Exploring Bucket List

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Hello all fellow explorers,

I recently returned to Elite Dangerous after 7 months away from the Universe. I've tried a little of everything the game has to offer atm, but I've ended up with the same thing as I loved the last time around, exploring. After flying a few thousand LY's at random, I would like a little more purpose on my way. So I look to you guys. I would like help to create the Ultimate Explorer Bucket List, ie stuff that you guys love about exploring. There must be loads of places to visit and stuff to explore that I never even thought about. Please help me with this list I've added some suggestions that I would like on a bucket list, but your input is needed to create the best possible bucket list. The order on a bucket list is of no importance at all, number 1. is just as important as number 100.

Updated with suggestions, now counting 129 things to do .

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1. Visit Saggitarius A*
2. Discover a Class M Star (very common)
3. Discover a Class K Star (Common)
4. Discover a Class L Dwarf Star (Common)
5. Discover a Class T Dwarf Star (Common)
6. Discover a Class G Star (Uncommon)
7. Discover a Class F Star (Uncommon)
8. Discover a Class Y Dwarf Star (Uncommon)
9. Discover a Class T Tauri Star (Uncommon)
10. Discover a Class A Star (Very Uncommon)
11. Discover a Class B Star (Very Uncommon)
12. Discover a Class Orange Giant (K) Star (Rare)
13. Discover a Class Red Giant (M) Star (Rare)
14. Discover a Class DA Dwarf Star (Very Rare)
15. Discover a Class DAV Dwarf Star (Very Rare)
16. Discover a Class DB Dwarf Star (Very Rare)
17. Discover a Class DBV Dwarf Star (Very Rare)
18. Discover a Class DAB Dwarf Star (Very Rare)
19. Discover a Class DC Dwarf Star (Very Rare)
20. Discover a Class DCV Dwarf Star (Very Rare)
21. Discover a Class DQ Dward Star (Very Rare)
22. Discover a Class S Star (Very Rare)
23. Discover a Class O Star (Very Rare)
24. Discover a Class Neutron Star (Rare)
25. Discover a Class A Blue-White Supergiant Star (Very Rare)
26. Discover a Class B Blue-White Supergiant Star (Very Rare)
27. Discover a Class F Yellow-White Supergiant Star (Very Rare)
28. Discover a Class G Yellow-White Supergiant Star (Very Rare)
29. Discover a Class MS Star (Ultra Rare)
30. Discover a Class Carbon (C) Star (Ultra Rare)
31. Discover a Class CN Star (Ultra Rare)
32. Discover a Class CJ Star (Ultra Rare)
33. Discover a Class Red Supergiant K Star (Ultra Rare)
34. Discover a Class Red Supergiant M Star (Ultra Rare)
35. Discover a Class Red Supergiant A Star (Ultra Rare)
36. Discover a Class Red Supergiant B Star (Ultra Rare)
37. Discover a Class Red Supergiant F Star (Ultra Rare)
38. Discover a Class Red Supergiant G Star (Ultra Rare)
39. Discover a Class Herbig Ae/Be Star (Legendary)
40. Discover a Binary Star System
41. Discover a Class Wolf-Rayet (W) Star (Legendary)
42. Discover a Class Wolf-Rayet C (WC) Star (Very Rare)
43. Discover a Class Wolf-Rayet O (WO) Star (Very Rare)
44. Discover a Class Wolf-Rayet NC (WNC) Star (Very Rare)
45. Discover a Black Hole (Very Rare)
46. Discover an Icy Planet (Very Common)
47. Discover a Rocy Planet (Common)
48. Discover a Rocky Ice Planet (Uncommon)
49. Discover a High Metal Content Planet (Uncommon)
50. Discover a Metal Rich Planet (Rare)
51. Discover a Water World (Very Rare)
52. Discover an Earth-Like World (Extremly Rare)
53. Discover an Ammonia World (Very Rare)
54. Discover a Water Giant (Very Rare)
55. Discover a Gas Giant Class I (Rare)
56. Discover a Gas Giant Class II (Very Rare)
57. Discover a Gas Giant Class III (Rare)
58. Discover a Gas Giant Class IV (Rare)
59. Discover a Gas Giant Class V (Very Rare)
60. Discover a Gas Giant Class Helium Rich (Very Rare)
61. Discover a Gas Giant Class With Ammonia-Based Life (Very Rare)
62. Discover a Gas Giant Class With Water-Based Life (Very Rare)
63. Visit the Orion Nebula
64. Visit the Pleiades Nebula
65. Visit the Red Spider Planetary Nebula
66. Visit the Trifid of the North Nebula
67. Visit the Cat's Paw Nebula
68. Visit the Eagle Nebula
69. Visit the Fine Ring Planetary Nebula
70. Visit the Dumbell Planetary Nebula
71. Visit the Hind Planetary Nebula
72. Visit the Witch Head Nebula
73. Visit the Eskimo Planetary Nebula
74. Visit the California Nebula
75. Visit the Spiral Planetary Nebula
76. Visit the Ghost of Jupiter Planetary Nebula
77. Visit the Eight Burst Planetary Nebula
78. Visit the Messier 78 Nebula
79. Visit the Spirograph Planetary Nebula
80. Visit the Running Man Nebula
81. Visit the Bernard's Loop Nebula
82. Visit the Horsehead Nebula
83. Visit the Flame Nebula
84. Visit the Flaming Star Nebula
85. Visit the Little Dumbbell Planetary Nebula
86. Visit the Pelican Nebula
87. Visit the North American Nebula
88. Visit the Iris Nebula
89. Visit the Veil North East Nebula
90. Visit the Sadr Nebula
91. Visit the Veil North West Nebula
92. Visit the Blinking Planetary Nebula
93. Visit the Butterfly Planetary Nebula
94. Visit the Thor's Helmet Nebula
95. Visit the Cone Nebula
96. Visit the Hubble's Variable Planetary Nebula
97. Visit the Seagull Nebula
98. Visit the Rosette Nebula
99. Visit the Jellyfish Nebula
100. Visit the Monkey Head Nebula
101. Visit the Crab Nebula
102. Visit the Heart and Soul Nebula
103. Visit the Bubble Nebula
104. Visit the Cave Nebula
105. Visit the Elephant's Trunk Nebula
106. Visit the Cocoon Nebula
107. Visit the Fetus Planetary Nebula
108. Visit the Blue Flash Planetary Nebula
109. Visit the Crescent Nebula
110. Visit the Trifid Nebula
111. Visit the Lagoon Nebula
112. Visit the Little Ghost Planetary Nebula
113. Visit the Bug Planetary Nebula
114. Visit the Retina Planetary Nebula
115. Visit the Blue Planetary Nebula
116. Visit the Statue of Liberty Nebula
117. Visit the Eta Carinae Nebula
118. Visit the Great Annihilator
119. Reach Elite Explorer Rank
120. Visit Beagle Point and join the 65k club
121. Discover a Trinary Star System
122. Run out of fuel and get rescued by the 'Rats'
123. Travel as far as you can to the end of a Spiral Arm
124. Travel as far as you can to each Spral Arm (Spider)
125. Get a joint Discovery tag with atleast one other Explorer (Extrovert)
126. Rescue or assist an Explorer thas has run out for fuel (Lassie)
127. Visit the Galactic Ceiling (Mountain Climber)
128. Visit the Galactic Floor (Deep Sea Diver)
129. Meet a fellow explorer at random 1000+LY from Sol.

