"Brown pants" moments!

Orvidius

Orvidius
I don't run into these moments terribly often, but we've all had the occasion of jumping into a star system right through one of the stars in a tight binary. Usually this places me somewhere between the two stars, or inside the scooping zone of one of them.

Well, I finally had one place me under the surface of one of the stars last night. It's a shame I didn't have video recording, or something. These don't usually make me jump out of my seat anymore unless something more unusual happens, like placing me right into the jet cone of a neutron star (I've had that happen before too). But since I was in VR, I was able to look to the sides and see the surface texture of the star having rendering issues since I was clipping into it. It's a shame I didn't think to take screenshots, but I was a little concerned about getting out first. But as a it turns out, the heat damage was minimal. Low emissions power plant to the rescue. :D

Have you had any unusual "brown pants" moments recently?

Here's the system that caught me by surprise this time. Clearly I wasn't the first to visit. Karaya tagged everything, and someone else came along and mapped that solitary WW. This was maybe a good 8k west of the Colonia road, so I was surprised it had been thoroughly tagged, but it's not all that far from a nebula either, so I guess that explains it.

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Rustnsawdust

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Haven't had a bad arrival since FD modded the mechanic. Although I've had a couple of sit-up moments in the last week entering multiple star systems where I was expecting the main star and was somewhat shaken by a smaller companion whizzing past the canopy.

My brown pants moments usually involve forgetting to zero the throttle in witchspace, followed by frantic fumbling as I accelerate towards the star.
 

Rooster Podunk

Rooster Podunk
I recently (say two weeks ago) had a heartbeat boost from a very close Neutron/Black Hole system. My power plant will never forgive me ;) but I made it by the skin of my chinny chin chin. However the worst I've had is fiddling with the controls and put my fss and dss keys right next to each other. Nothing like jumping into a star and suddenly finding myself ready to launch probes into the photosphere. It was truly a brown pants moment as my fingers were trying to close that screen pronto. The Ghost's pretty new paint got a wee bit blistered on that one.
 

Saool

Saool
My last brown pants moment was dropping out of a jump and nearly hitting a planet. Given the size of a planet compared to the volume of space, this must be a very rare occurrence. Once or twice I have come out and seen a planet as a visible disk, but on the occation in question it filled half the screen.
 

Red_Beard_98

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During DW2, I had a neutron star system targeted so that's what I expected to see when I came out of hyperspace. Well, that's not what happened. When I dropped from Hyperspace I was facing directly into a, I think, G-class star and I could see the jet cones from the Neutron star coming out either side of the G-class star. It definitely made me jump a bit. Luckily I had throttled to 0 during the jump like I do for all entries to Neutron star systems. I was also immediately scooping form the G-class on arrival. I have a screenshot but i'm at work and it's on my home computer (not saved to my steam profile either, I looked).

Edit: never mind, it was on my steam profile. I just didn't look hard enough! Also, looks like a k-class, not G
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LeeLeeBoomBoom

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Honestly my last brown pants moment was just caused by my own stupidity. Jumped, started drinking my coffee whilst said jump took place, then nearly choked as I started accelerating towards the new star. I'd left the throttle all the way up🤦‍♂️. I mean, really? That's the sort of mistake you make on day one, not 3 years later.
 

Dr. Nagi

Dr. Nagi
LeeLeeBoomBoom said:
Honestly my last brown pants moment was just caused by my own stupidity. Jumped, started drinking my coffee whilst said jump took place, then nearly choked as I started accelerating towards the new star. I'd left the throttle all the way up🤦‍♂️. I mean, really? That's the sort of mistake you make on day one, not 3 years later.
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Mistake? I do that on purpose. Not even joking here.
 

Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
This happened to me this morning. Blipped through a star, ended up in a FS zone between two K-class stars. Panic-stab at the heatsinks only to remember I was out of heatsinks. Got away without damage though.
 

Hedy

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Arriving at the Black Hole with close pairing of twin Neutron stars from last trip. I didn't know which to do fist; decelerate, screenshot or eyebrow pencil.....sometimes i take notes with it.
Still find the odd red star sandwhich as you pass through but very rarely these days.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Every once in a blue moon or so I'll jump in real close and sometimes seemingly through close binary stellar bodies. One of the last couple times I managed to take some heat damage on my modules even. This is much less common, but being so close in and with the slowdown in supercruise to the proximity of both stars, it was a bit of a hair-raiser seeing how much damage I might take pushing through. Only a couple percent on some modules. Fortunately I'm running a fairly cool build, not quite like a Diamondback or such, but not bad.

