Intergalactic Summit

Ok, the name is newbish but still, I have a very big update. While in the Luminaire System I recently discovered a new anomaly or whatever you wish to call it. It looks far enough away from Caroline's Star to be in the Cluster we know and can travel around as Capsuleers, even though it looks much smaller then Caroline's Star which could mean it could be farther away then Caroline's Star. It is very large and very, well, red. Whatever it is we need get research teams in there and find out what it is. If anyone has any data, please post on Project Insight. Also, if anyone detects even a smidge of different behaviour from the Drifters or Sleepers, inform us. Bottom line, any responses go to Project Insight.

Actually...

From Emsar VII Belt Six looking toward the Manarq gate, I saw a reddish star grow in brightness and then dim in a repeating cycle. Jumping to Manarq, the same star appears the same size, shifting through the same cycle. The effect is emphasized in warp.

In the Synchelle system, at the Pakhshi gate, look at the Gallente nebula. On the right side about halway down, there is a "finger" of gas reaching up. Follow the finger down. Leave your camera pointed in that direction for and you will see a star at the base of the finger brighten and dim.

See, I'm not completely crazy. This is exactly what I saw. It blends in with the spacescape of the Amarr, but you can see it from Gallente Space. And I don't expect it to be named after me.

Isn't that a pulsar?

Looks a lot like Shelby's Star to me, yo.

Perhaps it's a star with a number of gas giants orbiting it?

Pulsars are not restricted to radio. They can also emit visible light, x-ray, and gamma ray wavelengths.

For the love of Bob, why doesn't someone actually go down there and take a look?

OP won't give us anything. Took Chibi all of fifteen minutes to travel there and take a quick look around, and she's not even supposed to be flying yet.

All this speculation, two IGS threads, and nobody's even gone down there.

There's a dot in the sky. In any one system, it is not particularly remarkable. At its brightest, it is no brighter than any other foreground star. It most notable feature is that it is relatively easy to find moving from system to system, at least in Gallente space, by aligning with a distant landmark. Caroline's nebula is a convenient such landmark, being both distant and readily visible. In Gallente space, when oriented at Caroline's nebula, this particular dot appears on the left roughly 140 degrees back.

Given that there is a dot that is fairly easy to find, it will be fairly easy to check on it day by day. Maybe it will turn into something more than an odd little dot. Maybe it won't.

Before another round of condescending dipshittery begins, yes, it is entirely possible that it will not become more than an odd little dot. That's kind of how it works. If you feel a need to make some condescending dipshit remark, take a break, go **** yourself, and wait for something obviously interesting to happen. Maybe that's more your speed.

To repeat:

"There's a dot in the sky. In any one system, it is not particularly remarkable. At its brightest, it is no brighter than any other foreground star. It most notable feature is that it is relatively easy to find moving from system to system, at least in Gallente space, by aligning with a distant landmark. Caroline's nebula is a convenient such landmark, being both distant and readily visible. In Gallente space, when oriented at Caroline's nebula, this particular dot appears on the left roughly 140 degrees back."

Have you seen a picture of a star? Yes? Imagine that picture. This dot is not currently more interesting than that picture, and may never be more interesting than that picture. Feel free to move on to a discussion more in keeping with your interests.