Paige Harvey
Community Manager
Hello Commanders, and welcome to the first Featured Event thread of 2019! Falling under "Featured Commanders", Featured Events will take a look at past, present and upcoming events taking place in Elite Dangerous and organised by our awesome Commanders!
Today we're talking to the organisers of The First Great Planetary Expedition.
Hey guys, explain a little bit about your event to us. What's it all about?
We're in association with the Planetary Circumnavigation Club (a group devoted to driving SRVs around planets and moons), and we'll be driving around the entire circumference of Kumay!
The planet is around 4,000km in circumference and we'll be taking a vaguely polar route, with detours past as many of the planet's best locations as we can. These will include a number of geological surface sites, as well as areas like The Fire And Ice Mountains, Knievel Jump, Manaslu Peak, The Lithops Mesa and Grim Face Crater (all of which were found and named by members of the team during an extensive geological survey).
Basically, it's an expedition in the great tradition of Elite expeditions but, instead of exploring the galaxy we're focusing on one, carefully selected moon.
Where is Kumay if anyone should want to check it out?
Kumay in the Chi Herculis system.
When is the event due to take place?
We're aiming to start towards the end of March 2019.
Do you have a message for the community?
I won't lie, this is a tough expedition which requires a certain level of proficiency in handling the SRV in order to complete it successfully within the time scale (around a month). That said, anyone who wishes to join us is more than welcome. We have a range of driving abilities on the team already including a number of experts who'll be more than willing to help as much as they can. It's going to be an absolutely incredible experience which you'll remember forever!
And, how can others join in this great venture?
You can find more information here.
This sounds fantastic and we're super excited to see how the expedition goes!
If you're reading this and would like to be interviewed as a Featured Commander, apply here.
Today we're talking to the organisers of The First Great Planetary Expedition.
Hey guys, explain a little bit about your event to us. What's it all about?
We're in association with the Planetary Circumnavigation Club (a group devoted to driving SRVs around planets and moons), and we'll be driving around the entire circumference of Kumay!
The planet is around 4,000km in circumference and we'll be taking a vaguely polar route, with detours past as many of the planet's best locations as we can. These will include a number of geological surface sites, as well as areas like The Fire And Ice Mountains, Knievel Jump, Manaslu Peak, The Lithops Mesa and Grim Face Crater (all of which were found and named by members of the team during an extensive geological survey).
Basically, it's an expedition in the great tradition of Elite expeditions but, instead of exploring the galaxy we're focusing on one, carefully selected moon.
Where is Kumay if anyone should want to check it out?
Kumay in the Chi Herculis system.
When is the event due to take place?
We're aiming to start towards the end of March 2019.
Do you have a message for the community?
I won't lie, this is a tough expedition which requires a certain level of proficiency in handling the SRV in order to complete it successfully within the time scale (around a month). That said, anyone who wishes to join us is more than welcome. We have a range of driving abilities on the team already including a number of experts who'll be more than willing to help as much as they can. It's going to be an absolutely incredible experience which you'll remember forever!
And, how can others join in this great venture?
You can find more information here.
This sounds fantastic and we're super excited to see how the expedition goes!
If you're reading this and would like to be interviewed as a Featured Commander, apply here.
