Proposal Discussion Galaxy-Event - Super Nova!!

Xzanron

Xzanron
Just a thought...

There are many stars (even close to Earth) that are in their dotage, in astronomical terms. Basically this means that they are likely to go supernova at any moment; which in astronomical terms would mean any time between right this seconds and 5000 years from now :)

I think a great galaxy event might be a system (maybe close to Fed/Imp space) going kablooey. :D

Betelgeuse is a fairly good candidate... 642 LY from Earth.
 

Kris

K
Xzanron said:
Just a thought...

There are many stars (even close to Earth) that are in their dotage, in astronomical terms. Basically this means that they are likely to go supernova at any moment; which in astronomical terms would mean any time between right this seconds and 5000 years from now :)

I think a great galaxy event might be a system (maybe close to Fed/Imp space) going kablooey. :D

Betelgeuse is a fairly good candidate... 642 LY from Earth.
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No...there are not close stars that are about to go supernova. (For soon to become supernova) Betelgeuse (one of my favorite stars, beauty to look at sky) is by far the closes, and it may still not go for another 50 000 years or so.

Last observed supernova in our galaxy was 1604 (i think), so supernova in our galaxy is very very rare.

Best canditate for next supernova i think is Eta Carinae (8000 ly away), but it might go tonight or 5000 years from now, we don´t know. I think closest star that can go supernova is 160 ly away (forgot the name), and second closest is Spica 260 ly away. You have to remember that for supernova you need either star that is closes to 20 M of our Sun or degenerate white dwarf that accumulates sufficient material from a companion star.

But ED is fiction, so anything can happen. :):D
 

Xzanron

Xzanron
Kris said:
No...there are not close stars that are about to go supernova. (For soon to become supernova) Betelgeuse (one of my favorite stars, beauty to look at sky) is by far the closes, and it may still not go for another 50 000 years or so.

Last observed supernova in our galaxy was 1604 (i think), so supernova in our galaxy is very very rare.

Best canditate for next supernova i think is Eta Carinae (8000 ly away), but it might go tonight or 5000 years from now, we don´t know. I think closest star that can go supernova is 160 ly away (forgot the name), and second closest is Spica 260 ly away. You have to remember that for supernova you need either star that is closes to 20 M of our Sun or degenerate white dwarf that accumulates sufficient material from a companion star.

But ED is fiction, so anything can happen. :):D
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Yeah... typo missed a zero. It's still "any time" in astronomical terms :D What's 50,000 years between stars :)
 

Riedquat

Riedquat
Im pretty sure FD spoke about this very early on, saying that a supernova would be an injected event that the dev's would be in control of.
 

Leo Sagan

Leo Sagan
I hope we will witness such events in game but I'd prefer them to be "fictional" stars. It would be weird to see a star in the "real" sky at night knowing it exploded in the game a few months ago.
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Oh wait , the game is set in the future .... Dammit, I'm already living in E: D :)
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
They are rare ..

I'd be more interested in planetary collisions with asteroids or other rogue planets. There is a very cogent theory about the formation of our solar system (why Uranus is tilted etc formation of our moon etc) happening because of planetary collisions.

I'm more interested in seeing partially destroyed planets and the early formation of asteroid belts etc.
 

Rog

Rog
Frequency of galactic supernovae might be something (else) the game takes reasonable liberties with.

Waiting decades for one might be a wait some of us won't make. :eek:
 

kanthoney

K
A supernova event would be quite difficult to get right because the blast front would be limited to the speed of light. So if a supernova happened 5 ly away from an inhabited system you'd have 5 years to evacuate it, which might get a bit tedious. And you'd have to keep on evacuating systems for an awful long time before the blast dissipated, so it's a major commitment to the game.

An interesting wrinkle, though, is that you wouldn't initially know there'd been a supernova. The star would look normal to everyone until the blast front arrived, at which point they'd be killed. So you'd have to deduce the fact that a supernova had happened from the fact that nobody hyperspacing into the system ever came back.
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
Also Supernovae are slllooooow unless you are right on top of them :)

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