Which Star will be the first one you visit?

[Erimus Kamzel]

Since I first heard that Elite Dangerous was being made with the intention to accurately model the Milky Way, I've looked up on a clear night in the back garden and wondered which star I'll visit first (albeit via a video game ).

From the UK we have a great variety of constellations on view during the winter months - Orion, the Pleiades, Ursa Major, Cassiopeia etc. So presuming we have the option to start off in the Sol system, have a look up on a clear starry night where you live and imagination which constellation and star you plan to visit first.


My first destination will be Zubenelgenubi. One of the brighter stars in Libra, about 75LYs from Earth. Why? Because I remember Patrick Moore talking about it on a late 1980's episode of the Sky at Night and thinking at the time I wish I could fly there on Elite (a C64 game I was playing at the time!). Also because its got a cool name (and its 'supposed' to be a green star - jury is out on that though). It was also my avatar name on a long forgotten MMO I once played. So if possible, Zubenelgenubi (Alpha Librae) will be the first system I deliberately set out to reach once that game goes live. What's yours?

 

[Greeboski]

lv421 - just want to make sure theres no alien's there. tho im not sure that lv421 exists or which system it was suposed to be in

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

lv421 - just want to make sure theres no alien's there. tho im not sure that lv421 exists or which system it was suposed to be in

If it exists it'll be in the vicinity of Zeta II Reticuli as that's where the Nostromo first encountered the Alien (LV-426)

 

[Capt. Hook]

head to the galactic core to see if there really is a super massive black hole there and then will chuck in my mortgage into it so it can be squeezed into a singularity

 

[el_tel]

Not sure if it will be the first, but Polaris is on my list. Just because it's the North Star

 

[PacalB]

Proxima Centauri ..

just so I can cut the engines off and float in the void for a while whilst looking back at Sol thinking; "I used to live there ... I was born ... right there!" I'll smile, I'll spin the ship. I'll spin up the hyperdrive system, pick a star in our vast beautiful galaxy and hit "Engage". I'll be free!

 

[Cody]

The Polaris system would be high on my list too - but it depends on the 'randomised start system' thingy.

 

[Colt]

The Polaris system would be high on my list too - but it depends on the 'randomised start system' thingy.

This and the range of your hyperdrive (and fuel on board). There are a couple of star systems I want to see. Maybe at first Betelgeuse, because it's a red supergiant and pulsating. Or Beta Lyrae, a contact double star system, could be a very interesting sight!

 

[Kerrash]

Beta Lyrae, to see if this version crashes too...

 

[Arexack]

The first star I visit, besides Sol IRL, will depend on the start options available.
Given the option I will choose 'random' for starting location.
The first system I will visit bty cghouice rather than neccesity will be the home of agressive hairy humanoids and violent naked humanoids, otherwise known as Arexack.

 

[Greeboski]

Beta Lyrae, to see if this version crashes too...

did mr B ever explain why/what that reitterating error was ? (it happened at regular , and predictable , positions all through the galaxy)

 

[Geraldine]

For me, Riedquat. Would love to see how La Soeur du Dan Ham has faired after all these years.

 

[izzy]

I don't know ... perhaps Sol fisrt

 

[Zarkon]

Normally I would say Sandra Bullock, but the courts keep telling me otherwise.

So I will probably head for Toliman first (aka Alpha Centaurus) and then to the Pleiades to see how the nebula looks in-person.

[edit] though both FE2 and Space Engine show the Pleiades as being about 350-360 lightyears from Sol, so that might take awhile to reach

 

[Flavio]

I think that I will head towards the pleiades as I want to see the sights on the M45

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

Proxima Centauri ..

just so I can cut the engines off and float in the void for a while whilst looking back at Sol thinking; "I used to live there ... I was born ... right there!" I'll smile, I'll spin the ship. I'll spin up the hyperdrive system, pick a star in our vast beautiful galaxy and hit "Engage". I'll be free!

This ship went to proxima centauri

Didn't end well....

 

[Arexack]

When stargazing I always pick the Pleiades. lovely cluster.
Shall be interesting to see whether the dustcloud will be there in-game.

That ship...didn't it have a witchdrive malfunction? Some say they met Thargoids.
Only sure thing is that the crew went insane. I would too, stuck in such a rambler for years, breathing the same air over and over with the same people for years. soap running out...reduced to rationing Soylent crackers with ketchup.

 

[Patrick_68000]

I am going to begin in the world of the founder. Thus I do not know to which star, it corresponds. If I am not too much far from Sol, the capital of the federation, it is the place where I shall go. And I want to see also the Kuiper Belt. Perhaps Achenar (or Achernar) ? The capital of the empire.

 

[Asp Explorer]

I don't think it matters to me - I just want to get out there and see what the engine can do

Red light from a dying star blending with the extreme violet from it's hungry companion.

All those hyper-giant stars, the sub dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, quark bodies, cold white dwarfs - the possibilities are immense.

I'd love to see my ships reflection in a perfectly-spherical silicon remnant, see around a black hole, even intentionally go into one and watch the universe fold itself into a tiny point behind me.

It's going to be so good!

 

[rab]

I would head for the stars in Orion's belt to see if the ancient Egyptians gods really do live there, But knowing my luck it would just be full of Goa'uld