OUT AT THE RIM
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was building a base out at the rim of the Euclid galaxy.
This is an area where the game starts to lose its grip. The map becomes unreliable, Whole regions of stars cannot be visited, and areas of navigation are liable to disappear into a galactic fog.
It’s interesting out here, and quite strange. It’s also millions of light years from the regular spawning areas, so virtually everything round here is undiscovered. Nobody has ever been here before - nor, without a portal address, are they ever likely to.
It did occur to me that if ETARC/CSD wanted to establish a community, somewhere like this would be a good place to do it - but that’s another discussion.
t thought people might like to see some pictures:
This is an area where the stars are not named. You can’t visit them, but you can explore amongst them with the galactic map.
This is a boundary area - as far as such a thing exists. The stars on the left of the picture are unnamed, and cannot be visited. The stars on the right of the picture have names, and can be visited. The area inbetween is a bit of a mixture. You can see the named system appears to be a double black hole - more on that later.
This is the apparent double black hole. It’s not really a double - it’s just an ordinary black hole - the problem is that the map misbehaves in this region, and you can’t necessarily believe what it says.
This is the fog. You run into pockets of this stuff out here -and it’s hard to navigate through it. If you go beyond the region of unnamed stars, the galaxy is all fog - but you find patches of it in random places, too. The map is unstable out here.
Here you can see two double black holes, and off to their left, a single one. As I said, the map here is unstable. The boundaries between the fog, the unnamed stars, and named stars, do not run in straight lines.
This is an example of an outlier star. You can see that the star is named, and can be visited. What’s not obvious is that all the stars around it are unnamed, and can’t be visited - it’s like a little island of reality.
This is the counterpart of the previous picture. The large star in centre frame is unnamed, but the stars around it are named. Normally the map would name the nearest star, but here it can’t, because it doesn’t have one. Instead, it names a star beyond.
