New Galactic Limits - Farthest Below the Plane

June 2, 3303
08:07:26 AM


Only one day following a new record for the highest reached system above the galactic plane, former SHEPARD Expedition Leader Cmdr Parabolus has just beaten the record for the deepest system visited below the plane, and returned to tell about it.

After extensive searching over 25,000 light years back and forth underneath the galactic core and over 1000 system scanned and surveyed, Cmdr Parabolas has just surpassed the record held for the deepest visited system below the galactic plane. The existing record holder is known Mariana, and is according to the Galactic Mapping Project currently believed to be the system deepest below the galactic plane ever reached, 3.216 LY below Sol. Mariana was visited and recorded by Cmdr Allitnl on Feb 16, 3303. Cmdr Parabolus has surpassed this record reaching 3,220 light-years below the plane [-3219.46ly]. While a new distance of four light years deeper does not shatter the existing record, given the sparsity of star systems below the plane on the fringe of intergalactic space, it is still quite an achievement.

This new system at 3,220ly below the plane has been named Nadir by Cmdr Parabolus, which has two meanings: the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith, but also means the lowest point of greatest adversity or despair. Nadir requires a sequence of Neutron FSD boosts to reach it - one of which is a 250ly mega-jump. The final jump is reachable on a single Neutron Boost, however to return alive a technically challenging double-boost is required at the final stop. Commander Parabolas reached AND returned from Nadir using this difficult technique to sell the data to Universal Cartographics.

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Nadir may be reached using the following route:

Kyloae Prau PI-S e4-4
Kyloae Prau FB-X f1-10 > 122.35ly
Sluenoe CL-Y g5 > 250.37ly
Sluenoe CL-Y g4 [Nadir] > 213.14ly

I would like to describe the final two systems here in more detail:

Nadir itself is a relatively unremarkable system, containing an O-class star and a B-class star. These stars, however, shed magnificent light deep into the void as they are surrounded by absolute darkness. Moreover, this system offers incredible views back toward the entirety of the galaxy. I took a while in this system enjoying its silence, enjoying the accomplishment.

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The final system before reaching Nadir is Sluenoe CL-Y g5, and a truly remarkable system indeed. This system at more than 3120 light-years below the galactic plane serves as one of the deepest accessible systems in the galaxy. Moreover, with two black holes and a pulsar neutron star, the system's planets and moons are bathed in a unique light. Please note the Neutron Star is very close the the arrival black hole. Explorers should proceed with caution. The system contains a few gas giants and dwarf stars. That being said, the system's most unique feature orbiting one of the dwarf stars is a Ringed Earth-like Moon, 5,000ls from the arrival point! This is the most distant known Earth-like World from the galactic plane - either above or below, at a depth of 3,120 light years.

Furthermore, there are 34 moons in this system, I only scanned moons adjacent to the Earth-like Moon, therefore leaving 23 moons unscanned and untagged. I ask that each commander who is daring enough to attempt to reach Nadir, scan only one moon within this access system marking their presence here. This system will therefore serve as a memento for all commanders daring enough to successfully reach the absolute that's below the plane - for those daring enough to venture this way. Although 3220 light years below the plane is extremely deep and was difficult to attain, I am convinced that this record too will be broken. As such I will continue my search over the next ensuing weeks for any system deeper than Nadir to continue to push the limits of galactic cartographic knowledge through the Galactic Mapping Project.

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Cmdr Parabolus at Sluenoe CL-Y g5

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Cmdr Parabolus at Nadir [Sluenoe CL-Y g4]

Godspeed Commanders. o7

- Cmdr Parabolus
 
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Congratulations! I've run the calculations, and your ELW is the new record holder for the most rare kind. The previous one was Crookoa ZY-R d4-930 ABCD 1 f, discovered by CMDR GreyAreaUK. The difference is that yours is a circumtrinary around more rare types (two black holes and a neutron star).
Also, the previous ELW record holder for the lowest Y coordinate was around -2800 ly, so that's a big improvement on that front too. Oh, and it's the first to be found in a mass code G system. Edit: I was wrong on this one, CMDR Guywano discovered an ELW in a code G system earlier.
Right on, Commanders!
 
