Friday, December 20, 2019

Advent Day 20 - Salted Caramel Nebula Normandy ... Pointy thing

Hello everyone,

Advent things first but there's a fair few shiny screenshots coming afterwards ... definitely worth it :-D.

Advent Day 20 and behind the doors we see :
Lovely backdrop today. Back to that in a bit. There was almost a catastrophe today as the rather heavy Mass Effect poster book decided to fall over and flop into the Lego ... Oops.

Marshmallow of the day is a Salted Caramel marshmallow, which is one of the packs I'll pick up when I get the chance (or if I'm ordering, which will happen after Xmas !). Tasty and different. It's good to go for different.

No idea what the Star Wars thingy of the day is, I'm guessing that it's the Ion Cannon that protects the Hoth Base.

In the background we see SR2 Normandy, the ship that sees you through Mass Effect 2 and 3, this time in Systems Alliance colours. She's a heavy frigate, upgraded from the ship you have in the first game. The Normandy was a prototype experiment, engineered and designed for maximum stealth. (The lore in game is really good at expanding this out) The idea being that the ship is your hub from going from place to place and can get in and get out without alerting any hostile people with say, anti space ship guns. You can walk around the ship too, visit the various spaces and talk to the crew. They feel like living ships that could properly do a job in their universe. They're fighting ships too, unlike the unarmed scout ship of Mass Effect Andromeda.

The design follows that aim, of a fighting stealth frigate ... but they also made it a pretty one too. A great centrepiece for the games and when a Certain Event happened in Mass Effect 2, that was incredibly sad to watch happen. (No spoilers)

The Elitecember theme today is Nebula ... Bit had to draw one of these because it's essentially a cloud in space. I've visited some before and posted the screenshots but I thought for today's post, I'd go on a journey.
I dropped off my previous ship and headed over to pick up the Python (not had a penguin in years), refitting it as a basic explorer. No rover this time around ... partly due to fitting the ship in a rush !
Paint job update - check it out :-D.
One thing you get in this game is a certain sense of perspective, as massive objects in space like Nebulae steadily increase in size and detail as you get closer. That particular nebula is quite far off.
Passing by the various suns on the way to top up the fuel tanks.
Just a bit closer and heading for the eye.
Just taking a moment ...
And then heading off to another target, the NGC 2353 nebula. Just a little cloud in the distance at this point (I think around 1500 ly away!)
And taking another moment ...
The latest expedition definitely found one of the pretty nebulae.
And arrival ! This is where I started looking for a place to land tonight. Sadly no rover this time around but I was still looking to see if there was somewhere to land ...

What did I find in the end ? Well, one place is waiting for a later post but ...
I wonder if the sentients on that world have a mythology around their local space phenomena ?

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