However, it’s a brown dwarf, not an M8.”Īnd what about the lucky player who initially discovered the Core Sys Sector XU-P a5-0 system? Braben laughed and said that the player will get to keep his or her “Discovered by” tag-though Braben also mentioned that the system was more properly discovered by NASA.

As luck would have it, it’s 39 light years away and roughly the right position. “There is a brown dwarf very near to the position of TRAPPIST-1,” he explained. Braben was clearly excited about the chance to add in the real-life exosystem-as it turned out, all it required was some tweaking to a brown dwarf system that was already in almost exactly the right spot within the game’s simulated galaxy map. Maker of worldsĪrs had the opportunity to speak with Frontier CEO and Elite: Dangerous Director David Braben Friday morning about the 2.3 beta and the TRAPPIST-1 addition specifically. The bad news is that the newly discovered exoplanets won’t make it into Monday’s beta release the good news is that TRAPPIST-1 will be in the second beta release, which will come some days or weeks after the initial beta. Between that announcement and some last-minute bugs, publisher and developer Frontier decided to slip the beta date from February 23 to February 27 to try to add bug fixes and the TRAPPIST-1 system to the game.

NASA broke the news about the discovery only days before the 2.3 update was set to enter semi-open (pay wall) beta testing among the Elite: Dangerous player base. Further Reading Nearby system has 7 Earth-sized planets, several in the habitable zoneBut one feature will be showing up as a last-minute addition: the newly discovered TRAPPIST-1 star system, complete with its seven exoplanets, will become part of the game’s simulated galaxy.

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