Day 44 - 03.02.3307
ANCIENT RUINS
3 .. 2 .. 1 .. engage!
I'm making good time on the neutron highway with just 25 jumps to go. I start to get inevitable FSD malfunctions after a while which I live with until I drop into the next system which is worth stopping at ..
.. partly for the screenshot but also to refuel and to do some field maintenance before getting on the move again.
When I arrive at my destination I can immediately see that Skaudai AM-B d14-138 is a pretty awesome system.
There are actually two stars in that photo, one in front of the other, and the nebula now looms large in the background. It takes a fair amount of time in the FSS to get a complete picture of this place.
There are also two notable stellar phenomena in the system too. Damn, I could spend a week here and I have less than a day.
Oh well, obviously first on my list of things to see are the Guardian ruins on planet A B 7 A, which sits on the edge of this glorious ringed gas giant.
With the nebula as a background this place could be spectacular ..
.. but sadly all three ground sites are pitch black (sites 1 and 2 below are just 5km apart).
Even so, this is an incredible place ... I'm not sure I've ever seen so many obelisks lined up together like this.
With so little light photo opportunities are few and far between but I capture what I can using the natural blue glow of the Guardian technology, still active after god knows how many millenia (anyone know how old this stuff is actually supposed to be?).
To give you a flavour of what this place is like, let's switch to nightvision and go for a little drive shall we.
Source: https://youtu.be/Bo2wm3St8rY
I'm really torn now. I feel the need to get moving, but I'd also LOVE to see this place in daylight. As a compromise I decide to go and investigate the stellar phenomena in the system, then I'll return to the Guardian ruins later on before I leave just in case I get lucky.
One of the NSP's is over 200kls away so I head for the nearer one, still a journey of about 5kls in supercruise. On the way I'm struck by how much I love the way that orbit lines (not everyone's cup of tea I know) add a sense of scale and perspective to a system as I fly through it. The following would be nothing but a few tiny dots in the sky, barely noticeable except for their paralax movement. But as it is I get this really strong sense of skimming past this orbital ballet of planets above and to the right of me.
The phenomena itself is a Lagrange cloud with a stunning plasma blue glow filled with crystals and the odd mollusc (not photographed today).
I decide to get away from the cloud so that the nearby nebula is also visible (this is something I highly recommend with Lagrange clouds and which I suspect many people miss - fly away from them so you can get a view of them from outside, they're quite beautiful).
Anyway, that's all for now. I'll check back on the Guardian sites again later but if they're still dark then this will be it ... short of something unexpected, the next few entries will simply be reports from various points along the neutron highway before I arrive back in the bubble.
ANCIENT RUINS
3 .. 2 .. 1 .. engage!
I'm making good time on the neutron highway with just 25 jumps to go. I start to get inevitable FSD malfunctions after a while which I live with until I drop into the next system which is worth stopping at ..
.. partly for the screenshot but also to refuel and to do some field maintenance before getting on the move again.
When I arrive at my destination I can immediately see that Skaudai AM-B d14-138 is a pretty awesome system.
There are actually two stars in that photo, one in front of the other, and the nebula now looms large in the background. It takes a fair amount of time in the FSS to get a complete picture of this place.
There are also two notable stellar phenomena in the system too. Damn, I could spend a week here and I have less than a day.
Oh well, obviously first on my list of things to see are the Guardian ruins on planet A B 7 A, which sits on the edge of this glorious ringed gas giant.
With the nebula as a background this place could be spectacular ..
.. but sadly all three ground sites are pitch black (sites 1 and 2 below are just 5km apart).
Even so, this is an incredible place ... I'm not sure I've ever seen so many obelisks lined up together like this.
With so little light photo opportunities are few and far between but I capture what I can using the natural blue glow of the Guardian technology, still active after god knows how many millenia (anyone know how old this stuff is actually supposed to be?).
To give you a flavour of what this place is like, let's switch to nightvision and go for a little drive shall we.
I'm really torn now. I feel the need to get moving, but I'd also LOVE to see this place in daylight. As a compromise I decide to go and investigate the stellar phenomena in the system, then I'll return to the Guardian ruins later on before I leave just in case I get lucky.
One of the NSP's is over 200kls away so I head for the nearer one, still a journey of about 5kls in supercruise. On the way I'm struck by how much I love the way that orbit lines (not everyone's cup of tea I know) add a sense of scale and perspective to a system as I fly through it. The following would be nothing but a few tiny dots in the sky, barely noticeable except for their paralax movement. But as it is I get this really strong sense of skimming past this orbital ballet of planets above and to the right of me.
The phenomena itself is a Lagrange cloud with a stunning plasma blue glow filled with crystals and the odd mollusc (not photographed today).
I decide to get away from the cloud so that the nearby nebula is also visible (this is something I highly recommend with Lagrange clouds and which I suspect many people miss - fly away from them so you can get a view of them from outside, they're quite beautiful).
Anyway, that's all for now. I'll check back on the Guardian sites again later but if they're still dark then this will be it ... short of something unexpected, the next few entries will simply be reports from various points along the neutron highway before I arrive back in the bubble.
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