Early on this year, or perhaps it was late last year, I did manage to take quite a rough landing on a world as well. Usually I'm better at checking the Gs ahead of time and watching my descent, but this one sneaked up on me. Saw it coming early enough for pip management and the like. Ended up taking, I think it was 40 percent hull damage, but was able to walk away from it and get back for repairs in time for DW2. Had I been in a more typical exploration build instead of my Vulture, I'm not sure I would have fared as well.

Fortunately the latter event has only happened once to me so far to that extent, knock on wood.
 
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Rustnsawdust

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Had an 'interesting' one earlier tonight... Not a brown pants arrival, but found myself in the middle of four close proximity stars. Took a bit of back-tracking to get out of there without overheating before I could jump to the next destination. Fun!
 

Red_Beard_98

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Had another one of these recently, maybe not brown pants but definitely made the ol' heart skip a beat or 2.

I had my odd little exploration Vulture out for it's first decent voyage, scanning systems for the first CG of the current Interstellar Initiative. All was going well. I was finding some cool things, and scanning a lot of planets (I didn't realize you only needed a honk for the CG, I thought it was about scanning planets). Just a merry jaunt through the galaxy. Altogether I went about 4.5 K ly away then headed for Delphi to turn in my data. not a huge trip but I only had 2 days before I would have to work and I never have time to play ED when I work. As I was getting closer to Delphi I had a thought about how I have not been hyperdicted by a Thargoid interceptor in a long time just as I was entering Thargoid space; lets keep that in mind for later. The route planner gave me a small jump into a system with no scoopable stars. That's okay, I have plenty of fuel (for a vulture) so no biggie. Next was a full range jump which eats up a good chunk of fuel (I only get 2 full range jumps with a small amount left over). Okay, now I'm mildly concerned but I looked ahead on my route and the next star is scoopable, awesome. It's another full range jump so this will leave me with barely 1 tick left in my tank (you know how small tanks have those dashes instead of a solid line? yeah, one of those ticks). Alright, lets do this. I make the jump and spend the fuel. Hyperdicted. After the Thargoid pulls me out of Hyperspace I take a quick look at my reserve tank and notice it's almost empty which will eat my remaining fuel to refill. This is starting to look like a Fuel Rats code red situation here. I was able to shut down a couple non-essential modules before the shutdown field hit me and after the Thargoids left I shut down everything except life support. I quickly looked for the closest scoopable star. Out of range. Alright, I always keep a full stock of material so lets boost this baby. I synthesized a 100% FSD injection which gave me enough to make the jump with a small sliver of fuel remaining. I turned back on my thrusters, FSD and FSD Booster (figured it would save me a bit of fuel on the jump in case something happened again) and made the jump. And then? well, it all worked out fine from here. Made it into scoop range just before my reserve tank refilled and then I was good to go again. That is the closest I have been to running out of fuel. I know that wouldn't have been then end of the world though, I'm sure the Fuel Rats would have been able to save my sorry butt.

My conclusion about my little exploration Vulture? I love this thing. It makes life interesting. Sorry, that turned into a long story.

@BradHann: Damn, that was a good video! loved the frame by frame, you flew through a star!
 

VR tazbert

VR tazbert
Small brown trousers moment at the Apollo expedition meetup at WP02.

Someone decided it would be good fun to fire Seismic Charges across the landing area.
'Wheeee, pretty!' Thinks I.

'I wonder what happens if I put my SRV in the way?'
Thinks I, a moment later.

So, I jump up as the next barrage comes across.
One charge bounces off my SRV and disappears up into space.

'Hey, this is great!'

The next barrage, one charge freezes just above me.

'Oooooh even prettier!'
Yeah, until it explodes in my face.
I may have jumped a little bit out of my chair...

Moral of this story, Seismic Charges don't know what to do with SRVs.
 

Leif_Erikson

Leif_Erikson
One of my first exploration tours I was heading back to the bubble when I saw a signal source saying 'Distress Call'.

Naïve me-At the time thought I was going to come back to civilisation with a hero's medal...…..

Instead I come back with brown trousers and 30% hull left!
 
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