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Newcomer / Intro whats is the hole purpose of huttons orbital
- Thread starter CMDR TYG06
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It is an icon in the game now because if it’s Historical context. Have you heard of the Hutton Truckers?
We used to be able to get the mug to in real life not sure if someone still selling them.
it is The Way.
I have to ask... just because, reasons?
Been in a T-9, bagged up with mugs for Operation Hot Mist.
Ok, I've even been in the T-9 for no reason.
I thought I might confuse someone, but there was nobody there.
Oh, I see. Doing the free 'Conda impersonation...
Are you sure?
Some months ago I have... accidentally - let be honest - intercepted the transmission from one of the field agents - one of these "hunters for the biggest mystery". Long story short, but if you talk to the right people at Hutton you'll be directed to the first planet in the system Junga, Junga 1. No-no-no, this time no need to supercruise for hours - this planet is only few ls from the entry star. After FSS/DSS you'll get the signal that our on-board computers resolve as a "crashed ship site". Error - as that cannot be true. Don't get me wrong, it cannot be one - and if you'll visit it, you'll understand why...
Been there, tried that. And failed.
May be my alt don't meet some special pre-requirements?
Anyway I'll be really impressed by any commander who will succed in taking just a glimpse, any evidence, screenshot of that - announced as "crashed" - conda....
Although I have been to Hutton several times I haven’t actually seen this for myself though to be fair I think on only one of those visits was I aware of it.
I’m not sure which is worse to be honest
Sacrilege!
I already called Dibs on that one.
Well the bad news is that Tyres made a slight error the time is a bit longer than he said, according to a thread I saw in Dangerous Discussions the record time is now down to
1Hr 22min 20sec which is around 8-10 minutes quicker than I think I have done the trip.
The good news is you could if not trying to beat the record take in an in-flight movie.
As others have stated, Alpha Centauri - with the remote Eden Station (renamed to Hutton Orbital) - is a "legacy system", copied across into the ED universe from the prequel games. It has no other "purpose", at least, no more "purpose" than any other star system.
It was an arbitrary decision on Frontier's part, both in 1993 and in 2014, to make Proxima Centauri part of the Alpha Centauri system, rather than a separate star system. There are certainly many star-pairs in the ED universe that are closer than Alpha and Proxima, yet the game considers them separate systems, while there are no procedurally-generated systems where the secondary star is as remote as Proxima is. There is no logical in-game lore reason why a hyperspace jump direct to Proxima would not work.
The "lore reason" why Hutton Orbital is there around a boring uninhabitable planet that's difficult to reach with modern stardrives, is that the original station was built there over a thousand years ago, before the invention of hyperspace drives, when all space travel had to traverse normal space at sublight speeds. The original colony ship launched from Earth in the early 2100s, expecting to find Eden to be inhabitable or at least easily terraformable. By the time they arrived decades later and found it uninhabitable, it was too late to turn around or go elsewhere.
It was an arbitrary decision on Frontier's part, both in 1993 and in 2014, to make Proxima Centauri part of the Alpha Centauri system, rather than a separate star system. There are certainly many star-pairs in the ED universe that are closer than Alpha and Proxima, yet the game considers them separate systems, while there are no procedurally-generated systems where the secondary star is as remote as Proxima is. There is no logical in-game lore reason why a hyperspace jump direct to Proxima would not work.
The "lore reason" why Hutton Orbital is there around a boring uninhabitable planet that's difficult to reach with modern stardrives, is that the original station was built there over a thousand years ago, before the invention of hyperspace drives, when all space travel had to traverse normal space at sublight speeds. The original colony ship launched from Earth in the early 2100s, expecting to find Eden to be inhabitable or at least easily terraformable. By the time they arrived decades later and found it uninhabitable, it was too late to turn around or go elsewhere.
Come on, the first season was quite good.
Are you sure?
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Well I wasn't 100% confident on reading that so off I went...
Seems like they either changed the outpost type at Hutton Orbital or I labelled my old screenshot incorrectly. So apologies and here is view of current Hutton Orbital innards:
By the way I never put a stopwatch on the Hutton run but it was approx 88m - so just under an hour and a half.
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You just want everyone now to fly out and check for themselves
I'm sure I saw it when I went... hmm.
Yeah, I've spend two days there trying different approaches - to no avail. That was interesting, also Junga 1 is already a quite known planet due to the "crazy deep craters" found there back in 3302 and just quite a picturesque planet, recommended for visiting.
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PS: There is in fact another "crashed ship site" in the Junga system, on the fifth planet if I remeber well - but there is nothing out of ordinary (beside good place for siteseeing)
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