What is Project Compass?
Basically, I’m using control towers to measure the distance and direction from k-space to w-space. Control towers have a function that lets you measure the distance to all other corp-owned control towers. By planting 4 control towers in k-space, we can use the four measurements (taken from a fifth tower briefly placed in a w-space system) and Maths to figure out how far that w-space system is and in what direction it is from New Eden… think of it like using probes to scan a site down. You need four of them to get enough information to plot a 3-d coordinate.
Because Faulx (the co-lead on this) and I already have towers placed in k-space, at this point it’s a matter of wandering to various w-space systems with a fifth control tower to take the measurements. Faulx set up a spreadsheet that performs the calculations for us and spits out a 3 dimensional coordinate in lightyears of where the system is in relation to New Eden. So far, our results are putting the w-space cluster about 1250-1350 lightyears away, in a southeasterly direction (towards Detorid or Insmother), in roughly the same plane as the New Eden cluster.
More details can be found here (not sure if I forwarded you this yet): WIKI
Have you had any trouble with the locals in w-space while doing this project?
Surprisingly little, actually. Every now and then, we’ll run into an active WH who will attempt to bubble our entry or exit holes, but I’ve only had one real pursuit. Some WH corps are actually very friendly, and have volunteered to help out the Project by giving me access to their system and surrounding chains for us to take measurements.
How many systems have you gotten coords for so far?
As of 1.31.114, we’ve surveyed 224 systems, or just less than 10% of w-space systems.
Have you done any of the higher class systems?
We’ve done a few (but not nearly enough!). I count 60 class 4 or higher systems in our stats.
Any humorous events while doing this?
Well, Faulx did find one system filled with nothing but Norwegians, but, sadly, he was unable to take a measurement in that system. Still, it was a very densely populated system. They’ve made quite a nice little home for themselves, apparently.
Is there an image/graphic to attach to this story?
I’ve finished uploading current images for our data set. It should be noted that the talk page is likely to change and it might be best not to link directly to it in a static article. Although the images are fairly self explanatory and they have a short description on their static page, the slightly-more-in-depth-descriptions of them are on the talk page (at least for now) so it would be good to read there, at least for understanding’s sake.
Any other things you want included in this article that I may have missed?
As I think I may have mentioned so far, the data currently puts all of Anoikis in a cluster about 1250-1350 lightyears southeast of New Eden, in roughly the same plane.
Also, if anyone is interested in learning more about Compass or the Arek’Jaalan research initiative, feel free to contact me or Faulx, or check out WIKI
EDITOR’S NOTE: To understand the significance of this discovery, here is a link to NASA’s website. The Milky Way is roughly 100,000 ly in diameter. The disk is roughly 10,000 ly tall. Eve’s primary cluster is roughly 125 ly across. I hope this helps when understanding the scale of things in this report.
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