Stepping back out into the black -- Cmdr Z@pp's travel log

roboteconomist · Apr 20, 2017

So I began plotting my way back to the bubble today. I will check out another 15 PNs or so and then jump on a neutron highway to cover the 7,000 ly between the edge of the galactic core to the bubble. I'll admit that started this trip as a bit of a lark to fill time until 2.3, but I've really enjoyed the whole experience.

No space oddities to report tonight, but I did run into an ELW in a trinary system with a terraformable Mars-like and terraformable water world

As well as a water moon orbiting a gas giant with a really neat ring system:

And a neutron star orbited by three water worlds (two of which are terraformable) and a terraformable HMC.

roboteconomist · Apr 22, 2017

I can't believe I scanned the whole thing!

Found a system with 3 black holes, one of which was 55 solar masses, which is a personal record.

roboteconomist · Apr 23, 2017

Still making my way back to the bubble and the stretch of space I've been travelling through has been a bit of a bust -- one undiscovered PN, no ELWs and one Ammonia World. I did run into a few space oddities:

Another four-sun system:

Another terraformable world with no atmosphere:

Another terraformable water moon:

A system with two ringed water worlds in binary systems with a ringed brown dwarf and a ringed gas giant:

And another enormous water world (planetary radius of 17,000 km!):

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I leave for a work trip tomorrow, so I won't have new posts until Thursday or Friday.

I've been reflecting on my favorite stellar formation lately and I think it has to be a ringed terraformable world/ELW/Ammonia World orbiting a ringed gas giant.

They just always make for interesting pictures:

roboteconomist · Apr 29, 2017

Greetings from undiscovered planetary nebula #16 (pretty spoopy, right?). I am back from my work trip and back on the trail home.

Just wanted to highlight one interesting find from last weekend -- a water world in a binary orbit with an icy world:

The surface temperature of the icy world is balmy 106 degrees Celsius. Go home Stellar Forge, you're drunk.

roboteconomist · Apr 29, 2017

Found my first Endor:

It is even greener than the standard ELW:

Speaking of ELWs, I found my second set of twins:

I also found a ringed class IV gas giant orbiting within 20 ls of an F class star:

A Jupiter-like with two HMC moons in a trinary orbit with two more HMCs:

A ringed water moon:

A terraformable planet with an atmosphere of less than 0.01 bar? C'mon, Stellar Forge.

That's better:

roboteconomist · May 1, 2017

Some more stuff from my jaunt to the neutron highway:

I stopped by the EESHORPS nebula to do a little ELW-hunting. Didn't find one, but I did find an ammonia world and this very photogenic terraformable water world:

Yet another Class IV gas giant orbiting within 50 ls of the main star:

"Bro, I heard you like gas giants..."

A system with an Earth/Moon pair and a terraformable HMC with a terraformable water moon -- just teeming with potential:

And another enormous ringed, landable ice world:

roboteconomist · May 1, 2017

Well, I made it back to my starting point in the TRAIKAAE nebula.

I have to admit, touching down for the last time was a bit emotional. I set out 2 months ago looking to kill time until the rollout of the next major patch. I never thought I would enjoy the journey this much. I still need to head back to Quince and tally up my finds, but here is the route that I took:

And here are all of the undiscovered PNs I encountered along the way:

roboteconomist · May 2, 2017

Made it back to Quince.

My haul of cartographic data came in at just over 500 million CR. As you might have guessed, I reached Elite rank in exploration handily.

I also recorded the prices for about 900 individual planets -- mainly ELWs, HMCs, WWs, and AWs, but there are also a healthy number of gas giants and rocky planets -- in a Google spreadsheet. I plan on doing a little data analysis to see if I can refine our understanding of payouts in 2.3, for high value bodies at least. Folks are welcome to take a crack at the data as well.