Posted by: JacenHan
« on: May 03, 2018, 10:16:24 AM »When I get a system like this I usually use SM to delete the offending star, so that the galaxy map/system view doesn't taunt me with data about it.
Posted by: Seolferwulf
« on: May 03, 2018, 09:22:08 AM »If you were to actually exploit resources that far away I guess you'd use freighters designed for that purpose anyway.
Posted by: Garfunkel
« on: May 03, 2018, 07:53:50 AM »Oh yeah I forgot about that. You're absolutely right!
Posted by: Barkhorn
« on: May 02, 2018, 11:46:55 PM »Same.Not only are mass driver packets slow, but there's a maximum distance they can go. If their destination is too far away, they just get confused and sit in space. I don't know the exact distance, but I suspect 924 billion km is well beyond it.
If you really want to, you could build a massive generation-ship to go there, that ditches tankers along the way, but there is really no point in trying to exploit something that far. You will never get any minerals back since mass driver mineral packets move at 1000 km/sec.
Posted by: Erik L
« on: May 02, 2018, 04:24:07 PM »I see, so there's no point
I hope there are no evil aliens hidden that start suddenly invading 30 years later D:
Nah. It'll take them 50 years to get to you.
Posted by: Seolferwulf
« on: May 02, 2018, 04:12:00 PM »I see, so there's no point 
I hope there are no evil aliens hidden that start suddenly invading 30 years later D:
I hope there are no evil aliens hidden that start suddenly invading 30 years later D:
Posted by: Garfunkel
« on: May 02, 2018, 03:48:52 PM »Same.
If you really want to, you could build a massive generation-ship to go there, that ditches tankers along the way, but there is really no point in trying to exploit something that far. You will never get any minerals back since mass driver mineral packets move at 1000 km/sec.
If you really want to, you could build a massive generation-ship to go there, that ditches tankers along the way, but there is really no point in trying to exploit something that far. You will never get any minerals back since mass driver mineral packets move at 1000 km/sec.
Posted by: Erik L
« on: May 02, 2018, 12:10:10 PM »I've got a trinary system on my hands and two stars are way out there (~924 billion km).
The fuel of my survey crafts doesn't even last half that distance, not to mention getting them back home.
What do you usually do to survey such systems?
Build a special survey craft?
Survey missiles?
I'm interested in seeing what a survey missile would look like in this case.
If there are LP, then use those. Otherwise I ignore them.
Posted by: Seolferwulf
« on: May 02, 2018, 11:58:20 AM »I've got a trinary system on my hands and two stars are way out there (~924 billion km).
The fuel of my survey crafts doesn't even last half that distance, not to mention getting them back home.
What do you usually do to survey such systems?
Build a special survey craft?
Survey missiles?
I'm interested in seeing what a survey missile would look like in this case.
The fuel of my survey crafts doesn't even last half that distance, not to mention getting them back home.
What do you usually do to survey such systems?
Build a special survey craft?
Survey missiles?
I'm interested in seeing what a survey missile would look like in this case.
