GCS Sarasvati - early Thargoid lookout megaship

[Jorki Rasalas]

Oh man, I know that feeling.

FYI - If there's a search of the Sarasvati planet happening I'll happily take part.

I’m currently in-bubble researching the data load method of finding bases; I have come to the conclusion that if Lakon are not going to provide my AspX the equivalent of a 20th Century surface search radar, or a useful DDS, for another 9 months or so then I will investigate “ the data load fluctuations as perceived by my current ship sensors”, hampered only by the high quality of my ship’s sensor data cache (C:/ drive is an SSD).

It may seem like cheating/exploiting to some, but this is something we should have had for the last 3years and my patience has worn thin!!!

 

[Saool]

* With the Caveat I have never found or discovered anything, ever had a correct theory or contributed anything to in lore or research so....

Neither had all those other people, till suddenly they did.

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

Finally caught up with the thread and today visited the Jotunheim 7 Listening Post and the Sarasvati (ironically, I had already visited the system she's in and even scanned the innermost planet, probably did that when touring some local nebulae ages ago).
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Completely agree with the AI hypothesis; that Equinox was a project to watch for the Thargoid return and project Thunderchild was developing an AI with the potential to counter a future incursion (no idea how).
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I think we will make progress only by being very lucky, as the implication is that there is an archive for us to find, though whether this is a surface base (which I suspect is most likely) or a sister ship of the GCS Sarasvati I don't know. I like the idea of the Sarasvati having sister ships Lakshmi and Parvati. There may be Listening Posts leading to any of the above that probably need finding first. These Listening Posts, as in Jotunheim, may be just beyond 1kLs from the jump-in point but, also like Jotunheim, might be near a world with a base i.e. in an inhabited system near a location you might visit to scan the bases. One other (really vague) clue springs to mind: the mention in the LP logs of 'overlapping signals'. What if the Jotunheim LP is where the signal of three equidistant megaships coincide? As has been mentioned almost immediately by Factabulous, why is the GCS Saravati almost exactly opposite the Pleiades? Perhaps she is at one node of an equilateral triangle oriented with the point away from the Pleiades?
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It's taken me too long to catch up to be much help. I even wondered if there was a way of finding AI Relics that might have been of use but I've only ever found one (in a system facing the Pleiades on the edge of the bubble, as it happens). But if Gail has been wandering around quietly looking for Dr Calvin's archive, my guess is she has herself not found it - it's good news she's been out of Galnet! We might have to help her get the information in the archive to the right people if she finds it before us - she'd be wanted ten times as much as Salome if her location and existence got out!
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One other thing that sprang to mind as a connection to Julian Lyons being the 'Spear of Jupiter': what was that spear called? It's late and I'm about to call it a night but thinking about spears and Unit 01 I just can't keep the word 'Longinus' from popping up

 

[Saool]

I still plan to continue my search of the Imperial core worlds, but it is a bit down my things to do list atm.

 

[Louis Calvert]

I think we will make progress only by being very lucky, as the implication is that there is an archive for us to find, though whether this is a surface base (which I suspect is most likely) or a sister ship of the GCS Sarasvati I don't know. I like the idea of the Sarasvati having sister ships Lakshmi and Parvati. There may be Listening Posts leading to any of the above that probably need finding first. These Listening Posts, as in Jotunheim, may be just beyond 1kLs from the jump-in point but, also like Jotunheim, might be near a world with a base i.e. in an inhabited system near a location you might visit to scan the bases. One other (really vague) clue springs to mind: the mention in the LP logs of 'overlapping signals'. What if the Jotunheim LP is where the signal of three equidistant megaships coincide? As has been mentioned almost immediately by Factabulous, why is the GCS Saravati almost exactly opposite the Pleiades? Perhaps she is at one node of an equilateral triangle oriented with the point away from the Pleiades?

