Huge dark asteroid belt?

[CmdrDaymian]

As promised earlier, here is a pic of the very large cloud of something that dropped me out of a between system jump just after countdown completed.. i wish i had examined it closer..

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I'm sure that's an asteroid belt. When I'm doing RES's and it's time to log off I fly very high above the belt before I log off because I've heard storied of people logging off too close to the 'roids and logging back on to find they've spawned inside one and die, and this is what asteroid belts look like from a distance.

As if this game wasn't terrifying enough there are ninja asteroid belts hiding in the dark to catch us at 5.0c, like some kind of space fly catching net.

 

[Greyhawk]

The Oort cloud is so diffuse you would barely tell you were passing through it. Same with the asteroid belt.

 

[Zenith]

As promised earlier, here is a pic of the very large cloud of something that dropped me out of a between system jump just after countdown completed.. i wish i had examined it closer..

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That is a ring system.
You dropped out because you got too close in supercruise. I'm guessing you finished scanning the nearby planet/star, set course for the next system, and hit FSD without checking it was actually clear. It's a moment of carelessness, but if we're all honest then we've all done something similar.

 

[Jack Schitt]

I haven't seen anything quite like that, but have got caught out in a belt around a gas giant before, where the bulk of the belt could be seen close to the body, but it actually went out far far further and was almost invisible (almost seemed like a secondary set of rings far far out). I couldn't see it, and before I had a chance to figure out why my Prox sensor is going off I had dropped out of SC. Looked a bit like your pic too - very hard to see.

Had something similar while supercruising past a gas giant to scan one of its moons. I noticed the stars flickering, realised what it was and levelled out over the almost invisible ring just as the proximity alarm sounded. Didn't take any damage but I was so close that the big individual rocks were visible occluding the stars.

That's tricky. But here is a tip. You want to get out, so select a jump destination and then enable FSD but keep throttle at zero. When your FSD it ready, just whack your throttle to max. You should make the jump without moving much and bumping into anything.

Neat trick!

 

[pryzm]

That is a ring system.
You dropped out because you got too close in supercruise. I'm guessing you finished scanning the nearby planet/star, set course for the next system, and hit FSD without checking it was actually clear. It's a moment of carelessness, but if we're all honest then we've all done something similar.

I don't think so.. it was spherical in shape, and there was no planet anywhere near it, i checked both the nav panel and looked visually.. this was a sphere of rocks outside of the system. I am going to have to try find it again.. damn i wish i had my recording software running.

 

[Goblin King]

At a guess ED Dev. have possibly done something awesome and included the equivalent of Sol's Kupier belt - it contains (not just cheked wikipedia or anything, honest) Pluto and Charon as well as hundreds of thousands of other objects. That's brilliant! Makes sense that to discover (crash into) it you'd have to be way outside the system. IF ED have populated each of the systems with their own Kupier belts and left us to find them, that is truly awesome!!