Star-Jelly

Overview

The Star-jelly is a strange, translucent space-dwelling organism, often found in large numbers in asteroid fields, where they may remain for some time trapped in the weak gravitational fields of the asteroids. Star-jellys have limited movement, and are normally content to float free in space being wafted around by the solar wind.
They are seldom found in interstellar space.
They are not thought to be intelligent, and although their biology is un-clear they are thought to be more like plants than animals.
They are believed to 'feed' by absorbing the small traces of Quirium found in interplanetary space. Because of their high Quirium content, destroying them is not recommended. Commanders should be vigilant when in asteroid fields where mining is carried out. Miners are aware of the dangers of accidentally shooting a Star-Jelly while mining, and although there has never been a reported case of a miner triggering a Quirium explosion in this way, the possibility does exist.

Installation

Place the .oxp folder in your Oolite AddOns folder, and hold down 'Shift' until you see the spinning Cobra when you start the game for the first time.

Licence

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Authors

The OXP was developed by Smivs. Star-jelly model by Staer9.

Download

here.

History

v1.1 released 25th May, 2011. Bugfix to reduce the excessive number generated when Rock Hermits are present.
v1.0 released 25th May, 2011

Oolite Forum thread

Any questions, problems or bug reports should be posted on this OXP's BB thread here