I was on my way to Colonia out near Sacagawea when the Children of Raxxla community goal started, so I decided to head back and turn my data in for the goal. After doing that, I turned around and headed back. My initial intent was to simply buckeyball back to my starting point, but after jumping into yet another system I had already been to, I fell back into my old pattern of dropping off the beaten trail, and slowed things down a bit by taking fastest route with only F and non sequence stars.
This time, I dropped about 750ly down, and angled out to a slightly more westerly path. After a while, I hit a neutron star, and then another, and then another, and they were all un tagged. Quite surprised at this since it was so near such well traveled space, I started poking around the galaxy map, and found myself inside what I would imagine is called a neutron star field...I say that because I have never been to the documented fields so have no real perspective in numbers and density, but the little bit of poking around I did, there was over a hundred of them within a 100ly cube.
I grabbed a handful of them but kept on going as I was meeting up with a friend at Sacagawea. I did keep an eye on things as I went, and there was a very steady stream of neutrons, though I kept angling lower and they thinned out a bit, and that is when I found the f mass black hole, and then another, and then another. I followed that trail all the way to what I would almost call a black hole field...a single G mass subsector with 174 systems with G mass black hole primaries, and several of them with black hole secondaries, and numerous with multiple neutron star secondaries. I went on a mission to visit each one of them and 83 were already tagged, but 91 of them are now mine. I have not dug into the H mass objects yet.
Now for the sciency stuff...given the path I took, I think there is a very real possibility that the distribution of neutrons and black holes may be part of a decent sized structure, and I am planning on doing a better and deliberate survey of the area to hopefully define the size and shape.
And for the benefit of some of you other explorers, and you know who you are, I also collected about 25 earthlikes on the trip, and a bunch of other terraformables
And now for a request from the programmers, especially ED Discovers...is there any way, and how difficult would it be to make a utility that could map out specific systems based on the system names and star types? What I would envision is having my journal star systems listed by name and star type and then check mark the ones I want on the map? I really think this would be very handy...
This time, I dropped about 750ly down, and angled out to a slightly more westerly path. After a while, I hit a neutron star, and then another, and then another, and they were all un tagged. Quite surprised at this since it was so near such well traveled space, I started poking around the galaxy map, and found myself inside what I would imagine is called a neutron star field...I say that because I have never been to the documented fields so have no real perspective in numbers and density, but the little bit of poking around I did, there was over a hundred of them within a 100ly cube.
I grabbed a handful of them but kept on going as I was meeting up with a friend at Sacagawea. I did keep an eye on things as I went, and there was a very steady stream of neutrons, though I kept angling lower and they thinned out a bit, and that is when I found the f mass black hole, and then another, and then another. I followed that trail all the way to what I would almost call a black hole field...a single G mass subsector with 174 systems with G mass black hole primaries, and several of them with black hole secondaries, and numerous with multiple neutron star secondaries. I went on a mission to visit each one of them and 83 were already tagged, but 91 of them are now mine. I have not dug into the H mass objects yet.
Now for the sciency stuff...given the path I took, I think there is a very real possibility that the distribution of neutrons and black holes may be part of a decent sized structure, and I am planning on doing a better and deliberate survey of the area to hopefully define the size and shape.
And for the benefit of some of you other explorers, and you know who you are, I also collected about 25 earthlikes on the trip, and a bunch of other terraformables
And now for a request from the programmers, especially ED Discovers...is there any way, and how difficult would it be to make a utility that could map out specific systems based on the system names and star types? What I would envision is having my journal star systems listed by name and star type and then check mark the ones I want on the map? I really think this would be very handy...
