The starting point of the journey.

The R CrA Nebula (NGC 6729) is a small emission/reflection nebula in the Corona Australis constellation. It is unusually small for a nebula, not much larger than a planetary nebula. The nebula was originally discovered on Jun 15, 1861 by Julius Schmidt, and associated with the star R Coronae Australis. The nebula is red-orange. The only interior object is the double-star BrsO 14, of which the primary is unusually large and hot for a B-class star (source).

Base Stop Hillary Depot – Blu Thua AI-A c14-10, planet A 4A

One of the Colonia Connection Highway outposts, constructed in October 3302. The depot is named after old Earth explorer Edmund Hillary. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Fittingly this depot is located at the base of a large mountain.

Albidum Collared Pod Location & Rubicundum Collared Pod

Lividum Collared Pod

Blatteum Collared Pod

In late 3302, Alessia Verdi, a commander associated with the enigmatic CMDR Salomé, set up an exploration community goal on behalf of the Children of Raxxla. The goal was to retrieve and analyze as much survey data as possible from three specific regions. Those regions being the Formidine Rift, The Scutum-Sagittarii Conflux, and Hawking's Gap (Lin-Shu Hollow).

On analysis of the data, CoR Intel discovered the location of several navigational beacons in each region, that in turn provided the planetary location of several settlements.

These settlements turned out to be staging posts for a mysterious 'Dynasty Expedition' that had traversed the location three decades earlier and had set up bases there.

Settlement locations in the Scutum-Sagittarii Conflux are as follows :

Conflux (ERP 002):

System: PRU AESCS TY-J A64-1

Beacon around: 1 (transmits each hour on :00) Alpha settlement on: 3 -66.47, -56.13 Found by CMDR Robbie Junior 23rd Feb 3303 System: PRU AESCS HW-S B31-2

Beacon around: A (transmits each hour on :15) Beta settlement on: CD1 -7.2989, -35.9180 Found by CMDR TheTick 13th Jan 3303 System: PRU AESCS OI-K A64-0

Beacon around: 1 (transmits each hour on :30) Gamma settlement on: 1A 64.2, 74.4 Found by CMDR Sajime Chent-Shi 11th Feb 3303 System: PRU AESCS NC-M D7-192

Beacon around: A2A (transmits each hour on :45) Delta settlement on: A3A -53.36 -48.91 Found by CMDR's Goliat and Baton 7th Feb 3303

P01 Anomaly

This small blue nebula is the apparent remnant of supernova; all bodies inside the nebula are only 256 million years old. The nebula contains a neutron star, two main-sequence stars, and a host of smaller bodies. A water world, with life, can be found in orbit between the two stars and is unusual given the young age of the system. The nebula contains excellent views of the rich field of nebula as one approaches the coreward side of the Scutum-Sagittarii Conflux

Albulus Bell Mollusc

This Red and White nebula is best characterized by its tendril like hydrogen clouds, which wrap themselves like tentacles around a large white core. It's location between Colonia and The Bubble makes for a great roadside pit stop as the main sequence stars here are plentiful.

This nebula placed 12.500 ly from Sol and 1.000 ly above. Everything inside have red and cyan colors. In the middle (almost) of nebula located black hole, and herbig class star system. If you climb 100 ly above nebula it looks like a Dragons head. So here's a list of places you may want to visit:

Dragon's Throat - Black hole - Bleae Aescs ZE-A g4 Dragon's Eye - Herbig / B binary star system with many T Taury stars and giants - Bleae Aescs AV-Y f83 Red-colored Gas Giant - Bleae Aescs LT-L c10-13 6 One of the top 50 largest landable planets - Bleae Aescs CW-T d4-61 A 1

Located about 1000 Ly to the galactic west of the Dragon's Head Nebula, this nebula is of similar size and color, making it a "tail" to the Dragon. Many white dwarf and neutron stars can be found in and near the nebula. A black hole in the reference system provides a unique view of the nebula through the optical lensing effect.

