***HOW TO GO FROM CIVILIZATION TO SAG A* FARMING NEUTRON STARS***
For quick route to SAG A* from the bubble, reveal this spoiler:
I will be adding another route example from SAG towards civilization soon!
Complete guide starts here:
The first reports about a vast region containing an immensely high density of Neutron stars, started to appear in the forum around mid March. Due to their high value when selling their exploration data to Universal Cartographics, the region immediately became of high interest for Deep Space Explorers.
The reports pointed to an area close to Sagittarius A* -The Galactic Center- which by itself, was already experiencing a surge of visitors and explorers from the civilization bubble. The newly discovered region, if anything, added an extra incentive for the brave travelers already transiting to the core.
All what was needed now was some coordinates, or system names to aim for while en route to Sag A* or coming back from it. But the reports, although helpful, were often incomplete or inconclusive when it came to location: systems with wildly distant coordinates, others that were seemingly at odds with the previous, and even some claiming that it was more than one Neutron Field out there.
The whole discussion left the impression that, if every reported system mattered, the Neutron Field was virtually all over the place.
One thing was certain though: more and more commanders were coming back and racking millions upon millions of credits on neutron stars data scanned in that region, wherever it was.
And when you happen to be an explorer whose current expedition will eventually take your ship to the Galactic Center, the call of the Neutron Field becomes hard to resist and also an absolute need.
Within the objectives and research of the Galactic Map Initiative led by Elite Explorer CMDR Erimus, I decided to answer once and for all, What is the Neutron Field?, and where do its elusive boundaries lie? Hoping that these answers benefit other colleague explorers and the Elite : Dangerous community in general, here are my fascinating findings on the subject.
More Than A Neutron Field…
The “Neutron Fields”
Credits
Summary
- There are 4 Neutron Fields. They are packed with all types of stars, not only Neutron.
- Named Eastern and Western plus Alpha (for above Gal. plane) and Betas (For below Gal. Plane)
- NF prefix for Neutron Field. * in suffix for center of Neutron Field.
- Coordinates to each center: (±5,500 : ± 1,200 : 24,000)
- Add constant k= (-4,450 up to 4,450 : 0 : -11,000 up to +11,000) for all coordinates within the fields.
For quick route to SAG A* from the bubble, reveal this spoiler:
Since I noticed not everyone was interested in finding out ALL the theory and details of the Neutron Fields, here you go, a quick route to get you going. Again, keep in mind they are huge and you can make a variety of modifications within this suggested route.
*From the Bubble, head to your first major navigational beacon: GRAEA HYPUE KH-V D2-55. This is some 13,500 ly away, and will be your gate into the Eastern Beta Neutron Field. From here and on, you will have to manually select jumps from Neutron to Neutron Star. In other words, here is where you start farming.
*From there, you want to get further in a bit, where density is juicy. Head towards BLAE EAEC JN-K D8-511. That's around 2,000 ly stretch. Farming all your way there.
*Then turn towards DRYAA PRUAE PX-U D2-781. That's in the heart of the DRYAA PRUAE Nebula which is completely within the Neutron Field. Major visual point. Farm away.
*From here, it pretty much depends what you want to do next:
-either point your ship to the Great Annihilator, and then SAG A* or,
-stay inside the Neutron Field and keep farming towards WEPUE UJ-R E4-8838, and from there, to SAG A*.
All in all, that's about 12,000 ly of farming. Which should equate to around 350-400 Neutron Stars. Of course, it can be as many as you want according to your own pace/style.
Enjoy!
*From the Bubble, head to your first major navigational beacon: GRAEA HYPUE KH-V D2-55. This is some 13,500 ly away, and will be your gate into the Eastern Beta Neutron Field. From here and on, you will have to manually select jumps from Neutron to Neutron Star. In other words, here is where you start farming.
*From there, you want to get further in a bit, where density is juicy. Head towards BLAE EAEC JN-K D8-511. That's around 2,000 ly stretch. Farming all your way there.
*Then turn towards DRYAA PRUAE PX-U D2-781. That's in the heart of the DRYAA PRUAE Nebula which is completely within the Neutron Field. Major visual point. Farm away.
*From here, it pretty much depends what you want to do next:
-either point your ship to the Great Annihilator, and then SAG A* or,
-stay inside the Neutron Field and keep farming towards WEPUE UJ-R E4-8838, and from there, to SAG A*.
All in all, that's about 12,000 ly of farming. Which should equate to around 350-400 Neutron Stars. Of course, it can be as many as you want according to your own pace/style.
Enjoy!
