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Brown dwarf survey, week 13 of 3310; More class M secondaries, water worlds and a few noteworthy gas giants (there almost always are)

Commanders,

Here is your brown dwarf survey report!

I have decided to switch to a weekly format and stop all the editing of old posts and lists. It was just too much of a chaos, so the new format should be much cleaner.

Having taken Mon-Wed off, the results are from 3310-10-22 to 3310-10-24:

An additional +345 systems have been surveyed. I'm still on the slow side because I'm FSSing all systems. So I still haven't fallen back to the jump-honk-jump-honk cycle. In any case, what did I find?

Aside from some close binaries (both substars and planets), almost the usual in terms of gas giants: Two class II and two with water-based life, but also another less common class III! On top of that, I came across two water worlds in very quick succession, just a handful of jumps apart from each other. Neither was terraformable however, with one being farther out while having a high surface pressure of over 400 atm and the other being pretty tiny with a radius of ~1400 km.

Additionally to that, two more M9 secondaries have been located, with the primary being an L0 dwarf in both cases. The first one was just by chance, whereas I had searched for the second, farther one on the galaxy map for refuelling.

That also made me rethink my assessment of the rarity of class M red dwarf secondaries within the brown dwarf layer. Currently, it's quite biased towards those red dwarfs, because I'll have searched for them on the map in most cases out of the need for fuel. You would never come across this many if you'd leave it to chance! I decided to make a note in the list that clarifies this.

Now as for the photos:

3010-03-21:

Almost entirely uninteresting, but I still noted it down: A system with nothing but six ringed gas giants in it. Here they are:

Six ringed gas giants with nothing else (Click to enlarge)

And the least common object of the last week, a Sudarsky class III gas giant, sadly doesn't quite qualify as a "hot" Jupiter, it's more like a lukewarm one at a surface temperature of 403 K:

Sudarsky class III gas giant, view from planet to host Sudarsky class III gas giant, view from host to planet

Sudarsky class III gas giant on the system map (Click to enlarge)

3010-03-22:

Another object of little interest, but I still took a photo; A close-orbiting high metal content world, though I forgot to check whether it's landable. 18 Ls away there was another class L substar, which is not pictured:

A high metal content world in close orbit (Click to enlarge)

Also, one of the two gas giants with water-based life was found on this day:

Gas giant with water-based life Note: The photograph has been altered, brightness was raised by +70% (Click to enlarge)

3010-03-23:

Nothing noteworthy was found on this day with only 12 systems surveyed.

3010-03-24:

On Sunday, I took my time and visited the bulk of systems last week, with +236 brownie ones visited and FSS'd on this day alone. Again, the least interesting things come first, so here's where I found that pretty close-orbiting L + T + T triplet:

Relatively close brown dwarfs (Click to enlarge)

Next would be one of two Sudarsky class II gas giants and the second gas giant with water-based life:

A Sudarsky class II gas giant A gas giant with water-based life (Click to enlarge)

On to the water worlds! As said, neither was terraformable though. Too bad. First one was a high-pressure world a bit farther out:

High-pressure water world High-pressure water world, system map (Click to enlarge)

The second one was closer to its host substar and featured a low atmospheric surface pressure. It was also pretty tiny with a radius of about 1400 km:

Tiny, low-pressure water world Tiny, low-pressure water world, system map (Click to enlarge)

And finally, the M9 secondaries, of which I only took system map shots this time:

L0 + M9 #1 L0 + M9 #2 (Click to enlarge)

When I encountered the first one, there was still enough fuel left in the tank to reach the M9 I had located by manually sifting through systems on the galaxy map. So I decided to leave it alone and refuel from the second, farther one, no issues there with the eco jumps I'm doing.

