The "Has it been to Beagle & ishums reach" thread
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I can help with the Semotus Beacon (Ishum's Reach).
Icytoad (CMDR Sam Ishum) was the first to reach it legitimately and get back with the data.
Here's his claim : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...nce-from-Sol?p=4012479&viewfull=1#post4012479
He posted that on June 3rd 3302, I assume that's when he got back to sell his data. I visited it in an Asp Explorer in early June 3302 so he must have been there in his Conda before that, possibly late May 3302?
In early June 3302 I landed on "Distant Moon" (the furthest landable object from Sol - and claimed it for Salomé in a bit of story roleplay a few months later). I haven't seen any posts, videos or screenshots of ships on the surface of Oevasy SG-Y D0 B 9 F (Distant Moon / Salomé's Reach) that predate June 3302.
Regarding Beagle Point; I'm pretty sure nearly every ship type prior to the Beluga has made it to Beagle Point now - there's a record of all 571 piolts who made it there in April 3302 on Distant Worlds, and the ships they flew : Distant Worlds Fleet Roster
^^ Hope that helps
Thanks Erimus, I have used the DW fleet roster and the arrivals form as proof of arrival (rather than going through individual posts), couldn't see any Eagles, FGS, or FDLs There was a viper, Adder, DBs, & Orca setting off on DW but no mention or confirmation of them arriving at beagle.
if they confirm arrival and not lost in the void I will add them to the list
it would appear not so far, although some set off in DW there is no confirmation they arrived at Beagle point. an Orca could make it to ishums reach too.
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I'm sure many have tried, and if it existed I'm sure it would have been found by now, but man I just have to wonder if there might yet be a system out there which is further from Sol than that?
Yep I remember two Vettes, one though saw the rebuy screen before the end with the pilot admitting his own error caused it.
Support gave him a free ride back though, after first saying he was S-O-L
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There MIGHT be but they probably are systems very far from the galactic plane because I've not seen any stars further than Semotus Beacon on that sector/area.
Thanks Erimus, I have used the DW fleet roster and the arrivals form as proof of arrival (rather than going through individual posts), couldn't see any Eagles, FGS, or FDLs There was a viper, Adder, DBs, & Orca setting off on DW but no mention or confirmation of them arriving at beagle.
if they confirm arrival and not lost in the void I will add them to the list
it would appear not so far, although some set off in DW there is no confirmation they arrived at Beagle point. an Orca could make it to ishums reach too.
*rubs hands* Right, better get a move on then - only 45k left to go.
Though may just skip Beagle Point altogether and go for Ishums Reach instead - my 46 point something Orca should just about make it.
*rubs hands* Right, better get a move on then - only 45k left to go.
Though may just skip Beagle Point altogether and go for Ishums Reach instead - my 46 point something Orca should just about make it.
The Orca race has begun
I loved the whole Distant stars and the AH Cancri boosted jump to a whole section of stars if only there were more of these in the galaxy
I did spend an hour when I was at Ishums reach in the galaxy map looking for other things while I was there, sadly I found nothing, not to say its not there though. Lemon slice nebula is an example stupidly far away from other stars.... but its there.
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I wonder about the name Ishum's Reach though. The GMP description (as seen on EDSM) doesn't even mention Ishum's Reach, it's referred to as Semotus Beacon throughout. Yet the Ishum's Reach name is apparently more popular in actual usage. I assume the GMP admins didn't want to name it after a Commander (although there is at least one exception to that), but where does the Ishum's Reach name come from? Did Sam Ishum name the system that, or did someone else?
Yep I named it as I was the first to reach it and get back an sell the data
I also went East, South and West of Sag A* too http://email-elitedangerous.com/3F35-ASML-FD33TNCZF4/cr.aspx
Umm hi. I'm afraid you'll need to remove me from that table. Even if I went the furthest in a Sidewinder, I haven't been to Ishum's... I only made the Deep Space Challenge by going to 65427.48 ly from Sol.
If the OEVASY NA-A D0 - OEVASY RG-Y D0 (82.68LY) jump is required to reach Ishum's then I don't think it can be done in a Sidewinder. Without anything at all in optional/utility, A-rated FSD with extremely good roll, D-rated lightweight life support and sensors with extremely good rolls and everything else D-rated with 10% weight reduction from secondary effect (I don't even know if that's possible, the highest I've seen was almost 9% reduction) it's still under 39 ly when jumping on minimum fuel - see link:
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/sid...AACFwWLwcgAAAA==.EweloBjEoUwQwOYBtYhARgtoA===
It won't make that jump even with premium jumponium. Unless there's a neutron star conveniently placed nearby.
If the OEVASY NA-A D0 - OEVASY RG-Y D0 (82.68LY) jump is required to reach Ishum's then I don't think it can be done in a Sidewinder. Without anything at all in optional/utility, A-rated FSD with extremely good roll, D-rated lightweight life support and sensors with extremely good rolls and everything else D-rated with 10% weight reduction from secondary effect (I don't even know if that's possible, the highest I've seen was almost 9% reduction) it's still under 39 ly when jumping on minimum fuel - see link:
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/sid...AACFwWLwcgAAAA==.EweloBjEoUwQwOYBtYhARgtoA===
It won't make that jump even with premium jumponium. Unless there's a neutron star conveniently placed nearby.
It was called the Semotus Beacon on the GMP a long time before it was reachable, and it was used as a distance marker (before the high definition maps were added to EDSM). This was before the jumponium and engineers era when it was thought it'd never be reachable.
We added "Ishums Reach" as co-name to the entry in recognition of CMDR Ishum's achievement. You're correct though, we don't encourage players to name things after themselves as it can open a pandora's box, and we rarely name anything after commanders anyway - but sometimes there are exceptions made, and being first to visit the most distant star was one of them.
Off the top of my head I can only think of a few POIs we named after commanders out of the thousand+ POIs the GMP now has;
Derthek's Folly (system)
The Poseidal Wall (micro-region)
Heisenberg Crossing (travel route)
Wagar's Reach (region)
The Anthor Patch (region)
Ishum's Reach (system)
There may be a couple of others I've missed, but all have been named by people other than those commanders who submitted the POIs (Ishum's being the exception to the exception as he named it, and we tagged it on to the original GMP name).
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thanks for clarifying - updated
I'm not 100% sure but Marlon Blake may have been the first player to visit Beagle Point in an Anaconda. He tagged a couple of the BP worlds after Kamzel did, possibly late January or February 3301.
Marlon Blake got there a couple of weeks before me in mid 3001 I think, but I'm 99% sure that Svenno had been there in April 3001. Trouble is his thread doesn't explicitly say so from a quick check! He was definitely in the Ceeckia sector on April 12th (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...liest-planet?p=2097309&viewfull=1#post2097309) and it's just a case of whether he went around the outside of it without actually visiting it.
Yep, it needs that jump and there aren't any neutrons close by. One for the future.
Jackie Silver went to Beagle with an Orca. See https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/369665-To-Beagle-by-Orca