This is built at the end of the No Man’s Sky rainbow, at the centre of the final normal galaxy, Iousongola. If you dive into the central black hole and jump to the next galaxy, you return to the first galaxy, Euclid. Iousongola represents the end of No Man’s Sky. This planet lies at the very end of Iousongola. It’s the end of the journey. That’s why I built a home here.
This is not the first big base I’ve built in the galaxy. On my first exploration of the centre, I could not find the best type of planet, a paradise planet, so I found one elsewhere and built Travellers’ Rest Home. This much smaller base replaces it.
Recent changes to the game make it much easier to explore the galactic centre by black hole hopping, so that’s what I did, and by luck came across this planet. I’m not the first player here, there are at least two other bases. But there was none at the portal, so that’s where I built.
The base isn’t horrid, except in name. The planet isn’t horrid. The galaxy’s not nice, but it’s not horrid. Perhaps the name arose because the game, as huge as it is, as impossible to entirely explore as it is, has an end. Despite all that it is, No Man’s Sky is a cul–de–sac. Welcome to the end of the rainbow, welcome to the top of the cul–de–sac, welcome to Horrid.