Here's the updated list, with "oddities" totals corrected:

  • Total brown dwarf systems surveyed: 10977
  • Ammonia worlds: 8 (1 in ≈1372)
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 34 (1 in ≈323)
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 6 (1 in ≈1830)
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 35 (1 in ≈314)
  • Metal-rich worlds: 0
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 28 (1 in ≈392)
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 42 (1 in ≈261)
  • Class II gas giants: 32 (1 in ≈343)
  • Class III gas giants: 13 (1 in ≈844)
  • Class IV gas giants: 1 (1 in 10977)
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 33

    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarfs: 26 (1 in ≈422, 3 × L3 + M9, 11 × L2 + M9, 6 × L1 + M9, 6 × L0 + M9, 2 × L0 + M8)
    • Hot Jupiters: 4 (1 in ≈2744, 3 × class III, 1 × class IV)
    • Wide rings: 3 (1 in ≈3659, 1: Ice, 2240 tril. tons, iR⌾: 1468Mm, oR⌾: 2330Mm. 2: Ice, 99 tril. tons, iR⌾: 563Mm oR⌾: 893Mm. 3: Ice, 12896 tril. tons, iR⌾: 428Mm, oR⌾: 1712Mm.)

      ▸ Note: Class M9 red dwarf secondary numbers are biased towards those red dwarfs, as I would sometimes actively search for them on the galaxy map for refuelling purposes! So if you leave things to chance, you'll come across significantly fewer of them! Keep this in mind if you decide to refuel within the layer exclusively!

Brown dwarf survey: Another water world and a 6-star system

Commanders,

Another +45 systems have been added to the list, with one water world and one mildly interesting system with six brown dwarfs have been found. That was when my controls started failing... I guess I have to remap them from scratch, hah.

Anyway, here's the six-star system, click to enlarge the images:

Six brown dwarfs (Click to enlarge)

And here's the water world, sadly it's not terraformable:

Some water/ocean world (Click to enlarge)

Here's the updated list:

  • Total brown dwarf systems surveyed: 10632
  • Ammonia worlds: 8
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 32
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 6
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 35
  • Metal-rich worlds: 0
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 28
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 40
  • Class II gas giants: 30
  • Class III gas giants: 12
  • Class IV gas giants: 1
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 22
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarfs: 24 (3 × L3 + M9, 11 × L2 + M9, 6 × L1 + M9, 4 × L0 + M9, 2 × L0 + M8)
    • Hot Jupiters: 4 (3 × class III, 1 × class IV)
    • Wide rings: 3 (1: Ice, 2240 tril. tons, iR⌾: 1468Mm, oR⌾: 2330Mm. 2: Ice, 99 tril. tons, iR⌾: 563Mm oR⌾: 893Mm. 3: Ice, 12896 tril. tons, iR⌾: 428Mm, oR⌾: 1712Mm.)

Edit 3310-03-15: After running for a class M9 secondary star for over 60 jumps (+61 systems, actually) I finally managed to refuel within the brown dwarf belt once more, and I was pretty close to running out.

Here's the fuel gauge at 58 jumps away:

58 jumps away from refueling (click to enlarge)

The M9 secondary to an L2 brown dwarf primary was over 16 lighthours out there actually:

L2 + M9 (Click to enlarge)

And here's the fuel gauge just before refueling:

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Update 3310-03-16: +72 systems have been surveyed and two bodies of interest have been found: One more gas giant with ammonia-based life, and a terraformable high metal content world with about half of Earth's mass and landable with a thin 0.1 atm atmosphere.

Here's the gas giant:

Another gas giant with ammonia-based life

And the terraformable high metal content world, with a pair of class L and T brown dwarfs rising on the horizon:

A terraformable high metal content world at night

The latter also had a closely orbiting moon, but the alignment was bad for good photos, so I skipped that part.

Update 3310-03-17: Only +35 systems were surveyed that day, but quite a few interesting gas giants have been found and mapped. There was one class II, two with ammonia-based life and one with water-based life.

Here are the ammonia-based ones:

Gas giant with ammonia-based life #0 Gas giant with ammonia-based life #1 (Click to enlarge)

And the one with water-based life:

Gas giant with water-based life

No pictures of the class II gas giant, as the other three are probably boring enough already. ;)

Resumption of the brown dwarf survey

Commanders,

My apologies, no photographs today.

After I unfortunately had to take a break due to certain issues for a few years, I finally managed to resume the brown dwarf survey. I remember I was "at about 9500 systems surveyed", so I shall count from that number, even if it's not perfectly accurate.

