Visit the beautiful snowy ice planet, they said. It'll be lovely, they said.
Nowhere in the brochure did they say it was all black ice. This is local noon... even my ship's lights don't make the ground look any lighter.
Y'all know I hate to give up in my search for alien goo... but I gave up in my search for alien goo. I can't see squat.
It seems most explorers seem to travel to the same places
Nebulae and Sag A*, I think are the usual culprits. We do like a nice skybox
But we have to accept that there's only a finite number of nebulae - and any destination google recommended has by definition been visited before. Best way to find unexplored places is always up or down a couple of thousand ly, and out in a direction that has no reason to appeal to anyone.
That said, loads of planets near the usual landmarks with no footfalls, and sometimes no scans. Might not get discoveries, but there's plenty to tag - and in places that other commanders might actually pass through at that.
