THE SAGITTARIUS-CARINA MISSION
organized by the First Great Expedition (FGE)
Launched: August 1st 3301
Status: Ongoing (open mapping project)
Relaunched: April 9th 3302
All explorers are invited to take part!
Mission hub and Sign-up here!
Route and camps - details and links
Mission sub-forum, planning and discussion on the FGE forum
MEET-UPS
If you would like to announce a meet up schedule for yourself or a group of yours, send me a PM and Ill add it to this page.
Lets say you where a small group of friends heading out from civilization, but would also like more people to join you. This would be the page to announce that.
EXPLORATION WINGS - Return trip from Beagle Point to Hip 72043 via stage 3 and 4 and Jaques Station
Initiators: Corbin Moran and Wishblend
This schedule will bring us back to the bubble in time for the Distant Worlds meet up on december 4th.
It has a comfortable average pace of just below 3500 LY / week.
Dates has been tweaked to allow most meet ups to fall on saturdays - or thursdays.
Times has been chosen to allow different timezones to take part. It will be quite late for some and quite early for others though
If you´d like to join us then make an introductory post in this thread and log in to our team speak server during a meet up and say hello.
We will coordinate with each other on Team Speak wether we play in OPEN or a private group for a specific meet up.
| Date | Time (IGT) | Camp |
| Sat, Jul 2nd | 20.00 | 19 - Beagle Point (departure) |
| Sat, Jul 2nd | ? | 20 - Podar (arrival) |
| Sat, Jul 9th | 20.00 | 21 - Distant View in Blue |
| Sat, Jul 23rd | 20.00 | 22 - The Nest |
| Thu, Aug 4th | 19.00 | 23 - Will-o'-wisp |
| Thu, Aug 18th | 19.00 | 24 - Tristar Beacon |
| Sat, Aug 27th | 20.00 | 25 - Greene Plain |
| Sat, Sep 3rd | 20.00 | 26 - 13 Mu Sagittarii |
| Sat, Sep 10th | 20.00 | 27 - 15 Sagittarii |
| Sat, Sep 17th | 20.00 | 28 - Bloody Haze Nebula |
| Sat, Sep 24th | 20.00 | 29 - Boiling Cauldron Nebula |
| Sat, Oct 8th | 20.00 | 30 - Yin Yang Nebula |
| Sat, Oct 15th | 20.00 | *Special* - Jaques Station |
| Sat, Oct 22nd | 20.00 | 31 - Bonfire Nebula |
| Sat, Oct 29th | 20.00 | 32 - Süßes Fräulein |
| Thu, Nov 10th | 18.00 | 33 - Spear Thistle Nebula |
| Sat, Nov 19th | 19.00 | 34 - NGC 6751 |
| Thu, Nov 24th | 18.00 | 35 - Omega Nebula |
| Sat, Dec 3rd | 19.00 | 36 - Institute of Galactic Exploration and Reseach |
Personally I might not be able to make the meet ups in July, but by early August I will be there to rendezvous with you at the Will-o'-wisp.
Unlike the Distant Worlds meet ups where Wishblend and I acted as hosts (and made a real effort to always have one of us present at all meet ups), Id like to be just another pilot for this return trip. Most of the times Ill be there, but other times I won't.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
UPDATE - Tuesday July 19th:
POI processing to the galactic mapping project due to begin in a few days!
With the new interactive galaxy map fully operational the time has finally come to honor all the explorers who have submitted their amazing discoveries to the Sagittarius-Carina POI registry. During the next days and weeks Ill process the more than 225 POIs (!) submitted. Those POIs that qualify for the galactic mapping criteria will be added to the map in the corresponding category (historical location, remarkable planetary, features, stellar cluster, etc.).
I am really looking forward to this! It is almost a year since the mission launched on August 1st 3301, but even now many CMDRs are still actively contributing to help us chart the wonders during a full lenght of a spiral arm. Incredible! Sign-up is still open and will remain open for the foreseeable future. If your travels brings you to the Sagittarius-Carina Arm and you spot something noteworthy, please sign up and add it to our registry.
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UPDATE - Monday May 9th:
150 / 150 - Right on Commanders!
Today we reached another two milestones: to this date 150 CMDRs have signed up for the mapping project and 150 POIs have been registered.
Right on Commanders!
I would like to single out two pilots for honerable mention: CMDR Alistair Hope has logged 7 major POIs, including 5 planetary nebula, a twin Earth system and a twin ringed water-world system. CMDR Manae has logged 20 minor POIs, including several ELWs, AWs and WWs. Jolly good show!
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UPDATE - Friday April 29th:
Photo-competition is on again
The photo-contest is up and running once again, after a short temporary break due to an unknown error in the submission protocol on our gallery. Details in the post by AndyMJ just below.
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UPDATE - Sunday April 24th:
Photo-competition and prospecting service
Great news everyone! This week we got a fine mention in the FD newsletter and GalNet, new pilots are signing up and a steady stream of scout reports are comming in. Since the Sagittarius-Carina Mission launched more than 130 explorers has taken part and more than 100 POIs has been logged!
This week also saw the launch of the Sagittarius-Carina prospecting service - this is the place to go to register any materials you find out there.
And over at our mission gallery AndyBoom is hosting a photo contest called Project Snapshot. You may submit your favorite photo from the mission until May 1st (GMT+1). The winner will be able to pick a Frontier store item of their choice worth 5£ / 6€ / $7. All the details can be found at the link above.
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UPDATE - Saturday April 9th:
So this is it! Today is the relaunch!
First let me say how excited I am. We have had a lot of people sign up during the last few weeks, and also many of the original crew getting ready to set out again - bringing the number of registered participants close to 80 and the number of currently active CMDRs close to 50. I really look forward to hear all the stories of your travels and the shinies you find out there
(Personally I wont be relaunching until the end of May when our Exploration Wings in DW reach Beagle Point)
Then let me say a huge THANK YOU to all who has helped make this happen - everybody who has contributed either by scouting my wild leads for proposed camps, "donating" discoveries of their own to be used as waypoints, loading maps into EDDiscovery, setting up our gallery, EDSM tracker, Team Speak and Discord channels, designing the mission patch, promoting the expedition in various ways, providing continued moral support... the list goes on
Wishblend, Mindwipe, Satsuma, AndyBoom, Draco47oz, Finwen, Turjan, Hellhawk, Slam Dunk, Gibbonici, Argon, Iureka, Dobbo, drkaii, Swift Arrow, Erimus, Kancro Vantas, Stulli, Allitnil, Whiterose, Katejina, Aengus, Istigkeit and everybody who has supported this or signed up either back in august or here in april to take part in the fun... - thank you all!
(if I have forgotten one or two people in the ruckus I deeply apologize - please send me a gentle PM and Ill get the list updated)
Please remember to register the date you set out and reach a camp in the progress sheet - this will serve as your own record, but also let others know how many is currently active on the expedition.
If you feel like it, it would be awesome to have participants post a "postcard" as they set out. This can be everything from a short greeting, a group photo from your starting camp... or you could do as CMDR Turjan did...
[video=youtube;5iVfHeXdgZU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iVfHeXdgZU[/video]
Remember - there is no centrally scheduled meetups here. If you want to organize meetups for groups you will have to set it up yourself. The infrastructure should now be in place for you to easily do just that - the participants sheet will help you see where others are - the comms channels stand ready for you on both TS and Discord. Simply make a post here in this thread, post the details and get people together for the fun!
I hereby declare this bazaar (re)opened!
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