Complete guide starts here:
The first reports about a vast region containing an immensely high density of Neutron stars, started to appear in the forum around mid March. Due to their high value when selling their exploration data to Universal Cartographics, the region immediately became of high interest for Deep Space Explorers.
The reports pointed to an area close to Sagittarius A* -The Galactic Center- which by itself, was already experiencing a surge of visitors and explorers from the civilization bubble. The newly discovered region, if anything, added an extra incentive for the brave travelers already transiting to the core.
All what was needed now was some coordinates, or system names to aim for while en route to Sag A* or coming back from it. But the reports, although helpful, were often incomplete or inconclusive when it came to location: systems with wildly distant coordinates, others that were seemingly at odds with the previous, and even some claiming that it was more than one Neutron Field out there.
The whole discussion left the impression that, if every reported system mattered, the Neutron Field was virtually all over the place.
One thing was certain though: more and more commanders were coming back and racking millions upon millions of credits on neutron stars data scanned in that region, wherever it was.
And when you happen to be an explorer whose current expedition will eventually take your ship to the Galactic Center, the call of the Neutron Field becomes hard to resist and also an absolute need.
Within the objectives and research of the Galactic Map Initiative led by Elite Explorer CMDR Erimus, I decided to answer once and for all, What is the Neutron Field?, and where do its elusive boundaries lie? Hoping that these answers benefit other colleague explorers and the Elite : Dangerous community in general, here are my fascinating findings on the subject.
More Than A Neutron Field…
Following some cues mentioned by CMDR Dognosh, my study started by looking in the Galmap filtering Non-sequence stars and heading to the coordinates or systems other CMDR’s have reported.
By panning in different directions and zooming in and out, my first observation seemed to confirm what CMDR Dognosh has reported. Giving a harder look that took nearly five hours, I came to the conclusion that there is not a Neutron Field but four instead!! Each of these regions packing thousands upon thousands of Neutron Stars!!!
That’s right, there are not one, but four huge, rectangular-ish areas more or less well defined at either side of SAG A* and above and below of the Galactic plane.
What is even more amazing is that these fields have the highest density of all type of stars in general, compared to any other major region in the Galaxy! They are just simply the highest star crowded areas outside the Galactic core!!
In that sense, the Neutron Fields are not more “Neutron” than say “O” or “F” Fields!! This implies that, just by mere stats and density, the NF’s are bound to be the regions with the highest density of F,G and K stars, which have the highest probability to bear an Earth Like Planet!!!
As a reminder, coordinates in the Galmap are designated as follows: (x, y, z)
X- coordinate on the horizontal axis (left to right of SOL)
y- coordinate on the altitude axis (up and down of SOL, where “0” is “ On the Galactic Plane”)
Z – coordinate on the vertical axis (front and back of SOL)
So, general speaking, with SOL as referencial center, and given in Light Years, the coordinates indicate:
COORDINATES: (left or right, above or below, forward or backwards)
e.g. FRONTIER SYSTEM (300, -200, 100)
This FRONTIER system is 300ly to the left, 200 ly down and 100ly forward from SOL.
Back into matter, the “Neutron Fields” are, Looking towards SAG A* from SOL:
-One Above and to the West
-One Below and to the West
-One Above and to the East
-One Below and to the East
By panning in different directions and zooming in and out, my first observation seemed to confirm what CMDR Dognosh has reported. Giving a harder look that took nearly five hours, I came to the conclusion that there is not a Neutron Field but four instead!! Each of these regions packing thousands upon thousands of Neutron Stars!!!
That’s right, there are not one, but four huge, rectangular-ish areas more or less well defined at either side of SAG A* and above and below of the Galactic plane.
What is even more amazing is that these fields have the highest density of all type of stars in general, compared to any other major region in the Galaxy! They are just simply the highest star crowded areas outside the Galactic core!!
In that sense, the Neutron Fields are not more “Neutron” than say “O” or “F” Fields!! This implies that, just by mere stats and density, the NF’s are bound to be the regions with the highest density of F,G and K stars, which have the highest probability to bear an Earth Like Planet!!!
As a reminder, coordinates in the Galmap are designated as follows: (x, y, z)
X- coordinate on the horizontal axis (left to right of SOL)
y- coordinate on the altitude axis (up and down of SOL, where “0” is “ On the Galactic Plane”)
Z – coordinate on the vertical axis (front and back of SOL)
So, general speaking, with SOL as referencial center, and given in Light Years, the coordinates indicate:
COORDINATES: (left or right, above or below, forward or backwards)
e.g. FRONTIER SYSTEM (300, -200, 100)
This FRONTIER system is 300ly to the left, 200 ly down and 100ly forward from SOL.