 

[Dregory The Crow]

118. Visit the Great Annihilator

 

[Jakester13]

119. Reach Elite Explorer rank

 

[newman1702]

...and 120. - join the 65k club

 

[Katejina]

39/40 are one and the same.

This also doesn't seem to include binaries, so you could add things such as binary ELW, WW, AW, Binary of either of the three and as one person has discovered (so far as I have seen), a trinary orbit of all 3.

Best I've found is a binary ELW and a trinary with a ELW, TFC WW and TFC HMC.

 

[Pharoh]

Great idea CMDR

Adds purpose to your exploration which is a good thing when you have been in the black for awhile

 

[Cap n Smash]

Why not add a deep space CMDR meet up?

 

[GregMalcolm]

Nice list! I have a lot of them but still have a number of nebulae outstanding. Probably missing a few stars to, don't think I've seen a DQ Dwarf Star yet...

Some ideas for additions:
* Spider - Travel as far as you can to the end of each galactic arm (I suggest one list item per named galactic arm)
* Long Legs - Visit a star that's >39.5 away from it's neighbors (using a partially empty fuel tank)
* Extrovert - Get a joint discovery tag on a system with at least one other explorer (just noticeed Cap n Smash suggested the same thing. Great minds think alike)
* Grafitti Artist - Tag a star 500Ly from the primary
* Astronomer - Trilaterate a star into the EDDM/ESDM database (Can be done from EDDiscovery)
* Lassie - Rescue or assist an a rescue of an explorer who has run out of fuel
* Expat - Submit an Earth Like World discovery to the EL thread
* Planetary Fluff - Visit a generated planetary nebula (I'd say "discover" but theres finite supply)
* Mountain Climber - Visit the galactic ceiling
* Deep Sea Diver - Visit the galactic floor
* Demolitionist - Self-destruct 5,000Ly from home

I've taken the liberty of inviting names for the achievements. If you decide adopt naming the items, feel free to rename them if you come up with better names...

 

[aRottenKomquat]

* Visit every single star system in Elite: Dangerous.

 

[Gelegeus]

121 - Run out of fuel and get rescued by the 'Rats'

 

[newman1702]

121 - Run out of fuel and get rescued by the 'Rats'

Running out of fuel is not what I'd call an explorer's achievement. And the act of rescue is an achievement for the rats, not the person being rescued

 

[Stoo]

Everything and anything!

In fact, the top of my bucket list is to make it back at some point... I'm on a long journey right now

 

[Lupin]

I normally have an end point in mind, currently one of the end of a spiral arm. But journey more important than the destination to me and much to enjoy.
Even more so when Horizons released and I get my VR kit

 

[ForeverN00b]

130: C-Note Club: Discover a system with 100+ bodies in it (ultra rare).
131: Masochist: Fly 10+ Kylies in a Vulture or Fer de Lance.
132: Participate in the Buckyball Sag A* Challenge.

 

[Adept Geraden]

133: ADS every "unexplored" system inside the bubble.
134: DDS every object in every "unexplored" system inside the bubble.

 

[tafkabb]

I found a ringed T Tauri tonight. Next on my own personal bucket list is to find a ringed Earth-like.

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

Is 'Find a water giant' in there? Few of those have been kicking about the forum recently.

 

[newman1702]

Quick suggestion: gas giants with water and ammonia-based life aren't "very rare" - they're not as common as normal gas giants, but are also not as rare as some other gas giant types (water giants and helium rich are definitely a lot more rare than those with life). So I'd amend the rarity on those.