Pit Trip part 5: White dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes

After a short maintenance stop at my home base I continued the Grand Adventure the PitTrip is. First destination for this week was a star system named Charick drift. The central star of this system is a White Dwarf, a star at the end of its life that had not enough mass to turn into a Neutron Star or a Black Hole.

In orbit around this White Dwarf a generation ship can be found. This ship named "Atlas" can be scanned to learn some details about the people that once lived on it. The ship has been abandoned some time ago already and is now just an empty hull floating in space.

Generation Ship "Atlas" - hardly visible against the bright white dwarf, I have to admit.

On the way to the next waypoint I found a very trustworthy station to land on

The next stop was close to the Fine Ring Nebula. This is just a strange shape planetary nebula - as there was not much else to do with it, I took this as an educational stop and read up about what a planetary nebula actually is on Wikipedia.

What a fine ring?

And on I went to the Beta Hydrae system to find a black hole and a neutron star orbiting each other. It is a lesser known fact that photography works best, when there is light coming from whatever you try to catch in your picture. Something black holes are massively bad at, is letting light get out. Thats why pictures of black holes tend to suck.

You see a neutron star - you don't see a black hole. Fascinating, eh?

Our final destination for the week then was the GD 140 system. I first visited the station "Newton Hub" there to fuel up and maybe get a drink. Approaching the station I noticed it looked different then I am used to for this type of station: Yellow areas sprinkled across the surface were new to me.

Turns out: The yellow stuff is not just a strange design project

The station has been attacked by the Thargoids some time ago ... and now there is contruction going on everywhere. The station also has all kinds of technical problems.

I was wondering why automated landing did not work for the first time... The displays at the airlock of the station might have been a hint to the attentive reader.

A vessel transporting a thirsty Commander is by definition an "emergency vehicle", is it not?

As most services, including the bar, were not available at this station I left quickly again. To meet the rest of the Buurboons at planet A1A. That little planet looks like it has a hard time - scars all over the surface. Maybe orbiting a bigger planet with just about enough distance to put a sheet of paper in between, is not an easy life.

When the Galaxy is called for dinner after finishing two thirds of a planetary snowman.

So there is a planet with deep canyons, there is about a dozen spaceship pilots in small maneuverable ships, what could be done? We played a round of "Chasing Sanderling". Some of the braver commanders got out into their planetary vehicles on a high plateau only to become the ball in a game of unclear rules that somehow evolved around the idea of using fast spaceships ramming the buggy to push it off the plateau.

Also I made a very scientific discovery: When the "Indesctructible 4" is being hit head on by Lord Tyvins heavily shielded Sidewinder this has about the same effect like being hit by a high speed bullet. So all say hello to the "Indestructible 5".

As if there was not enough room for parking

I am eagerly awaiting the video footage some fellow commanders have taken at the high speed hoonery - this should look just fantastic.

This is CMDR Universallaie, currently docked in Wilson Port, signing off.