+146 systems have been surveyed over the last few days, making me sit at an assumed 9646 systems with a main body of spectral class L, and I even got a little lucky: One gas giant with ammonia-based life, one class II and even one rather uncommon class III gas giants were found!

Now I won't be able to fly as much as I used to, but I'm looking forward to it nonetheless. Currently, I am still in the process of re-learning how to control my shieldless vessel properly, but I'll get there.

With that, the current list of uncommon, interesting bodies across those 9646 systems looks like this:

  • Total brown dwarf systems surveyed: 10208
  • Ammonia worlds: 8
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 31
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 6
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 34
  • Metal-rich worlds: 0
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 24
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 39
  • Class II gas giants: 29
  • Class III gas giants: 11
  • Class IV gas giants: 1
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 22
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarfs: 23 (3 × L3 + M9, 9 × L2 + M9, 6 × L1 + M9, 4 × L0 + M9, 2 × L0 + M8)
    • Hot Jupiters: 3 (2 × class III, 1 × class IV)
    • Wide rings: 3 (1: Ice, 2240 tril. tons, iR⌾: 1468Mm, oR⌾: 2330Mm. 2: Ice, 99 tril. tons, iR⌾: 563Mm oR⌾: 893Mm. 3: Ice, 12896 tril. tons, iR⌾: 428Mm, oR⌾: 1712Mm.)

Edit 3310-02-29: +127 systems were surveyed over the last two days for a total of 9773.

Sadly, I had to break my rule of never refuelling outside of the (brown dwarf) layer yesterday though, as fuel was critically low. So a class O main body it was, I just couldn't locate a single brown dwarf system with an additional class M star in it in my vicinity. Too bad, but can't be helped. Still better than stranding.

Not much was found either, only a single gas giant with ammonia-based life to account for.

Edit 3310-03-01: Not much to report regarding yesterday, as only another 11 systems were surveyed.

Edit 3310-03-04: Over the past three days, another 313 systems have been surveyed for a total of 10097, so it's finally over 10k! And while there were no earth-likes, no ammonia and no water worlds, I surprisingly found a whole four gas giants with water-based life! So far the rate was about one every 285 systems, so four in 313 systems is definitely unusual.

Here are two of them, now in the form of clickable thumbnails to make them load faster from my Stoneage server:

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On top of that, I finally found another class M9 star for re-fueling while staying within brown dwarf systems:

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Furthermore, to resharpen my skills as I need to re-learn everything about properly controlling my vessel - the Dinnerbell - I have successfully attempted my first planetary landings in over 3 years. At first, I picked a very tiny body of just 250 km diameter and 0,02 g, followed by a larger high metal content world with a thin atmosphere and large impact craters. That one had a gravity of 0,52 g. Here's the 250 km potato:

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And here's the high metal content world:

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Surely this is just run-of-the-mill stuff for pretty much all of you, but I better take small steps, as I don't want to end 5 years in the black as a black spot on some nameless rock in the middle of nowhere... ;)

Edit 3310-03-06: +59 systems have been surveyed for a total of 10156, with only one interesting new finding: A gas giant with ammonia-based life.

Edit 3310-03-06: Another +45 systems done, with yet another gas giant with water-based life having been found.

Edit 3310-03-08: Not much was done yesterday, so only +7 new systems with no findings.

The brown dwarf survey: More red dwarfs

Commanders,

My last log entry (and all of its edits) can be summed up like this: A class IV gas giant has been found, and wide rings have been added to the oddity category of my results.

There hasn't been anything overly special going on today, but the yield's been still ok so far, and I thought it was time for a new entry by now.

Today's findings? So far, a class II gas giant and two class M red dwarf stars, where one was in co-orbit with an L3 brown dwarf (first of its kind so far) and one was in co-orbit with a T0, with that system being in co-orbit with the main L1.

That last system also featured a non-terraformable water world in relatively close proximity to the class M9 star.

