Intresting Stations/Orbitals/Landings

Peoplearestrange

Peoplearestrange
Hello fellow explorers, tourists and curious space travellers!

Here's a question, through out your travels what would you say your favourite points of interests are? I'm thinking of orbitals that drift through rings, stations way too close to stars, planet landing pads at the bottom of a deep crater?

The first obvious POI station is Hutton Orbital, being 0.22LY from the nav beacon.

Here's a snap of my first visit to the Station
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Be great if we could collaborate it into one thread. Pictures would be most welcome too!
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
There's some very nice ones out at the Colonia nebula - all of them being at least somewhat hand-placed. Some of my favourites...

Orbitals:
Morten's Paradise is in extremely close orbit of an ELW for much better views than you normally get from a station. (Similarly Vitto Orbital for another ELW and Balakor's Research Post for an AW)

Surface:
The Bone Yard is placed on a mesa on top of a mountain, making for impressive arrivals and departures.
Concordia Hub is in between several large mountains, which when lit by the nebula at night glow a bright blue. (If you visit by day it doesn't look as impressive)
Prisma Renata is on the surface of a planet with very impressive rings, and has a permanent view of them.
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
A number of Engineer bases - Farseer Inc and Black Hide both come to mind as favorite places - something about the design and layout and landing pads that just hang off sheer cliffs - extremely cool.

And the Alien Ruins. I love the Alien ruins...

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Just not in the same manner as my SRV....
 

Peoplearestrange

Peoplearestrange
Ian Doncaster said:
There's some very nice ones out at the Colonia nebula - all of them being at least somewhat hand-placed. Some of my favourites...

Orbitals:
Morten's Paradise is in extremely close orbit of an ELW for much better views than you normally get from a station. (Similarly Vitto Orbital for another ELW and Balakor's Research Post for an AW)

Surface:
The Bone Yard is placed on a mesa on top of a mountain, making for impressive arrivals and departures.
Concordia Hub is in between several large mountains, which when lit by the nebula at night glow a bright blue. (If you visit by day it doesn't look as impressive)
Prisma Renata is on the surface of a planet with very impressive rings, and has a permanent view of them.
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IndigoWyrd said:
A number of Engineer bases - Farseer Inc and Black Hide both come to mind as favorite places - something about the design and layout and landing pads that just hang off sheer cliffs - extremely cool.

And the Alien Ruins. I love the Alien ruins...

https://s5.postimg.org/t8zk86elh/Screenshot_0206.jpg

Just not in the same manner as my SRV....
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Thank you this is just what I was looking for! I'll check them out! Excited to see something new. The Colonia ones might have to wait... Just on my way back from there to be honest.
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
The Alliance BioWeapons Research bases out in California Nebula.
[video=vimeo;200777844]https://vimeo.com/200777844[/video]

But there's lots of places that are not particularly amazing unless somehow you add some meaning to them.
My first planetary landing where I know the name was kinda meh even though there were two ringed gas giants in the sky.
But my second landing at a big surface port next to a crater with a sunset and I ended up lost and creeped out thinking I'd never get my ship back. Exciting, epic and very visual. But I don't know where that was. I thought is was Daimler Observatory but when I went back there was no mountain range and no crater.

Felicity Farseer was a cool place to visit.
There was something about arriving there that really felt epic in some way that I can't quite put my finger on.

I saw a moonrise at the first Ruins site.
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The first time you see a tourist palm tree station is amazing. Refinery stations have that ensian "Dark Satanic mills" feel to them. Agri stations with their lovely racks of upside down greenery.

Skimming the tops of a station ring and looking down into the parkway.

Those showroom stations with undersized eagles.

Flying over a surface +++ installation and then trying to sneak around it in an SRV taking out turrets one at a time.

Dav Stott's sekret beacon in Thoth and the associated wreck.
The Thargoid crash site in the Pleiades with the wrecked T-9 and anacondas.
Leesti is pretty. (I spent a long time there and got to know the coastal features)
 
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Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
I have this list of interesting stations but no longer know why, buried in my spreadsheets :)
Azeban Orbital
Firdaus, Robert Aitken Orbital
Friedman Terminal
Amitrite

Not even sure that last one is a station.

Perhaps some of you can help me fill the blanks.
 
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