i love taking short breaks from the bubble between my few longer trips into the black. currently i'm flying "short-range deep-space passenger missions" - "strong G", "Carbon Star close", you name it, anything between 1000 and 3000 ly distance, which fits nicely into 2-3 sessions without any hassle.
yesterday i took "Earth-Like Dance with Giant", 2,5 k ly from sol.
on the way there i stumbled upon HR 8266 - an impressive B-class -, visited the Iris Nebula and some non-procedurally generated systems around there with the designation LKAH, and stayed overnight in the asteroid station Iris Vacations in FW Cephei (love the new asteroid stations!).
today i did the quick trip to the mission destination - a gas giant with an ELW moon. the tourist beacon is at the least spectacular place - between the two bodies. but there was a moon orbiting the ELW orbiting that gas giant, and the moon was landable.
now - i land on any moons around earth-likes, water worlds, ammonia worlds, always hoping for an impressive view. it is hard to know from the system map, if the moon will be close enough to the world for some spectacuar sights. that one around "Earth-Like Dance with Giant" beat any i have seen - if you don't like the hectic mitterand hollow. majestically the (quite small in fact) ELW turns, while you are sitting on the moons surface watching ... earth-like-rise!
(screenshots can't catch it, but still give an idea
so, thanks to cmdr pearcy who added that location as a tourist beacon according to the beacon-text. if he did visit the moon, too?
on the way back i'll check out the other asteroid station close by, elephant trunks mine... and do some neutron jumps. it is about the journey... and i can recommend this one.
PS: the moon has vulcanic activity and is quite small ... i might return with a dedicated surface survey vessels....
yesterday i took "Earth-Like Dance with Giant", 2,5 k ly from sol.
on the way there i stumbled upon HR 8266 - an impressive B-class -, visited the Iris Nebula and some non-procedurally generated systems around there with the designation LKAH, and stayed overnight in the asteroid station Iris Vacations in FW Cephei (love the new asteroid stations!).
today i did the quick trip to the mission destination - a gas giant with an ELW moon. the tourist beacon is at the least spectacular place - between the two bodies. but there was a moon orbiting the ELW orbiting that gas giant, and the moon was landable.
now - i land on any moons around earth-likes, water worlds, ammonia worlds, always hoping for an impressive view. it is hard to know from the system map, if the moon will be close enough to the world for some spectacuar sights. that one around "Earth-Like Dance with Giant" beat any i have seen - if you don't like the hectic mitterand hollow. majestically the (quite small in fact) ELW turns, while you are sitting on the moons surface watching ... earth-like-rise!
(screenshots can't catch it, but still give an idea
so, thanks to cmdr pearcy who added that location as a tourist beacon according to the beacon-text. if he did visit the moon, too?
on the way back i'll check out the other asteroid station close by, elephant trunks mine... and do some neutron jumps. it is about the journey... and i can recommend this one.
PS: the moon has vulcanic activity and is quite small ... i might return with a dedicated surface survey vessels....
