Gather Commanders for the first waypoint of our Expedition. Participating Fleet Carriers will be launching from this Star System.

HIP 35803 is home to one of Flat Galaxy Society's Premiere Tourism star systems. Featuring a handful of popular tourism stations and settlements.

Welcome to Eta Carina Nebula A very large nebula situated approx. 9,000 LYs from Sol along the Orion Spur and across the Vela Molecular Ridge. One of the earliest explored nebula's, first visited during the New Horizons Expedition - when the early "Gamma-Phase" of testing current FSD technology was being undertaken.

The nebula is one of the largest diffuse nebulae when seen from Earth. Although it is some four times as large and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known, due to its location in the southern sky.

The nebula itself is varied and impressive and you could spend an entire expedition just to explore this area. Large populations of Bell Molluscs and so-called Brain Trees has been reported within the nebula.

Deep below the galactic plane rests Little Red Riding Hood, a lonely M3 IIIAB Red Giant. Little Red Riding Hood is located in a void between stars, a spherical empty pocket of space roughly 70 light years in diameter, which is difficult to traverse without jumponium. A nearby White Dwarf system assists on the departure from the void. The system itself contains one planet, a solo terraformable water world orbiting a secondary star. This planet basks in the warm red light light coming from the Red Giant. This system was first discovered by the SHEPARD Mission in late 3302.

At 3,600 Earth Masses, planet #2 is one of the most massive Gas Giants in the area.

A blue & purple planetary nebula, located in the Sagittarius Arm near the Eta Carina nebula, with a Neutron star, class M star, a couple of Gas Giants and many terrestrial planets. Among the terrestrials you can find a Water World, an Earth-Like World and an Ammonia World. The discoverer claims that majestic structures can be seen on the surface of these planets, some floating on water and even in the air. Thus, he named it the Three Worlds Nebula. However, it has been suggested that the discoverer spent too much time inside the magical looking nebula and started seeing things as a result. Later visits by the explorers taking part in the Sagittarius-Carina Mission has neither confirmed nor denied these claims.

Landing site : The Armchair

Orbital body : B 1 Surface coordinates : 37.78 / 64.31 Surface Gravity : 0.17g

"Randomius Factoria!" A message left behind by one of the crew members, calling out for what is better known as "The Lady of Fate". It befits the whole atmosphere of this place: gloomy, dark, cold and empty. There is a strange humming sound in the background, as if the settlement has sunk thousands of miles beneath the sea, squeezed within a metal cubical room bouncing the dark waves of the current back in a slow gnawing manner. This is not a place for the feint-hearted, I start telling myself, as my chest pounds harder each second. Something has happened here. Something terrible. The last message reveils a hint. It speaks about "ghosts" and people going "void-mad" even ejecting themselves into outer space. "There is something out there!" the message ends. By god, have fate rest on their soul indeed, for I shall not stay a single second longer on this forsaken place...

Beacon around: A Settlement on: A 1A Coordinates: 25.00 / 21.58 Settlement found by CoR pilot in jan 3303 Landing Guide In late 3302, Alessia Verdi, a commander associated with the enigmatic CMDR Salomé, set up an exploration community goal on behalf of the Children of Raxxla. The goal was to retrieve and analyze as much survey data as possible from three specific regions. Those regions being the Formidine Rift, The Scutum-Sagittarii Conflux, and Hawking's Gap (Lin-Shu Hollow).

On analysis of the data, CoR Intel discovered the location of several navigational beacons in each region, that in turn provided the planetary location of several settlements.

These settlements turned out to be staging posts for a mysterious 'Dynasty Expedition' that had traversed the location three decades earlier and had set up bases there.

Glowing green gas giant

NGC 5315 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Circinus. The moon of the third planet in the system sports an intriguing multi-level plateau and twisting canyons under the blue and purple glow of the nebula. The site was surveyed as part of the Sagittarius-Carina Mission and is named in reference to the Azure Dragon of the West, one of the four mythological spirit creatures of ancient chinese astrology.

Landing site : Qing Long Caverns

Orbital body : AB 3 a Surface coordinates : -7.29 / -117.50 Surface Gravity : 0.05g

Planetary nebula

This spiral planetary nebula was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on April 15, 1836. The nebula's unusual shape is believed to be the result of a wobble in the rotation of its main Wolf-Rayet star, which was likely caused by its binary orbit with a nearby Class K orange star. In contrast to the intriguing shape of the nebula's gas cloud, its interior contains no other celestial objects of note.

Apart from the main O-star, this system also contains two Herbig stars orbiting in close proximity

Small pinkish diffuse emission nebula with a 50 LY radius, situated along the Orion Spur in the direction of the more visually impressive Eta Carina Nebula.

x Carinae (also V382 Carinae) is a yellow hypergiant in the constellation Carina. At 700 solar radii it is the 10th largest known star by radius and the brightest of the rare yellow hypergiant class when seen from Earth. The x Carinae system also contains two smaller stars and a single gas giant providing great views of the hypergiant at 3500 light-seconds.

Visitors should note that Universal Cartographics has both an "x Carinae" and a "X Carinae" (note capitals on the "X") in their database. Use the alternative reference of HD 96918 to avoid confusion.

Part of the NGC 3293 Cluster, the third star in this particular system is an M-class ringed star. The outer parts of the rings extends 48 LS from the star, and are invisible from some angles - causing a possible supercruise hazard if traveling through the system at high speed. When back-lit by the light of the main blue star the rings are barely visible, and appear as thin strands of a web.

Binary star system. The primary is a peculiar B-star similar to a luminous blue variable that initially had around 150 solar masses and has since lost at least 30. Because of its mass and the stage of its life, it is expected to explode as a supernova or hypernova in the astronomically near future. This is currently the only star known to produce ultraviolet laser emission. The secondary star is hot and also highly luminous, of spectral class O, around 30 times as massive as Sol.

Previously a 4th-magnitude star, it brightened in 1837 to become brighter than Rigel marking the start of the Great Eruption. Eta Carinae became the second-brightest star in the sky between 11 and 14 March 1843 before fading well below naked eye visibility after 1856. In a smaller eruption, it reached 6th magnitude in 1892 before fading again. It has brightened consistently since about 1940, becoming brighter than magnitude 4.5 by 2014.