A while back I used EDSM to chart all the systems that exactly matched the distance of the Sarasvati to the Jotunheim LP thinking that maybe the other ships were also parked that exact distance away too to make them easier to locate in future, and maybe the signal that woke up the Jotunheim LP didn't come from the Sarasvati but another ship positioned the same distance away.

The Candidate list is actually quite short, around 20 of so systems, I checked about 2/3 of them before I got distracted and did something else. I can't find my list offhand now, but I think it's definitely an interesting idea still. If the ships are nodes in the listening network, or three ships made up the Equinox project supported by lots of satellites, then positioning them at regular points of a triangle around a common centre would make sense for coverage.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Finally caught up with the thread and today visited the Jotunheim 7 Listening Post and the Sarasvati (ironically, I had already visited the system she's in and even scanned the innermost planet, probably did that when touring some local nebulae ages ago).
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Completely agree with the AI hypothesis; that Equinox was a project to watch for the Thargoid return and project Thunderchild was developing an AI with the potential to counter a future incursion (no idea how).
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I think we will make progress only by being very lucky, as the implication is that there is an archive for us to find, though whether this is a surface base (which I suspect is most likely) or a sister ship of the GCS Sarasvati I don't know. I like the idea of the Sarasvati having sister ships Lakshmi and Parvati. There may be Listening Posts leading to any of the above that probably need finding first. These Listening Posts, as in Jotunheim, may be just beyond 1kLs from the jump-in point but, also like Jotunheim, might be near a world with a base i.e. in an inhabited system near a location you might visit to scan the bases. One other (really vague) clue springs to mind: the mention in the LP logs of 'overlapping signals'. What if the Jotunheim LP is where the signal of three equidistant megaships coincide? As has been mentioned almost immediately by Factabulous, why is the GCS Saravati almost exactly opposite the Pleiades? Perhaps she is at one node of an equilateral triangle oriented with the point away from the Pleiades?
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It's taken me too long to catch up to be much help. I even wondered if there was a way of finding AI Relics that might have been of use but I've only ever found one (in a system facing the Pleiades on the edge of the bubble, as it happens). But if Gail has been wandering around quietly looking for Dr Calvin's archive, my guess is she has herself not found it - it's good news she's been out of Galnet! We might have to help her get the information in the archive to the right people if she finds it before us - she'd be wanted ten times as much as Salome if her location and existence got out!
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One other thing that sprang to mind as a connection to Julian Lyons being the 'Spear of Jupiter': what was that spear called? It's late and I'm about to call it a night but thinking about spears and Unit 01 I just can't keep the word 'Longinus' from popping up

You have some good thoughts there Cmdr!
I also think there are more Equinox ships & LPs to be found, but space is big and I had no success when I went searching. Did find an interesting planet during that search that I’ve been revisiitng since November and now searching for the last week or so, trying out a search assistance technique by looking at the datastream from my sensors.
The LP report of overlapping signals & equilateral triangle hypothesis might be a useful clue, but it’s still a lot of systems to search. Wasn’t the Spear of Longinus from the Librarians? the spear that wounded Christ at his crucifixion? Coffee not hit yet, brain not working well.....

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

A while back I used EDSM to chart all the systems that exactly matched the distance of the Sarasvati to the Jotunheim LP thinking that maybe the other ships were also parked that exact distance away too to make them easier to locate in future, and maybe the signal that woke up the Jotunheim LP didn't come from the Sarasvati but another ship positioned the same distance away.

The Candidate list is actually quite short, around 20 of so systems, I checked about 2/3 of them before I got distracted and did something else. I can't find my list offhand now, but I think it's definitely an interesting idea still. If the ships are nodes in the listening network, or three ships made up the Equinox project supported by lots of satellites, then positioning them at regular points of a triangle around a common centre would make sense for coverage.

