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59 Virginis (Home of Alchemy Den) - MJ1
The beautiful home system of Alchemy Den, complete with an amazing sight of a ringed Earth like in binary orbit with a gas giant. This system has breathtaking views, tons of installations, and is home to our wonderful group. The start of the expedition will leave you breathless, and it will truly be a site to behold.
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HR 6164 (The View)
At only 1400 light-years from Sol, HR 6164 is a popular destination for tourists. The bright O-class star, a neutron star, and two black holes are easily visible from the first planet; along with a excellent view of the planet's rings. The location has simply been labeled 'The View', and a beacon has been established here by Universal Cartographics. Additionally a tourist installation has been installed just outside the jet-cone of the neutron star and provides breathtaking views of this phenomena.
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HD 175876 (Heaven's Lathe) - Carrier Stop 1 / MJ2
The bright O-type star HD 175876 has a companion neutron-star with a surprising feature: Extremely large rings. The effective radius of the rings are 12 light seconds, and it has a mass of 5.16 x 10^17 kg - slightly greater than Thebe, a small moon of Jupiter. As the neutron star has a radius on the order of 10km, this object has an exceptionally large ring size relative to the central body. These massive metal-rich rings would provide enough material for hundreds of years for any colony.
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Traikaae CH-Y c10 (Labirinto)
POI Type: Surface Features - South Pole (-60, 20 area)(NOTE: Might only be visible in Horizons)
Commentary from the pilot who discovered this POI (CMDR Akira Masakari):
"In the Colonia Route, between Hillary Depot and Amundsen Terminal, I've discovered and untagged system with few Gas Giants. I proceeded to scan the only Water Life bearing world I detected with sounds, and its moons. To my surprise the first moon showed a very rugged surface, especially in the south polar regions. I proceeded to orbital cruise and I was amazed: canyons with vertical walls several kms deep formed an incredibly intricate maze that confluxed into a huge impact crater, several hundred kms wide, surrounded by 12 vertical walls. If this wasn't enough, the planet is dotted with vertical spikes that emerge from the valleys for many kms, being visible on orbit protruding from the horizon of the planet.
Another distinguishing feature is that the planet has very wide cracks, and at the bottoms they are covered with forests of hundred meters high rock spikes, making this areas completely unlandable.
I dismissed a fighter to inspect the surface closely and make some measurements, but the canyons are few hundred meters wide at the bottom, and keeping the connection with the mother-ship proved difficult, while making her follow the fighter inside one of this chasm would have meant destruction. For this reason my measurements are all guesstimates. For sure the height of these walls ranges in kilometers, and the maze they form is unseen from me.
Since it is in the beginning of the Colonia Route, in a straight line between Hillary Depot and Amundsen Terminal, the pilot who's bringing an agile ship up or down the route, can have a lot of fun flying in the Labirinto, and also a lot of races could be held here. The low gravity allows extreme manoeuvring for agile ships!
Labirinto means Maze, thus the name."
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PW2010 210 (The PW2010 Supercluster)
The PW2010 Supercluster (NGC 6618) is a cluster of young stars of stellar types B and A, lying in the vicinity of the Omega Nebula, from which it evolved a mere million years ago. The cluster holds more than 800 solar masses and is responsible for burning away a good portion of the surrounding gas. Several black holes and neutron stars can be found as binaries, bearing witness to the violent nature of the cluster's birth.
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Eagle Sector EL-Y d203 (Eagle Nebula)
Small-medium sized nebula situated within the Sagittarius arm, approx. 7,000 LYs from Sol. The Eagle Nebula contains scores of tightly packed young F5 class stars, making it a hotbed of scientific research for short-range exploration vessels.
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Cl Pismis 2 (NGC 6357)
Also known as the Lobster Nebula, NGC 6357 is a highly distinctive nebula situated on the near edge of the Norma arm. Due to its prominence, NGC 6357 acts as a navigational marker for explorers heading to the galactic core regions.
The nebula contains open cluster Pismis 24, which contains a score of huge class O stars. CL Pismis 24 1, once believed to be a single star of over 300 stellar masses, was later found to be a binary pair of O class stars (Pismis 24-1NE and Pismis 24-1SW), both of which are still among the most massive main sequence stars known.
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Plaa Ain FF-Z d76 (Rekohu Project)
In April 3304 Angeli Imperial Enterprises, one of the Empire's key suppliers of foodstuffs and other consumables, constructed a Bowman class Science vessel to carry out research of the plant and animal life on the planets in the PLAA AIN region
This was part of the Rekohu Project, meaning 'Misty Skies" in Moriori, which was to address the concerns of AIE Scientists that a majority of the crops used in the human bubble were the cultivars from stocks from Earth.
The Rekohu Project, if successful, will allow Imperial Argi-techs to increase the biodiversity of the crops used, to minimize the rise of blight or other issues (source).
