Make Betelgeuse go boom
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'at any moment'. Lol.
That IRL could be as long as hundreds of thousands of years.
From wiki, it's due to pop "within the next million years."
So yeah, astronomically speaking, and furthermore 1000 years into the future, yes... At any moment.
The accuracy fanatics would go mad if the in-game system blows up before the IRL one 
The accuracy fanatics would go mad if the in-game system blows up before the IRL one
True. We better wait for a thousand years now, then adjust the game accordingly.
But if it went boom now, it would still take centuries to make a planitery nebula.
Indeed, for all we know it may have already popped IRL. We would not know till 600 years after the fact.
But in ED there is no graphics for stars doing this sort of thing. Imagine how dangerous a trip to Eta Carinae would be if it was modeled in game how we think it would be, with coresponding game mechanics.
Indeed, for all we know it may have already popped IRL. We would not know till 600 years after the fact.
But in ED there is no graphics for stars doing this sort of thing. Imagine how dangerous a trip to Eta Carinae would be if it was modeled in game how we think it would be, with coresponding game mechanics.
that was my other thought: that even if it happened today we wouldn't know for quite some time.
And Supernovas are extremely high in cosmic radiation. if we got too close (within a couple hundred lightyears) of a nova, we'd be cooked like a turkey in a NuWave Oven...except with gamma radiation instead of infrared
YES
BLOW UP A STAR
BLOW IT UP
BLOW UP A STAR
BLOW IT UP
Probably needs some graphics engine updates to live up to its full potential, but sure, that could make for a cool event down the line. Unfortunately it' uninhabited and there aren't any inhabited systems close by, so no "evacuate neighboring systems" potential. But you could do something around a fleet of science vessels sent to monitor the impending supernova, hijinks ensue when one fails to jump out in time or whatever.
Now an upside to Betelgeuse being relatively isolated: the nearest star is over 5 LY away, so FDev has that much time to figure out how to make the skyboxes in neighboring systems display the supernova's progression. I've written here about how FDev could implement a scientifically realistic supernova scenario:
forums.frontier.co.uk
Now an upside to Betelgeuse being relatively isolated: the nearest star is over 5 LY away, so FDev has that much time to figure out how to make the skyboxes in neighboring systems display the supernova's progression. I've written here about how FDev could implement a scientifically realistic supernova scenario:
Novae and Supernovae - Can we have some please FDEV?
I think the Milky Way gets about 50 Novae/year and 1 Supernovae/50 years. These might constitute tourist attractions, material harvesting bonanzas, or neato dangerous events. Would be cool if they would cause frameshift anomalies as well. I imagine there might me some organics that would...
Sure, that just means that, as far as we can tell from way over here, it's ready to go. Asteroseismology might tell us more in the coming years, as it's still a relatively new technique. But as of now it's about equally plausible that Betelgeuse lasts another half million years as that it's already exploded and the light hasn't reached us yet.
It could have happened in 1400 and we still wouldn't know yet.
