Suns of Anarchy!!

[Angus]

I refer to Frontier's latest video showing an animated star.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGupxOG853I

Wow. Its an overused word, but stars are "awesome" and for me Frontier have done justice to the big yellow life giver. Wow (again).

I hope in the game though, a star like this will "roar", that is if you observe it from within a diameter or two you will be able to hear the power of the solar winds or whatever else is involved, ominously resonating against your outer hull. Awe needs sound, right?

By the way, not everybody's cup of tea but the film "Sunshine" has some gorgeous "views" of the Sun, there's a lovely bit where Mercury transitions across it from the ship's point of view. Its about as far from a Bruce Willis blockbuster as you can get, but I thought it was a very cool film - especially considering its subject matter has a surface temperature of over 5000 degrees C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YghewnxhiQ

 

[Jackie Silver]

Wow. Its an overused word, but stars are "awesome" and for me Frontier have done justice to the big yellow life giver. Wow (again).

I hope in the game though, a star like this will "roar", that is if you observe it from within a diameter or two you will be able to hear the power of the solar winds or whatever else is involved, ominously resonating against your outer hull. Awe needs sound, right?

Stars are unquestionably awesome. I'm hoping we see some of the more unusual types in the game - I'll check some of the usual suspects against the star map.

It'd be cool if major solar flares have an effect on communications and shielding.

 

[NoirWolf]

Anyone up for a strange star? Be warned if you fly too close to one your ship turns into a dingy van.

 

[Bewilderbeest]

Aww, I was half hoping you'd proposed starting a Gang called the Suns of Anarchy, and we'd go around intimidating poor Haulers in the LP 98-132 system.

I agree the animation is cool, but it'd be cooler cruising underneath one of those coronal mass ejections with my buddies, lookin' for some action.

 

[Jackie Silver]

Well by the time the client crashed after excessive alt-tabbing to Wikipedia, I'd found examples of Wolf-Rayet stars (e.g. Theta Muscae), yellow hypergiants (e.g. Rho Cassiopeiae), blue supergiants (e.g. Rigel), red supergiants (e.g. Betelguese, Antares), asymptotic giants (e.g. Mira), cepheid variables (e.g. Delta Cephei) and saw neutron star and black hole companions.

Excited face.

("please do cool models for them, please!")

 

[scrufferpops]

I refer to Frontier's latest video showing an animated star.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGupxOG853I

Wow. Its an overused word, but stars are "awesome" and for me Frontier have done justice to the big yellow life giver. Wow (again).

I hope in the game though, a star like this will "roar", that is if you observe it from within a diameter or two you will be able to hear the power of the solar winds or whatever else is involved, ominously resonating against your outer hull. Awe needs sound, right?

By the way, not everybody's cup of tea but the film "Sunshine" has some gorgeous "views" of the Sun, there's a lovely bit where Mercury transitions across it from the ship's point of view. Its about as far from a Bruce Willis blockbuster as you can get, but I thought it was a very cool film - especially considering its subject matter has a surface temperature of over 5000 degrees C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YghewnxhiQ

And a core temperature of 6 million degrees c!!

However not all stars are hot. One was found recently which was below freezing. I'm not joking!