Okay—some results! To start with some pictures, which are all based on Scout samples after update 18.06, we have this for
populated Control:
The left-most is the earlier Swahku result, followed by Leunii and Gluschen, then the right-most is the earlier 70 Tauri result. Minding that the constant strength within 5 Ly should be considered unknown, definitely that looks linear! It meets the previous strength at around 16.7 Ly, within which it is significantly weaker and beyond which it is significantly stronger.
We have only a couple of inner system results for
empty Control at the moment:
An extrapolation beyond 10 Ly of course, but it should be relatively close to that, again with the inner 5 Ly unknown and this time meeting the previous strength at around 15.5 Ly. The lower inner strength is nice of course, but here the strength beyond 15.5 Ly is
extremely higher—at least via Scout samples, that is now two evenings here for a single system (albeit
any system regardless of Titan distance).
Based on that alone, a large purge would take a such absurdly long time and number of Carriers to prepare that
very probably it is as well just to clear as many systems as possible, especially with the rolling peripheral progress appearing to work. Alerts will be important to clear swiftly, then it should be quite fine to use the limited Spire resource on the Control systems, at any given Titan distance.
Orthrus-hunting and Conflict zones are the most important tests now, where the hope is that those are now at least as efficient as Research! Incidentally, one other loose morsel of data is that ten Scouts progressed Gluschen with 0.000027, which means that one Research sample (from a Scout) is worth somewhere between 28.54 and 30.74 Scout kills.
| Populated system | Distance | Prior | Payload | Posterior | Strength |
| Swahku | 5.359717 Ly | 0.001999 | 102 | 0.009988 | 12766–12770 |
| Leunii | 6.099196 Ly | 0 | 113 | 0.008898 | 12698–12701 |
| Gluschen | 8.135150 Ly | 0.000027 | 75 | 0.006021 | 12510–12514 |
| 70 Tauri | 20.962648 Ly | 0.003657 | 97 | 0.012208 | 11342–11345 |
| | | | | |
| Empty system | Distance | Prior | Payload | Posterior | Strength |
| Col 285 Sector IG-O c6-15 | 5.631247 Ly | 0.000002 | 106 | 0.013867 | 7644–7646 |
| Col 285 Sector IG-O c6-8 | 8.716005 Ly | 0 | 108 | 0.014446 | 7475–7477 |
Unfortunately the amounts aboard the
Aquitaine are relatively small now, much more so than expected; the best thing I can think to do is:
- Complete Hyades Sector BR-J a10-0 this week without delivering the held payload, forfeiting the payload but securing the almost-complete system.
- Finish Hyades Sector JH-U b3-4 and HIP 21099 similarly this week.
- Either:
- Deliver the Aquitaine cargo at the beginning of week 79, placing a reasonable bit of progress onto the map, and designate those systems for completion by various means.
- Wait and see, perhaps forfeiting 1–2 more smaller payloads on it.
- Try to separate the payloads, in the hope of delivering the outer systems in week 79 and holding the mid-distance systems for later.
- Generally hope that just completing systems is the best thing to do.
INIV should be able to finish those three systems at least; perhaps one tonight if I get things into position promptly, but all before Thursday either way. Do say if there are any major Conflict zone drives, to avoid duplication there!
