What is this?

[drkaii]

I was rising above the core from Sag A* on my latest Deep Space Survey when I ran into a weird object. It had a name even before I scanned it and behaved as a signal source, although when I dropped in there was nothing.

Here's a video:

[video=youtube_share;j5lFkurMMh8]http://youtu.be/j5lFkurMMh8[/video]

I've been told it's the barycenter of the system, but I'm still holding out hope that I missed Braben's secrets by a few seconds...

 

[Varrag]

How does one lock onto the barycenter? I've never managed to do such thing.

 

[drkaii]

It's usually inside the star supposedly

 

[Fen Harel]

You can get that effect anywhere. It freaked me out at first too. I'm not in-game so the details may be slightly off, but do the following:

- create a course on the galaxy map
- go back to your ship
- return to the galaxy map and now select the system you are actually in
- go back to your ship

the hologram should show as a signal source.

I think that is right.

 

[drkaii]

You can get that effect anywhere. It freaked me out at first too. I'm not in-game so the details may be slightly off, but do the following:

- create a course on the galaxy map
- go back to your ship
- return to the galaxy map and now select the system you are actually in
- go back to your ship

the hologram should show as a signal source.

I think that is right.

That. Or aliens. ALIENS!
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[Fen Harel]

I have also run into cases where, briefly, the central star shows on the nav panel as two things. Identical distance, identical name. One has an icon of a star, the other has the signal source. Presumably that is some sort of bug*


*And not the Thargoid kind.

 

[drkaii]

Then how do you explain the soreness in my probe zone and the 3 hours of lost time I experienced?

 

[Patau82]

that's the center of the system, just select the system you are in on the galmap to make it show up

 

[Fen Harel]

Then how do you explain the soreness in my probe zone and the 3 hours of lost time I experienced?

It's not Thargoids. I can explain it all so very easily, its... umm... so....

<smoke bomb>

runs off

 

[drkaii]

It's not Thargoids. I can explain it all so very easily, its... umm... so....

<smoke bomb>

runs off

I WILL find you if I have to, only 400 billion systems to search

 

[Fen Harel]

I WILL find you if I have to, only 400 billion systems to search

I'll give you a hint. I am currently in the Orion Arm. I think that narrows it down to a few tens of billions.

 

[drkaii]

I'll give you a hint. I am currently in the Orion Arm. I think that narrows it down to a few tens of billions.

No problem, easy as pie

 

[Murishani]

Then how do you explain the soreness in my probe zone and the 3 hours of lost time I experienced?

1 ton indi bourbon + one very lonely explorer with no one around to make judgements?

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

happened to me once, it was inside the main star, baricentric of the system

 

[DrNoesis]

Given all the sonic stuff over the last few weeks, with the whole UA and planets making noise you can use to identify them, may have to experiment later and try listening to the baricenter of a system just to see if there's anything interesting there....

 

[Traveller_GG]

Then how do you explain the soreness in my probe zone and the 3 hours of lost time I experienced?

His name was Brian and always leave your place-mat over the glass.

 

[Glenn Ross]

Given all the sonic stuff over the last few weeks, with the whole UA and planets making noise you can use to identify them, may have to experiment later and try listening to the baricenter of a system just to see if there's anything interesting there....

There is. If you record it and play it backwards, it says "Go Home, You Left The Gas On!"