Stellar peculiarities

[DjVortex]

I stumbled across this previously undiscovered star pair (not within the same system) that's only 0.16 Ly apart, and not even in a specially dense area of the galaxy. They are so close that their spheres on the galaxy map heavily overlap each other.

I know that you can't travel from one star system to another via supercruise, but just out of curiosity I did it anyway. Unsurprisingly there was nothing there, but I got to the position of the other star anyway...

While these planetary arrangements might not be extraordinarily unusual nor strange, I nevertheless found the a bit peculiar:

 

[Ian Doncaster]

While these planetary arrangements might not be extraordinarily unusual nor strange, I nevertheless found the a bit peculiar:

The triplet is pretty common - you'll see plenty more of those.
The group of four is a lot rarer - I think I've seen three total in my travels. Nice find!

(Fives and sixes have been reported but are exceptionally rare, so definitely mention if you find any of those)

 

[Disemboweled Ego]

Is there any way to find those groups of over-3 planets from scanning the journals/data dumps?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Is there any way to find those groups of over-3 planets from scanning the journals/data dumps?

Near identical distance from entry point, much lower orbital radius, naming suggests not moons.
Should be doable with a custom-built search tool.

 

[DjVortex]

I haven't encountered systems very often where 8 T Tauri stars orbit a central star.

 

[Eahlstan]

Is there any way to find those groups of over-3 planets from scanning the journals/data dumps?

Quite easy.
Look at the list of parents.
If the first one isn't Null it's a single body.
If the first one is Null and the second one isn't it's a binary (or the uppermost body of a trinary or (((O-O)-O)-O) quartery).
If the first one is Null and the second one is Null and the third one isn't it's part of a trinary or part of a ((O-O)-(O-O)) quartery or the middle body of a (((O-O)-O)-O) quartery.
If the first one is Null and the second one is Null and the third one is Null and it has a fourth parent it's the deepest nested body of a (((O-O)-O)-O) quartery.

(Fives and sixes have been reported but are exceptionally rare, so definitely mention if you find any of those)

Are you sure? I've never heard of such ones. Do you have an example? If they are real I need to alter the built in queries of EDDiscovery.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Are you sure? I've never heard of such ones. Do you have an example? If they are real I need to alter the built in queries of EDDiscovery.

Allitnil found a 5 way back in 2017 - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/5-bodies-in-barycentric-orbits.385456/#post-6047897 - and that brought out a few other screenshots of similar ones. I would assume several more have been "found" but not had their significance recognised since, too.

There were claims of sixes in that thread with no screenshots, so lets say "rumoured" for now for those? Given several people had examples of 5s I certainly expect a 6 to be at least possible.

 

[MattG]

Allitnil found a 5 way back in 2017 - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/5-bodies-in-barycentric-orbits.385456/#post-6047897 - and that brought out a few other screenshots of similar ones. I would assume several more have been "found" but not had their significance recognised since, too.

There were claims of sixes in that thread with no screenshots, so lets say "rumoured" for now for those? Given several people had examples of 5s I certainly expect a 6 to be at least possible.

Let me confirm that then

Not mine, but a squadron member from last year.

 

[DjVortex]

This kind of arrangement may not be extraordinarily unusual, but quite unusual nevertheless. Especially since there's a water giant there...

I don't remember seeing a water giant before. Might be my first.