Some images, first the L3+M9 pair:

Class M9 in co-orbit with an L3

Class M9 in co-orbit with an L3

And the L1+M9/T0, the M9 star being observed from its closest satellite, a small high metal content world:

M9+T0 + L1 constellation

M9+T0 + L1 constellation

And with that, here are the current statistics at slightly less than 8000 systems visited:

  • Ammonia worlds: 8
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 31
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 6
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 33
  • Metal-rich worlds: 0
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 21
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 34
  • Class II gas giants: 28
  • Class III gas giants: 10
  • Class IV gas giants: 1
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 22
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarfs: 22 (3 × L3 + M9, 9 × L2 + M9, 5 × L1 + M9, 4 × L0 + M9, 2 × L0 + M8)
    • Hot Jupiters: 3 (2 × class III, 1 × class IV)
    • Wide rings: 3 (1: Ice, 2240 tril. tons, iR⌾: 1468Mm, oR⌾: 2330Mm. 2: Ice, 99 tril. tons, iR⌾: 563Mm oR⌾: 893Mm. 3: Ice, 12896 tril. tons, iR⌾: 428Mm, oR⌾: 1712Mm.)

Edit 3306-05-01: Two more down for the count: One gas giant with water-based life and another with ammonia-based life.

Edit 3306-05-13: Today, another rarity was found! A Sudarsky class III gas giant, which I hadn't seen for thousands of jumps! Nice! In the beginning (like the first 1000, maybe 2000 class L systems) I had already found 3 of them, but no more for the latter 4000-5000 jumps. Now, here's the fourth! 4 in about 6000 systems make for a rate of one planet every 1500 systems...

Edit 3306-05-13: A highly uncommon one again! Not just a terraformable high metal content world and a gas giant with water-based life, but also a terraformable water world! It is only the third of its kind in the last 6000 class L systems.

Edit 3306-05-22: Even more red dwarfs! Today I found an L0+M8 pair about 4000Ls apart plus some really close L0+M9 friends:

L0+M9

M9+L0

Edit 3306-05-23: Lots of jumps today, and some findings too: One very uncommon class III gas giant, one gas giant with ammonia-based life and one with water-based life, plus one terraformable high metal content world.

Edit 3306-05-24: Another non-terraformable water world has been found.

Edit 3306-05-30: Heh... Another two of those!

Edit 3306-06-01: Another gas giant with water-based life.

Edit 3306-06-06: And another non-terraformable water world. This one featured a high-pressure atmosphere at slightly over 2200 atm, but was not terraformable, as it was just a bit too far from its brown dwarf. At its distance, its median surface temperature sat at 333K, all because of the high pressure. Too bad, as it was really large at a radius of slightly over 12.000km! Or maybe it was actually too large / high-g anyway? I didn't check the g forces...

Edit 3306-06-07: Huh, another class M red dwarf star, once more in a system with an L2 primary. The star itself was in co-orbit with an L6, and the pair sits in a wide co-orbit with the L2 (about 150kLs apart). With that, I have simplified the class M record to include only the red dwarf stars and the primary substars. This means certain information is now lost, I'll keep only the parts I think are significant enough: The spectral classes of the primary substar and of the class M star.

Edit 3306-07-11: Been pretty inactive as of late, but today: One more terraformable high metal content world and one gas giant with ammonia-based life have been discovered.

Edit 3306-07-12: Another two (!) terraformable water worlds have been found, plus one non-terraformable one. One of the systems with a terraformable water world also featured two terraformable high-metal content worlds. Not a bad catch.

Edit 3306-07-12: Whoa, there we go; Another very uncommon Sudarsky class III gas giant and one with water-based life!

Edit 3306-07-26: Here we go, another ammonia world, two gas giants with water-based life, two class II gas giants and an unbelievable FOUR water worlds! The only bad part about this run was that there were zero terraformables.

Edit 3306-08-19: Another quite uncommon planet was found, a class III gas giant. Additionally to that, there was a gas giant with water-based life, and thankfully, a class M9 secondary star with an L2 being the primary. I was down to my last fifth of fuel when I found it... I still think L2's might be the sweet spot when it comes to brown dwarfs.

Edit 3306-09-20: One more gas giant with water-based life and one terraformable high metal content world has been found.

Edit 3306-09-27: And there's another gas giant with water-based life...

