Egyptian Asp. Very Dangerous.

TruffleSnout · Jul 10, 2015

... You go first.

So I'm headed off to the black on my Survey Mission aboard The Jones. When I get to the Outer Arm, I'll find myself a decent-sized cube of systems and start scanning. This will be my first real "survey mission" (as opposed to sight seeing or speed run; i.e. I'm scanning every last rock of every system I hit) so I have no idea when I'll get back. I'll be on the lookout for The Sampler Plate of course, but I'll post anything else of interest in here.

I currently have ~48 million (a goodly portion thanks to Lembava) in the bank. My goal is to reach ~100 million, then buy a Python.

The Jones :

drkaii · Jul 10, 2015

Nice read man. Good luck!

Chaodiurn · Jul 10, 2015

Do I hear exploration? Do I hear Python?

TruffleSnout · Jul 11, 2015

Don't know that I'll do any Exploring in the Python once I get her. I'll probably keep my Asp for that, and use the Python for trade and combat. Question for you, Chaodiurn - those hull lights in the screenies you posted - are those always on? Or do they only turn on when you turn on the "headlights"?

Completed my first evening of full surveying last night. I can already tell this is going to be a long trip. During my speed run back from Sag A* (to make it back to Lembava in time) I was travelling ~ 2000 Ly per hour. Last night? 500 Ly took me 3 hours.

Found one oddity already. A Rocky Ice Planet with a water atmosphere and a surface temperature of 1,411 Kelvin. Seems a bit hot to be called Icy, dontcha think?

newman1702 · Jul 11, 2015

Hey, looks like we're in the same boat. Got my brand new Asp the day before yesterday and I've been out in the black since. First stop was Rigel, proceed towards Witch Head nebula, then Orion nebula, went right through and proceeded "southeast" towards the edge of the galaxy. I'm roughly on course for the Rosetta nebula, after that I'll probably turn towards the Seagull nebula, scanning on the way. So far the highlights include a couple of gas giants with water and ammonia based life, a couple of terraformables and a water world.

Good luck on your trip!

Chaodiurn · Jul 11, 2015

TruffleSnout said:
Don't know that I'll do any Exploring in the Python once I get her. I'll probably keep my Asp for that, and use the Python for trade and combat. Question for you, Chaodiurn - those hull lights in the screenies you posted - are those always on? Or do they only turn on when you turn on the "headlights"?

Completed my first evening of full surveying last night. I can already tell this is going to be a long trip. During my speed run back from Sag A* (to make it back to Lembava in time) I was travelling ~ 2000 Ly per hour. Last night? 500 Ly took me 3 hours.

Found one oddity already. A Rocky Ice Planet with a water atmosphere and a surface temperature of 1,411 Kelvin. Seems a bit hot to be called Icy, dontcha think?

Oh yes, surveying takes a lot of time. I travelled only around 850 light years in the last 9 hours or so! I'm checking the forums around every 30 seconds whenever I fly the next 500,000 light seconds for some brown dwarf. Getting my name spread!

Also, check this one out: the hottest reported rocky ice planet yet. Almost 3,000 K! What would put me off, however, is not even the temperature: the melting point goes down with higher pressure does it not? At around a million atmospheres pressure there shouldn't be any ice possible!

http://universalcartographics.org/records/hottest-rocky-ice-planet/

About the lights: Your question is basically already answered above. In the first screenshot, the headlights are turned off, while in the second they're on. They are the bright beam-y things in the front. All other lights are hull lights that currently cannot be turned off. They are always on, whether you're landed or in SC or even jumping between systems. Currently, they cannot be turned off or modified on any ship. Not that the headlights not always are that beam-y and it greatly depends on the angle you look at them.

Edit: Check out this ice moon. It's really scratching the ring of a gas giant here.

TruffleSnout · Jul 11, 2015

Chaodiurn said:
In the first screenshot, the headlights are turned off, while in the second they're on. They are the bright beam-y things in the front.

Ah, OK. Wasn't sure if that was the case, or the shot was just at the wrong angle to see the headlights. Thanks for the info, and the screenies!

Pulchrit Ataraxis · Jul 12, 2015

Chaodiurn said:
Also, check this one out: the hottest reported rocky ice planet yet. Almost 3,000 K! What would put me off, however, is not even the temperature: the melting point goes down with higher pressure does it not? At around a million atmospheres pressure there shouldn't be any ice possible!

http://universalcartographics.org/records/hottest-rocky-ice-planet/

Actually, it's backwards. Think of it like boiling water on a mountain or the vacuum of space: at lower pressures, less energy (lower temperatures) is required to convert the liquid phase water to gas phase. Conversely, at higher pressures, more energy is required to convert from liquid to gas phase.

Same thing goes for water going from solid to liquid. At extremely high pressures, the atmosphere is physically pushing the molecules of water together, preventing them from breaking structure and changing phase. So at 1 million atmospheres (100GPa), it may not be possible for water to exist in any form other than ice.