A cold death in a lonely place

Kozferatu

Kozferatu
So after a week and a bit hanging around Lugh then back to Eranin, I decided to relocate to the fringes of Empire space where, it is said, a Gentleman of Enterprise might turn a bit of profit.

I chose a destination, around 200LY from my current position, and despaired at the short jump-range of my trusty Viper, Bessie. But no worries, I'll just equip this very handy fuel scoop and top up every 3-4 jumps. It would be a slow trip, but I was looking forward to new horizons, new friends, new opportunities etc.

But then my lack of proper foresight and planning struck! (Again).

With a fuel tank containing a mere dribble, I arrived in an unpopulated system with a red dwarf star (or similar). There was no fuel for the scooping. But, no fear, there were two other uninhabited systems I could still reach...

The second was no different from the first. That's okay, there's still the last one...

...and I arrived running on naught but fumes to find that this system fared no better.

I took one last look at that dead star mocking my efforts before hitting the self destruct.
 

CaptainKremmen

CaptainKremmen
Forum member "khaitom" posted this up a few days ago. I shamelessly copied it into some ED notes of my own...


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Scoop-able :

G --> White / Yellow
M --> Red Dwarf
A --> White / Blue
F --> White
K --> Yellow

NOT scoop-able :

L/T/Y --> Various T° Brown Dwarves
DA/DB/DO/DQ --> Various White Dwarves
TT --> T Tauri

Didn't try:

O --> Blue
B --> Blue / White
Wolf-Rayet

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Take a copy yourself, and refine from direct experience as you go! :)
 

Nightdragon

N
I got lucky after hitting 2 systems that had brown drawfs in them was then able to scoop, learned from then on, always top off your tank just in case
 

Apec Valorian

Apec Valorian
Kozferatu said:
So after a week and a bit hanging around Lugh then back to Eranin, I decided to relocate to the fringes of Empire space where, it is said, a Gentleman of Enterprise might turn a bit of profit.
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That's where you made your first mistake: Gentlemen of Enterprise always serve the Federation :p
 

_Flin_

_Flin_
Great help from Cpt. Kremmen.

Furthermore you could just supercruise until tank empty and place an automatic distress beacon for some help.
 

SDEngineer

S
CaptainKremmen said:
Forum member "khaitom" posted this up a few days ago. I shamelessly copied it into some ED notes of my own...


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Scoop-able :

G --> White / Yellow
M --> Red Dwarf
A --> White / Blue
F --> White
K --> Yellow

NOT scoop-able :

L/T/Y --> Various T° Brown Dwarves
DA/DB/DO/DQ --> Various White Dwarves
TT --> T Tauri

Didn't try:

O --> Blue
B --> Blue / White
Wolf-Rayet

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Take a copy yourself, and refine from direct experience as you go! :)
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I can confirm that both O and B stars are scoopable.

The general mnemonic to remember is:

"Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me" O B A F G K M conprise the main sequence stars

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Nightdragon said:
I got lucky after hitting 2 systems that had brown drawfs in them was then able to scoop, learned from then on, always top off your tank just in case
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Also, always look ahead in the galactic map to see what stars are next up in your route - even in unexplored regions, you can see the stellar types in the detail page for the systems - in some cases you may want to detour (when exploring, the route for me is just a general direction to head - I will detour off it frequently to explore more interesting, and likely higher paying stars - bypassing an M or a Y for a G or a K for example).
 
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