Edit 3306-10-03: With fuel below ⅓, this time I started to look for a brown dwarf system with a class M "fuel star" inside on the map, instead of relying on pure luck as I have for the past 4000-or-so systems. I just got a bad feeling about it this time... I got super lucky and almost immediately found a nearby class L3 dwarf with an M9 secondary.

This is only the 2nd L3 that I managed to find with an actual star inside. As far as I know, given the maximum L3 mass and the minimum M9 mass observed so far, an L4+M9 combo would probably be impossible?

Addendum: Haven't found another star since then (3306-10-11), so looking for one on the map was probably a really good idea! I'm still hell-bent on not refuelling at any star outside of brown dwarf systems!

Edit 3306-10-11: Wohoo, another terraformable water world!

Edit 3306-10-15: And a non-terraformable one. Plus the first terraformable high metal content world with no atmosphere that I managed to find in a class L system. There was also another class II gas giant. Not bad.

Edit 3306-10-17: Running out of fuel again, I went looking for a source on the map instead of relying on luck, just like last time. After a few minutes of searching, I found an L1+M9 pair to refuel my ship.

On top of that, there was a class I gas giant with a wide ice ring ranging from 428.099km to 1.712.395km, and it was visible, too! Other than that, there was another gas giant with water-based life. They're almost common by now?

Edit 3306-10-18: Seems they are, indeed. Found another... THREE! Plus a non-terraformable water world.

Edit 3306-10-25: Uh, nice! Found a class III gas giant today, pretty close to its brown dwarf at just slightly over 70 Ls. That's a really uncommon find!

Edit 3306-10-26: Today was rather uneventful, but at least there was a terraformable high-metal content world!

Edit 3306-11-01: Nothing much for today, just another gas giant with water-based life.

3306-11-29: Another class II gas giant, another one with ammonia-based life and a combination of an L3 brown dwarf primary with an M9 red dwarf star secondary, which is rather uncommon.

3306-12-06: Just a class II gas giant today. Oh well.

3307-02-10: Here we go, another terraformable high metal content world.

3307-02-11: Another rather uneventful day. Nothing noteworthy other than a class II gas giant. And that's barely noteworthy to begin with...

3307-02-15: Nothing but a gas giant with water-based life today. Mah, not too bad.

3307-02-26: Not too bad, two more class M9 secondary red dwarf stars have been found, although one was picked from the map, so planned for. On top of that, I've stumbled over a gas giant with water-based life, aaand another hot Jupiter, a highly uncommon class III this time, here it is:

Hot “Jupiter” class III

3307-02-28: And another uncommon one, a Sudarsky class III gas giant.

3307-04-24: Ooh, and another one. Not a "hot Jupiter" this time though, even if it was relatively close to its brown dwarf at roughly 10ls. As usual, the statistics at the top of this log entry have been updated accordingly.

3307-04-25: Not a bad day, one gas giant with ammonia-based life and - after a looong time - another actual Ammonia world has been discovered!

Finally, a Sudarsky class IV gas giant in a brown dwarf system!

Commanders,

I had almost thought it impossible, but today, I finally found proof that class IV gas giants do indeed exist in class L brown dwarf systems.

Here we go:

Briefly after hyperspace exit At this point I thought, it'd surely be another class III gas giant. And that wouldn't have been bad at all, as those are pretty uncommon as well.

It was actually the tool [Elite Observatory] that had notified me about a closely orbiting planet and had made me pay attention.

After seeing the orbit line (before the planet itself) I was quite sure that it had to be something interesting, given the proximity.

Let's get closer:

An oblate hot Jupiter An oblate hot Jupiter... Although "hot" is probably not comparable to gas giants on close orbits around really hot stars, but still.

It's orbiting a class L3 brown dwarf with an L2 being the primary:

L2+L3+Hot Jupiter Most good things happen to me in L2 systems...

At that point I hadn't even noticed what I'd just found though. I only realized it when I took a look at the system map:

Indeed a class IV Finally... One thing to scratch off my wanted list!

This feels especially good since the first class IV I had reported had to be revoked. I'd made a stupid mistake, accidentally reporting a class III as a class IV. But now, this is the real deal!

