I've found quite a few gas giants with water-based life (another one today, actually), but I'm not sure how close they were to their parent bodies. I would need to check my data for that.
Anyway, today - on this last day of the year - I decided to run through a few more class L systems after a few days of inactivity. Gotta say, today's yield was really good! In addition to the gas giant with water-based life I'd already mentioned, there was one terraformable high metal content world, a class II gas giant and even an ammonia world! All that in just ~80 jumps.
Here's the ammonia planet, it's one of those sightly cloudy ones:
In addition to that I decided to snap a photo of a class I gas giant with a wide B ring that I stumbled over today. I'm not too familiar with wide rings, so I'm not sure how special this is, but its outer radius measured slightly over 2.3 million kilometres at about 2.2 trillion tons of mass while still being slightly visible, even from nearly 700Ls away. Once again, the visibility was much better in my OLED HMD than on my AH-IPS desktop monitor. I assume it depends on your display device and its contrast/brighthess/gamma settings as to whether you can see it in this photo or not:
Anyway, today - on this last day of the year - I decided to run through a few more class L systems after a few days of inactivity. Gotta say, today's yield was really good! In addition to the gas giant with water-based life I'd already mentioned, there was one terraformable high metal content world, a class II gas giant and even an ammonia world! All that in just ~80 jumps.
Here's the ammonia planet, it's one of those sightly cloudy ones:
In addition to that I decided to snap a photo of a class I gas giant with a wide B ring that I stumbled over today. I'm not too familiar with wide rings, so I'm not sure how special this is, but its outer radius measured slightly over 2.3 million kilometres at about 2.2 trillion tons of mass while still being slightly visible, even from nearly 700Ls away. Once again, the visibility was much better in my OLED HMD than on my AH-IPS desktop monitor. I assume it depends on your display device and its contrast/brighthess/gamma settings as to whether you can see it in this photo or not:
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