Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy... More fun for explorers!

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
I'm gonna precondition this post with the fact that I am not hugely knowledgeable about astronomy. I just read stuff sometimes.

I was just reading about the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which is located 25,000Ly from our sun. Roughly the distance of Colonia. It is believed that this dwarf galaxy has on only a billion stars compared to the Milky Way's 250 billion stars. Intriguing however because it has a ring (Monceros Ring) that wraps around our galaxy. It is believed that our galaxy might be absorbing it.

Anyway.... It is intriguing to think that in Elite Dangerous we might after a couple expansions be able to travel along the rings to this dwarf galaxy. From what I understand the rings do merge with the Milky Way.

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An artist’s impression of the Monoceros Ring, which wraps three times around the Milky Way. Credit: Nicolas Martin & Rodrigo Ibata, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 2003. I copied picture from http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/C/Canis+Major+Dwarf
 

Greasetrap42

Greasetrap42
CMDR Maylor Rom said:
I doubt Frontier put that in the game. Looking at the GM blown out to it's limit, there are no stars leading away from the Milky Way to indicate spirals above the galaxy.
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I meant it could be added in some future expansion. I don't believe there is anything in the game for it currently. Yes I know the current Milky Way is giant, but remember expolerers don't examine every tree in a forest. They look for the cool stuff. And try to reach significant locations (Sagitarious *, Beagle Point, etc). If its there, its gotta be explored! Ha Ha! :D

Yes it would mess up our nice tidy galaxy map. A creative solution would be needed to integrate it into a workable 3D map. This might be a challenge for graphically representing our galaxy in general without it becoming really confusing to look at.
 
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varonica

varonica
Vandaahl said:
...add stuff then.
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Adding stuff will require the stellar forge to be run from the beginning with a new seed, which means everything currently in the galaxy will be different. The stellar forge evolves the galaxy from it's creation through to present day, the devs can't just "add stuff" in the way you seem to think they can. The can insert hand crafted objects, they can move stars and planets around and rearrange them as long as it doesn't change the local mass distribution, but "adding stuff" in the way you want would require the entire galaxy to be re-created and everything we currently have explored and discovered would be lost, we would have to start from scratch.

I will repeat, it doesn't work that way! The galaxy we have here isn't just a hand crafted world like many MMO's where you can just add a new bit of territory to the existing edge, you need to get away from the idea that this galaxy of ours is anything like other MMO's maps.
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
Greasetrap42 said:
I'm gonna precondition this post with the fact that I am not hugely knowledgeable about astronomy. I just read stuff sometimes.

I was just reading about the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which is located 25,000Ly from our sun. Roughly the distance of Colonia. It is believed that this dwarf galaxy has on only a billion stars compared to the Milky Way's 250 billion stars. Intriguing however because it has a ring (Monceros Ring) that wraps around our galaxy. It is believed that our galaxy might be absorbing it.

Anyway.... It is intriguing to think that in Elite Dangerous we might after a couple expansions be able to travel along the rings to this dwarf galaxy. From what I understand the rings do merge with the Milky Way.

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An artist’s impression of the Monoceros Ring, which wraps three times around the Milky Way. Credit: Nicolas Martin & Rodrigo Ibata, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 2003. I copied picture from http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/C/Canis+Major+Dwarf
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Jumping between stars along that ring would be a fun way to get to it.
 

Vandaahl

Vandaahl
varonica said:
Adding stuff will require the stellar forge to be run from the beginning with a new seed, which means everything currently in the galaxy will be different. The stellar forge evolves the galaxy from it's creation through to present day, the devs can't just "add stuff" in the way you seem to think they can. The can insert hand crafted objects, they can move stars and planets around and rearrange them as long as it doesn't change the local mass distribution, but "adding stuff" in the way you want would require the entire galaxy to be re-created and everything we currently have explored and discovered would be lost, we would have to start from scratch.

I will repeat, it doesn't work that way! The galaxy we have here isn't just a hand crafted world like many MMO's where you can just add a new bit of territory to the existing edge, you need to get away from the idea that this galaxy of ours is anything like other MMO's maps.
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Still haven't read anything new. All true indeed if you want to add anything to this galaxy. But what needs to be added is outside of it.
 
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