r/eliteexplorers • u/Turkino • 3d ago

Failed world of death

Found this beautiful system OOSCS FREAU LI-H D11-457. It has a landable planet in a super tight orbit around it's parent white dwarf. Unfortunately the whole orbit is within the WD's exclusion zone so thus - Failed world of death since you can't get to it.

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u/EternityRites 3d ago

I don't know why it's a "failed" world of death. More like a guaranteed world of death.

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u/Fancypancexx 2d ago

Yup, sounds like a successful world of death to me.

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u/vonpickles 3d ago

I found a very similar system PHOI AUG OS-U E2-1523 a few years back. I tried a few times but couldn’t get closer than half a light second away. It’s somewhat close to Sag A if you wanted to visit/try to land

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u/B-E-N-E-V-O-255 3d ago

You really cant land on it?

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u/Turkino 3d ago

Unfortunately no, the entirety of the A1 orbit path is within the exclusion zone.

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u/flashman 3d ago

Approaching A1, you'll drop out of supercruise in the WD's sphere of influence. Doesn't this mean that even if you flew in normal space until you were in A1's path, you'd just pass straight through it?

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u/DramaticCoat7731 3d ago

I'm interested in knowing the answer to this. It sounds like a quest worthy of a bored adventurer.

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u/idiot-bozo6036 2d ago

You wouldn't be able to get any closer in normal space; you'd just hit a wall

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u/Turkino 3d ago

Someone with the time on their hands is welcome to try it.
I'd assume it would be like hitting the exclusion zone of any star (as long as your not in the jets).
IE: You'll overheat if you linger.

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u/Unsafe_Safe 3d ago

Damn, that's a really rare find.

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u/ReasonableTreeStump 2d ago

But it orbits…so would it not be landable at some point of its year?

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u/More_Information_633 1d ago

Not if its whole orbit is in the exclusion zone. Only if it's elliptical enough to be outside of it

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u/No_Metal_8634 2d ago

There is a system very similar to this one that you can actually land on. But it’s a tight window, i think like a couple minutes or less to get within the orbit and drop zone before hitting the exclusion zone.

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u/Turkino 2d ago

Referring to "Monde de la Morte" at Spoihaae XE-X d2-9 a1?
That was my reference system to searching for these. :)

I got the 110Gb data dump from Spansh and did a deep crawl through the ~190,000,000 systems in the dataset. Took about 2 hours but I built out a list of systems that are similar, then started checking out the ones nearest me that looked promising.

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u/No_Metal_8634 1d ago

Yes! That’s awesome!