With this, let me re-publish my statistics so far, I should be at around 5000 brown dwarf systems surveyed by now, and this is what I've found:

  • Ammonia worlds: 6
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 19
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 2
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 23
  • Metal-rich worlds: 0
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 16
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 16
  • Class II gas giants: 22
  • Class III gas giants: 3
  • Class IV gas giants: 1
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 15
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarfs: 11 (5 × L2 + M9, 2 × L1 + M9, 2 × L0 + M9, 1 × L0/T6 + M8, 1 × L0/L4 + M9)
    • Hot Jupiters: 2 (1 × class III, 1 × class IV)
    • Wide rings: 2 (1: Ice, 2240 bil. tons, iR⌾: 1468Mm, oR⌾: 2330Mm. 2: Ice, 99 bil. tons, iR⌾: 563Mm oR⌾: 893Mm)

Now, all that's missing on the gas giant front would be a class V and a water giant. And - heh - a glowing green gas giant.

Edit 3306-03-17: Another gas giant with water-based life to add to the statistics.

Edit 3306-03-29: Today's catch: A non-terraformable water world, a terraformable high metal content world and another class II gas giant. Not too good, not too bad.

Edit 3306-04-04: Nice one, another class M star, this time a M9 in co-orbit with a L1 dwarf. Plus, another gas giant with water-based life and a terraformable high metal content world!

Edit 3306-04-05: Just a side-note: Since the beginning of this survey and up to yesterday (3306-04-04), 5311 brown dwarf systems have been surveyed by me. With the exception of just a very few class T and Y dwarfs (probably less than 10), it's all been systems with a class L primary.

Edit 3306-04-17: One gas giant with ammonia-based life has been found today.

Edit 3306-04-23: After encountering my second class I gas giant with a wide ring, I've decided to add those to the oddity category. Also, a class II gas giant was found today.

Here's a photograph of said wide ring (98.613 million tons of ice with an iR⌾ of 562.689km and an oR⌾ of 893.213km):

Somewhat wide rings around a class I gas giant

The nicest class M encounter in the brown dwarf layer so far, mark II

Commanders,

It seems my previous class M red dwarf star encounter in the brown dwarf layer was the most awesome so far, but only for a brief time. Today, I was greeted by a star orbiting the main substellar dwarf even more closely:

A really close class M star

But then again, that's not the entire truth, as it was actually orbiting a tight binary of that class L dwarf with another class T one, see this slightly different angle:

It's a trinary

That trinary system is in co-orbit with another pair of class L brown dwarfs as well, see the system map:

Three class L, one class T and one class M

That was also the hottest and brightest class M star I've managed to find in the (brown dwarf) layer so far, as this was no M9, but an M8!

Stats update:

  • Ammonia worlds: 6
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 18
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 2
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 20
  • Metal-rich worlds: 0
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 15
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 14
  • Class II gas giants: 20
  • Class III gas giants: 3
  • Class IV gas giants: 0
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 9
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarf(s): 9 (5 × L2 + M9, 1 × L1 + M9, 2 × L0 + M9, 1 × L0/T6 + M8)

Nothing else to report for now though.

Fly safe!

Edit 3306-01-26: Another good day today! Found a non-terraformable water world, a terraformable high metal content world, a gas giant with water-based life plus an ammonia world! Stats have been updated.

Edit 3306-02-23: Another non-terraformable water world has been found.

Edit 3306-03-08: I can add another gas giant with water-based life and one with ammonia-based life to the list today! Also, another class M9 red dwarf star secondary was found in a system with an L2 primary dwarf. Nice, because I was already in my last third in terms of fuel. Edit: Also: One additional terraformable high metal content world.

Edit 3306-03-12: What a run that was today! 1 non-terraformable water world, 1 gas giant with ammonia-based life as well as 1 with water-based life, a class II gass giant and an unbelievable 5 terraformable high metal content worlds. Today's messing up my statistics. ;)

Edit 3306-03-13: And here we got ourselves another terraformable high metal content world. Nothing else to report though.

Edit 3306-03-13: Phew, that was another good day. Two gas giants with water-based life, one class II gas giant, two terraformable high metal content worlds and one non-terraformable water world. Nice catches!

