About 300 ls. Not far at all.
And btw, this video is very humbling:
It makes one feel just how insigificant we are.
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And btw, this video is very humbling:
It makes one feel just how insigificant we are.
Rare ELW’s are covered nicely in the estimable commander Marx’s guide to rare ELW’s here
He doesn’t specifically mention how rare a first out from the star one is though. I do especially like the “GFLWT” category
Talking of rare things in the vicinity of the bubble, I’m on a particular endeavour at the moment which has netted me to date 3 ”real world” stars, which are within 2Kly of the bubble! I must admit, I was really surprised to find any left at all
It doesn't make one feel insifnificant. Quite the opposite, I'd say. It makes one feel a part of something truly grand.
"For a few minutes standing in the darkness, I realised I could see my hand quite clearly. Something I’d noticed that I could not do, on previous nights. So I looked up, expecting to see the glow of the full moon. But the moon was no where in sight. Instead, there was a long glowing cloud, directly overhead. The Romans called it the ‘via galactica’, the road of milk. Today, we call it the Milky Way.
Seeing is only far from it. That night, years ago, I knew a small part of what’s out there … the kinds of things, the scale of things, the age of things. The violence and destruction … appalling energy … hopeless gravity … and the despair of distance. But I feel safe. Because I know my world is protected by the very distance that others fear. It’s like the universe screams in your face: “Do you know what I am, how grand I am, how old I am? Can you even comprehend what I am? What are you … compared to me?” And when you know enough, you can just smile and look at the universe and reply: ‘Dude, I am you.’
When I looked at the galaxy that night, I knew that the faintest twinkle of starlight was a real connection, between my comprehending eye, along a narrow beam of light, to the surface of another sun. The photons my eyes detect, the light I see, the energy in which my nerves interact … came from that star! I thought I could never touch it, yet something from it, crosses the void … and touches me. I might never have known. My eyes … saw only a tiny point of light, but my mind saw so much more. I see the invisible bursts of gamma radiation from giant stars, converted into pure energy by their own mass. The flashes that flash, from the far side of the universe, long before Earth had even formed. I can see the invisible microwave glow of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang.
I see stars drifting aimlessly … at hundreds of kilometres per second, and the space-time curving around them. I can even see millions of years into the future. That blue twinkle will blow up one day … sterilising any, nearby solar systems, in an apocalypse that makes the wrath of human gods seem pitiful, by comparison. Yet it was from such destruction … that I was formed. Stars must die … so that I can live. I … stepped out the supernova … and so did you."
i am just hauling passengers back and forth between systems. gets dull at times, but money is good. but not as good as you would make if u mined. still i am having fun.
If you haven't already, map the FSS to the mouse. It took me way too long to force myself to do that but boy, has it ever made my life easier!
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I'm over half way through the 2nd leg of the world's worst planned trip. I've covered a distance in total of around 17,000ly. There has been no excitement, good or bad.
The space around FC's is interesting. I see multiple clippers and type 9 and type 7 landing at the same time as me. Only a few make a difference to the tritium order. Thus I get multiple returns to make crds.
Do npcs own FC's?
Are we all in the same ED instance at a FC?
Some orders for tritium are in the market. But the larger ones are seen in inara.
Do npcs own FC's?
Are we all in the same ED instance at a FC?
Some orders for tritium are in the market. But the larger ones are seen in inara.
- No and apparently they don’t provide income to them, but local system security will act as enforcers for the FC.
- No the FC is in all instances like a station but we are still instanced away from some or more of our fellow commanders in the usual manner.
My first serious hazres work with my FdL. Interesting how different it is to the Cutter! (Obvious I know!). I need to rethink shields and hard points though: having the beam on the underneath feels odd - in fact, I don't like it there.
s.orbis.zone
Battles , at the moment, are much more protracted.
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Battles , at the moment, are much more protracted.
Is this the ship with the small jets on the nose cone?My first serious hazres work with my FdL. Interesting how different it is to the Cutter! (Obvious I know!). I need to rethink shields and hard points though: having the beam on the underneath feels odd - in fact, I don't like it there.
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Battles , at the moment, are much more protracted.
Yes, it has those...
Yes, it has those...
I love the idea of it and that one certainly looks lush, I just didn’t like it. Each to their own.
I suppose it's something I need to get familiar with.
At present, my go-to ship for fighting is this:
s.orbis.zone
At present, my go-to ship for fighting is this:
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s.orbis.zone
Proper Battleship.I suppose it's something I need to get familiar with.
At present, my go-to ship for fighting is this:
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I guess when you learn fighting in a Corvette, every other combat ship, no matter how good, will feel weaker.I suppose it's something I need to get familiar with.
At present, my go-to ship for fighting is this:
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It's like learning to fight in M1 Abrams and then complaining that AR and bulletproof vest doesn't feel that safe.
Also, I can't shake the feeling that your favourite colour is teal. Dunno why.
I guess when you learn fighting in a Corvette, every other combat ship, no matter how good, will feel weaker.
It's like learning to fight in M1 Abrams and then complaining that AR and bulletproof vest doesn't feel that safe.
Also, I can't shake the feeling that your favourite colour is teal. Dunno why.
S'funny - I realised when I was posting that the ships had similar livery!
The FDL is a monster, but needs some adjustmemt to flying for maximum pew, I think
The low-slung huge hardpoint results in limited firing arc above the nose with gimbals, and you have to be more precise about flying because of that. Just getting the target in the general vicinity of the centre and opening up doesn't work, as I've found out the hard way But once you have gotten that idea, or can work with fixed weapons, it is a total beast. It's a ship you can throw around and run rings round larger targets, whilst being agile enough to swat the little annoyances like Eagles and Couriers with a bit of practice.
And "looks lush"? Are you by any chance from the Bristol area, or thereabouts? Like what I is?
The FDL is a monster, but needs some adjustmemt to flying for maximum pew, I think
But once you have gotten that idea, or can work with fixed weapons, it is a total beast. It's a ship you can throw around and run rings round larger targets, whilst being agile enough to swat the little annoyances like Eagles and Couriers with a bit of practice.
And "looks lush"? Are you by any chance from the Bristol area, or thereabouts? Like what I is?
I think when I got the ship, foolishly, I just thought I'd be able to get in it and kill whatever I liked. Obviously most ships need some work and tuning and getting used to. As combat is my weakest card to play, I just passed on it.
Not from Bristol, though I am very intrigued with Bristol. I have been there, it had/has(?) a great subculture/counterculture. Good music scene, graffiti/art scene, sense of its own identity. No, I learned the term from my parents who were both hippies, they used to say it all the time. Before they became right wing bigots, as did a load of those hippies, but that's another story for another forum.
I have an FDL, but it's languishing. It doesn't even have weapons on it at the moment because I moved them elsewhere.
I prefer big battleships for fighting, really, mostly because dogfighting is a) boring to me, and b) boring to me.
How I got to Dangerous rating is still a mystery.
I named my FDL "Lazy Maisy" just because.
Here's a glamor shot. I did buy a paint job at some point. I don't remember when