The Science vessel, registry RKU001, can be found moving between two Earth-like Worlds on its ongoing mission - each week alternating its location:
ELW System 1: PLAA AIN FF-Z D76
Orbital Body: B 5
ELW System 2: PLAA AIN KS-A B2-5
Orbital Body: A 1
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Blaa Hypai LZ-F b27-0 (Guardian ruins - Hollow Veil sites)
This system contains some of the Guardian ruins discovered within the Hollow Veil nebula in the Blaa Hypai sector.
The system itself contains three ancient sites, all of them located on the same orbital body: A5
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Bleae Aewsy HV-X d1-8 (Geminus Nebula)
A small-medium sized colourful nebula situated within the Norma Expanse, approx. 12,000 LYs from Sol. Formerly known as the Bleae Aewsy nebula (its procedurally generated designation), it was renamed in May 3306 after Geminus - a Greek astronomer and mathematician, who flourished in the 1st century BC.
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Chroabs TI-S d4-58 (Goliath)
With a radius of 24,404 KM, this world is thought to be one of the largest landable planets so far discovered.
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Froarks TO-M c9-143 (Froarks Cloud Nebula)
Medium sized pink and red nebula situated on the far edge of the Norma Expanse.
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Graea Hypa AA-A h315 (Sidewinder's Song) - Carrier Stop 2 / MJ3
This system contains binary black holes in a relatively tight orbit on entry, with high mass - however, the real treats of this system are a ringed neutron star and a white dwarf with a landable planet. The rings of the neutron star are gigantic, stretching far, far beyond the neutron star's exclusion zone. The mesmerizing pattern of the rings against the backdrop of the stars are a sight that will draw anyone in, hence the term "Sidewinder's Song." Discovered by CMDR Pxtseryu during the Sidewinder Syndicate's Enthusiastic Christmas Colonia Trip.
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Boepp UE-Q e5-2104 (Guardian's Hope) - Carrier Stop 3 / MJ4
With a 12-minute orbit, the gas giant visibly rotates around the primary Herbig Ae/Be star. However, entering this system is dangerous as the larger T Tauri orbits only 8 LS away from the primary star. At less than 600 Ly away from the miridian, this visually enchanting system makes a hypnotic waypoint on a direct route to or from the galaxy's center
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Eorl Auwsy SY-Z d13-3468 (Guardian ruins - Teal Nebula sites)
This system contains some of the Guardian ruins discovered within the Teal Nebula in the Eorl Auwsy sector.
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Shrogea MH-V e2-1763 (Black in Green (Tourist Installation))
Tranquility’s Stop maintains a tourist installation in orbit of the black hole within a planetary nebula found in Shrogea MH-V e2-1763. The installation was constructed in the vicinity of the preexisting 'Black and Green' Tourist Beacon and two satellites giving Engineer Data are also found adjacent to the facility.
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Great Annihilator (Great Annihilator Black Hole)
20th century astronomers discovered a source of intense photons at 511 keV, which was known to be the result of positron-electron annihilation. After study determined that the source was equal to annihilation events of 10 billion tons per second of positron-electron pairs, it was dubbed The Great Annihilator. The only possible explanation was a large black hole.
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Hypoe Flyi HW-W e1-7966 (Galionas)
This small planetary nebula contains a black hole, and several gas giants under perpetually green skies of cosmic dust.
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Hypoe Flyi HX-T e3-295 (Caeruleum Luna) - Carrier Stop 4 / MJ 5
Blue planetary nebula with a Neutron Star at its heart. The system contains a variety of worlds, including many landable moons. From the surface of any moon the sky backdrop is stunningly bright, with the blue eject nebula becoming a bright pink and purplish color due to the brightness of the galactic core.
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Dumbae AB-W e2-6331 (Vertigo) - Carrier Stop 5 / MJ 6
A giant Class K star orbiting closely a black hole (about 200 ls appart). When arriving at the system we expect to find a black hole and instead find ourselves surprised to find this giant in our whole field of view. While heading towards the black hole while facing the giant, the background stars lights are bent creating a visual effect similar to the old-earth "dolly zoom".
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FMyriesly HR-N e6-4354 ('Blink Of An Eye' Remnant (inc. Arboo’s Electric Friendship)) - Carrier Stop 6 / MJ 7
“Arboo’s Electric Friendship”
A previously undiscovered NSP was located in the system by an explorer seeking out Lagrange Points in beautiful Stellar Remnants. The NSP was named “Arboo’s Electric Friendship” - the name rang true when the explorer invited a wonderful friend (in the midst of an andromeda run!) to the cloud so they could make footage together, sealing the memory of their new discovery and of their friendship in the lockers of time.
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Sagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy.
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Plimbeau ZE-R e4-2732 (Purple Rings)
A blue planetary nebula with BH as a central star. Has a ringed Y dwarf with 5 ringed gas giants as moons. A The sole landable planet orbiting the dwarf offers an unique view to the the ringed planets. The sky looks like a sunny day with white clouds!
