COMPLETED CG Deliver Xenological Samples for the Holloway Bioscience Institute in Colonia

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I think as Marx pointed out - Collared pods from the Trifid Nebula would be best - then head to Colonia & unload. But sampling is not fast, and most aren't set up to do it, so filling even one FC will be difficult. And people risk missing out on the unloading.

500k samples to complete = < 100 FC. Seems a lot.

With the current tritium supplies on stations in Colonia. Challenge. :)
 
I'm a little surprised the duration for this is only a week. Even with just the time taken to get there from the bubble taken into account, let alone sampling time, it seems quite tight.
 
There's also that even with multiple limpet controllers, harvesting the samples takes quite a long while. Filling up a carrier's hold with samples would take large amounts of people. I'd wager that doing it just for one carrier would require a concentrated push from a large squadron - and they would have one week to organise and execute it.
Yep. And there are large squadrons which could make a go at that, but of course they're mostly ones which have no reason to do so, while Colonia's resident squadrons first have the challenge of getting a carrier out to Trifid in the first place.

Suicidewinder back to the bubble, buy an Anaconda, fit with cargo racks, limpets, etc. remote engineer up to G5 FSD and a few mid-range lightweightings, fly out via Trifid to swap the limpets for samples, on to Colonia ... maybe 200t a time for most of a full day's effort ... sell the Anaconda at Jaques and repeat. Also really doesn't work well.

We'll put something together but hopefully there's a smarter way to go about this!
 
fdev said they are streaming the CG tonight. Might be worth watching and seeing if they've done anything to make this possible. Or else they'll just be asking the stream where to find pods :D

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And here we are 15k light years from colonia to pick up pod samples ...
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And we are back at colonia guys. Lets hand in our samples.
 
Closest ones we know. But what if there are still undiscovered NSPs nearby? Put in with todays weekly tick. Just a guess. For an exploration CG.
Well, this was why I suggested FD finally utilize Rumours in the Codex ;) If there are any undiscovered pods closer to Colonia. But the thing is, the last time new pods have been found was back in 2019. March.

Interesting to hear that Frontier will be streaming doing the CG though. Maybe they'll teleport to a new NSP area then :D
 
Are we sure that peduncle pods (not the trees) can't be harvested though? The nearest ones to Colonia are around the Prai Hypoo nebula, Temple region... still 12,000 ly away, however.
 
I was going to ask if that "sample" is going to take cargo space to transport but then i realised that it is going to take at least that limpet that collects the sample. I'm presuming that the limpet is disposable.
 
I was going to ask if that "sample" is going to take cargo space to transport but then i realised that it is going to take at least that limpet that collects the sample. I'm presuming that the limpet is disposable.
This is it. With research limpets you swap 1t of limpet for 1t of sample, all very neat.
 
Now this is the sort of CG that should be offering a half decent, unique reward to stimulate participation.

Imo decals and some new test sites ain't gonna cut it here FDev, this is a pretty commitment heavy CG and requires a fair amount more effort than your average one.

Probably one of the most gruelling ones I've seen since I joined at PS4 launch and sadly I forsee it been passed over by most.
 
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