Silly question, but how many galactic arms are there in ED ?
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I meant in game ? i am not in the game right now and need the answer
Is it also 7 in game ?
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Briefly logged in and made it 5 possibly ? not so clear
4 major arms, 6 when you count the smaller arms (Orion Spur and Norma Arm -the latter is like the Orion Spur part of another larger arm)
And they're all in game.
I tried to make a composithe shot of the E: D Galaxy, but there are 2 caveats: you can't really zoom out enough, and you can't tilt the Galaxy Map camera perpendicular to the Galaxy plane.
Anyway, here is what I stitched quickly together:
click on the pic to see it bigger, and on the bigger one to see it full size
Anyway, here is what I stitched quickly together:
click on the pic to see it bigger, and on the bigger one to see it full size
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This isn't top-down and doesn't have the names but it is, as far as I know, the best available image of the ED Galaxy, if anyone want's to add the galactic arms to it.
http://hosting.zaonce.net/elite/newsletters/newsletter_201412_19/Galaxy01.jpg
http://hosting.zaonce.net/elite/newsletters/newsletter_201412_19/Galaxy01.jpg
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dognosh said:
It's a bit late to start knitting it a jumper for Christmas.
Bear in mind that such pictures are hypothetical. We don't know the shape of the Milky Way so well because we're inside it and there's an awful lot of stars blocking the view between us and the other side.
Just look at that beautiful thing. It looks so bright and small there, but realize the size of what it encompasses. There are billions of stars there, with trillions of planets, and we can actually fly to almost every one of them. And land on 60% of them, with that number increasing eventually. All we need to do is just point our ship and go.
Sometimes I feel like I was born a few centuries too early. There are incredible and astounding sights in our galaxy that humans will one day witness. Lord would I love to be one of them.
That would require FTL travel to be possible at some point. I'm not sure it ever will be. If it was, wouldn't we already be in contact/visited by intelligent lifeforms that evolved millions of years before us?
I'm sure we'll break that FTL barrier someday. At one time people thought it was impossible to cross the ocean, or fly like the birds, or break the sound barrier, today we do all regularly. People said it was impossible to walk on the moon too. Some day people will vacation in Orion and live around Alpha Centauri and look back at our time and laugh at how naive and simple we all were.
You heard it before I guess ? 100 billion galaxies with 100B star systems in each,hence many billions of planets.
If only 10% was in the goldilocks zone, and only 10% of that had liquid water..... and so on... we'd still be left with billions of planets.
And if only 10% had life.... 10% complex life.... 10% advanced life....10% galactic faring life.
All guesses, but it soon whittles down to many millions or a few.
Either way those races can be anywhere and if they want to find us they still have to point their ships at a needle in a haystack, the haystack being one of billions of haystacks.
No chance
Finwen has been working magic in taking sceenies of the galmap and adjusting the projection to be top down. I have smoothed and merged these together. I am really looking forward to the final result. For now I can only show you a slice of galaxy...
Be advised, it is 2500x10000 pixels!
Be advised, it is 2500x10000 pixels!
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