So.... Kepler 452b...

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
Nah, this isn't an astronomy thread.

Just thinking with all these discoveries coming thick and fast, is Frontier still planning on keeping 'known stars and planets' accurate or at a certain point are they just going to go 'RIGHT. THAT'S IT! Stop changing my galaxy you scientists!'

scientists...

It isn't as if Michael doesn't have enough to do.

PS. Welcome to the family Kepler 452b It's nice to have a big cousin.
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
Cody said:
I'm drawn to its age - another billion or so years older than Sol/Earth?
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Homeworld of the Vorlons.

Still with another expansion around the corner (which at best guess is probably the atmosphereless planetary flight) I'm wondering how easy it's going to be to keep adding 'real' worlds.

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Redleg said:
Yep older. But what's its history. What's its current atmosphere like. Lots of variables. But also lots of possibilities.
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We should go check it out! How far away is Kepler 452?
 

daygobah

daygobah
JeffRyan said:
Nah, this isn't an astronomy thread.

Just thinking with all these discoveries coming thick and fast, is Frontier still planning on keeping 'known stars and planets' accurate or at a certain point are they just going to go 'RIGHT. THAT'S IT! Stop changing my galaxy you scientists!'

scientists...

It isn't as if Michael doesn't have enough to do.

PS. Welcome to the family Kepler 452b It's nice to have a big cousin.
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What about super nova and big stuff like that.
 

HeimdallofHavn

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Sysmon said:
NML Cygni and Cygnus X-1 look interesting too!

:D S
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I have been looking for these stars all evening.

The only one in the Cygnus constellation I can find is Albireo.

I have been looking for an excuse to go out exploring and leave powerplay behind, and this seemed like the perfect place to start.

Please tell me if you can find this system ingame?
 

Sysmon

Sysmon
HeimdallofHavn said:
I have been looking for these stars all evening.

The only one in the Cygnus constellation I can find is Albireo.

I have been looking for an excuse to go out exploring and leave powerplay behind, and this seemed like the perfect place to start.

Please tell me if you can find this system ingame?
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I shall do so! I'm off exploring myself, but will check tonight if I get home early enough to not head straight to bed. I play NZ time, though, so upside down from good old Greenwich.

:D S
 

Everett Mcgill

Everett Mcgill
JeffRyan said:
Nah, this isn't an astronomy thread.

Just thinking with all these discoveries coming thick and fast, is Frontier still planning on keeping 'known stars and planets' accurate or at a certain point are they just going to go 'RIGHT. THAT'S IT! Stop changing my galaxy you scientists!'

scientists...

It isn't as if Michael doesn't have enough to do.

PS. Welcome to the family Kepler 452b It's nice to have a big cousin.
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I asked David Braben this very question during an ama a while back: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60284&page=29. Here is the exchange:

Originally Posted by Everett Mcgill: The thing I love most about E: D is the attempt to realistically depict our galaxy. Being able to visit star systems I can see in the sky and being able to explore places scientists have only just begun to explore with remote sensing techniques fills me with a sense of wonder. How will you (or will you) keep the E: D galaxy synced with our rapidly expanding knowledge of what real star systems are actually like? What if a star systems at release has not been studied and so has several procedurally generated planets but a few years later it is discovered that it has no detectable planets?
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David Braben:No detectable planets does not mean no planets... The main methods for detection at the moment are Doppler movements of the parent star and occultation. Both of these fail if a system is 'flat on' to us - ie if the planets orbit in a plane perpendicular to our viewing direction. So in that case we would be OK leaving them (though we may have to tweak the system axis...). Less flippantly we will look at each one as it is discovered. I hope the discoveries will already be there, in which case we just make an addition to the text box, but in others it may mean adjusting an orbit.
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I interpret his response to mean we have very little data on these newly discovered plants which leaves a lot of lea way on some of their specifications. I gather that as long as a procedurally generated system remains a plausible interpretation of the limited data we have they will make no changes. But changes to the galaxy are a possibility.
 

daygobah

daygobah
I cant wait for James webb to get first light. It will be able to get spectra of some exoplanets.

If it find water and such cool but doesnt mean to much.

If it finds water and none natural pollution you can then say that planet has Intelligent life.
 

M00ka

M00ka
FD should offer a reward to the first Commander that can fly to the system and take a picture of the subject planet (after the modify it to make sure it looks Earth-like of course lol)
 

Fatdaddy

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Don't get too excited. We have all been here before. You look on the system map (or through the obsenely expensive looking glass) and get all excited at what looks like it must surely be an earth-like.....only to get within 500ls with a detailed surface scanner and find its actually a high-metal-content.....:p
 

CMDR Gerakis

CMDR Gerakis
hi

FD wasn't lucky about it but I remember Michael saying upon the discovery that they had input Kepler 452b & 452a into the game (there is a thread somewhere where he even mention the systems in which they we put.

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