Hi all,
Yesterday I made my first big push out of the Bubble, going to the California Nebula by way of Bellatrix, and after a brief stopover at Mic Turner base, started pushing north in hopes of finding unmapped systems (from my reading and experience, I'm probably going to have to travel quite some distance to do so).
Well, I was passing through the Synuefai sector, trying to find a planet I could land on for the night, when I noticed something odd. I wasn't finding planets - for something like six systems in a row.
A couple of those were T Tauri multi-star systems - easy to see why they didn't have planets. But the others were either solitary or wide binary main sequence stars. I didn't understand why they were planetless.
A couple of caveats: I'm new to exploration, and to the game as a whole, so my ship isn't top-shelf equipment. I have an intermediate discovery scanner, and I'm aware of its limited range.
Second, as I said, I've noticed this in six systems - which is small enough to be a statistical fluke. At the time, I was starting to get tired - I almost crashed when I did finally find a planet (around an L class brown dwarf).
I still plan to push north and hopefully accrue enough data to spring for the advanced scanner, and then return to Synuefai to investigate further. Before I do, I wanted to check with the veteran explorers: have you, in general, encountered regions of space full of planetless stars?
Yesterday I made my first big push out of the Bubble, going to the California Nebula by way of Bellatrix, and after a brief stopover at Mic Turner base, started pushing north in hopes of finding unmapped systems (from my reading and experience, I'm probably going to have to travel quite some distance to do so).
Well, I was passing through the Synuefai sector, trying to find a planet I could land on for the night, when I noticed something odd. I wasn't finding planets - for something like six systems in a row.
A couple of those were T Tauri multi-star systems - easy to see why they didn't have planets. But the others were either solitary or wide binary main sequence stars. I didn't understand why they were planetless.
A couple of caveats: I'm new to exploration, and to the game as a whole, so my ship isn't top-shelf equipment. I have an intermediate discovery scanner, and I'm aware of its limited range.
Second, as I said, I've noticed this in six systems - which is small enough to be a statistical fluke. At the time, I was starting to get tired - I almost crashed when I did finally find a planet (around an L class brown dwarf).
I still plan to push north and hopefully accrue enough data to spring for the advanced scanner, and then return to Synuefai to investigate further. Before I do, I wanted to check with the veteran explorers: have you, in general, encountered regions of space full of planetless stars?