The nicest class M encounter in the brown dwarf layer so far

Commanders,

I'm guessing I'm roughly at 3500 class L stars surveyed by now, and today I had kind of a heartwarming experience. This may seem entirely mundane to people not familiar with the brown dwarf layer, but I found the experience to be... elating!

This is what I saw right after hyperspace exit:

A really close class M red dwarf star (It's close!)

This is the closest pair of class L / M objects I've seen in the layer so far. The red dwarf star is both less massive and smaller than the failed substellar object that is the systems' primary body. Let's look at the brown dwarf from the star's immediate vicinity:

A really close class M red dwarf star

As you can see, the brown dwarf can clearly be seen from the star. Makes me think.. there might be even closer pairs than this...

The orrery was quite interesting as well:

Close pair orrery

And here's the system map view:

Close pair system map

Maybe I'm too easily impressed by now, but I found this to have been a really nice experience today. :)

Now, as for the stats, adding another non-terraformable water world that I found today as well:

  • Ammonia worlds: 5
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 14
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 2
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 10
  • Metal-rich worlds: 0
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 13
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 9
  • Class II gas giants: 18
  • Class III gas giants: 3
  • Class IV gas giants: 0
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 7
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarf(s): 7 (4 × L2 + M9, 1 × L1 + M9, 2 × L0 + M9)

Edit 3306-01-07: And today... just another class II gas giant.

Edit 3306-01-08: Another gas giant has been found. This time it's one with ammonia-based life again.

Edit 3306-01-12: Got a few nice catches today; Two class II gas giants, one gas giant with ammonia-based life, one terraformable high metal content world and one more class M9 red dwarf star in co-orbit with the L2 main body. I didn't take any photos, but here's the system with the M9 star:

Class L2 primary body with a less massive class M9 star

Edit 3306-01-12: I had the suspicion for a while now, but today I checked my data, and now I am sure: I have mis-reported the finding of a Sudarsky class IV gas giant in a class L system. There was no such thing. Hence, it will be removed from the statistics.

Edit 3306-01-16: Two days of having found absolutely nothing... Just icycles, high metal content pebbles and some boring Jovian planets. And today? Today was gas giant day. Caught one of the rare class III gas giants plus one with ammonia-based life as well as one with water-based life!

Brown dwarf survey cont'd: A watery triplet

Commanders,

After a few hundred less-than-interesting systems with just one gas giant with ammonia-based life and one terraformable high metal content world, I've found something interesting today, this is another first for me:

Three water worlds in a single L5 system

At first I though "hell yeah, a water world!" when looking at the spectrograph in the FSS, but that wasn't all.

It was indeed a whole three water worlds with the same brown dwarf system! And the main body was just a relatively cool L5, not one of the hotter ones.

Unfortunately, this was where my luck had ended, as none of the three was terraformable... too bad.

Starting from the inside, this is the first one:

Water world #1

That world featured the highest atmospheric pressure despite being the innermost planet, a whole 50 atms. The water down there is over 100°C hot!

Now, to the second, and largest one at over 9000km radius:

Water world #2

Just a tiny little bit less boring to look at, this one at least featured some visible cloud formations.

And the third one, which was over 34Ls out from the star and featured just slightly over 5 atms of pressure:

Water world #3

Despite the relatively "low" pressure, it still retains water in liquid state on the surface, but we can see ice caps on the poles now.

And that's it for today, I guess.

Ah, right, this brings up my stats quite a bit:

  • Ammonia worlds: 5
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 13
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 2
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 9
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 10
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 8
  • Class II gas giants: 15
  • Class III gas giants: 2
  • Class IV gas giants: 1
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 5
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarf(s): 5 (3 × L2 + M9, 1 × L1 + M9, 1 × L0 + M9)

Edit: And just briefly after the triplet, I found another interesting water world, just look at that orbit, it's apoapsis is over 56Ls from its parent body:

An eccentric water world

Of course one would ask: How can this world have liquid water? Well, it's the atmospheric pressure once again; Sitting at over 840 atm's, so that's that.

