The First Flotilla

This will be the first ever multi-carrier-based expedition to leave the bubble and it offers a golden opportunity for commanders across the old worlds to come along on this grand adventure and be a part of history in the making.

• The DSSA is calling upon fuel haulers, prospectors, and miners to join the expedition and help lay a path to the most distant regions.

The Aphelion Expedition is just one DSSA flotilla out of several that will be setting out over the coming months. This will be an event unlike any other that has preceded it due to the fact that it will be the first time multiple Carriers will be used in a long distance expedition. We will also be using this opportunity to learn about journey pacing, logistics, and coordination for future large scale Carrier operations, like those that will be used on Distant Worlds 3.

The main emphasis for this expedition is logistics, with the primary goal being fuel mining operations upon reaching the galactic core, and the secondary goal being to prospect for Tritium-rich star systems close to the designated waypoint stopover locations.

Additionally, this will be a space-based expedition with no official planet-side basecamps. Carriers themselves will be the basecamps to use, however players are welcome to organise their own surface meetups during the trip, if time permits.

The Aphelion Expedition will terminate at the Sleepers Solace waypoint, as at this location the Carrier fleet will split into separate groups and head to their designated regions.

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING LOGGING YOUR JOURNEY ON EDSM:

For a Carrier-based expedition the following applies;

• If you want EDSM to recognise your visits to each waypoint of the expedition you're on, the onus is on you to make sure you're either online at waypoint stopovers, or you fly back and visit any waypoint you may have missed when you were offline while docked aboard a carrier.
• To be absolutely sure that you have a waypoint system logged as visited by you, you should hyperspace out of the waypoint system, and back in again, during the Carrier's stopover there.
• For EDSM to recognise you as completing the expedition, you will need to make sure you visit (i.e. hyperspace to) the first waypoint and the last waypoint of your expedition during your journey.
• Carrier owners cannot be held responsible if EDSM fails to record you as visiting a waypoint because you were offline while the Carrier you were on passed through it.