It was a pleasant surprise when I realised today that one of the planetary nebulae I discovered, Juenae OX-U e2-8852, named the Hengist nebula, was added as a minor POI to DW2. It actually has a funny story back from 2015 August, when I discovered it, that became relevant now.
Not long after I entered the system, a long-time friend of mine came online, and as we were chatting, I told him about it. He had never done any exploration then (remember, this was well before the Engineers, so no 5,000 ly requirement for Palin), and he sounded interested about seeing it for himself, so he asked me about the distance. When I told him that it was about 26,000 ly away, he said something that stuck with me then: "If it's that far away, do you think anyone else will ever visit it?"
Now, on EDSM: "284 ships passed through Juenae OX-U e2-8852 space, including 235 ships in the last 7 days." Well, looks like they did!
At the time though, I realised he had a point, and decided to search closer to home. However, he also asked another good question: if I would even fly this far just to visit the system again.
So, fast forward to the Chapter Four launch years later, after which I went around checking my earlier planetary nebulae finds to see if there were any NSPs in them, and maybe to tag a few bodies. I checked all except just one, and found nothing new in any of them. "Eh, I'm not going to fly off to beyond Sag. A* just for this one, when the rest had none."
Well, looks like it did!
So hey, thanks for visiting
Oh, and I actually have a little request. Could someone flying there tell me if the NSP appears in the Navigation tab after jumping in, without scanning? Seeing that it's 155k ls from the arrival point. I'm curious if they appear at any distance, but the farthest I've tested so far was 16k ls away.
Not long after I entered the system, a long-time friend of mine came online, and as we were chatting, I told him about it. He had never done any exploration then (remember, this was well before the Engineers, so no 5,000 ly requirement for Palin), and he sounded interested about seeing it for himself, so he asked me about the distance. When I told him that it was about 26,000 ly away, he said something that stuck with me then: "If it's that far away, do you think anyone else will ever visit it?"
Now, on EDSM: "284 ships passed through Juenae OX-U e2-8852 space, including 235 ships in the last 7 days." Well, looks like they did!
At the time though, I realised he had a point, and decided to search closer to home. However, he also asked another good question: if I would even fly this far just to visit the system again.
So, fast forward to the Chapter Four launch years later, after which I went around checking my earlier planetary nebulae finds to see if there were any NSPs in them, and maybe to tag a few bodies. I checked all except just one, and found nothing new in any of them. "Eh, I'm not going to fly off to beyond Sag. A* just for this one, when the rest had none."
Well, looks like it did!
So hey, thanks for visiting
Oh, and I actually have a little request. Could someone flying there tell me if the NSP appears in the Navigation tab after jumping in, without scanning? Seeing that it's 155k ls from the arrival point. I'm curious if they appear at any distance, but the farthest I've tested so far was 16k ls away.