Not much light out there though:

A far out water world

A far out water world

The funny part is, that this body is seemingly tidally locked to the brown dwarf. Now if it wouldn't mean a week of waiting, I'd actually want to see the flyby at periapsis...

Stats updated.

Edit 3305-12-16: And another edit. Today, I found my third gas giant with water-based life in class L brown dwarf systems. I guess that makes it about 1 in a 1000 systems.

See here:

Gas giant with water-based life in a class L brown dwarf system

On a side note, I have added class O stars to my menu. I did this because they were the original reason for coming to the Empyrean Straits - to look for landable high-g worlds.

The following photograph isn't anything special really, but let it commemorate my re-entry into at least one kind of "normal" star systems. Like, with actual stars in them. ;)

Here you go:

Hot trinary

Edit 3305-12-17: One more terraformable high metal content world and one more Sudarsky class II gas giant were discovered today, and have been added to the statistics.

Edit 3305-12-17: Today, I found my fourth gas giant with water-based life, making them half as common as those with ammonia-based life. Not great, but not too bad either.

Edit 3305-12-25: And one more class II gas giant as well as one more gas giant with water-based life!

Edit 3305-12-31: On this last day of the year, I decided to take my ship for another stroll through the brown dwarf layer, yielding really good results! Today I found a class II gas giant, a gas giant with water-based life, a terraformable high metal content world and even an ammonia world! That makes for a neat finish! :)

Edit 3306-01-01: And with the new year comes another class II gas giant!

Edit 3306-01-02: Another lucky day today. After 80 jumps of finding absolutely nothing of interest, I stumbled over two gas giants with ammonia-based life in quick succession, and then found a terraformable high metal content world only slightly smaller than Earth. Might continue later today.

Edit 3306-01-02: And here comes the second part of today, with two more class II gas giants and one with water-based life! In addition to that, I've found two more class M red dwarf stars in systems with a class L brown dwarf primary. A good day indeed!

Edit 3306-01-04: More water! One non-terraformable water world and one gas giant with water-based life have been found today!

And yet another ammonia world orbiting a class L2 brown dwarf...

Commanders,

This is getting pretty crazy. Within a very short amount of time, I've found yet another ammonia world - orbiting an L2 dwarf again. Seems L2's are gonna become my lucky charm:

Yet another ammonia world

This means that I've found 3 out of 4 of those within just 10% of all class L brown dwarfs I've ever visited... huh.

Ah, and there was another class II gas giant yesterday as well. I assume I should be getting close to 2300 systems visited by now.

Updated stats:

  • Ammonia worlds: 4
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 8
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 2
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 6
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 7
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 2
  • Class II gas giants: 9
  • Class III gas giants: 2
  • Class IV gas giants: 1
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 3
    • Class M red dwarfs orbiting class L brown dwarf(s): 3 (2 × L2 + M9, 1 × L0 + M9)

Edit 3305-12-12: And there was another gas giant with ammonia-based life today.

Edit 3305-12-13: And today, another terraformable high metal content world.

My second terraformable water world discovery in brown dwarf systems

Commanders,

It was just one discovery after another in the last few days! Now, with about 2200 systems surveyed, I've finally found my second terraformable water world orbiting a class L2 dwarf:

Terraformable water world in orbit arould a brown dwarf

Terraformable water world in orbit arould a brown dwarf

It's pretty small at just over 3500km of radius and features an atmosphere consisting of roughly ¾ oxgen and ¼ carbon dioxide with traces of sulphur dioxide.

It's probably still a little too early to try and find some trends in what little data I have so far, but here are the updated stats:

  • Ammonia worlds: 3
  • Earth-like worlds: 0
  • Water worlds (non-terraformable): 8
  • Water worlds (terraformable): 2
  • Water giants: 0
  • High metal content worlds (terraformable): 5
  • Gas giants with ammonia-based life: 6
  • Gas giants with water-based life: 2
  • Class II gas giants: 8
  • Class III gas giants: 2
  • Class IV gas giants: 1
  • Class V gas giants: 0
  • Oddities: 3
    • Class M red dwarf orbiting class L brown dwarf(s): 3 (2 × L2 + M9, 1 × L0 + M9)