Just found a very odd cluster of stars

[Ser Cartoon of House Head]

In my other thread someone asked about if anyone has searched LV 426. For a grin i tried, but nothing so I searched VL and it send me to the outer rim of the milky way and there is a huge gathering of stars all with the name ORIONIS in them or MASS. It may not seem strange, but when they all highlight themselves at the same time and are clustered together they look like a huge fleet of planets.


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500800590

Found it odd as it is going away from the center. I think thats where aliens will come from, everyone is looking the wrong way.

Seems to be more interesting stuff out that way, a bit further out is the Horse Head nebula and flame nebula. I think thats the direction I head to on my next trip, not toward the center, everyone goes there

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500803078

[Harbinger]

There's some great scenery out there. Be sure to check out the Spirograph Nebula (my claim to First Discovery fame) whilst you're heading in that direction. It has a lovely purple hue throughout the entire system and makes for some excellent screenshot opportunities.

[Ser Cartoon of House Head]

I wish the Orca had better jump range, would love to take on out for some cool screenshots.

[JasseBasse]

Originally posted by Ricky Spanish:

In my other thread someone asked about if anyone has searched LV 426. For a grin i tried, but nothing so I searched VL and it send me to the outer rim of the milky way and there is a huge gathering of stars all with the name ORIONIS in them or MASS. It may not seem strange, but when they all highlight themselves at the same time and are clustered together they look like a huge fleet of planets.


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500800590

Found it odd as it is going away from the center. I think thats where aliens will come from, everyone is looking the wrong way.

Seems to be more interesting stuff out that way, a bit further out is the Horse Head nebula and flame nebula. I think thats the direction I head to on my next trip, not toward the center, everyone goes there

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500803078

LV 426 does exist, not very far from Earth. I cant remember where though (actually, I have been there once and it was very cool), and it is hard to find as the combination of letters and numbers is different.
Let me explain what I mean, if you look for LV 426, you cant find it. It si like L-V 4(26) or something. Sorry i cant be of more assistance, but I promise, it is there, and not so far off Earth

[Yuki]

There are several strange clusters of stars, or those "ray like" density explotions. Another more thin but long one (424 LY) can be found shooting through the NGC 1333 Nebula:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500813402

Again a 2mass. Guess thats just density explosions due to a lot of stars being discovered in the respective exploration attempt-which then got implemented here. Those rays look more like scan-rays.
Both "rays" are also pointing directly towards Sol.

[Sapyx]

You couldn't find it on the starmap because "LV 426", besides being fictitious, is the name of a planet in the Aliens universe, not a star. In the Aliens universe, LV-426 (renamed "Acheron" in later movies) is a moon orbiting a gas giant orbiting the star Zeta-2 Reticuli. Hence the question in the other thread about whether Zeta-2 has a gas giant with habitable moons. To which the answer is, apparently, "no".

Zeta Reticuli is a "wide binary"; to get to Zeta-2 in the ED universe, you have to go to the "Zeta-1 Reticuli" system (which is an "unexplored" binary extraction system, Federation Corporate, in Felicia Winters' space) and fly to the second star in the system. Given that the two stars are 39 LY away from Earth and we can clearly see them from Earth as separate stars in a small telescope, I'd assume they are rather far apart in this game.

So even if LV-426 did exist in this game, it'd take nearly as long to fly to as Hutton Orbital.

As for your exploration ideas, I think you'll find that the stars near and around anything scenic such as nebulae have all been explored, especially the bigger, brighter stars that are most likely to have interesting high-value planets around them.

[Timeripp]

I have been there 2, i was just an awsome sigth to see some much stars after a long dark trip :-)

[TiberiuS]

Been there, too. I think some of those stars in the cluster even carry my name. I don't know for sure, though.

That picture is more or less from where the cluster begins. :)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=458856663

[Zi]

Hm.. Interesting!

[Dark Thoughts]

Star clusters aren't really rare, even far above and below the plane are a lot of them and further out some nebulae as well, but we currently can't reach them with our small jumprange. :/

[Hobgoblin]

Originally posted by Lovely, Milky Milky:

In my other thread someone asked about if anyone has searched LV 426. For a grin i tried, but nothing so I searched VL and it send me to the outer rim of the milky way and there is a huge gathering of stars all with the name ORIONIS in them or MASS. It may not seem strange, but when they all highlight themselves at the same time and are clustered together they look like a huge fleet of planets.


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500800590

Found it odd as it is going away from the center. I think thats where aliens will come from, everyone is looking the wrong way.

Seems to be more interesting stuff out that way, a bit further out is the Horse Head nebula and flame nebula. I think thats the direction I head to on my next trip, not toward the center, everyone goes there

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=500803078

I just got to say. 4 years later. You called it. The Horse Head Nebula/ COL 70 Sector is known for heavy Thargoid activity. Probably within a year after you posted this the COL 70 sector became permit locked, presumably for future Thargoid content. A lot of the lore people can tell you more about the history of the COL 70 sector in Elite history, or the novels, but it's pretty renown for it. As far as I know there has never been any indiciation of alien activity coming from the galactic center.