Seven Sisters - the Pleiades, friends and relations.

[Jackie Silver]

So I was hanging around Alcor, taking potshots at Authority Vipers over in Doris, waiting for Universal Cartographics to get their act together.
And I suddenly thought, "screw this, I'm going anyway!"

Leaping into the brightly coloured seat of my rusty Cobra I dashed through the core systems in the general direction of the Pleiades.

It wasn't long before I found myself sitting in orbit above an Earthlike planet way out there, looking up at the nebula.

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Asterope and Sterope II were unremarkable, so I moved over to HR 1185, an extraordinary (but un-photogenic) system with a load of T-Tauri stars and a black hole.

At Celaeno I had a close encounter with an Asp - ultimately no match for the Cobra but it did some damage, fortunately I'd brought an auto-repair kit along.

(oops, sorry, the link was wrong, here it is!)

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I'm glad I swapped out the ship's cannons for multicannons as I would have run out of ammunition several defunct pirates earlier, but they would have been good against a big slow ship like that.

This attractive metal-rich planet orbits Celaeno.

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Maia is a very busy system, here's a view from a fairly close orbiting gas giant...

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...and here's another black hole, you can see the distortion of stars against the nebula background (which should also be distorted, but whatever, it's neat!)

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All is going well and there's a load more stars in the cluster to explore. Hope I can sell this when I make it back.

 

[flint read]

Well done indeed Explorer and thanks for sharing

 

[Jackie Silver]

I spent some time searching at Pleione, but things have changed since the olden days - no Pleione 4b to be found. Pleione 3 and 4 are a pair of gas giants, so I trolled around looking for signals.

I found a string of ne'erdowells, but nowt else.

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All the action left me out of multicannon rounds. I'll need to rethink the weapons loadout for future extended runs.

Although I searched all the rest of the bright stars I didn't turn up anything spectacular, although there are a few Earthlike planets out there that'll someday make a nice home.

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Mind, the game seems to define Earthlike as meaning tidally locked roasting poisonous hellhole, so perhaps not.

I had an intriguing experience on the way back home - I saw a system listed as "Permit Required", and when I went to the systems map there were multiple copies of it listed, including a couple which didn't need permits and seemed to be located in the middle of nowhere on the galaxy map. Sadly jumping to them broke the client, so I'm guessing it's gremlins not Thargoids.

By the time I finally made it home the Cobra had seen better days. Time for new paint. ^^

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