Far God megaship movement

Spacerschoice-00 · Nov 15, 2021

Where are they now?

Jaden Capek · Nov 15, 2021

It's a good thing you guys kept track of their movements. The Far God megaships are about to become extremely plot important in the very near future.

RyuStaar · Nov 15, 2021

Yeah where are they guys lol we need to check em right now

Jaden Capek · Nov 15, 2021

According to the previous posts, they should be in Panjabell. Unless they jumped in the last couple days.

Spacerschoice-00 · Nov 15, 2021

Jaden Capek said:
According to the previous posts, they should be in Panjabell. Unless they jumped in the last couple days.

They're not there. Already left.

RyuStaar · Nov 15, 2021

Perdition is in Etain Right now can confirm, obiting planet 4a

Jaden Capek · Nov 15, 2021

Time to begin a search.

Jaden Capek · Nov 15, 2021

Are they just starting their waypoints over again? What was their original itineraries?

Spacerschoice-00 · Nov 15, 2021

Testament
- Panjabell, Lodhary , Tangaroa, Ehlanda, Duamta, Lindol

Testament

The Testament is a Sagan-Class Tourist Ship megaship operated by the Far God cult. It was launched in the Panjabell system on August 5, 3307 with its two sister ships, the Perdition and the Sacrosanct. The Testment serves as a missionary vessel for the Far God cult, and follows a looping route...

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Perdition
Panjabell, Etain , Merope, pleiades sector AB-W b2-4, Eangelis , Witch Head Sector DL-Y d9

Perdition

The Perdition is a Freedom-Class Survey Vessel megaship operated by the Far God cult. It was launched in the Panjabell system on August 5, 3307 with its two sister ships, the Testament and the Sacrosanct. The Perdition serves as a ritual vessel for the Far God cult, and follows a looping route...

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Sacrosanct
Panjabell , Maia , Etain , California Sector DL-Y d4 , California sector BA-A e6 , California sector JH-V c2-6
https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Sacrosanct

Testament at Lodary
Perdition at Etain
Sacrosanct at Maia

Maolagin · Nov 15, 2021

Also, what's up with these flight plans? Are these the first megaships we've seen that can jump more than 500 LY per week? It's nearly a thousand LY from California Sector or the Witch Head back to Panjabell.

Katrina Bekers · Nov 15, 2021

Maolagin said:
Also, what's up with these flight plans? Are these the first megaships we've seen that can jump more than 500 LY per week? It's nearly a thousand LY from California Sector or the Witch Head back to Panjabell.

Don't confuse megaships and fleet carriers. The latter have a 500LY jump range, while the specs for the former are not known - and supposedly varying by class.

Also, they may have short waypoints where they respin their FSDs not indicated in the flight plans.

Sheronimo · Nov 15, 2021

CMDR Therion Cygni said:
CMDRs,

Apologies for the delayed explanation of how I deciphered this. I had to high-tail it to Panjabell to look for anything unusual. There is nothing apparent there, but I haven't searched exhaustively yet. Please feel free to join in the hunt at Panjabell.

Like many, I tried a number of techniques to no avail until I stumbled upon the right one. The key was indeed the fake traffic logs. Using the incrementing Type-7 numbers to determine order, the other ship types spelled out a 7x7 matrix, namely:

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Assuming this to be the key, I arranged the numerical ciphertext provided in the Galnet article into a matrix 7 columns by 24 rows. I then multiplied it by the inverse of the key above. The result yielded a reasonable number of unique values, 27 (with 30 being an outlier). To me, this appeared to be the alphabet (single case) plus a space. I started with 1=A, 2=B, etc. I set the remaining values after Z to space. This deciphered to the message I posted, to my surprise.

Good luck recreating my results. I used Excel for all of this. Good luck to us all in tracking down Theta 7 from here, and I'll see you in the black!

o7,
CMDR Therion Cygni

Same system, kinda cool...

Factabulous · Nov 16, 2021

so they cycled much like basically every single megaship with a flight plan since they were introduced

Good to know they are home

Snowygerry · Nov 26, 2021

Perdition is at Merope 5c now, a planet with Thargoid Barnacle sites, and a few Tourist beacons.

Ian Doncaster · Nov 26, 2021

Maolagin said:
Also, what's up with these flight plans? Are these the first megaships we've seen that can jump more than 500 LY per week? It's nearly a thousand LY from California Sector or the Witch Head back to Panjabell.

Longest known single megaship jump is one of the legs of the ELI-272 Hogan-Class bulk carrier, which goes straight from Colonia, to Kaline in the bubble. (~22kLY)

We have five megaships including ELI-272 which go as far as the bubble, and seven more that resupply major outposts on the bubble-Colonia route but don't visit the bubble itself, and almost all of them make jumps >10kLY on at least one leg.

Megaships

cdb.sotl.org.uk

The 500LY limit seems to be for dockable megaships specifically (or as Katrina says there might be a lot of short jumps in-between, but ~22kLY on a 500LY range would mean they at least had a much quicker jump cycle than a Fleet Carrier did)

Jaden Capek · Dec 20, 2021

Has anything new happened regarding the megaships?

Maolagin · Dec 20, 2021

Jaden Capek said:
Has anything new happened regarding the megaships?

Well there's one fewer of them now...

Or possibly more if you count the separate pieces. Probably safe to say that one won't be making any further jumps though.