SOL - Triton Moon - Red Ring?

In System Map the other planets that can be landed upon have a blue ring but the ring around the Triton moon has a red ring. What does the red ring mean?

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Source: https://youtu.be/ki9mntTR3tY


 
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“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT TRITON AND EARTH'S MOON.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.”

OH, AND DISO 5c. AND LAVE 2. YOU CAN'T HAVE THOSE, EITHER.

Those three worlds - Triton, lave 2 and Diso 5c - are the only permit-locked landable planets/moons. There are no known means of attaining these permits yet. Earth's Moon isn't technically permit-locked (since it lacks the red ring), but it de-facto is permit-locked, since it's airless but we can't land there.

Lave 2 apparently has some kind of weird lore reason why it's locked - something to do with it being a prison planet for the ex-rulers of the Lave system? Not sure. The others, no idea.

I have always assumed, once atmospheric worlds become landable, that a bunch more permit-locked planets will appear - along with the means to gain at least some of those permits.
 
Earth's moon is locked because the surface has to be all hand-sculpted so the telescope nerds don't have aneurysms when they land in a particular location, look through there telescopes and see something different that what is there, 1285 years into an imaginary future.

Triton is locked because.

Lave 2 is locked because not enough people bought not enough books from some writer who was doing something with this location that I don't know if ever was finished, because I don't like reading sci-fi pulp books. Bleh.
 
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I have always assumed, once atmospheric worlds become landable, that a bunch more permit-locked planets will appear - along with the means to gain at least some of those permits.
Do you really think FD will do that. One thing I miss from Frontier: Elite II was landing on earth like planets and seeing trees and blue skies. And cool spaceports on Earth.
 
David Braben has an MB4 mining machine there (on Triton), plus a fleet Carrier, also a Panther Clipper and a prototype Tiger Trader, Puma Shuttle and last but not least an Imp courier (revised version with pointy bits sticking out of the engine thingy's just like in the old days) which he doesn't want blown up by the nasty Elite community players.

Well...that's what I reckon.;)

Jack.:)
 
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OH, AND DISO 5c. AND LAVE 2. YOU CAN'T HAVE THOSE, EITHER.

Those three worlds - Triton, lave 2 and Diso 5c - are the only permit-locked landable planets/moons. There are no known means of attaining these permits yet. Earth's Moon isn't technically permit-locked (since it lacks the red ring), but it de-facto is permit-locked, since it's airless but we can't land there.

Lave 2 apparently has some kind of weird lore reason why it's locked - something to do with it being a prison planet for the ex-rulers of the Lave system? Not sure. The others, no idea.

I have always assumed, once atmospheric worlds become landable, that a bunch more permit-locked planets will appear - along with the means to gain at least some of those permits.

Maybe that's Frontier's next trickety trick. Introduce landable atmospheric worlds, but permit lock all of them.
 
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