GCS Sarasvati - early Thargoid lookout megaship
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Nope, that is a solstice not an equinox.
Thanks! My mistake, I misread this entry on wiki: "The days are longer around the summer solstice and shorter around the winter solstice. When the Sun's path crosses the equator, the length of the nights at latitudes +L° and -L° are of equal length. This is known as an equinox. There are two solstices and two equinoxes in a tropical year."
That makes a lot of sense indeed.
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Mmm, interesting that wiki compares density of Blanco 1 with the Pleiades. Seems suggestive....
Now that I've done a little Googling of the named systems in Blanco 1, there might be a hint in the name McBurney's Point, which is an anatomical reference: it is a one third distance from a point on the right side abdomen to the spine (simplified version). Ziggy is a shortening or nickname for Siegfried or Siegmund (although I do wonder if there is a Quantum Leap reference to hybrid computers there!). I have not found any reference to Gilthaven.
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If McBurney's Point system is a reference, then I wonder if it is the cluster that is 1/3 of the way towards something or if the cluster is a reference point and we should be looking 1/3 of the distance from it to Sol (EDIT: or Jotunheim), or if the McBurney's Point system itself is 1/3 of the way from Odin's Wisdom in the direction of something... . Some digging on the Galaxy Map is required to follow this up.
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If McBurney's Point system is a reference, then I wonder if it is the cluster that is 1/3 of the way towards something or if the cluster is a reference point and we should be looking 1/3 of the distance from it to Sol (EDIT: or Jotunheim), or if the McBurney's Point system itself is 1/3 of the way from Odin's Wisdom in the direction of something... . Some digging on the Galaxy Map is required to follow this up.
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I've done all the investigation I have the energy for, for now. Today I checked (i.e. flew to within 1Kls of every celestial body) Akkadia and local Galnet at the starport Calvin Lawrence but found nothing, however checking Groombridge 34 showed that there is a Scientific Installation near the planet A4. There was NPC dialogue from ships that jumped in about them doing research that will get them an award but nothing specific. A pair of satellites are present but I only got Specialised Legacy Firmware when I scanned them. There is a nav beacon which I also scanned but this did not reveal anything, either. I docked at the Coriolis in orbit of the planet Lyons but there was only the usual faction/trade/traffic updates in local Galnet. I had a quick perusal of possible one-third distances concerning Blanco 1, McBurney's Point, Jotunheim and Sol: there are one or two non-procedural stars way down below the Galactic Plane about twice as far away as Blanco 1 from the bubble (e.g. HIP 1966) but they probably need extreme range builds to reach and lots of jumponium, if they are even accessible. There were no named systems in between the bubble and Blanco 1 but 1/3 distance from it to the bubble is still in Blanco 1 Sector. I will take a break for a couple of days at least on this because I can tell I'm close to burning out. Good luck in your own investigations!
Well,i found this today at Colonia. Listening post orbiting 2 B planet,and i think it is somewhat related to Project Equinox.
Here are links on the images as i don´t know how to insert them directly here. https://ctrlv.cz/ElC2 https://ctrlv.cz/w9Qv
Hi cmdr, it's already known, but nevertheless, nice find and thanks for posting it. +rep.
You can find the other parts of it here:
https://canonn.science/codex/colonia-crash-site/
The antagonists in the messages are almost certainly the Black Flight.
There's no established connection between the Black Flight and Project Equinox, but who knows... maybe there's some kind of link.
EDIT: Nevermind. Ninja'd by the above post.
I came across that too in my recent travels around Colonia, but stupidly I deleted the message and now the LP won't give it to me again!
I didn't know if it was something significant or whether it's a standard LP that has been seen by a thousand Cmdrs already. I did fly down to the area on the nearest landable planet from those co-ordinates but couldn't find anything (although there were a few red circles in the nearby areas).
