„The pale blue dot“ is a photography taken by the Voyager 1 probe from about 6 billion kilometers distance of the planet Earth in the Sol system in 1990. Earth appears as a single, pale blue dot on that photography, about which the astronomer Carl Sagan later said in a lecture:
With the arrival of Jaques Station in the system Eol Prou RS-T D3-94 and the subsequent efforts to create further outposts in the vicinity a new era has begun for mankind. While Jaques station acts as a Freeport for commanders of the Pilot’s Federation and Colonia Hub could be the seed of a new society there’ll still be need for planetary colonies to house all those who want to escape the warmongering and politics of the old world.
It is thus our duty and responsibility as colonial citizens to catalogue all the pale blue dots around Jaques Station that might most easily be colonized by those preparing for the long trek to the Colonia Nebula.
ROSS and the EDDB database are existing tools that can be used to this end. The highest priority is assigned to earth-like worlds in a radius of 250ly around Eol Prou RS-T D3-94, which will most certainly act as the staging ground for the first colonization efforts. A secondary goal will be to catalogue water worlds and terraforming candidates, which are much more abundant.
Commanders are encouraged to post the names of the systems and pictures of the worlds they find to this thread as a kind of ‘logbook’ of the Pale Blue Dots project. For those looking to get into contact with fellow explorers and colonists the Colonia Citizens Network with its attached Discord channels are suggested places to look at.
The most Earth-like planet recorded in the Pale Blue Dots project so far is:
Eol Prou OC-U d3-482 A 9
The Earth-similarity calculations can be found here (factors might still change, suggestions welcome).
Data from CMDR Marx' list of ELWs, which can be found here, is slowly integrated. If you provide him with data it will eventually be added to EDDB, too! Please feel free to post pictures to this thread still!
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