Brown Dwarf Refuelling Points?

[mike wightman]

Originally posted by Malenfant:
This was in Imperium?

Yep, and Dark Nebula.

Hm, IIRC Jon was somewhat influenced by that game for GT:Interstellar Wars. I'm guessing they just quietly tossed that part out of the window.

I can't remember anything about it in the playtest.

I guess that's where Bell and Braben nicked the idea of stellar refuelling from for Elite though

Now that brings back some happy memories

 

[Malenfant]

Originally posted by Bill Cameron:
2300AD has finding BDs very difficult and time consuming. The Americans/Australians spend years looking for useful ones and even set up an Arm-wide interferometry network for the task. How accurately does that match the real world?[/QB]

Well, it seems that generally brown dwarfs should be more common than M V stars. Which means there's a hell of a lot of them out there. Of course, it is true that they're also hard to find because they're so dim.

We got one that's fairly close by that was recently discovered:
http://www.solstation.com/stars/lp944-20.htm

Statistically speaking, there should be more (and more late M V stars too) in the neighbourhood. How many more, I'm not sure of. But there certainly could be more lurking out there.