I could go back and do some more looking if people feel this is worthwhile? You can tell I've got the senses of an explorer, eh? /sarcasm
I didn't know if it was something significant or whether it's a standard LP that has been seen by a thousand Cmdrs already. I did fly down to the area on the nearest landable planet from those co-ordinates but couldn't find anything (although there were a few red circles in the nearby areas).
I could go back and do some more looking if people feel this is worthwhile? You can tell I've got the senses of an explorer, eh? /sarcasm
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That's a bit of an old one. CMDR Hyford is a player commander.
Out of rep for you, but interesting hypothesising there!
edit: I see the FRift thread has been closed again....
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Already known. I compiled a quick check summary of LPs and UCBs you might be interested in (last page of spreadsheet) https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/389023-Listening-post-UCB-checklist
I've been eyeballing Lyons in Groombridge 34 a few times, including a circumnavigation along the equator line, haven't found anything. Julian, Lyons, Equinox, it would make such a nice puzzle though.
It was more interesting to do tight FA off turns in ravines than checking every single shadowy spot so I might have missed something.
It was more interesting to do tight FA off turns in ravines than checking every single shadowy spot so I might have missed something.
I visited Odin's Wisdom with this idea of targeting IC 4604 Sector FB-X C1-16 and travelling towards it in super cruise. Whilst I think that is a perfectly sound idea, it has obvious problems. How far do you go? And at what speed? Move away from the star for any length of time at full throttle and you would attain speeds whereby you would cross the 2000Ls bubble around any point of interest in a fraction of a second. So I kept my speed to around 100c and travelled out to around 133,000Ls without finding anything (sod's law says there will be an old non-rotating dodecahedron station with loads of data points at 136KLs).
Another possibility was looking for something on one of the 19 landable bodies in the system. But without some more to go on that would be a fool's errand.
I then spent some time jumping around the area, trying to find a system 1182.2Ly from IC 4604 Sector FB-X C1-16, as the Blanco 1 Cluster is in that ball park, but could not find a candidate. I have to say, looking from the point of view of IC 4604 Sector FB-X C1-16 would be far easier.
My next idea was searching for starts with 1182 in their designations. This turned up: UY Sculptoris (HIP 1182) and HD 1182 (another 1000Ly 'down'). But this idea seems far fetched in the extreme.
I am still in the area for now.
Another possibility was looking for something on one of the 19 landable bodies in the system. But without some more to go on that would be a fool's errand.
I then spent some time jumping around the area, trying to find a system 1182.2Ly from IC 4604 Sector FB-X C1-16, as the Blanco 1 Cluster is in that ball park, but could not find a candidate. I have to say, looking from the point of view of IC 4604 Sector FB-X C1-16 would be far easier.
My next idea was searching for starts with 1182 in their designations. This turned up: UY Sculptoris (HIP 1182) and HD 1182 (another 1000Ly 'down'). But this idea seems far fetched in the extreme.
I am still in the area for now.
Ok been a while .. But was thinking about this .. Sarasvati is a Hindu diety who is connected to Indra and is referenced to be the daughter of his thunderbolt (the vajra also pavirava) ... So ya she could be the thunderchild... Also she is a goddess of knowledge .. Which leads us back to the archive... Only thought on Equinox is that the literal translation would be equal night...but not sure how to search planets for balanced day and night cycles
That's a good idea, maybe a planet that's tidally locked to the star (that doesn't narrow it down much, but it might help
Maybe another route to follow would be trying to track down the other members of the project(s). We know there's a few:
Equinox: Cassandra Lockhart, Dr. Calvin
Thunderchild: Julian Lyons, Izzy, Gail, "The team".
It's possible (though unlikely) that somewhere another LP, Comms beacon, log recovered from a POI site, etc. mentions one of these people with no other context.
By the way, what does "GCS" mean? I assumed it was "Galactic Cooperative Starship", but I realise that's just an assumption.
I thought it was GalCop as they put the initiative together in the first place.