Progress Report on a Project Only I Care About
13 Jul 2020Dante Cortez
Having arrived at my arbitrary destination, I was looking around for a new destination or thing to do, and I stumbled across an old technical journal that talked about how each sector in the galaxy can be divided into cubical boxes, each one nesting eight smaller boxes, where each "level" of boxes corresponds to a mass class of systems in the volume. So, for example, a box corresponding to D mass class systems will be about 80x80x80 ly in size, and can be subdivided into eight boxes of 40x40x40 ly, each one corresponding to C mass class systems. The paper also linked the systems to the galactic classification and naming system. I'm probably not explaining it very well, but the upshot is this:When I found it, I was at the system designated as "JC-S d5-257" in a sector, so I decided to run through all the D mass class systems in that cube. I jumped to JC-S d5-0, and I've been stepping through the galactic map one system at a time. Of course, they're not lined up nicely in actual space so I've had to jump around quite a bit, and sometimes I've had to pass through either a D mass system out of sequence, or a C class system that was conveniently positioned on the route. My flight path looks like a bizarre knot, all contained within the 512,000 cubic light years of the overall box.
So here's the progress report: I've surveyed 84 D mass class systems in this volume, including the d5-257 I started in, d5-0 to d5-75, and a handful of others I passed through out of sequence. Including d5-270, so there are at least 271 systems, assuming no gaps in the sequence, and I am just over 30% of the way through them. In those 84 systems, I have scanned and mapped:
- 8 terraformable water worlds
- 6 non-terraformable water worlds
- 28 terraformable high metal content bodies
- 5 terraformable rocky bodies
- 1 ammonia world
I'm going to have a hefty pile of cash coming my way when I get this to UC. Whenever that might be. I'm not in any hurry.
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