Back into matter, the “Neutron Fields” are, Looking towards SAG A* from SOL:
-One Above and to the West
-One Below and to the West
-One Above and to the East
-One Below and to the East
The “Neutron Fields”
The “Fields” are loosely defined when it comes to boundaries, particularly on the x and z axis. If you are heading there on the right “altitude” you will start to hit areas with more and more neutron stars, until the density reaches a stable point and remains mostly so for the remainder of the length on that direction.
But in order to locate them, a line needed to be drawn at spots I arbitrarily considered had reached a density suggesting explorers that they have reached a Neutron Field. With that being said, the coordinates given from here on are an effort to draw those boundaries but in no way mean you will not be hitting many neutron stars way before reaching those coordinates!
In that sense, trying to define these huge areas reminded me of that geography paradox that tries to limit the sea! It is really hard, if not impossible, to draw a definitive line to them! This is just my best effort and shot at it!
It was also tricky to find an easy way to designate them so they could give away their relative location in their names. Even after realizing that they are just as dense in any type of stars as Neutron, for the sake of convenience and following the popular nicknames already in use, I left the “Neutron Field” prefix to them.
Hoping these stick in the Explorer Community, I named them and researched them as follows:
I-Neutron Field – Western Alpha (NF-WA):
(-800 to -11,000 : 1,100 to 2,100 : 14,000 – 37,000)
10,200ly wide, 1,000 ly thick, 23,000ly long
Field Common Center:
Western Alpha Neutral* (WAN*): PHOI AOWSY HH-U E3-1007 (-5,550: 1,200 :24,000)
II-Neutron Field – Western Beta (NF-WB):
(-600 to -11,000 : -970 to -2,600 : 13,000 – 36,500 )
10,400ly wide, 1,630 ly thick, 23,500ly long
Field Common Center:
Western Beta Neutral* (WBN*): WEPAE TI-K D8-2374 (-5,550: -1,200 :24,000)
III-Neutron Field – Eastern Alpha (NF-EA):
(1,100 to 10,000 : 1,100 to 2,100 : 14,000 – 37,000 )
8,900ly wide, 1,000 ly thick, 23,000ly long
Field Common Center:
Eastern Alpha Neutral* (EAN*): ZUNEAE MZ-M D8-1255 (5,550: 1,200 :24,000)
IV-Neutron Field – Eastern Beta (NF-EB):
(1,100 to 10,000 : -960 to -2,600 : 17,000 – 35,000 )
8,900ly wide, 1,640 ly thick, 18,000ly long
Field Common Center:
Eastern Beta Neutral* (EBN*): PHROEA PLOE OI-K D8-872 (5,550: -1,200 :24,000)
Common Universal Coordinates for the Neutron Fields
Based on the limits shared above, I decided to get the minimum common coordinates to make a single coordinate set that could be applied for them all and came up with four sets of common coordinates.
Then I calculated the universal Common Center Coordinates, which are the coordinates for the geometrical center of the rectangle derived from the minimum common coordinates between the fields.
Field Common Center Coordinates : ( ±5,550 : ± 1,200 : 24,000 )
±= use either plus or minus for the coordinates.
You don’t have to use this as I gave all four centers found with this method above for each separate NF.
However, you might want to use It for reference when wanting to know boundaries. Use those coordinates, and add or subtract distances to the boundaries and you will have all the coordinates in the four fields.
FCCC: (±5,500 : ± 1,200 : 24,000)
Add K=(-4,450 up to 4,450 : 0 : -11,000 up to +11,000)
You can pick any three random numbers in those ranges and you will land on coordinates within any of the Neutron Fields.
You might have probably noticed that the Y coordinate remain the same. That’s because unlike on the other directions, vertically speaking the fields are pretty well defined: when you are coming up or down to meet them, they feel like a wall just hit you all of a sudden. They go to full density there and continue to decrease the further you vertically cross them.
But in order to locate them, a line needed to be drawn at spots I arbitrarily considered had reached a density suggesting explorers that they have reached a Neutron Field. With that being said, the coordinates given from here on are an effort to draw those boundaries but in no way mean you will not be hitting many neutron stars way before reaching those coordinates!
In that sense, trying to define these huge areas reminded me of that geography paradox that tries to limit the sea! It is really hard, if not impossible, to draw a definitive line to them! This is just my best effort and shot at it!
