Dual sun systems

[split trail]

While It wont really impact gameplay, some systems with 2 suns would feels like a fun addition that brings variation, sun colors and sizes would also be cool and maybe even systems that have a black hole in its center.

[craggy iron]

More stations also mabye?

[minor fossil]

already in career 2.0

[lapis monolith]

imagine a special station in between the 2 stars

[tidal flame]

No sleep

[turbid latch]

Needing a sundiver just to visit a station would certainly be interesting.

[split trail]

now imagine the shielding this station would need just to stay between the suns

and now imagine what happens the second your crew leaves the airlocks

while it would be very cool

I doubt this could be possible

[hidden nest]

I doubt very much that in a double star system any object could be between them. It would either be torn apart or pushed into an orbit around the center of mass.

[tidal flame]

If the stars are far enough you could easily have an object in the middle

[midnight thunder]

It's the L1 point. Unstable, but as long as you have stationkeeping thrusters it will stay there.

Tidal forces could be an issue if you are too close but I don't think we're modeling that here

[lapis monolith]

hmm yeah any work done would need drones and collector beams

[lapis monolith]

the light shines into your room from BOTH sides

[sly crown]

oh also, these kinds of systems are called "binary systems"

[sly crown]

But will ternary systems be in career 2.0?

[wraith rampart]

that’d be funky

[wraith rampart]

are you imagining a system with 3 stars close to each other or smth like alpha centauri where there’s a close binary system and then a 3rd star in a far orbit around them?

[turbid latch]

Why not both? There could be a jump gate in the sun radiation leading to a special star system.

[wraith rampart]

would it have its own shields or be an invincible alien thing?

[turbid latch]

The system jump points are indestructible and immovable as far as I know

[tidal flame]

Indestructible yes, immovable no

[turbid latch]

Really? I couldn't even make it spin.

[sly crown]

get more newtons of thrust

[turbid latch]

So I did some poking around and here are the max size stars you can make in creative put into a kind of a ternary system. The available space between the stars is not massive, but plenty for ships to come and go, the stations are specks of dust in comparison. So I think there is potential with this, be it with two close stars creating a choke point in the system or having a star cluster as a system, kind of like this thing, so the movement of ships is severely limited unless sundivers are employed.

Also I tested the thing, the system jump points are neither immovable nor indestructible, they still get erased when touching stars.

This is with the smallest suns possible and the radiation zones touching. There is still room for several ships to navigate.

[sly crown]

why not just... not have a safe zone

make it in the triple overlap

[turbid latch]

That is still possible, but a little niche. I wanted to illustrate that the presence of two stars generates an interesting environment which is not as restrictive as one would anticipate. Which in turn means there's no problem with having several stars within the same system.

If we also get more celestial objects with different effects... Like pulsars causing emp or black holes pulling you in like tractor beams, then overlapping will be much more interesting, but for not it just means you need to make a sundiver which can take damage from several directions. Which isn't that exciting, unless its some kind of a special task, like having the hyperjump relay inside the radiation.

[sly crown]

"Pulsars causing EMP"
I wonder where you got that idea...

[wraith rampart]

but black holes dont pull you in like tractor beams unless youre really really really close to one

i think that if black holes are a thing in the game they should either have a funky mechanic with their accretion disks or be a black hole/white hole one way wormhole that takes you to another system

[turbid latch]

This is getting quite out of topic. I just gave simple examples of other objects. But I disagree, black holes, if implemented, should present a risk, much like the sun. For wormholes, just use wormholes.

[wraith rampart]

fair

[turbid latch]

From any book that mentions neutron stars? Basic neutron star doesn't work much different from any star, just the radiation is different. Magnetar is more likely to turn a ship into scrap than scramble its systems, so the EM lighthouse it is. Simple, it's not just a game trope.

[sly crown]

oh that's actually what neutron stars do
I should stop playing so much ftl

[lapis monolith]

i like this, a little safe pocket that passing to will cause damage, but the station here could have really valueable stuffs
you could also just warp there, though