What's your longest SC to scan a body?

Skip Rockbounder

Skip Rockbounder
What is the longest Supercruise trek you've made to scan a body in your Explorations... I don't know what mine is but no doubt it's at least 1/2 million, I guess some of the more avid Explorers will have travelled millions of LS's to get that last rock, (excluding the well known Hutton Orbital run)

So what's the furthest you've done?
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
Been to Hutton in a tourist ship to scan "For The Mug" once or twice, but I'd scanned the planet (Eden) when I visited the station.
 

Whitmann

Whitmann
I've no idea why - maybe space madness, maybe mere gits and shiggles - but the one time I went to Hutton I decided to fly 0.22ly PAST it away from the star. I also went 1m ls past the last body at Ishums Reach, just so I could be sure I was the pilot furthest from Sol at that moment in time.
 

marx

marx
Odd, I don't recall ever seeing anything procedural much farther than 500k ls. My distance record was 520k ls for an Earth-like, but I don't think I've ever seen anything 700-800k ls away.
 

dayrth

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dayrth
Hutton orbital is 6,942,672 ls from the star. The station may not have been procedurally generated, but I believe the planet it orbits was.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
Furthest I've gone to scan something was probably in the 200kls-300kls range. Usually if it's that far, I don't want to bother scanning. But the furthest I've flown from arrival overall? Oh, around 2,317,434 ls. ;)

I'll break that record when I eventually fly out to Hutton Orbital, of course.
 

Skip Rockbounder

Skip Rockbounder
Yeah, well... I was avoiding including Hutton Orbital as I said cos it's a said and done.

[up] Congrats to Lucius-Darcia for so far having the furthest trip to nothing for a scan on a BD, and you other long distance scan buddies, nice to know there are others that take the responsibility of astrogation seriously [yesnod]

Looking to hearing more from you lot and anyone else that finds themselves unable to resist a restful deepspace supercruise!
 

marx

marx
dayrth said:
Hutton orbital is 6,942,672 ls from the star. The station may not have been procedurally generated, but I believe the planet it orbits was.
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Nope, Alpha Centauri is entirely hand-crafted. It's carried over from the Alpha Centauri of FE2, although the station around Eden was named Eden Station there. (Good thing they renamed it.) Even back in FE2, the system was a "mission trap" for the unwary, as the mission generator didn't adjust the time limit to account for the enormous travel distance.
In any case, the point is that ED's Alpha Centauri is an entirely non-procedural system.
 

Pirin

Pirin
0.46ly :)

Found two star systems unusually close to each other: only 0.46ly! And decided i will try to reach that nearby star by flying in supercruise. Took me few hours...
 

Zieman

Zieman
Pirin said:
0.46ly :)

Found two star systems unusually close to each other: only 0.46ly! And decided i will try to reach that nearby star by flying in supercruise. Took me few hours...
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And you still had to hyperspace to actually go to the nearby system.
 

Smykes

Smykes
I think 300k/ls was my last long-distance SC to scan..
but I can see this will be increasing in the future..
I dont pew-pew atm.. exploring/scanning is so much more relaxing..
and as was said before.. cos.. tag :)
 

Zieman

Zieman
Skip Rockbounder said:
Nice one Zieman, I don't know of 'Sigma Orionis E' is it your tag? or a predefined ED system like Alpha Centauri
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Sigma Orionis is the system.
CMDR Kosh Naranek has all the 1st discovery tags there.

So no, I didn't go there for the 'tag', I went there because it is there (and at the time my mission was to visit every star of the constellation Orionis, and to scan anything worthwile - in case of this system I scanned everything :) )

 
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Skip Rockbounder

Skip Rockbounder
Yeah I can't wait to get my boots dirty on some lonely rock, the SRV will do for now though, it doesn't have to be beyond the edge of the galaxy just far enough in SC to deter pirates, I'll set up my picnic table and Realx


Ahh Zieman, yes I understand a mission with a goal, worthy of you that you didn't back out when discovering how far it was for that one. [yesnod]
 
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