I tried the same approach but hypothesised 6 ships in a hexagon centred on Lave, however by Edelgard’s reasoning three is more likely. But I think you have to put a margin of error on the distance- I used 10ly & had a large number of systems. But maybe the Great Creator(s) placed systems exactly at the same distance, you never know. Might be worth finishing off that search!

 

[Louis Calvert]

Found my list (It was written on paper, can you believe that!):

Systems 591.10 ly from Jotunheim (the distance mentioned by the beacon).

Synuefe DF-P C22-1 *
Synuefe WL-J d10-69 *
Wredguia SX-L d7-32
Synuefe DK-D b46-0 *
Wregoe BX-P b46-4
(Sarasvati system)
Synuefe JH-H b57-1 *
Praea Euq AG-R b4-4
Col 359 Sector VG-J b24-4
Synuefai MN-Q d6-35
Swoilz CS-H b2-8
Synuefe FR-H b57-8
B92 Sector RD-S b4-5
Col 359 Sector XE-N c8-4
Col 359 Sector EU-J a12-2

Turns out I only seem to have checked 4 of them too (the ones with * next to them).

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

Thanks! I'll check those later today or over the weekend (I have some prep work for an EDRPG game tomorrow). I've checked a handful this afternoon, flying to within 1Kls of every planet (only excluding distant stars with no planets) in the following systems (found nothing but have a few First Discoveries maybe and a small data survey cache for my trouble) :
HIP 29854
SYNUEFE KO-O D7-78
" D7-79
" D7-41
" D7-42
" D7-48
" D7-47
" ZI-B C16-0
" C16-12
" C16-13
" AE-B C16-6
" BE-B C16-6
These systems have roughly the right angle and distance but are a bit too close to the Galactic Plane, nevertheless they seemed interesting because they are in the direct line of sight from Jotunheim to Barnard's Loop.

 

[Saool]

Found my list (It was written on paper, can you believe that!):

Systems 591.10 ly from Jotunheim (the distance mentioned by the beacon).

Synuefe DF-P C22-1 *
Synuefe WL-J d10-69 *
Wredguia SX-L d7-32
Synuefe DK-D b46-0 *
Wregoe BX-P b46-4
(Sarasvati system)
Synuefe JH-H b57-1 *
Praea Euq AG-R b4-4
Col 359 Sector VG-J b24-4
Synuefai MN-Q d6-35
Swoilz CS-H b2-8
Synuefe FR-H b57-8
B92 Sector RD-S b4-5
Col 359 Sector XE-N c8-4
Col 359 Sector EU-J a12-2

Turns out I only seem to have checked 4 of them too (the ones with * next to them).

Why would they be 591.10Ly? It's seems a bit pointlessly exact.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Thanks! I'll check those later today or over the weekend (I have some prep work for an EDRPG game tomorrow). I've checked a handful this afternoon, flying to within 1Kls of every planet (only excluding distant stars with no planets) in the following systems (found nothing but have a few First Discoveries maybe and a small data survey cache for my trouble) :
HIP 29854
SYNUEFE KO-O D7-78
" D7-79
" D7-41
" D7-42
" D7-48
" D7-47
" ZI-B C16-0
" C16-12
" C16-13
" AE-B C16-6
" BE-B C16-6
These systems have roughly the right angle and distance but are a bit too close to the Galactic Plane, nevertheless they seemed interesting because they are in the direct line of sight from Jotunheim to Barnard's Loop.

If the thargoid threat was originally intended to come from FRift but was changed to Barnard’s Loop, then it might be worth considering FRift as well as the Loop. We don’t know if FD would have thought to change everything related.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Why would they be 591.10Ly? It's seems a bit pointlessly exact.

That was my thought- you’d expect some variation in LP jump distance. And no real lore reason for an exact distance match. If the LP/Equinox megaships were supposed to be placed for triangulating goid signals, or even just providing warning of goid intercepts, then a few LY variation might be expected. The siting of Sarasvati near a nebula seems intentional, but I think we have had a good sniff around all likely contenders.

