What is this starry weirdness?

[GunnerBill]

I wonder if you are playing the 32 bit version of the game as the floating white dot disappeared for me around the same time the 64 bit and Horizons were launched?

Nope, 64 bit Horizons. I have scanned countless NS and Black Holes on my voyage from the bubble to Colonia, through SagA* and now 37 Kly from start to Beagle and that was the very first time this happened to me?!

But it was unmistakably as described above (and very noticeable)! :S[big grin]

Very puzzling, maybe some spacefaring being of pure energy?

 

[Arvel Yael]

;-) A mere homage to quality Sc-Fi!

Yes a Dolphin is neither large enough (by a very long way!!) or pointy enough to be the real deal!

Or hellishly gothic and twisted into some lovecraftian parody of its former self!

 

[GunnerBill]

Or hellishly gothic and twisted into some lovecraftian parody of its former self!

Yes, sentient pigs, not really an argument against what you say there.

So I'll keep looking for that perfect place where I can roll my SRV along whilst keeping that bloated gas giant in view 24/7. Maybe I'll pin my eyelids open?

 

[GunnerBill]

It tends to happen in Sectors where there's a reasonable chance of B-class stars being in the e-masscode; e-masscode subsector cubes are 160 LYs across and that seems to be about the dimension of these cubes.

You can find yourself near the juncture of two diagonally opposing cubes. As you can see in this pic, the cubes line up with the galactic plane:
http://i.imgur.com/RnxqRkM.jpg

A Battenberg cake of stars!