Lopsided Skyboxes Explained (Aka, giant square holes in the galaxy map!)

Ziljan

Ziljan
Unless the Thargoids sucked out huge swathes of the milky way with their cosmic square-nozzled space vacuum...

[video=youtube_share;xnMAxANavKY]https://youtu.be/xnMAxANavKY[/video]

then something terribly wrong happened with the stellar forge:

[video=youtube_share;fXH0EjhxPts]https://youtu.be/fXH0EjhxPts[/video]

These strange square shaped holes might explain why some people have found places near the galactic core that appear to have half the stars missing from the sky. This is not a video card glitch. These stars are actually NOT there, and somehow failed to render when the galaxy was created through PG. If you look at the galaxy map with just the main sequence (OBAFGKM) stars checked, then these "square holes" are invisible. However if you remove all of the OBAFGKM stars and just leave the smaller brown dwarfs and look at -50 to -35 altitude, then the missing gaps becomes quite visble.

To verify this on your own Galaxy Map, go to (0, -45, 16100), and subtract all of the main sequence stars while leaving all the other star types visible.
 
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Thrawn29

Thrawn29
Ziljan said:
If you look at the galaxy map with just the main sequence (OBAFGKM) stars checked, then these "square holes" are invisible.
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Ziljan said:
However if you remove all of the OBAFGKM stars and just leave the smaller brown dwarfs and look at -50 to -35 altitude, then the missing gaps becomes quite visble.
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So those square are not missing all sort of stars equally. Seems the number "OBAFGKM" is as expected, but there's too few small one, right.
Damn, we should have asked Anthony Ross if he (or someone in the team) knows about this...
 
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Ziljan

Ziljan
Thrawn29 said:
Ziljan said:
However if you remove all of the OBAFGKM stars and just leave the smaller brown dwarfs and look at -50 to -35 altitude, then the missing gaps becomes quite visble.

So those square are not missing all sort of stars equally. Seems the number "OBAFGKM" is as expected, but there's too few small one, right.
Damn, we should have asked Anthony Ross if he (or someone in the team) knows about this...
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No I think it's every kind of star actually, it's just that the small ones are easier to see on the Galmap because there are so many and they are concentrated at a certain altitude. I suspect that there are many such missing blocks like this on the galaxy map, and these represent giant holes in the skybox as well. Also, when you show every kind of star, the nearby ones tend to obscure the ones behind them fairly quickly, and this is why the missing squares become invisible once you add the main sequence stars back in.
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