It was also tricky to find an easy way to designate them so they could give away their relative location in their names. Even after realizing that they are just as dense in any type of stars as Neutron, for the sake of convenience and following the popular nicknames already in use, I left the “Neutron Field” prefix to them.
Hoping these stick in the Explorer Community, I named them and researched them as follows:
I-Neutron Field – Western Alpha (NF-WA):
(-800 to -11,000 : 1,100 to 2,100 : 14,000 – 37,000)
10,200ly wide, 1,000 ly thick, 23,000ly long
Field Common Center:
Western Alpha Neutral* (WAN*): PHOI AOWSY HH-U E3-1007 (-5,550: 1,200 :24,000)
II-Neutron Field – Western Beta (NF-WB):
(-600 to -11,000 : -970 to -2,600 : 13,000 – 36,500 )
10,400ly wide, 1,630 ly thick, 23,500ly long
Field Common Center:
Western Beta Neutral* (WBN*): WEPAE TI-K D8-2374 (-5,550: -1,200 :24,000)
III-Neutron Field – Eastern Alpha (NF-EA):
(1,100 to 10,000 : 1,100 to 2,100 : 14,000 – 37,000 )
8,900ly wide, 1,000 ly thick, 23,000ly long
Field Common Center:
Eastern Alpha Neutral* (EAN*): ZUNEAE MZ-M D8-1255 (5,550: 1,200 :24,000)
IV-Neutron Field – Eastern Beta (NF-EB):
(1,100 to 10,000 : -960 to -2,600 : 17,000 – 35,000 )
8,900ly wide, 1,640 ly thick, 18,000ly long
Field Common Center:
Eastern Beta Neutral* (EBN*): PHROEA PLOE OI-K D8-872 (5,550: -1,200 :24,000)
Common Universal Coordinates for the Neutron Fields
Based on the limits shared above, I decided to get the minimum common coordinates to make a single coordinate set that could be applied for them all and came up with four sets of common coordinates.
Then I calculated the universal Common Center Coordinates, which are the coordinates for the geometrical center of the rectangle derived from the minimum common coordinates between the fields.
Field Common Center Coordinates : ( ±5,550 : ± 1,200 : 24,000 )
±= use either plus or minus for the coordinates.
You don’t have to use this as I gave all four centers found with this method above for each separate NF.
However, you might want to use It for reference when wanting to know boundaries. Use those coordinates, and add or subtract distances to the boundaries and you will have all the coordinates in the four fields.
FCCC: (±5,500 : ± 1,200 : 24,000)
Add K=(-4,450 up to 4,450 : 0 : -11,000 up to +11,000)
You can pick any three random numbers in those ranges and you will land on coordinates within any of the Neutron Fields.
You might have probably noticed that the Y coordinate remain the same. That’s because unlike on the other directions, vertically speaking the fields are pretty well defined: when you are coming up or down to meet them, they feel like a wall just hit you all of a sudden. They go to full density there and continue to decrease the further you vertically cross them.
Credits
Many thanks to CMDR Dognosh, for his early helpful threads indicating there were more than one field, for being the pioneer inspiring this research, and for the many contributions made to the explorer's community.
CMDR Dommarra and CMDR 777Driver who were among the first explorers to get to the Neutron Field and reporting about it.
Elite Explorer CMDR Erimus for supporting and promoting the EES Orinoco expedition, for trusting me with the task of mapping the NF’s, and for his immense dedication in getting the most out of the E D Galaxy.
And to all of the CMDR's who have been to the fields and have reported back to the Forums...thank you so very much.
I hope that this little study can help to many explorers and pilots in general in finding their way to these incredible expanses of our Galaxy!
CMDR Dommarra and CMDR 777Driver who were among the first explorers to get to the Neutron Field and reporting about it.
Elite Explorer CMDR Erimus for supporting and promoting the EES Orinoco expedition, for trusting me with the task of mapping the NF’s, and for his immense dedication in getting the most out of the E D Galaxy.
And to all of the CMDR's who have been to the fields and have reported back to the Forums...thank you so very much.
I hope that this little study can help to many explorers and pilots in general in finding their way to these incredible expanses of our Galaxy!
- There are 4 Neutron Fields. They are packed with all types of stars, not only Neutron.
- Named Eastern and Western plus Alpha (for above Gal. plane) and Betas (For below Gal. Plane)
- NF prefix for Neutron Field. * in suffix for center of Neutron Field.
- Coordinates to each center: (±5,500 : ± 1,200 : 24,000)
- Add constant k= (-4,450 up to 4,450 : 0 : -11,000 up to +11,000) for all coordinates within the fields.
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