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Night Epoch
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Posted - 2009.12.16 20:40:00 -
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Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 20:43:02
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 20:42:01
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 20:41:48
Ostensibly New Eden is a dwarf satellite ~100 kiloparsecs (about three hundred thousand light years) from the milky way.
So really we should see an absolutely massive spiral galaxy that covers ~1/3rd of the skybox in every system.
For an example of a real dwarf sattelite check out M31 (Andromeda) and its companion M32 (New Eden would effectively be the small companion to the upper right in this image).
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Night Epoch
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Posted - 2009.12.16 20:55:00 -
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Traveling to other galaxies would basically destroy EVE's entire fiction (WH from Milky Way lead to New Eden, then EVE gate collapsed trapping everybody there).
I think always being able to see the MW (as long as it didn't look too obnoxious or get too tiresome to look at in every system) would be a nice little touch to remind every player that there's actually a storyline in EVE.
But traveling to other galaxies and "conquering them" would be silly IMO. Normal galaxies have 400 billion stars. The closest galaxy to New Eden would be the MW, which would be about 100 kpc away ... but the next closest galaxy is Andromeda (M31), which is 200 million light years away (about 60 megaparsecs!) ... that's kindof stretching things, don't you think? (in terms of believability).
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Night Epoch
Distant Light Galactic
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Posted - 2009.12.16 23:32:00 -
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Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:34:47
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:34:37
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:34:04
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:33:36
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:33:00
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:32:42
 Originally by: Burnharder
Scale fail here!
If you're inside a galaxy, you can't see the galaxy itself and other galaxies are so far away you can't see them either (with the naked eye - except a few of course, like Andromeda, which are just faint fuzzy patches).
Well, if New Eden is a Dwarf Satellite of the Milky Way only ~100 kiloparsecs away (about twice the distance from the Milky way to the Large Magellanic Cloud, itself a dwarf irregular companion to the MW), then these things would most certainly be true:
1. It'd subtend an absolutely huge angular extent on the sky, probably filling the vast majority of it
2. it'd be really bright - not just a faint fuzzy patch.
Andromeda is just about visible with the naked eye as a very faint grey patch (on a really clear night) that's pretty large on the sky ... but Andromeda is 2 million light years away! Ostensibly the the milky way is only 300,000 light years or so from New Eden.
You'd most definitely see it as very bright and large (but yes, gray) on the sky from New Eden. You'd see it as a big bright band if it's edge on and a big bright disc with very clear spiral structure if face-on with respect to our line of sight from New Eden.
/PhD in astrophysics
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Night Epoch
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Posted - 2009.12.16 23:44:00 -
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Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:46:05
Edited by: Night Epoch on 16/12/2009 23:45:16
It wouldn't really look like this, but an artsy and stylized approach to including the MW in every system's skybox (while not making it too distracting or tiresome to look at) might take a note from how it was approached by Bungie in Halo 3 (in their mission "The Ark" ... where Master Chief goes to this forerunner station thing that's outside of the MW)
http://www.ascendantjustice.com/files/cocop/The%20Ark/The%20Ark%20Large/IsThat-large.jpg
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