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Epithet Lost May 13, 2015 @ 8:16pm
what is the largest system you know of?
I just spent the last ten minute travelling from a Sun to a station inside its solar system... the distance between the 2 is a whopping 162409 light seconds...
Share your longest wait time while travelling!
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Haven't been there myself, but Alpha Centauri is infamous for this - from the primary star you arrive at to the nearest station is a trip of 0.22ly. Yes, light-years. And you have to make it in super-cruise since the whole thing's a binary star system and the game doesn't have a way to make a hyperspace jump between sibling stars.
Agony_Aunt May 13, 2015 @ 8:45pm 
Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centauri is generally considered to be the furthest station from a primary star.

IIRC its 200,000 LS or more. Takes about 45 mins to travel there.
elite403 May 13, 2015 @ 10:58pm 
Hutton Orbital is 0.22 LY (light years) from the primary star. That translates to 6 million Light Seconds away. Takes 70 to 80 minutes real-time travel to get there.
morph113 May 13, 2015 @ 11:02pm 
Yeah Hutton Orbital is probably the farthest away. The longest distance I have travelled was in another system where the Station was 0.13 LY away. I can't remember what the name of the station or system was, but it took me 45 Minutes or 1 hour to travel there in supercruise.
Agony_Aunt May 13, 2015 @ 11:05pm 
Originally posted by FoxTwo:
Hutton Orbital is 0.22 LY (light years) from the primary star. That translates to 6 million Light Seconds away. Takes 70 to 80 minutes real-time travel to get there.

Was going to question the time you mention because i travelled around the same distance between two systems (just to see if it could be done - answer: no), but then i remembered, no star at the far end, so no slow down on approach.
Epithet Lost May 13, 2015 @ 11:42pm 
whoever decided to built those stations there must be extremely anti-social lel
RyBo May 14, 2015 @ 2:00am 
Last edited by RyBo; May 14, 2015 @ 2:00am
mbpoblet May 14, 2015 @ 4:58am 
Originally posted by B'oh ShadowFighter88:
Alpha Centauri
Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:
Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centauri
Originally posted by FoxTwo:
Hutton Orbital
Originally posted by morph113:
Hutton Orbital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBcRfCGQEg
As for sheer size, someone posted this beast in the sightseeing thread...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=420727216
Last edited by mbpoblet; May 14, 2015 @ 5:02am
Edge of Sanity Jul 9, 2017 @ 4:38am 
200,00LS takes me 15 mins, 2,000,000LS takes me about 23 mins. I've been to quite a few systems around Tun that have closest star ports at 200,00LS. Just went to one to get medicines, doesn't sell commodities, lovely haha
Well, the starting system Asellus Primus (i hope i spelled it correctly) has star B at 0.19 ly away if i rmbr correctly but Alpha Centauri is still larger.
Last edited by Personnage non Joueur; Jul 9, 2017 @ 5:11am
Radix4 Jul 9, 2017 @ 7:35am 
Sigma Orionis at .26Lys
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Date Posted: May 13, 2015 @ 8:16pm
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