Artificial mass lock bodies (man made hyperspace nodes?)

[Gamel0rd1]

Since the FSD needs a minimum mass to lock onto - a small star - will man-made nodes be made? Nodes in which the FSD can lock onto and jump to. No planets, just a singular man made solid object. For it to be star sized, it would need to be made up of a conaiderable amount of... Stuff... And very big. Which is the problem. Say that meta alloys were much heavier than they look, we could make a star massed structure out of them. Unfortunately, the temperatures in the artificial core will be enough to spark it into a main or non main sequence star.

Anyhows... It would be really cool to have different nodes which we can lock onto. Not land on, since the gravity would be immense, but there could be special stations, beacons, outposts orbiting it. And also, the artificial star would be black and ominous.

What do you think?

PS: although there is little sense or use for this.... I feel like it could be implemented in the future.

 

[Arkantes]

Say that meta alloys were much heavier than they look, we could make a star massed structure out of them.

Let's assume a meta alloy's piece weight is 1000 tons, you'd still need 1000000000000000000000000 of them to have half the mass of the sun.

It's going to take a while to move that around...

 

[Gamel0rd1]

Let's assume a meta alloy's piece weight is 1000 tons, you'd still need 1000000000000000000000000 of them to have half the mass of the sun.

It's going to take a while to move that around...

Let's compare that to the time it takes to get that lavian brandy eh?

*Grabs Popcorn*


And yes I know, that's a lot of meta alloys...... Unless we get a nice big space hoover to suck up stars and spit them out in places we want lol

 

[Fenric]

Unless we get a nice big space hoover to suck up stars and spit them out in places we want lol

Coming right up.

 

[DrakeAurum]

A few of these might do the trick:

 

[Cmnd Fulsom]

^ this, it doesn't necessarily need to be a massive object, just something with a large gravity foot print. We have massive gravity well generators in the form of capitol class interdictors, so it should be possible to simply build one in deep space somewhere.

 

[Arkantes]

^ this, it doesn't necessarily need to be a massive object, just something with a large gravity foot print. We have massive gravity well generators in the form of capitol class interdictors, so it should be possible to simply build one in deep space somewhere.

Artificial gravity is not part of Elite's lore.

 

[Duedy]

A few of these might do the trick:

http://img.lum.dolimg.com/v1/images/imperial-interdictor_f797f8ad.jpeg?region=0,98,1560,780

Obviously the player is taking it to sag A

 

[Quantis Trap]

The other day I saw a large body walk by and got mass locked.