Just as it has never been my wont to play at being "Squadron Leader Powell" during these things, it has certainly tended to be the case that participants (much to your credit, you lot!) have rolled up intent on cooperatively achieving something together. Yes, I've always been on-hand to provide such support and advice as I can but the prevailing 'groove' of these things has been, I'm only too happy to note publicly, one of mucking in and working together towards recommended objectives. Further to this, I've picked up some useful tips from others, it's just the general shared-kudos and shared-workload atmosphere of these things. (I sense some Anarcho-Commie sympathies in at least two of you.... I know who you are...)
In light of the above, please note that the following is down to choice. Doling out orders is not in keeping with The Canonn's style and I wouldn't want to be any part of seeing that change. However, it is requested that participants generously consider taking on the less-sexy workload of what is presented as the primary objective below.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE - Surveying The Crap Out Of Merope, basically.
The fact is, this is not sexy-fun like pew-pew but it is SCIENCE!-in-action. Mineral and metal yields, that's part of this objective. Supercruise anomalies, that's part of this objective. Getting as much supercruise done as is reasonably possible for that "It shows up 1000ls away" factor to kick in, that's DEFINITELY part of this objective, too.
Why is it pointing to Merope? My own thought on this is not necessarily that it is pointing to the star there because it is interested in the star itself but very possibly because it is a completely unambiguous way of saying "This System!" given that it points towards it from so many, many lightyears away.
Anyhow, dividing this rather large (and focal) objective into its component parts is covered in part below.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE - Signal Hopping
Fancy a break from playing Captain Survey? Drop into Signal Sources. Throw some fire about.
Since this shall be 1.4, it is not yet known how the distribution of different or new types of normal space traffic and encounters may fully differ from the 1.3 we've all gotten so used to. Strong Signal Sources have been our bread and butter and, sure, are very likely to remain that way. But we don't KNOW that. (Are FDev going to be really tricksy and put things in low-regularity Weak Signal Sources that relate to the Mystery? Who knows? It would seem to be a little unfair, but... again... who knows what we might miss?)
Be it a Cryopod Convoy with that pesky Python and its Vulture buddies, or some Hafnium you're after.. or whatever else you've got on your personal Signal Source tick-list... this secondary objective is there to have a crack at. With adequate wing tactics and membership, perhaps you'll want to get some exhaustive footage of one of the new 'goodies' or comms chatter to be found out there, or want to get back to a Bearer for testing purposes. Or, more simply, you might go buggy if you don't get some variety and a few signal hops every now and then will certainly be a good way to avoid the debilitating horrors of RNG Fatigue. Hubris Dong, anyone? Poor sod's checked himself into Powell House. Such a waste! (Although, he did sign up for the full package and put his Python down as collateral, so there's that...)
TERTIARY OBJECTIVE - UA Camping
This is a tertiary objective that can, to a fair extent, be folded into the secondary. Novices at UA Camping please, please, please be advised: concentrating on UA Camping is, all said and done, random and lengthy in equally extreme measures. Personally, I shall not be concentrating for a single minute on this and I doubt many (if any) of any others showing up will be, either.
Still, if it's your bag, it's certainly a valid exercise to undertake, though for reasons of manpower efficiency in pursuit of this operation's rationally better-desired results, it must be roundly noted that you should expect a very lonely time of it with a fantastically low chance of success. (Which is an inherent frustration, definitely, but just the way the RNG crumbles.)
GENERAL OPERATIONAL NOTE - UA Support
While it's unlikely that Bearers shall wish to involve themselves extensively on the day, what with that pesky habit the UAs have of squitting munkum all over their ships, Bearers may wish to take some advantage of the support available from other ships in the system towards the Primary Objective.
The value of this is clear. Fitting such 'Bearer Support Slots' it into the time-to-task breakdown of the operation should also be rather straightforward. In fact, Bearers are invited to request such support so as to absolutely squeeze the best possible validity of results out of the work involved in this operation.
Note: any wing or individual commander assisting a Bearer comes pretty much under the direction of the Bearer. Even if the Bearer relinquishes some elements of coordination for the test to you, the Bearer's ultimate say-so on the use of their UA has always remained the deal. For example, if they don't want you closer than 500m to a deployed UA, please respect that it is their UA and they may very well (and probably have!) spent many, many hours of flight-time acquiring it and keeping it secure. If you destroy a Bearer's UA, however accidentally, I can all-but guarantee that you will experience some combination of guilt, backstage derision and politeness.
Many of us have now become at least marginally familiar with sharing an instance with a Bearer and an Unknown Artefact but many more commanders have not. This said, two things come respectfully to mind.
First, if you want a selfie next to one, you're pretty much going to have to find one yourself unless a Bearer is feeling particularly generous (and, to be fair to everybody in light of past accidents, reckless.) Refusal of access for this kind of thing is just plain fair.
Secondly, please do not expect a Bearer to indulge a test on the spot, however valid it may feel to you at the time. In point of fact, the Bearer may very well agree that a test you have just come up with is a fantastically good one to undertake but maintaining the UA is going to be a paramount concern and patience in seeing the test performed, whether you are involved or not, is advised.
Also, while by no means an objective as such, it's probably best to mention this here rather than elsewhere in this tsunami of words and horrific grammar mangling: remember to leave room in your workload to enjoy it wherever your intuition leads you. You each know your ship's capabilities and your own gut preferences. Yes, some potentially dull graft is respectfully requested of you but if you intuit an approach to a problem, go with it - and kindly pass along the idea to others - and if you feel like a break from boiling about in supercruise, take it. Your wingmates will either still be welcoming you back when you return or, should they have accepted some poor lone commander looking to wing up while you are away, there have always been others to wing up with popping along. It's all good, as long as you are.
Needed fish for two missions, nearest Agri System I found was 81Lys away at Manktas. Fortunately they had fish. Yeah! Now being more selective in mission types. lol 