A tight binary pair of pulsars with a third pulsar also, in a tight orbit with jets point perpendicularly to the binary pair. When viewed from a particular angle it looks like a cross, hence the name "The Crux." The main body of the system is a black hole of 30 stellar masses. Also of note in the system is a ringed Brown Dwarf.

Death World

Virde Umbrella Mollusc

Roseum Bioluminescent Anemone (Pumpkin)

Prasinum Bioluminescent Anemone (Pumpkin)

K01 & K03 Anomalies

K04 Anomaly & E04

K05 Anomaly

k06 Anomaly

K08 Anomaly

Lightning Cloud

Absolute madness of a system from a topology standpoint. The black hole drop star is in a tight binary with a white dwarf (less than 3 ls), which itself has a gas giant orbiting fully inside its exclusion zone and passing through the cones with a period of 14 minutes. Conjointly, a high-metal content world is located just 7ls from the drop-out point, torched by the white dwarf, providing incredible sunrise and set vistas.

Moreover, less than 15ls away from the singularity lies a extremely close-binary of a huge water world and a ringed gas giant, the latter of which has 2 volcanic moons skimming the very edge of the rings on slightly inclined orbits, although these rings appear invisible due to an error in Beyond 4.

The views offered from the surface of the landable moons is unlike anything seen elsewhere in the galaxy, and all objects in the inner system have extremely short orbital periods creating a dynamically changing view in the sky. Absolute must visit for anyone in the area.

Warning to those attempting to land on AB 2 a & b, the near collision of the moons creates conflicting gravity wells, killing hundreds on DW2; in fact, their sheer proximity results in moon B actually having a smaller orbit than the A moon~!

Needs no explination.

L04 Anomaly This station acts as an Exploration and Scientific research hub at the very core the Milky Way, just a few light years from Sagittarius A*.

Warning: Stuemeae FG-Y d7561 is a binary star system. Commanders visiting the system need to be aware that its possible to exit hyperspace close to one of the stars.

Planning and Preparation: Elite Wiki (Explorer's Anchorage)

The station superstructure was constructed in January 3305 at the Omega Mining Asteroid base, with the Distant Worlds 2 starfleet making up the bulk of the workforce during the Community Goal.

L01-Type Anomaly

T02 Anomaly

Lightning Cloud

Lightning Cloud

Croceum Lagrange Cloud (Orange)

A violet Planetary Nebula with pinky contour. From some angles it looks like a petal of a violet flower, hence the name which refers to a flower found on Earth.

The astronomical Winds of Enlil are a wayward object, too, and a bit of a conundrum, since many characteristics associated with a 'classic' nebula seem to be missing. First, the Winds do not have a core element like a stellar corpse from which the Winds may have originated. This alone would not pose too much of an explanatory problem but the complex also barely has any massive young stars or protostar population that would hint at star formation taking or having taken place. Instead, most stars inside the complex are rather old M and K type stars that are from 1.5 to 6.8 billion years old. This may indicate that the Winds of Enlil are in fact moving through the area, presumably being pulled in by the Milky Way's gravity. A strong indicator for this theory is the fact that the Winds seem to be compressed or flattened at the top: Dust and gas accumulate here and the Winds' movement seems to be stalled. So what we see here may in fact be the formation of a dust cloud that will eventually turn into a Stellar Nursery in a couple of million years. (Further references)

Black Hole Dante's Inferno is a stellar Black Hole of some 7.4 solar masses nestled deeply within a field of young protostars. Until recently (in astronomical terms) it must have been quite active, creating a haze or halo of debris much like Sol's Oort Cloud around the system's fringes. This halo can be spotted from a distance tens of light years away although due to lacking a central star with enough luminosity it is not entirely clear what makes it reflect light. Orbiting the Black Hole are several celestials, including an incredibly fast spinning Jovian gas giant which is clearly ellipsoid in shape. The gas giant rotates once every 0.7 standard days.

The system is named after the ancient poem by author Dante Alighieri which covers a journey to Hell. It is alluding to the nearby galactic region of Styx, which in ancient times was referred to as the river dividing the overworld and the underworld.

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Squid Mollusc

Explorers Anchorage

Void Hearts And Octahedral

Reel Mollusc

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