Easter Egg Discovery on Laythe!

[destra9]

I discovered 3 mysterious islands on Laythe when trying out Hyperedit. I teleported to Laythe to find these in the distance. As I inspected further, it became more and more astonishingly similar to an Easter Egg.

• The Islands are different from the rest of Laythe's landmass.
• They are perfect spheres all in a straight line.
• They are not part of Laythe's terrain!
• You cannot land on these islands, making it impossible to plant a flag on them.
• The Islands are at roughly the same coordinates as the KSC Launchpad back at Kerbin.
• They are not visible in the map.

Of course, to document my discovery of the islands, I have multiple screenshots.

Jeb looks just as surprised as I was to discover purple islands on Laythe. I thought those only existed on Eve!

As you can see, my game rendered Laythe's normal land properly, indicating that these islands have a different texture.

If you look closely, you can see that these islands are actually not part of Laythe, leaving very little possibility outside a glitch with a mod I have or an Easter egg! I want you guys to try and find these islands and see if you have them in your game and help me name these weird islands.  

[fredinno]

I have a feeling these belong somewhere else... And by their nature, they're probably glitches.

[K^2]

23 minutes ago, fredinno said:

I have a feeling these belong somewhere else... And by their nature, they're probably glitches.

Very unlikely to be glitches. More likely geometry forgotten behind. Happens frequently enough in game dev.

[fredinno]

8 minutes ago, K^2 said:

Very unlikely to be glitches. More likely geometry forgotten behind. Happens frequently enough in game dev.

Or that.

[Scotius]

Do you use Interstellar mod? It looks very similiar to the method of marking rich resource zones this mod uses.

[destra9]

I have it, but I didn't use it in this voyage nor did I ever perform a scan of Laythe's surface.

[Findthepin1]

So. Where is this? And why can't we land on it?

Edited January 25, 2016 by Findthepin1

[K^2]

1 hour ago, Findthepin1 said:

So. Where is this? And why can't we land on it?

Geometry in KSP needs to have separate collision data in order for you to be able to interact with it. There were parts of the "KSC 2" that you could walk through and couldn't land on. Likewise, in order to see an object from great distance, or on the map, it needs to have appropriate LOD models. If a model has neither, then you'd only be able to see it when you get close, and you wouldn't be able to land on it.

[fredinno]

1 hour ago, K^2 said:

Geometry in KSP needs to have separate collision data in order for you to be able to interact with it. There were parts of the "KSC 2" that you could walk through and couldn't land on. Likewise, in order to see an object from great distance, or on the map, it needs to have appropriate LOD models. If a model has neither, then you'd only be able to see it when you get close, and you wouldn't be able to land on it.

Do we know the coordinates?

[Vanamonde]

Moved to General Discussions. 

[SR]

I went there and found nothing

Edited January 25, 2016 by SR

[prykpryk]

I went there (no Hyperedit) and there was nothing there.

 

[Tex_NL]

13 minutes ago, prykpryk said:

I went there (no Hyperedit) and there was nothing there.

[snip]

Doesn't surprise me one bit. We've been playing 1.0.5 for quite some time now. If this really was an egg people would have noticed (and reported) it a lot sooner.

[WWEdeadman]

Yeah, that looks like a glitch to me. Like that roughly rectangular "lake" on Eve I found once, that I could drive on, which turned out to be a missing piece of texture. Wait, let me get a picture...

 

 

Edited January 25, 2016 by WWEdeadman

[ProtoJeb21]

If these "things" (I've called them Laythe's Crazy Purple Eve-Like Blobs, or LCPELBs) really are Easter Eggs, it's very hard to tell what they may be. The LCPELBs could be a reference to alien bases because of their dome-like shape and coordinates that nearly match up to the KSC. LCPELBs may be purple analogues to crater chains, like the huge one found on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Finally, they may be allusions to Planet Sheen (I hope they aren't because Planet Sheen is horrible!).

[AbacusWizard]

They are qlippothic cloisters, isolated remnants of an older world that a lazy creator forgot to remove when creating the new one. Beware; here be krakens.

[dozerman]

The color is more indicative of default/ missing textures than  eve textures. 

[maceemiller]

Still a nice find even if it is a glitch....this is why KSP is this good....you never know what's out there  

Edited March 30, 2017 by maceemiller

[CaptainTrebor]

I remember hearing of a similar glitch on Minmus, it was something to do with glitched ground scatter as I recall.

[MinimalMinmus]

2 minutes ago, CaptainTrebor said:

I remember hearing of a similar glitch on Minmus, it was something to do with glitched ground scatter as I recall.

I remeber it too, the common denominator is a KSP-i glitch that cause the mineral blobs to fail to disappear.

[Brent Kerman]

I remember the Minmus glitch was mod related. What mods do you have?

EDIT: Old thread here, I think its related, http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/59890-found-a-big-purple-ball-on-minmus/&page=2

Edited March 31, 2017 by Brent Kerman

[Gameslinx]

This occurred on Minmus which happened to be caused by a mod. If you remove your mods, the issue goes away.

It is not an easter egg, it's one if your mods. Probably interstellar