Thanks for the link. After reading recently reading on galnet about the Utopians I had wondered where to find them. Seems they‘re a bit in the tradition of Thomas Mores Utopia.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Thanks for the link. After reading recently reading on galnet about the Utopians I had wondered where to find them. Seems they‘re a bit in the tradition of Thomas Mores Utopia.
LOLWUT?
Orbital eccentricity has always been a parameter.
Just looking at orrery view & info on one Ammonia World with orbital eccentricity of 0.8382 - that orbit is no circle!
I’m not talking about eccentricity. That has been in the game, from the start.
I’m talking about the shape of the orbit.
But am i wrong?????
Also. Has anybody made the Raxxla/Doctor-verse connection before? There appears to be some similarities with Raxacoricofallapatorius.
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In RL you get an elliptical orbit, as soon as there is orbital eccentricity. that's how gravity works.
Stellar forge has used off center circles as an approximation, in stead of the correct orbit shape. I believe this is still the case for all proceduraly generated orbits.
It has always generated the proper ellipse to my knowledge - here is an extreme example I posted back in 2015:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ccentricity!?p=2444929&viewfull=1#post2444929
I do wonder that, if Raxxla is indeed a planet, it might have an extreme orbit like this, having been found initially within scanner range (of the time) of a star but then heading way out into deep space. I wonder if a hyperbolic orbit/trajectory could be manually inserted by the devs (they don't seem to be generated by Stellar Forge) - and how such an object might be represented on the system map or whether it would have to be a POI.
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You are right. Even though we have eccentricity as a parameter, it doesn't look like affecting the shape of orbits. I also suspect that only manually added bodies have real eliptic orbits.
Proof:
This is not a 0.11 eccentricity looks like
The one in your example is probably circular. It just looks elliptical, when viewed from the side. If yo check it now in the orrery map, you will see.
I have an idea (although Guru might as well change his name to BadWolf, seems every time I chase a hunch the moment I reach my destination I’m greeted with “first mapped by Guru-951. Ahhhhggghh! Lol.) anywho, there is justifiable debate on what “the mother of galaxies” means. Whether it’s a reference to Cassiopeia, the MW, or the largest of galaxies, or some reference to Hera etc etc I suppose nobody knows. But, if it means the largest, as far as Elites map and Skybox goes I think that title actually belongs to the Andromeda galaxy in actual, physical size. I was on my way to Andromedae System (which Guru beat me to) and what I always thought was some globular
Galaxy turns out to be a tiny little Nebula near the cave and elephant trunk Nebula (I’m sure many of you have been there but it’s new to me). It’s tiny yet very visible even from sol on account of the sheer volume of A,B, and O class stars in it, and a mind boggling number of Black Holes. I also couldn’t help but notice that from Sol this very bright object sits right “above” (the brow) of the Andromeda galaxy. I figure I’ll go in and jump to all the notable stars. They’ve all been visited I’m sure, but I have noticed not many systems this way are mapped, so perhaps our new tools will reveal something. Just figured I’d mention in case anyone else is interested.
Galaxy turns out to be a tiny little Nebula near the cave and elephant trunk Nebula (I’m sure many of you have been there but it’s new to me). It’s tiny yet very visible even from sol on account of the sheer volume of A,B, and O class stars in it, and a mind boggling number of Black Holes. I also couldn’t help but notice that from Sol this very bright object sits right “above” (the brow) of the Andromeda galaxy. I figure I’ll go in and jump to all the notable stars. They’ve all been visited I’m sure, but I have noticed not many systems this way are mapped, so perhaps our new tools will reveal something. Just figured I’d mention in case anyone else is interested.
I don't think so.
This one is only 0.83 OE, and it needs to be viewed at very spesifically skewed angle to make it look like circular:
[video=youtube;y9shB3TktLU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9shB3TktLU[/video]
Excellent find, great work, anything is plausible.
Do we travel to these locations or do they triangulate some obscurity?
It’s the NGC 7822 Nebula. From Sol it’ll appear like a planetary Nebula does from a jump or two out or like the smaller, dimmer, galaxies in the skybox we see. Almost confused it with lemon slice as I got closer but as it was obvious that it’s appearance was changing, becoming more defined and brighter as I got closer, it was apparent that it was a visitable place. I’m sure it’s been visited a lot a while back by the Rifters and Co, but seems not since the new tools have become available.
If nothing else it’s got a whole lot of interesting systems in it.
According to edsm, NGC7822 is known as The Siren of the Spinward Stars. Been through every Class O in it. Mapped quite a few. S171 9 is my favorite system of them. It has 3 black holes. Just favorite for beauty, not due to anything riddle related. S171 34 has the Cupids Arrow tourist beacon. That was the 2nd step in our process. "Ours" being the 46&2.
Here's Obsidian Ant's post of 2015, so others can see what we're referring to. I've always noticed that region and thought it a bit odd looking as there are so many bright stars all in a line. Kept meaning to go have a look, and I'm not _very_ far away at them moment. Maybe I'll swing by for the hell of it.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ing-NGC-7822-Nebula-(It-s-Black-Hole-Paradise!)
where did that come from? Search for the term and only ED stuff comes up - who added that to EDSM? Is there an out of game reference for that name?
YB
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ing-NGC-7822-Nebula-(It-s-Black-Hole-Paradise!)
where did that come from? Search for the term and only ED stuff comes up - who added that to EDSM? Is there an out of game reference for that name?
YB
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not sure of the source. IMO, the source is irrelevant, as long as it was a thing Before the Riddle was given to us. As they may have used it based on it being a thing already.
https://www.edsm.net/en/system/id/22469/name/S171+37
https://www.edsm.net/en/system/id/22469/name/S171+37