Blow up a star.

Arioch

Arioch
How about going out to the Crab Nebula, then travelling 8753 light years away, turning around and trying to spot the flash?

You might have to wait for a few months though.

:)

(Edit due to bad maths; SN 1054 was observed going off 965 years ago, ED is 1286 years in the future, SN 1054 was about 6500 light years away from Earth)
 
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[VR] Goooost

[VR] Goooost
RolloTreadway said:
Go on. You know you want to. Hit the big red button marked 'supernova'. Go on go on go on go on go on.
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I want this to create a small hazardous zone in the galaxy. Something that will cause similar effects to having a UA in the hold while you're within it. A place that isn't for the faint of heart, and perhaps the reward of seeing the supernova's core could be worth the risk.
 

Arioch

Arioch
Goooost said:
I want this to create a small hazardous zone in the galaxy. Something that will cause similar effects to having a UA in the hold while you're within it. A place that isn't for the faint of heart, and perhaps the reward of seeing the supernova's core could be worth the risk.
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If you were in the general vicinity, you could signpost this in the game by having a hyperspace disruption from the supernova blastwave, like when the Thargoids got all curious about our inventories, dropping us into normal space to see the impressive flash. Ahhh!

You’d then have the option to venture into the danger area.

Problem is, supernovae tend to occur about once every fifty years in a galaxy our size so the chances of running into one would be vanishingly small. Maybe a starkiller alien menace would be a better fit?
 

Arioch

Arioch
Ascendingbike42 said:
Do the nebula actually disappear from the skybox when you fly to a distance where the light is from before their creation?
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If we ever get telescopes modelled into the game, I’ll let you know ;)

I think you’d be technically correct (the best sort of correct) in saying you’d not be able to see the skybox nebula if you flew beyond their supernova birth photons, but only because they’d not be rendered due to being too small to see anyway, or because you’d have to be well beyond the galactic limits to see the birth of the right big ones.

I wonder what the distance limit is on the skybox creation raycasting?
 

Voidedius

Voidedius
Even if fdev decided to blow up one of the stars in the game, you wouldn't really see it unless you were in the actual system with the supernova. If you were in the next system over say...3 ly away, you still wouldn't see the supernova for at least 3 years for the light to reach the next system.
 
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