 

[Louis Calvert]

Why would they be 591.10Ly? It's seems a bit pointlessly exact.

Because that's what the LP says:

Signal Match Detected Distance to Signal 591.10Ly.
I’ve detected a encoded transmission emitted from a location 591.10ly from this beacon. This signal has triggered a new subroutine in my core programme...

So my list was based on the idea that maybe the signal didn't come from the Sarasvati (which is 591.10ly away from Jotunheim), and it actually came from another of the ships, and each ship was positioned exactly equidistant from Jotunheim - I mean the project is called Equinox, which basically means "half way point" and there's no obvious reason to call the project that... so it's not inconcievable that the LP that was first found was the exact half-way point between two or more ships.

As for that specific distance, I don't know, I didn't put the ship there but the fact that there's multiple systems that match that exact distance suggests that it's entirely possible, and a bunch of them would fall roughly within the idea of forming a triangle positioned around the bubble.

 

[Saool]

Because that's what the LP says:



So my list was based on the idea that maybe the signal didn't come from the Sarasvati (which is 591.10ly away from Jotunheim), and it actually came from another of the ships, and each ship was positioned exactly equidistant from Jotunheim - I mean the project is called Equinox, which basically means "half way point" and there's no obvious reason to call the project that... so it's not inconcievable that the LP that was first found was the exact half-way point between two or more ships.

As for that specific distance, I don't know, I didn't put the ship there but the fact that there's multiple systems that match that exact distance suggests that it's entirely possible, and a bunch of them would fall roughly within the idea of forming a triangle positioned around the bubble.

Understood.

I wonder then if we should also look at 1182.2Ly, eg, the Sarasvati is at a halfway point itself, and there may be another layer of ship further out?

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

Understood.

I wonder then if we should also look at 1182.2Ly, eg, the Sarasvati is at a halfway point itself, and there may be another layer of ship further out?

Or Project Equinox could have been about setting up a warning net half way towards where they thought trouble might come from, perhaps.
Given the capabilities of the era, I am not convinced they would have known with much clarity where the Thargoids attacks were coming from. They might have been able to map the distribution of known losses and guess that they were approaching from the rough direction of the Pleiades or Barnards Loop but those locations might only have been a last resupply stop before they jumped into battle. I don't think they really knew where the Thargoids originated from any more than we do now - else the information would have been passed down, somehow.

 

[Louis Calvert]

Understood.

I wonder then if we should also look at 1182.2Ly, eg, the Sarasvati is at a halfway point itself, and there may be another layer of ship further out?

Oooh, that's a very interesting idea! Of course all this is based on the assumption that the Sarasvati hasn't been moved (no reason to think it has or hasn't at this point really).

Or Project Equinox could have been about setting up a warning net half way towards where they thought trouble might come from, perhaps.
Given the capabilities of the era, I am not convinced they would have known with much clarity where the Thargoids attacks were coming from. They might have been able to map the distribution of known losses and guess that they were approaching from the rough direction of the Pleiades or Barnards Loop but those locations might only have been a last resupply stop before they jumped into battle. I don't think they really knew where the Thargoids originated from any more than we do now - else the information would have been passed down, somehow.

You make a good point, however we know they knew the Thargoids were located in the Pleiades (Mic Turner called it a "Forward Operating Base" years later) - since they set up the INRA weapons test base near there and sent Jameson to attack the Mothership that was there. There's also reports in the ED timeline from as early as the 2800's of ships going missing in the Pleiades and rumours of aliens there - but yes, they didn't seem to know where the Thargoids originated from any more than we do, sadly.

It makes sense that they'd position the detection grid (whatever it was) all around the bubble, since as Cassandra says, they Thargoids vanished suddenly and entirely, and maybe they put the Sarasvati on the exact opposite side of the last-known Thargoid location to keep it safe? Not sure, the positioning has always seemed strange, unless it was indeed moved after the project was shut down...?