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Congratulations! I've run the calculations, and your ELW is the new record holder for the most rare kind. The previous one was Crookoa ZY-R d4-930 ABCD 1 f, discovered by CMDR GreyAreaUK. The difference is that yours is a circumtrinary around more rare types (two black holes and a neutron star).
Also, the previous ELW record holder for the lowest Y coordinate was around -2800 ly, so that's a big improvement on that front too. Oh, and it's the first to be found in a mass code G system. Right on, Commanders!

Wow that truly is incredible! Thanks for the research. This might make two postings on galactic mapping!
 
Hi Anthor, what is real visits?
Before Frontier introduced precise system coordinates in the netlogs, the only way to get system coordinates was to trilaterate them via distances from other systems. As such, EDSM has several systems in the database which's positions we know, but nobody has ever visited them. KV Ursae Majoris is one such example. As for HIP 13044, CMDR Halosos was teleported there (during the 2.1 beta) by FD upon request as a birthday present: see here.

So, real visits on the records page would be the systems that people have actually visited, and not just trilaterated from elsewhere.
 
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Congratulations! I've run the calculations, and your ELW is the new record holder for the most rare kind. The previous one was Crookoa ZY-R d4-930 ABCD 1 f, discovered by CMDR GreyAreaUK. The difference is that yours is a circumtrinary around more rare types (two black holes and a neutron star).
Also, the previous ELW record holder for the lowest Y coordinate was around -2800 ly, so that's a big improvement on that front too. Oh, and it's the first to be found in a mass code G system. Right on, Commanders!

Why am I not suprised that you have statistics for that :D
 
Hi Anthor, what is real visits?

Btw I have an extra SHEPARD Patch. You want one since edsm does so much for expeditions?

yes the patch would be great! Thanks.

In real visit, I mean one with a flight log, so a first discovered registered on EDSM, and not the actual below one where the CMDR was teleported ;)

I will keep both but you need to be credited too.
 
Why am I not suprised that you have statistics for that :D
Hehe, yeah. It makes picking out the outliers much easier.
Also, I was wrong about this being the first ELW in a mass code G system: I didn't notice that CMDR Guywano discovered one a bit over a month ago. My bad! The other records still stand, of course.
 
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Before Frontier introduced precise system coordinates in the netlogs, the only way to get system coordinates was to trilaterate them via distances from other systems. As such, EDSM has several systems in the database which's positions we know, but nobody has ever visited them. KV Ursae Majoris is one such example. As for HIP 13044, CMDR Halosos was teleported there (during the 2.1 beta) by FD upon request as a birthday present: see here.

So, real visits on the records page would be the systems that people have actually visited, and not just trilaterated from elsewhere.

exactly that :)
 
Hehe, yeah. It makes picking out the outliers much easier.
Also, I was wrong about this being the first ELW in a mass code G system: I didn't notice that CMDR Guywano discovered one a bit over a month ago. My bad! The other records still stand, of course.

What database do you use for this? Is there a master spreadsheet for all edsm data? Is it accessible? That would be fanatical as I have only a super-data set from Shepard and this mission.
 
What database do you use for this? Is there a master spreadsheet for all edsm data? Is it accessible? That would be fanatical as I have only a super-data set from Shepard and this mission.
I take it you're familiar with the ELW list (if not, see my sig): there's another sheet here which pulls data from it, and determines and counts mass codes as well.
The data isn't from EDSM, and it might yet turn out that somebody discovered a code G ELW before, and just didn't mention it anywhere (that I know of). In that case, I'll admit I was wrong there. But otherwise, I'm too lazy to grab the EDSM data and whip up a script to generate mass codes for ELW-bearing systems, when I'd only use that to verify this.
 
Thanks for all the kind words everyone. The wonderful people at EDSM [Anthor], and the Galactic Mapping Project, in particular Heavy Johnson and Corbin Moran have done a wonderful job keeping these records up to date and included on the Galaxy Map for all to see as POI. Nadir is listed here. In the meantime, I have finally made it back to Colonia to sell the data. Before I left, however, I took a few more photos:

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