4 December, 3603
Day 22
5,436LY from Cel
Sorry I skipped a day. Just dead stars and snowballs yesterday. Nothing worth writing about. Today though was a goldmine.
I found a few terraforming candidates early on, but one system was amazing. Two terraformable water worlds, another candidate, and an ammonia world.
I had heard of ammonia worlds of course, but I'd never seen one. It looked like a burnt brown and black version of an Equis-like world.
I curiosity made me make my way down to the surface. The first thing I noticed was it was freezing. Like really damn cold. -52 C to be exact. Which makes sense: Ammonia boils off at -33 and freezes at -77, and there was liquid ammonia seas.
It was so strange. There were plants and animals, but they were barely identifiable by our standards of such. I don't really know what to make of it, or how to even begin describing it. It was just so...alien.
I took very detailed scans of any lifeforms I could find before I left. I didn't stay long as I was too creeped out.
Interested but kinda disgusted,
-Con
Today's Discoveries:
Aucoths ET-O d7-29:
2 High Metal, tfAucoths HZ-M d8-48:
High Metal, tf
Water World, tf, Feanor
Water World, tf, Eran
Ammonia WorldAucoths QJ-Y c17-8:
High Metal, tfBlaa Eohn GV-W a97-1:
Water World, Vesta
Discovering a rare world should give good bonuses? then again, Elite had to go with worlds, because if they had gone with Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud, noone wouldve gotton out of the system through processing planetary masses of resources instead of the odd megaton heere and there.
A truely incentivised space faring race, could turn Ceres, Sols largest asteroid, so nothing special at all, into a fleet of approximately a thousand million ships the size of a Star Destroyer.
Which makes the Fermi Paradox all the more confusng.
Is E:D using trues RNG, or so that everyone can explore teh same region of space, Procedural pseudo RNG? Wonder if anyone has tried running the reverse, to see what numbers give which worlds, or stripping out the navigation code from the graphics engine so they can divide space up into system sized chunks and spew basic resource maps that way?
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Watch this
It will explain a lot.