List of unexplored nubulae?
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Gonna go out on a limb and say "no". All the big ones have had many visitors, and if there were a list of unexplored planetary nebulae it'd probably be a week or 2 before they were all explored and tagged.
You can still find unexplored systems in nebulae areas though, and can often still tag a body in some previously explored planetary nebulae where the discoverer left things for others.
You can still find unexplored systems in nebulae areas though, and can often still tag a body in some previously explored planetary nebulae where the discoverer left things for others.
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The problem is, by confirming that a nebula is unexplored, you explore it in the process.
I guess you could trawl the map and note the positions of planetary nebulae without visiting them. As far as the big nebulae go I expect that all of them have been visited by now, although perhaps not recently and thoroughly enough to confirm the presence or absence of Grauniad ruins and sites, let alone alien flora. I'm thinking of all the ones on the far side of Sadge, there's plenty of AA-A H procgen nebulae there that would bear a serious investigation to look for alien stuff.
A week or two? I'd be willing to bet they'd all be done within a day. The time when Jackie Silver posted a list of probably-unexplored procedural stars comes to mind, too.
As for the big nebulae... All of them have been visited, of course. Doesn't mean that they have all been thoroughly surveyed. Procedurally generated nebulae in denser regions can have thousand of systems in their vicinity and even inside them, but it looks like real nebulae might still have some unexplored stuff too. I've recently been to Eta Carina, searching for Gouraudians, and still tagged a few bodies in there. Several years after launch, I'd say that's slightly surprising.
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I'd love to head out to a nebula and properly survey it. But current mechanics make it (imo) boring and time consuming, with very little reward be that monetary or discovery.
I spend a lot of time exploring systems in nebula. Most times they are already tagged, but they are new to me and that's all I really care about!
All of the major nebula have been found, but there are still planetary nebula out there to be discovered.
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I can be 58,000 LY from the bubble and find one tiny little planetary nebula and in an area that is so scarcely traveled, the nebula part it self will have already been discovered already. Pretty much all of them, including the tiny planetary ones have been discovered already. Better luck finding Wolf-Rayet Stars that haven't been discovered than Nebula of any size.
Not to say there isn't a tiny little planetary nebula or two out there still way below or above the galactic plane, but the odds aren't that good...
Not to say there isn't a tiny little planetary nebula or two out there still way below or above the galactic plane, but the odds aren't that good...
I was thinking of looking for the second Guardian bubble at which was recently hinted. Those sites were supposed to be around nubulas. Shouldn't they have been found by now, then?
On the other hand only 0.3% or even less of the galaxy have been explored.
Even if every commander in the game was just hunting for nebulae it would take longer than that to discover them all.
I found three undiscovered planetary nebulae last month, one being within 10k ly or so of an occupied system.