Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392)

[Uiros Ueramos]

Why is it that, in ED, this planetary nebula is composed of a massive blue giant and a black hole?

All astronomical observations indicate it was created by a G-type star and a smaller, less massive companion.

Since this is clearly hand placed content, why did Frontier got it this wrong?

 

[Sapyx]

FD have generally "got it wrong" for many Planetary Nebulae.

As I understand it, a Planetary Nebula originates when a giant or supergiant star puffs off its outer layers. The remnant at the centre is either still a giant star still puffing off layers, or it has puffed everything off and become a white dwarf. It shouldn't go supernova, which means it shouldn't be a supernova remnant (neutron star or black hole). Yet, most of the planetary nebulae I've encountered have at their hearts either a Wolf-Rayet, a neutron star or a black hole. It's as if the game is treating them as supernova-remnant nebulae (like the Crab Nebula), when they really aren't.

 

[Uiros Ueramos]

FD have generally "got it wrong" for many Planetary Nebulae.

As I understand it, a Planetary Nebula originates when a giant or supergiant star puffs off its outer layers. The remnant at the centre is either still a giant star still puffing off layers, or it has puffed everything off and become a white dwarf. It shouldn't go supernova, which means it shouldn't be a supernova remnant (neutron star or black hole). Yet, most of the planetary nebulae I've encountered have at their hearts either a Wolf-Rayet, a neutron star or a black hole. It's as if the game is treating them as supernova-remnant nebulae (like the Crab Nebula), when they really aren't.

Ok. I understand what you are saying. But aren't these close-by planetary nebulas hand-placed? As in, all its characteristics are already predefined by FDev, before the Star Forge get's to use its own rules for the rest? The content that is entirely defined procedurally?