Post your weird systems!

Katejina

Katejina
So I really don't know what to make of this. I was on vacation over the weekend and decided to bring my laptop. During downtime, I installed the game through steam and played a bit, maybe a few kly of exploration. I came across this star in the galaxy map that I have never ever seen the likes of before. It was red, with a very strong glow about it. Not bright, just... glowing. Obviously, I went to check it out. T Tauri. Yellow T Tauri? Wut? I need an explanation as to what I'm seeing here...

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Kolato

Kolato
Katejina said:
So I really don't know what to make of this. I was on vacation over the weekend and decided to bring my laptop. During downtime, I installed the game through steam and played a bit, maybe a few kly of exploration. I came across this star in the galaxy map that I have never ever seen the likes of before. It was red, with a very strong glow about it. Not bright, just... glowing. Obviously, I went to check it out. T Tauri. Yellow T Tauri? Wut? I need an explanation as to what I'm seeing here...

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Those are pretty common.
 

drkaii

drkaii
It's glowing because it's centered on one of those permanent bright dots on the galaxy map (try Map mode and disabling all filtering and you'll see them). They are either TTs or bright stars like supergiants but there doesn't seem to be a good reason for them with the TTs, some people think it's because they will one day be bright accretion disks
 

Kolato

Kolato
drkaii said:
It's glowing because it's centered on one of those permanent bright dots on the galaxy map (try Map mode and disabling all filtering and you'll see them). They are either TTs or bright stars like supergiants but there doesn't seem to be a good reason for them with the TTs, some people think it's because they will one day be bright accretion disks
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I believe they are gas clouds, which the TT stars was just born out of, as they are less than 1 million year old according to the system map.
I think the reason why you can see super-giants there, is because the cloud of gas is also made when a giant star "pushes" off it's outer layers, and the cloud later become a planetary nebula as gas becomes more dense.
 

drkaii

drkaii
I'd like to think the engine is as sophisticated as you say but I highly doubt it. There aren't any accretion disks, or anything similar yet so I think they are place holders for exactly what you said, to be implemented eventually
 

Patau82

Patau82
Off on a little holiday to VY Canis Majoris
first interesting find
Class 2 Gas Giant with a lot of moon moons :D
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ZephyrDark

ZephyrDark
Found these oddities on my previous outting..

I like to call it the "Mint Chocolate Giant". (Ammonia-Life Giant next to a Water-Life Giant)
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Always interesting to find molten HMCs with atmospheres, this one is slightly blue..
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Anybody have a clue, my memory is foggy about this one.
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​Strange polar lakes, or caps on this one.
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Glyphon

Glyphon
As much as I like 4 Cygni, I'm pretty sure I just found my favourite system
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Doesn't really look like much from the outside but every single one of those is a Helium-rich gas giant orbiting an orange giant and the first one (the white one) has 6 metal-rich moons.

and they're all undiscovered, yeah.
 
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Sniffy75

Sniffy75
Nothing too special except when you realise that this water world is a TFC that is orbiting a neutron star.
The secondary star is over 40,000 Ls away so I can only imagine these worlds being very dim places to live since the neutron should not be emitting any light in theory.

Its these little anomalies that could not exist in reality that make exploring in ED a little more interesting

I half expect to find an ELW orbiting a lone neutron start or even black hole one of these days.

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The one slightly closer to the neutron is also a TFC
 

Sniffy75

Sniffy75
It's complicated...

Found a screenshot I took some time back of a real odd assortment of stars, planets etc...

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Note the odd collection of both stars and gas giants that are orbiting a pair of black holes which are orbiting each other
Then right at the end there is the star orbiting the star which along with all the others in that string is orbiting the O class/black hole pair
Its a real complex nest of orbits and that black hole next to the primary is so close that if we had accretion disks, there would likely be a big disk right there eating away at the O class.
 

DrNoesis

DrNoesis
Here's one I found last night which I thought might be worthy of posting here.

Look -a regular day, regular view of a reasonably normal system, right?

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look at the next post, now back to mine, now back to the next post, now back to mine. Sadly, it isn’t mine, but if it was you'd notice the distances between the ship and each of the stars. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a system scooping fuel in a ship your ship could look like. What’s that you're scooping? back at me. I'm scooping it, stealing fuel from the stars that you love. Look again, the fuel is coming FROM THE STAR ON THE LEFT. Anything is possible when your asp has been in deep space for going on 4months.. I’m on a horse.
 

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
Sniffy75 said:
Nothing too special except when you realise that this water world is a TFC that is orbiting a neutron star.
The secondary star is over 40,000 Ls away so I can only imagine these worlds being very dim places to live since the neutron should not be emitting any light in theory.

Its these little anomalies that could not exist in reality that make exploring in ED a little more interesting

I half expect to find an ELW orbiting a lone neutron star or even black hole one of these days.

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The one slightly closer to the neutron is also a TFC
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Yeah - got the t-shirt for that one :) (earlier post of mine on this thread)
 
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Terry Bruge-Hiplo

Terry Bruge-Hiplo
Nowhere near as awesome as most of the pics in this thread, but found this on my very first expedition this week (already been scanned, sadly)

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And my first ELW, which had a continent that looked like the UK...

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Ainoaoikea

Ainoaoikea
Water world near Eagle Nebula with axial tilt of 60 degrees (IIRC). That polar cap can't really be ice, can it? Besides, it seems to be below the "sea level".

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Another, even more tilted one, one, with the stats:
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