found molybdenum around it. I have dubbed it The Molybdenith.
It's around 600m tall. So, no mountain, but a curiously spiked rock, on a world with a massive rock hanging in the sky right over it.
Also the light on this planet is funky. As I was driving around in the crater the Molyndeniths shadow started growing as the sun went down, aimed directly towards the other planet, like a giant sundial. Then as I drove up the far side of the crater, the light vanished entirely, both on myself and on the other world in the sky, but as I climbed higher and crested the rim it briefly returned, illuminated the other world once more, but I was still in shadow.
Odd place.
Interesting why, you ask? Well;
They're REAL close together!
That's at max zoom.
On the surface I found this;
In a sizable crater.
I found molybdenum around it. I have dubbed it The Molybdenith.
It's around 600m tall. So, no mountain, but a curiously spiked rock, on a world with a massive rock hanging in the sky right over it.
Also the light on this planet is funky. As I was driving around in the crater the Molyndeniths shadow started growing as the sun went down, aimed directly towards the other planet, like a giant sundial. Then as I drove up the far side of the crater, the light vanished entirely, both on myself and on the other world in the sky, but as I climbed higher and crested the rim it briefly returned, illuminated the other world once more, but I was still in shadow.
Odd place.
Found this landable HMC world yesterday. It has a radius of 16,051km and gravity of 4.8g.
