Sector mapping

[IronGremlin]

Has anyone completely mapped a sector before?

Like, a 1 co-coordinate (not sure what the uom for distance is, I would assume parsec?) cube of the galmap?

I was thinking of waiting until horizons and then heading around 5 Kylie out or so to some relatively innocuous place in space and then just trying to map the entire sector, scan every planet (no asteroids, screw that) and star in the whole thing, maybe scout around on some of the moons in my SRV, and head back.

Is anyone else aware of someone having tried this before? Does anyone out there currently explore in this way?

Even if not, what are your thoughts about this kind of systematic approach?

Perhaps this could be a way to make exploration more social, handing out full or partial sectors and working together to map out a defined section of space.

 

[Kolato]

Someone mapped a nebulae sector once.

And i guess that if you were the first to find a real PA or SR, you could probably map the sector pretty quickly as they usually only contain 100 systems

 

[Allitnil]

I mapped & got first discovered tags on the entire NGC 6326 sector https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=143159

This sort of sector based around a real world object (in this case the NGC 6326 planetary nebula) is about the only realistic chance for mapping an entire sector as even the smallest of the procedurally generated sectors is going to have several thousand stars - and those with the least number are going to be in the outer reaches and hence likely to have several unreachable systems. Even for "my" sector it would have been impossible to reach all the systems in it with anything less than a fully stripped down Anaconda.

As far as I'm aware all of the real objects that can be reached have by now already been reached so getting first discovered on an entire sector is unlikely to be done again. But there's no reason why you can't pick, say, a 100 LY cube and go for all the systems within it such as Mossfoot proposed a few days ago https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=173610

 

[IronGremlin]

Well, I suppose that's all well and good really, I don't have a need to find a "real" sector to put my name on.

I was thinking more just "filling" out a cube - apparently I've had a crisis of nomenclature.

Good to know I'm not the only bloke with this plan - hope I can find something that's not too well traveled.

I've only put my name on a handful of rocks fairly close to home so far, it'd be nice to at least have a few stars under my belt.

 

[iain666]

If you just want a few stars head above or below the plane and they'll pop up pretty quickly. If you want a decent sized cube then you might need to a couple of kylies but still not far so long as it's not on the obvious route to an obvious tourist destination.