The furthest recorded travel is Uining-Reyan OR-Alpha- Vaavid XI with 339,328 ly towards the centre and 1,846,461 ly away. This also works to a lesser degree for all other black holes near the Fade aside of the upper and lower rim due to their limited radius of 50.000 light-years. The nearest system possible around The Fade at the same angle is chosen. This is due to a lack of systems around the centre at the same distance as the spirals. Any hyper black hole will target a specific system all around the outer galactic shell and can bridge over 300,000 light-years towards the centre and over two million overall.

For the known wormhole connections, refer to Blackhole Destinations.īlack Holes which are part of the four spirals of a galaxy have the unique ability to bridge huge distances unlike their normal counterparts, turning the Outer Rim into a black hole highway.The last number hereby refers to the same portal system ID, just with an extra 0 to fit the signal booster format. Be aware that since the late NEXT era black holes do not appear in systems that were reached by a portal, even though the signal booster may show the hexadecimal address. This allows to track them down by using a local portal to find the system inside a region without the black hole radar. After birthing a new star at the end of The Atlas Path, a traveller gains the ability to see all black holes on the nearby Galactic Map.Įvery region has exactly one Black Hole System with the Portal System ID of 079 ( 079 079). Later on during the journey they will also be highlighted on the Galactic Map as a black star. If you learn the location of a black hole by talking to Polo, it will appear as a Waypoints selection at the top of your galactic map. So if you transit a black hole, don't expect to be able to find your previous position in the Galaxy Map.īlack holes are a spatial anomaly that can be found by asking Specialist Polo in the Space Anomaly for 'a shortcut to the centre', or by stumbling upon them in a Black Hole System. Regardless, you will (almost) always end up around 7000 light-years closer to the Galaxy Centre (even though you may have traveled through the galactic core to get there). The actual direction of travel could be anywhere around the Galaxy Centre, so it's possible you may actually travel through the galactic core to your destination. There will be a report at the end of the trip detailing how far you traveled, but this isn't how much closer you got to the Galaxy Centre.

Traveling through black holes will (almost) always take you closer to the Galaxy Centre by several thousand more light-years than any Hyperdrive can accomplish, but this is NOT linear. With Beyond and Synthesis changes it is possible to achieve effective warp speed of 5,900 - 6,000 ly/min using an Explorer with 3,300ly range. The effective warp speed achieved with black hole travel is ~5,500 ly/min. Using black hole jumps, it is possible to reach the Galaxy Centre from the starting system (~700K ly away) in 2.5 - 3 hours. So if you travel 5,000 ly with your ship, you may only be 2,500 ly closer to the centre, or roughly 50% of the distance your ship actually travelled.īlack hole travel is one of the fastest ways to the centre of the galaxy discounting the ancient Portal network. Instead, your warp navigation is calculated by navigating past several systems along the route. Black holes will always move you closer to the centre by approximately 7,000 light-years (+/- 1,000 ly) unless they are part of the hyper black holes which can be used to travel vast distances of over 300,000 light-years towards it.Įven though your ship may be capable of traveling further by warping several times in a row, it does not fly a linear path. If any technology modules exist in your starship general inventory, some may be be damaged at random upon arrival to the new system (modules in technology inventory are safe). Black Holes take you to a fixed star system across the galaxy.

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