 

[Alkibiades]

and there's no obvious reason to call the project that...

I know somebody allready mentioned it but I wanted to use gifs

Are you kidding us?!! Equinox means half way point......


oh my god...

Did anybody check systems 1182.2ly away from Jotunheim in direction of the Sarasvati?

What else do we need until we start looking for the system where the player is beamed to at the end of a previous elite game?!


HIP 1182 = UY Sculptoris

HR 1182 exists as well, both are close to the bubble


PRAEA EUQ VA-F D11-11 is 1182.18ly from Jotunheim but there are a lot of others....

 

[Louis Calvert]

I know somebody allready mentioned it but I wanted to use gifs

Are you kidding us?!! Equinox means half way point......


oh my god...

https://media.giphy.com/media/Ra1bmpxpsppNC/giphy.gif


Did anybody check systems 1182.2ly away from Jotunheim in direction of the Sarasvati?


https://im-01.gifer.com/3euB.gif


What else do we need until we start looking for the system where the player is beamed to at the end of a previous elite game?!


HIP 1182 = UY Sculptoris

HR 1182 exists as well, both are close to the bubble


PRAEA EUQ VA-F D11-11 is 1182.18ly from Jotunheim but there are a lot of others....

I genuinely don't know what most of your post means As we've said at length:

1) We don't know if the Sarasvati was part of Equinox at all - we only know the logs were on it.
2) We don't know if the Sarasvati was part of Equinox in a significant way (i.e. a pivotal role, like a command ship, so it's position might be irrelevant)
3) We don't know if the Sarasvati has been moved at all over the past 150 years
4) We don't know if the Sarasvati is 150 years old, or if it's a new ship (the design is certainly very much like more modern megaships like the Zurara) that the logs and things were transferred to.
5) We don't know what "Equinox" refers to in this context.
6) We don't know why you'd call the project "Equinox" - for example British military projects have a randomly selected name, i.e. the names don't mean anything. The U.S. Military uses name that are often indicative of the actual project. So, "Equinox" might not really mean anything.
7) Equinox does mean "half way point", but it also can be used in a couple of other ways (generally related to astronomy)

So sure, there might be something in a system double the distance between Jotunheim and the Srasvati, it's definitely a good idea - but there's a lot else it could mean too.

a) The project might refer to "the darkest time", for example the Winter Equinox is the darkest point of the year (shortest day) - this might be a poetic way of describing the Thargoid War as being the "darkest point" of human history to date.
b) Equinox might refer to the general idea that the Equinox on Earth is the time when the Sun is almost directly above the Equator (which apparently isn't entirely correct). This might be a reference to a celestial location.
c) Equinox might be another reference to Julian, since there is a "Julian Equinox" in astronomy.
d) Equinox might be referencing the celestial coordinate system: " Thus when specifying celestial coordinates for an object, one has to specify at what time the vernal point and the celestial equator are taken. That reference time is called the equinox of date"

So, as I said, Equinox generally means the mid-point, but that doesn't mean is does mean that in this context, or that it means anything in any context. Sadly. There's no obvious reason to call the project that -the ship isn't called Equinox, the project is, and there's no specific relation that we know of between the project and the ship other than the project logs were found on the ship.

*note* Yes, the most obvious explanation is that the Sarasvati was the home of Cassandra and the Equinox team, but the point is, we don't know that.

What else do we need until we start looking for the system where the player is beamed to at the end of a previous elite game?!

You mean Miacke? There's been quite a few attempts to map the location of that system over to ED, since the galaxies aren't the same due to limited capabilities of computers back then compared to now it's a bit tricky. Some people (me included) think that it's probably the system in the Col70 sector that the probes point to, it's in the approximately correct direction and distance (though distances were different in FFE). Some people think it was the opposite way due to the map being reversed, so that would put it on the other side, out Formidine way.

