Endless Stars Expedition
Eol Prou Group
Eol Prou Group
- Starting Date: 2 August 3303
- Departure Point: Colonia Nebula
- Number of Explorers: 4
- The length of the route: over 370 000 LY
- Expedition Album: http://imgur.com/a/unBdl
Description
Eol Prou Group are pleased to announce the completion of training for a new expedition to distant regions of the galaxy. It’s a private expedition, in which only 4 pilots from the organization will take part.
“We have prepared a route, which runs through the entire galaxy. It will make us able to visit every closed and other interesting to us regions. Organization considered the mapping and detailed survey of such regions to be an important task.”
The secondary tasks of the expedition will be an inspection of known nebulas, which are near the route, a search of previously undiscovered planetary nebulas, unusual systems and objects and possible activity within them.
It will be very hard to achieve these goals, and the expedition will take a few month in time. That’s why the leadership decided to send only a small number of its specialists, the ones who have large experience of distant expeditions and who are ready to do their utmost to fulfill their tasks.
Departure of the expedition is scheduled on Wednesday, August 2, 3303. The ships will head to the first checkpoint on the route - the Froadik region.
Participants
- Expedition Leader: CMDR AiryKai
- Leading Specialist: CMDR Virgil Steel
- 1st Specialist: CMDR ZaKSatan
- 2nd Specialist: CMDR NivAndeR
Ships
- Name: EPG Antipater
- ID: EF-305
- Class: Anaconda
- Commander: CMDR AiryKai
- Jump Range: 46-48 ly
- Description: A fully equipped exploration vessel, carrying on board all the necessary tools for conducting scientific operations. Including: 2 Scarab-type SRVs, 1 Taipan-class fighter, detailed systems and object scanners, and FSD-wake scanner, cargo scanner, FSD-interdictor and cargo holds for storing tens of tons of cargo.
- Name: LDE Perseus
- ID: VI-11D
- Class: Diamondback Explorer
- Commander: CMDR Virgil Steel
- Jump Range: 48-50
- Description: A light and maneuverable ship, designed to survey a high-gravity objects and tasks, that can be dangerous or unavailable to larger vessels.
- Name: EPG Nova
- ID: EF-998
- Class: Asp Explorer
- Commander: CMDR ZaKSatan
- Jump Range: 45-49 ly
- Description: A middle class science laboratory, equipped with a minimal set for conducting research operations. Size and weight of the ship allows a detailed survey of any object and carry on board a few tons of cargo.
- Name: EPG Irida
- ID: EF-021
- Class: Anaconda
- Commander: CMDR NivAndeR
- Jump Range: 58-61 ly
- Description: A heavy exploration vessel equipped with a heavily modified FSD, which allows to perform a very long-distance jumps. Equipped specifically for conducting reconnaissance operations in distant systems, that are unavailable to other ship-classes.
August 5th, 3303
First achievement for Endless Stars Expedition.
Fungal Life Forms Have Been Discovered
The Endless Stars Expedition is bringing up the first results. During the survey of the stars around the next waypoint in Dryaea Flee GR-W E1-83 planetary nebula, there was found a system, which characteristics are suitable for the growth of fungal life.
"Our theory is to compare different parameters of stars, such as the potential habitable zone and types and components of stellar bodies. We are pleased to announce that the theory, developed at Eol Prou Group have been confirmed. The participants of Endless Stars Expedition have really found a new field for growth of a fungal life forms on non-atmospheric planets"
A detailed inspection revealed that the composition and types of fungi match to the organisms discovered in the past year in Colonia system. Taking into account the distance of a new field of 4000 light years from the first discovery, it can be assumed that the habitat of this life form may cover the entire galaxy.
System: Dryaea Flee HR-W e1-124
Planet: A 8 A A
Coordinates: -13.72 -115.17
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August 18th, 3303
The first communication session over the last ten days. All this time we were limited to sending only telemetry data. We hope that nobody was panicking, trying to establish communication with the expedition.
Today the crew of EPG Antipater have finally finished the survey of the outer part of permit-locked region - Froadik. LDE Perseus, EPG Nova and EPG Irida went on to the next target on the route, to Looking Glass nebula, a bit earlier, while the expedition’s flagship had left for a final data analysis.
The scanning of inner space of the region, to what extent the existing equipment allows us,haven’t revealed any serious anomalies. There are few black holes, neutron stars and and a lot of main-sequence stars inside the Froadik. But there is nothing that could indicate of something unusual, that could become a reason to block access to the region. The systems of the ship were just unable to perform a jump inside the “bubble” As in case of other locked systems, it appears to be some sort of a program-blocking in FSD-firmwares.
The regions surrounding Froadik have appeared to be very scarce in star systems, so in some places the route plotting became a bit hard. It didn’t allow to make a sufficiently smooth lines of motion, but the navigators have tried their best to minimize the deflections.
The systems themselves are not very diverse. We have found dozens of water, ammonia and earth-like worlds. Unfortunately, the Pilots Federation is still blocking the independent pilots from the access of means of landing atmospheric planets. Thus the participants of the expedition can only guess what is hidden on these undoubtedly habitable worlds.
Today expedition reunites and plans to move forward on the route to the edge of the galaxy. We will pass about 20 000 light years and will make our way closer to a potential microquasar Cygni X-3.
Northernmost System: FROADIK XV-S B47-0
Southernmost System: FROADIK YY-E B2
Easternmost System: FROADIK ZO-F C12-0
Westernmost System: FROADIK WV-M B23-0
Highest System: FROADIK YP-R B23-0
Lowest system: FROADIK WY-H B23-0
The route of the expedition along the border of Froadik:
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