This is the third expedition in a series of expeditions:
(See this thread by Obsidian Ant for the background story!)
Expedition Mission Statement:
To boldly go forth into space and find color in the galaxy again!
Running Beige Counter:
Mission Background:
Recently the galaxy has been plagued by an unidentified phenomenon which has stolen the color away from landable planet surfaces, leaving them completely beige! Both high metal content (HMC) and metal rich (MR) worlds seem to be infected the most, while rocky worlds, rocky ice worlds and ice worlds appear to have not contracted the phenomenon (yet!). Entire landable planets which were once interesting looking and colorful are now totally beige and boring in appearance. Explorers working for Stellar Cartography have sunken into a severe state of depression, which is quickly becoming as rampant as the unidentified phenomenon itself!
In light of this, the mission I am undertaking is to survey countless worlds, noting their planetary information as well as taking pictures of both their detail scan surface maps and from high orbit.
Primary Mission Goal: To scientifically determine the extent of the plague while possibly identifying any patterns or common symptoms.
Secondary Mission Goal: To look very hard to find an interesting looking HMC or MR world. Before the plague there were plenty of HMC/MR worlds which were intersting to explore and look at, the question is: have any worlds escaped the phenomenon?
And so, the journey begins with me flying out into deep space in my trusty Asp Explorer the Amity 2 (which means "friendship" by the way) to search random systems while hunting down and scanning landable worlds to compare their appearances and colors. Will we find high metal content worlds that are more than just beige? Will we find metal rich worlds with interesting surface features? Will we succumb to the beauty of a colorful rocky ice world and smash our ship into a canyon wall?
**(This space reserved for any future scientific findings)**
"Let the searching commence!!!
The hunt begins in a random SYNUEFE system which contains a total of eight HMC planets! Five around the parent M class star and three more orbiting the distant red dwarf. Let's see what they look like...
Here is the surface map for planet A1:
Well, the surface map sure does look monotone beige, but lets see how the planet really looks:
Aw, looks like this world has been infected. It's all beige save for a couple of slightly darker beige spots.
Maybe A2 will be different?
Nope, this world looks very much like the other one, maybe a slightly darker shade of beige.
Maybe the next few worlds will show some signs of color and variety:
Well that's disappointing. All five HMC worlds look very much the same and are all completely beige. A5 is a slightly darker shade of beige, and A4 has a tinge of redness in it's very sparse canyons, but all five look very beige and bland.
But there's still three more HMC worlds in this system, let's see if they have any variety in them!
There's a little bit more variety here than the first five HMC's had. B3 is just as bland and barren with regards to surface features as the first five BUT it's coloring is more of a light tan than beige. This could be due to the planet being the most distant from all sources of light in the system. Planets B1 and B2 however are back to beige, but their surfaces have more features and are more interesting than the other six HMC's. B1 and B2 both have more pronounced mountain ranges and a greater network of canyons than the other HMC's, both of them also have very slight redness to their canyons like A4 had, just more canyons overall.
Still, overall we have eight HMC worlds here all being roughy monotone in shades of beige and looking very much identical.
This system also has three icy worlds in it orbiting a gas giant. Let's check them out and see what they look like:
Wow! Look at the variety these three worlds have in both terrain and colors! Planet AB1A is light blue with darker blue canyons across the entire planet and light yellow mountains dotted about. AB1B is a light sand color with deep pink canyons all over it's surface and some rather large bright yellow mountain rangess. And planet AB1C is a very light pink color, with fewer coffee colored shallow canyons but again yellow mountains scattered about it's surface.
These three ice worlds have a great degree of variety in their appearances. I think it's safe to say that they have not been infected with the stellar beige plague that the HMC worlds seem to have.
More investigating will need to be done. There must be non-beige high metal worlds out there, maybe if I find one it will reveal some clues as to what is causing this galactic sickness...
- Elite Dangerous: The Motion Picture
- Elite Dangerous: The Wrath of Beige
- Elite Dangerous: The Search for Color
(See this thread by Obsidian Ant for the background story!)
Expedition Mission Statement:
To boldly go forth into space and find color in the galaxy again!
Running Beige Counter:
- Number of completely beige High Metal Content planets = 247
- Number of non-100% beige High Metal Content planets = 1
- Number of completely beige Metal Rich planets = 25
- Number of non-100% beige Metal Rich planets = 3
Mission Background:
Recently the galaxy has been plagued by an unidentified phenomenon which has stolen the color away from landable planet surfaces, leaving them completely beige! Both high metal content (HMC) and metal rich (MR) worlds seem to be infected the most, while rocky worlds, rocky ice worlds and ice worlds appear to have not contracted the phenomenon (yet!). Entire landable planets which were once interesting looking and colorful are now totally beige and boring in appearance. Explorers working for Stellar Cartography have sunken into a severe state of depression, which is quickly becoming as rampant as the unidentified phenomenon itself!
In light of this, the mission I am undertaking is to survey countless worlds, noting their planetary information as well as taking pictures of both their detail scan surface maps and from high orbit.
Secondary Mission Goal: To look very hard to find an interesting looking HMC or MR world. Before the plague there were plenty of HMC/MR worlds which were intersting to explore and look at, the question is: have any worlds escaped the phenomenon?
And so, the journey begins with me flying out into deep space in my trusty Asp Explorer the Amity 2 (which means "friendship" by the way) to search random systems while hunting down and scanning landable worlds to compare their appearances and colors. Will we find high metal content worlds that are more than just beige? Will we find metal rich worlds with interesting surface features? Will we succumb to the beauty of a colorful rocky ice world and smash our ship into a canyon wall?
**(This space reserved for any future scientific findings)**
"Let the searching commence!!!
The hunt begins in a random SYNUEFE system which contains a total of eight HMC planets! Five around the parent M class star and three more orbiting the distant red dwarf. Let's see what they look like...
Here is the surface map for planet A1:
Well, the surface map sure does look monotone beige, but lets see how the planet really looks:
Aw, looks like this world has been infected. It's all beige save for a couple of slightly darker beige spots.
Maybe A2 will be different?
Nope, this world looks very much like the other one, maybe a slightly darker shade of beige.
Maybe the next few worlds will show some signs of color and variety:
Well that's disappointing. All five HMC worlds look very much the same and are all completely beige. A5 is a slightly darker shade of beige, and A4 has a tinge of redness in it's very sparse canyons, but all five look very beige and bland.
But there's still three more HMC worlds in this system, let's see if they have any variety in them!
There's a little bit more variety here than the first five HMC's had. B3 is just as bland and barren with regards to surface features as the first five BUT it's coloring is more of a light tan than beige. This could be due to the planet being the most distant from all sources of light in the system. Planets B1 and B2 however are back to beige, but their surfaces have more features and are more interesting than the other six HMC's. B1 and B2 both have more pronounced mountain ranges and a greater network of canyons than the other HMC's, both of them also have very slight redness to their canyons like A4 had, just more canyons overall.
Still, overall we have eight HMC worlds here all being roughy monotone in shades of beige and looking very much identical.
This system also has three icy worlds in it orbiting a gas giant. Let's check them out and see what they look like:
Wow! Look at the variety these three worlds have in both terrain and colors! Planet AB1A is light blue with darker blue canyons across the entire planet and light yellow mountains dotted about. AB1B is a light sand color with deep pink canyons all over it's surface and some rather large bright yellow mountain rangess. And planet AB1C is a very light pink color, with fewer coffee colored shallow canyons but again yellow mountains scattered about it's surface.
These three ice worlds have a great degree of variety in their appearances. I think it's safe to say that they have not been infected with the stellar beige plague that the HMC worlds seem to have.
More investigating will need to be done. There must be non-beige high metal worlds out there, maybe if I find one it will reveal some clues as to what is causing this galactic sickness...
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