Lying in wait for Explorers...

Darrett

Darrett
Jumped into a system at about 22,000 LY from Sol or so tonight. Pretty standard Binary (Actually, there was a third K class star about 3600 LY away), lovely view to be had, right?

Cozy.jpg

WRONG!
And Deadly.jpg

That's the primary star for this system. I dropped in with the Neutron Star in front of me, -through- the M class behind me, immediately started fuel scooping and ran my heat to 80% in the first second. I narrowly avoided my instinct of running the throttle to 100%, banked hard left and avoided the Neutron Star (evil beast), and then had to pull up and away from the second M class star in the shot.

So be warned, the Galaxy is out to get you. Neutron Stars are working with others now, and they have your canopy on the menu.

Time for a break for me, my kids think old Dad has gone entirely mad from space isolation and muttering about Neutron Stars around every corner... just waiting...
 
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Zelos1983

Z
You jumped and materialized right in the corona of the m-star, with the neutron in front of you? Or did you move and try to scoop when you jumped in?
 

AsukaZ

AsukaZ
A very similar thing happened to me just the other day. Jumped into a neutron star system to find the neutron star in front of me, an M class behind that, My temperature skyrockets and I start taking heat damage. I managed to get away from it, turned around and scanned the M class, but I couldn't get close enough to the neutron star to scan it.

Earlier I had jumped into another neutron star system and for some reason I can't figure (I put it down to a glitch, only time it's ever happened) I get the warning message 'Too close!" and I'm dropped out of supercruise at 0.13Ls from the star. More damage.

I've also noticed that if a neutron star has asteroid fields close in, the orange circle around the star doesn't appear. I give these ones a very wide berth.

So neutron stars .. yeah, the silent killers. It seems they'll either try to kill you outright, or wear you down by attrition.
 

Darrett

Darrett
Zelos1983 said:
You jumped and materialized right in the corona of the m-star, with the neutron in front of you? Or did you move and try to scoop when you jumped in?
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When I jumped into the system, the game showed me flying directly through the center of the M class, and I appeared in the corona (heard "fuel scooping" while I was still decelerating from hyperspace).
 

BaldEagle

BaldEagle
"... When I jumped into the system, the game showed me flying directly through the center of the M class, and I appeared in the corona (heard "fuel scooping" while I was still decelerating from hyperspace). "

Time to break out the brown trousers, Commander.
 

MarcusVatta

MarcusVatta
BaldEagle said:
"... When I jumped into the system, the game showed me flying directly through the center of the M class, and I appeared in the corona (heard "fuel scooping" while I was still decelerating from hyperspace). "

Time to break out the brown trousers, Commander.
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"Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror" - Achievement Unlocked.
 
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