Either way, best guess is that it's rimwards not corewards. Same as FFE. However, if you're relating this to the Equinox project it's worth remembering that Cassandra says quite clearly they don't know where the Thargoids went, and Miacke wasn't located until the crazy antics of that lone pilot in 3252 (and in ED we don't really know if that actually happened! We know the Thargoid ship that was built in orbit of Miacke existed in ED, but there's no telling where it came from.) Because of that it's unlikely they could position the Sarasvati "half way" between anything Thargoid related, since the only place they knew Thargoids were in the 3150's was the Pleiades.

It's also worth remembering that the first part of that story was to go to Polaris where INRA was guarding a Thargoid "transporter" that took you to Miacke, and Polaris is permit locked right now, so it's possible that that device might still be there - but I'm not sure if any of that is related to the Sarasvati, Equinox and Thunderchild, we just have so little to go on.

Definitely worth investing though.

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

Here are the results of my weekend's digging - I might not have found any megaships or listening posts but I have a couple more leads that we can follow up, as you'll see:
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The following systems that are the same distance from Jotunheim as the GCS Sarasvati were searched, in each case every planetary body (but not distant stars with no planets) was approached to within 1Kls, although not all were scanned (a few potential First Discoveries remain):

Spoiler

SYNEUFE FR-H B57-8
SYNUEFAI MN-Q D6-35
WREGOE BX-P B46-4
PRAEA EUQ AG-R B4-4
SWOILZ CS-H B2-8
B92 SECTOR RD-S B4-5
WREDGUIA SX-L D7-32
COL 359 SECTOR VG-J B24-4
COL 359 SECTOR XE-N C8-4
COL 359 SECTOR EU-J A12-2

No ships or other findings of importance resulted from this phase of the search and except for a couple of First Discoveries (not sure I've turned in all the data for these yet, though) these systems are uninteresting. The only highlight was an untagged Ammonia World in IC 2391 Sector.
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After visiting these systems, I then searched a number of systems in the bubble with relevant names, again approaching to within 1Kls of each planetary body:

Spoiler

Hel
Midgard
Alfheim
Niflheimri
Heimr
Thor (no planets but visited the secondary star)
Sif

Again, no sign of ships or listening posts. The local Galnet at Hel had some articles from Summer 3301 about conflicts between player factions (Adle's Armada and Cosmic Space iirc) but nothing since.
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At this point I did a little digging in the Galaxy Map. Typing Odin into the search sends you to a system called 'Odin's Wisdom'. This seemed like a good lead: this system lies in a star cluster called Blanco 1 and is about 900 LY below the Galactic Plane, more or less directly below the bubble. The name sounds like a good place for Calvin's archive, so I set out at once and found as I got close that there are three more named systems amongst this star cluster, where in the centre all the stars have non-procedural names. I searched each one as before:
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Odin's Wisdom
Ziggy
McBurney's Point
Gilthaven
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Clearly there is the possibility that some plans are afoot for this region. There are many landables in these systems (a lot of gas giants) so the possibility remains that the archive could be here - but we'll need to find the co-ordinates from somewhere as there is too much to search by eye. I found nothing relevant, although McBurney's Point has three water worlds and several candidates for terraforming, which should pay the maintenance on my Python for supercruising 460+ Kls out to the tertiary star.
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Once more I did some digging in the Galaxy Map. There is a system called 'Parvati' which I have just reached but it has no planets, only two stars and I found nothing within 1Kls of them. There are two more leads however within the bubble that I have not followed up:
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1) Typing 'Calvin' into the Galaxy Map search gives only one result: Calvin Lawrence, a station in the Akkadia system. I do not know if this is a backer name but this system may be worth checking.
2) Typing 'Lyons' into the Galaxy Map search directs you to a planet called Lyons in the Groombridge 34 system. It is a small landable body that hardly seems worth the name, next to the other named bodies in the system. Although it's a 76 Kls trip, it might be worthwhile investigating here as well.
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I feel like this weekend has been useful. It's helpful to be able to rule out some things and the Blanco 1 cluster is an interesting place to visit. It also threw up a couple more places to investigate in the bubble. I wonder what the significance of the naming of those systems in Blanco 1 is; something else to look up.

