Generation Ship Golconda - The Search
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Actually, it's a mystery.
Not only is Golconda missing, but Orion University and their target Generation Ship, and its story.
Where are they?
Not only is Golconda missing, but Orion University and their target Generation Ship, and its story.
Where are they?
good luck sir.
Sounds interesting, and I should be back in the bubble by then.
The generation ship Golconda has not been seen since the June 3308 CG. Reports have not been received, status is unknown. Nobody knows or wants to say anything. This is all happening in very turbulent times from the discovery of Stargoids towards the Core Systems, Imperial isolation and disagreement over the reinstatement of the Tripartite Task Force Aegis in preparation for upcoming events. What will humanity expect? Perhaps searching for the ship will help us find answers to these questions. More information coming soon.
Stay safe out there in the dark reaches of space...
Stay safe out there in the dark reaches of space...
This is it? You found it?
For myself given current events, I'm more interested in tracking down the Scriveners.
I've made a couple of trips out the region, in particular doing searches of ring systems. Needless to say no sign of the ship thus far but quite lucrative combined with exobiology.
Any tips on searching for megaships in rings would be appreciated.
I've made a couple of trips out the region, in particular doing searches of ring systems. Needless to say no sign of the ship thus far but quite lucrative combined with exobiology.
Any tips on searching for megaships in rings would be appreciated.
Hi All 
I did an extensive search (signal sources, irregular markers etc.) recently in region of Upaniklis 3B but didn't find anything leading to the position of the Golconda Ship.
Jack
I did an extensive search (signal sources, irregular markers etc.) recently in region of Upaniklis 3B but didn't find anything leading to the position of the Golconda Ship.
Jack
The Scientia Aeterna, only known asset of the Orion University, is still in HIP 43670, forgotten and left to BGS rot. It's a dockable megaship.
The positions of the Scrivener Dredger and the Golconda remain unknown. With jump ranges like 500ly per week (and potentially even more with Golcondas new hyperdrives), it is practically impossible to locate them through brute force. The spheres one would have to comb through, by now, contain hundreds of thousands, if not millions of systems.
Personally, I believe that both the Dredger and the Golconda aren't even in the game, until an article or some other hint state so. The statistical probability of finding them by sheer luck do not justify the developers effort to care for them and move them around. Same with the Phagos clan and the Artificers.
The only remaining dredger clan that could still be in the game, is the Blue Viper Club, because GalNet hinted at it, when they escaped Archon Delaine's revenge after conspiring to overthrow him.
The positions of the Scrivener Dredger and the Golconda remain unknown. With jump ranges like 500ly per week (and potentially even more with Golcondas new hyperdrives), it is practically impossible to locate them through brute force. The spheres one would have to comb through, by now, contain hundreds of thousands, if not millions of systems.
Personally, I believe that both the Dredger and the Golconda aren't even in the game, until an article or some other hint state so. The statistical probability of finding them by sheer luck do not justify the developers effort to care for them and move them around. Same with the Phagos clan and the Artificers.
The only remaining dredger clan that could still be in the game, is the Blue Viper Club, because GalNet hinted at it, when they escaped Archon Delaine's revenge after conspiring to overthrow him.
In the case of the Scriveners I single Fdev would have made a single jump following the conclusion of the Orion University CG and then left it 'to rot' as you put it. Even with a radius of 500 LY it's a huge area to search and we previously failed to locate it after the previous jump from the Hesperus only a little over 200 LY away. As such it's a needle in a haystack, yet I see no reason Fdev would have outright removed it.
The area contains more than enough undiscovered systems for the ship to remain completely unseen.
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Billions. After ~30 weeks they could be halfway to the Core by now. Agree that the simplest answer is that they are deleted from the game until needed again. But it's fun to imagine that they're still out there, and it's not like it costs the developers anything to leave them in and park them in some anonymous system 10,000 LY out.
I shall answer your question with a quote from Erik Gunnarson's "Galactic Mysteries: Dredger Clans":
I also strongly recommend reading my article on the Scriveners (because I spent quite some time writing it ;D).
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