I’m sorry it took me so long to mention this. Some of the stars that we see in the distant EVE universe have diffraction spikes on them. The cross pattern, like NSEW. These stars spikes do not naturally occur in space. Those diffraction patterns would only be seen thru a telescope, like a reflector telescope with a primary mirror. They would not occur in a refractor telescope, the one with a lens.
In the reflector, there is usually a secondary mirror that is centered in the optical tube to bring the light from the primary to the side of the tube. The secondary is held in place with 3-4 vanes. These vanes cause the diffraction pattern that would be seen when looking at a star. With 4 vanes, there would be 4 spikes. With 3 vanes, there would be six spikes.
So to be more realistic, eliminate the diffraction pattern we see on some stars. They all should be points of light. Thanks
-Kirst
It’s not just an effect of the internal structure of a telescope - you get a similar though often less regular effect off a slightly scuffed lens. Indeed, star-burst filters are plain filters scored with a grid of fine lines to give that “star-burst” effect.
Now, in Eve, what you are a person in goop in a pod wired into the command systems of the ship. You see the ship through the lenses of camera drones flying around the ship. I could easily believe that a camera drone would have optics that, either through their construction or through age and time exposed to dust in space, have flared view of bright objects.
This happens on ships manufactured 1 minute ago too.
Our camera drones will take 15 Titan super weapon shots and not even shrug it off, because they didnt even realize they been hit by something. Dust damage pfff.
Sound in a vacuum, warp tunnel is just FTL renamed, it snows every December in space, and other anomalies. Just flip the switch in your mind to enjoy the show. I recently watched Moonfall with my friends and family. Most of them don’t seem to have access to that switch.
All valid since capsuleers don’t experience space directly, but through sensors so that the brain can make sense of it. That is why there is sound in space and the spaceships physics behave as if they were submarines.
So however a sun is displayed doesn’t have to be close to physics as well just from a lore standpoint.
The stars with spikes are stars inside the cluster. Besides their pulsating effect, the spikes are a differentiating factor that sets them apart from the background stars outside.
No. A slightly scuffed lens will not give a x-diffraction pattern. I’ve used telescopes for decades. If the obstruction in the optical train had just one vane, then two would show up on a star.
Here’s some reading for you: Diffraction spike - Wikipedia
Let’s face one important fact here. If I am in outer space looking at a nearby star, my eyes would melt out of their sockets without some kind of protection. The NASA astronauts helmets had a thin layer of gold on the visor to prevent eye damage on the moon. I think in 10,000+ years we could do better.
I am guessing no one here wants to believe it is caused by a cult of space wizards called the Zetas and their arch enemies the Archons lizard men from Alpha Draconis? It is space magic duh!
Funny. I was thinking the same recently…
I think it was 2009, before the expansion of EVE Apocrypha, that players noticed one new bright star in the sky and followed it… which led to a story to the expansion and the release of wormholes.
These new stars remind me of the one I saw in 2009.
I guess it depends on your knowledge of subjects how much nonsense you can just ignore. I can fx tolerate visible laser beams, but there is no way I “am in space” when I am sailing inside atmosphere in Eve.
Yes, my father was a pilot and I was watching a movie with him where a plane crashed. He got annoyed by the sound effects. Me, “What is the matter?” Him, “There is no way a plane is going to make that sound in a crash landing!” Me, “ok whatever.”
Some sci-fi stretches the limits of physics; The Core, Absolute Zero, Sharknado, and the same, are movies good to watch for the cringe. They go overboard to insult their audience’s intelligence. Most people don’t know that absolute zero is lowest temperature −273.15 °C where everything stops moving, gases freeze and become solids. Yet in that movie Jeff Fahey and company can survive it in hazmat suits. Also he keeps saying “Science is never wrong.” as a catch phrase.
