Wherefore Art Thou, Pleione?
18 Jul 2018Chris Birch
The Birch Log - 14:51 18 July 3304I've decided to start these Birch Logs. I figure as an explorer I should document what I'm doing, and any strange things I come across.
I'm not a big time stay-in-the-black-all-year-have-been-to-Colonia/Sag A/Beagle Point/M 31. The biggest expedition I've been on at this point was Small Worlds 3, which was pretty good. I've a couple of new systems under my belt. So, yea.
I'm thinking I'm starting this entry because I did a survey of the Generation ships. It was prompted by the discovery of the Achyls in HP114458. This little, private expedition was quite successful. I have to say the log entries were haunting to the extreme. Not something I'll forget anytime soon.
I only had two challenges:
1) Finding the Generation Ship Hyperion. The public data said that the ship is located in Lalande 2966, and can be found by traveling to the fourth planet in the system and then changing course toward Yemaki for 7,000 ls. This didn't work for me. I was able to find it by starting from the Lalande 2966 star and then travelling 8,000 ls toward Lyncis Sector LX-U C2-19.
2) Finding the Pleione. I never succeeded here. It was the only failure of the expedition. All the data I can find, including data from a recent expedition says it is located in Hez Ur, and can be found by traveling to the fifth planet in the system and then changing course toward Teuten for 8,000 ls. I spent some time moving through this area between 7,000 and 10,000 perhaps three times and found nothing. Has anyone any current data on the location of this ship?