The Aphelion Expedition has now successfully concluded, with the deployment of 8 DSSA Carriers.
This was a 9-day journey across the galaxy. Initially 11 Carriers set out; eight DSSA Carriers, along with three support vessels.
Carriers that took part:
- DSSA Sleeper Service
- DSSA Distant Worlds
- DSSA Stellar Oasis
- DSSA Callisto
- DSSA Tartarus
- DSSA King's Pass
- DSSA Sésame
- DSSA Aristarchos
- Colonia Carrier 'Challenger' (Support Vessel)
- Mercy of Angel (Support Vessel)
- Zero Dawn (Support Vessel)
The DSSA Distant Worlds, Zero Dawn, and Mercy of Angel travelled to Beagle Point and became three of the first Carriers to cross the galaxy from the bubble to reach the far side (June 18th 3306), covering over 73,000 LYs in the process. This took a monumental effort to achieve, with two mining operations required along the way - one at the Explorer's Anchorage, where almost 50,000 tons of Tritium were mined to fuel all the Carriers, and another mining op at Luna's Shadow were around 5,000 tons were mined to fuel the Distant Worlds, Zero Dawn and Tartarus for their final push into the Abyss.
A massive thanks to all those who came along and took part!
The video condenses the long trek into a short 3-minute montage of some of the sites we saw along the way.
DSSA Distant Worlds final journey stats: