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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Seolferwulf on May 02, 2018, 11:58:20 AM

Title: long distance survey
Post 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.
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post by: Erik L on May 02, 2018, 12:10:10 PM: Quote from: 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.

If there are LP, then use those. Otherwise I ignore them.
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post 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.
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post 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:
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post by: Erik L on May 02, 2018, 04:24:07 PM: Quote from: 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:

Nah. It'll take them 50 years to get to you.
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post by: Barkhorn on May 02, 2018, 11:46:55 PM: Quote from: 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.
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.
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post by: Garfunkel on May 03, 2018, 07:53:50 AM: Oh yeah I forgot about that. You're absolutely right!
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post 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.
Title: Re: long distance survey
Post 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.