A few months back, I surveyed a smaller subsector, Syralia AA-A d*. To be more precise, I surveyed most of it, but I had to leave before completing it (can't even remember why), leaving behind fifty or so systems untouched. Now, when planning my latest expedition, I recalled that I've left things incomplete there. As I was planning to head in that general direction anyway, I decided to stop by there first and wrap things up now. I didn't expect to find anything interesting left there, but hey, might as well do so, no? Who knows when I'll be heading that way next.
As it turns out, I was wrong. I did find an interesting little system, and it turned out to be the most interesting one in the subsector. Meet Syralia AA-A d159, a system consisting of a K and a G star: however, this time around, the K was the bigger, primary star in the system, and the G was the smaller one. "K0 VA, G8 VA". Of course, on its own, this isn't very interesting. The planets were better.
The main star had an Earth-like world in a binary pair with a barren, atmosphereless, so landable planet. That's a nice surprise too. It wasn't very good for surface screenshots, unfortunately: they are too far apart from each other for that.
Meanwhile, the second star had a ringed ammonia world in orbit, the farthest body in the system. Despite there being gas giants around both stars. This world had pretty wide and "thick" icy rings, so worth looking at up close.
So, moral of the story? If you've left some places partly unsurveyed, it migh be worthwhile to go back and check.
Oh, and second moral of the story: you might want to make backups of your screenshots too, lest you lose them. As I haven't, I can only share this system map shot of the ELW. Don't be like me.
As it turns out, I was wrong. I did find an interesting little system, and it turned out to be the most interesting one in the subsector. Meet Syralia AA-A d159, a system consisting of a K and a G star: however, this time around, the K was the bigger, primary star in the system, and the G was the smaller one. "K0 VA, G8 VA". Of course, on its own, this isn't very interesting. The planets were better.
The main star had an Earth-like world in a binary pair with a barren, atmosphereless, so landable planet. That's a nice surprise too. It wasn't very good for surface screenshots, unfortunately: they are too far apart from each other for that.
Meanwhile, the second star had a ringed ammonia world in orbit, the farthest body in the system. Despite there being gas giants around both stars. This world had pretty wide and "thick" icy rings, so worth looking at up close.
So, moral of the story? If you've left some places partly unsurveyed, it migh be worthwhile to go back and check.
Oh, and second moral of the story: you might want to make backups of your screenshots too, lest you lose them. As I haven't, I can only share this system map shot of the ELW. Don't be like me.
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