 

[Saool]

Here are the results of my weekend's digging - I might not have found any megaships or listening posts but I have a couple more leads that we can follow up, as you'll see:
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The following systems that are the same distance from Jotunheim as the GCS Sarasvati were searched, in each case every planetary body (but not distant stars with no planets) was approached to within 1Kls, although not all were scanned (a few potential First Discoveries remain):

Spoiler

SYNEUFE FR-H B57-8
SYNUEFAI MN-Q D6-35
WREGOE BX-P B46-4
PRAEA EUQ AG-R B4-4
SWOILZ CS-H B2-8
B92 SECTOR RD-S B4-5
WREDGUIA SX-L D7-32
COL 359 SECTOR VG-J B24-4
COL 359 SECTOR XE-N C8-4
COL 359 SECTOR EU-J A12-2

No ships or other findings of importance resulted from this phase of the search and except for a couple of First Discoveries (not sure I've turned in all the data for these yet, though) these systems are uninteresting. The only highlight was an untagged Ammonia World in IC 2391 Sector.
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After visiting these systems, I then searched a number of systems in the bubble with relevant names, again approaching to within 1Kls of each planetary body:

Spoiler

Hel
Midgard
Alfheim
Niflheimri
Heimr
Thor (no planets but visited the secondary star)
Sif

Again, no sign of ships or listening posts. The local Galnet at Hel had some articles from Summer 3301 about conflicts between player factions (Adle's Armada and Cosmic Space iirc) but nothing since.
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At this point I did a little digging in the Galaxy Map. Typing Odin into the search sends you to a system called 'Odin's Wisdom'. This seemed like a good lead: this system lies in a star cluster called Blanco 1 and is about 900 LY below the Galactic Plane, more or less directly below the bubble. The name sounds like a good place for Calvin's archive, so I set out at once and found as I got close that there are three more named systems amongst this star cluster, where in the centre all the stars have non-procedural names. I searched each one as before:
.
Odin's Wisdom
Ziggy
McBurney's Point
Gilthaven
.
Clearly there is the possibility that some plans are afoot for this region. There are many landables in these systems (a lot of gas giants) so the possibility remains that the archive could be here - but we'll need to find the co-ordinates from somewhere as there is too much to search by eye. I found nothing relevant, although McBurney's Point has three water worlds and several candidates for terraforming, which should pay the maintenance on my Python for supercruising 460+ Kls out to the tertiary star.
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Once more I did some digging in the Galaxy Map. There is a system called 'Parvati' which I have just reached but it has no planets, only two stars and I found nothing within 1Kls of them. There are two more leads however within the bubble that I have not followed up:
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1) Typing 'Calvin' into the Galaxy Map search gives only one result: Calvin Lawrence, a station in the Akkadia system. I do not know if this is a backer name but this system may be worth checking.
2) Typing 'Lyons' into the Galaxy Map search directs you to a planet called Lyons in the Groombridge 34 system. It is a small landable body that hardly seems worth the name, next to the other named bodies in the system. Although it's a 76 Kls trip, it might be worthwhile investigating here as well.
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I feel like this weekend has been useful. It's helpful to be able to rule out some things and the Blanco 1 cluster is an interesting place to visit. It also threw up a couple more places to investigate in the bubble. I wonder what the significance of the naming of those systems in Blanco 1 is; something else to look up.

That's a lovely little find. I think that cluster will be my next destination.

A bit of googling of Blanco reveals a great deal about kitchen sinks. I'm sure there is a joke in there somewhere. Blanco 1 however is real. It was found by Víctor Manuel Blanco. I did a quick search for that in game to see if there was a station of base named after him, but there was not.