Burn the Bubble: Supernova

Northpin

Northpin
Greasetrap42 said:
It doesn't much matter. In real time for the first 100 years it wouldn't be very exciting to watch. There would be regular stars.... then suddenly a rebuy screen.

Which brings up an interesting point.... as we travel around the galaxy shouldn't there be areas of sudden unexpected death? Where the wavefront of a nova is expanding, but we have no way of knowing this because there is no way to detect this as we travel. Using the frozen Varonica model of the galaxy the wavefront would be static Just a huge sphere of instant ship rebuy. Galactic zones of certain death.
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In a dynamic galaxy i think it would be possible to jump 60ly into a star that just went Supernova. And get fried.
However, given the fact our galaxy is supposed to be able to produce 1 supernova every 50 years, FD is not really far from reality with their Static Galaxy model
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
Northpin said:
given the fact our galaxy is supposed to be able to produce 1 supernova every 50 years, FD is not really far from reality with their Static Galaxy model
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So there could be couple supernova in their first centuries of expanding spheres of certain death for unfortunate explorers to stumble upon. It would be assumed the instant rebuy screen was an unfair game glitch. Randomly located in deep space it would take a loooong time for the community to figure this out. Instant death with no explanation. Maybe not a good idea! :ROFLMAO:
 
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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Greasetrap42 said:
Which brings up an interesting point.... as we travel around the galaxy shouldn't there be areas of sudden unexpected death? Where the wavefront of a nova is expanding, but we have no way of knowing this because there is no way to detect this as we travel. Using the frozen Varonica model of the galaxy the wavefront would be static Just a huge invisible sphere of instant ship rebuy.
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That would explain those suspiciously spherical permit-locked regions scattered around the galaxy.
 

Screemonster

Screemonster
varonica said:
I'll explain once again, the ED galaxy doesn't work like that. There is no time, if they make it a supernova everyone in the galaxy will see it is a supernova instantly, it can't be a star to people who are far away and a supernova to people who are close. Everyone in the galaxy will see the supernova at the same moment and anyone in the danger zone of maybe up to 1000ly will already be in the wave front of the supernova, if you can see it, it means it has already reached you.

You can't say, "the wave will spread out" because the ED galaxy doesn't work that way, time doesn't pass for stellar phenomena, it's either a supernova and it's already killed everything in it's danger radius, or it isn't and it will never be.
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Don't mistake limitations of a game engine for actual lore of the universe in which the game takes place.
 

aRJay

aRJay
CMDR Shorty said:
Wouldn't everything in the system get sucked into the Black-hole that forms at the centre on the supernova, as opposed to blasted by radiation?
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You wouldn't necessarily get a Black Hole, a White Dwarf or a Neutron star could be formed it is down to size I think.

If a Black Hole was formed the radiation would have killed everything before it had formed, and it would only suck in everything close to it.
 
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