Distant Worlds

Distant Worlds
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Expedition Details
Initials	DWE
Launch date	14th January 4000
End date	25th January 40000
Destination	Large Magellenic Cloud
Number of Waypoints	100
Expedition Membership
Organizers	Laura and Carmilla
Number of members	10,000
Demonym	expeditioner

Short description about the expedition (when, who organized, for what purpose, to what destination, from which destination)

About

More information about the expedition

Expedition waypoints

Waypoint	Basecamp Name	System	Planet	Coordinates	Arrival Date
waypoint name	Base camp name	system name	planet number	coords	date

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Distant Worlds Expedition (DWE) was the first major community expedition in Elite: Dangerous history. Organised by CMDR Erimus, CMDR Dr. Kaii and many other volunteers, it was launched on 14th Janaurary 3302. It featured over a thousand recorded members with many more who followed along the journey.

Background

Distant Worlds- A journey beyond the Abyss (Elite- Dangerous)

On December 16th 3300, the day Elite Dangerous was officially released, a long ranged Asp Explorer, the DSS Beagle, left the Pallaeni star system to begin the first recorded galactic crossing.

Codenamed 'Distant Suns' the expedition was recorded in a 12-series video log. The mission was to travel to the far side of the galaxy via the galactic core, mapping and documenting all major discoveries made along the way.

Some 5 weeks later, on January 18th 3301, DSS Beagle reached a star system on the edge of the far galactic rim, 65,279 LYs from Sol. The system (CEECKIA ZQ-L C24-0) subsequently became known as 'Beagle Point'. It marked the end of the line of the Distant Suns expedition.

One year later, in January 3302, the DSS Beagle is to be recommissioned and given a new mission.

Codenamed 'Distant Worlds', this new expedition will task all its participants to travel a route that will roughly follow the original path taken by the Beagle last year, this time with the added task of surveying and exploring as many worlds as possible at key locations along the way.

About the Distant Worlds Expedition

Distant Worlds Expedition (DWE) was the first major community expedition in Elite: Dangerous.

It was organized by a great number of people; CMDR Erimus/Kamzel, Dr. Kaii, Glasswalker, NeoTron, grnbrg, Kancro Vantas, Corbin Moran and the FGE, Wishblend, Wolverine, Katejina, Akira Makasari, Jhyrryl, Kola2, The_Damn_Fox, Rodent54, Nexolek, Dommarraa, and Eoran.

Numerous logistics departments were needed from Scouts to prospectors and Security Forces.

The Expedition goes through 23 Waypoints, from the "bubble" (inhabited space), across the galaxy to Beagle Point, one of the furthest known star system from Sol. Waypoints were grouped together into stages.

Stage	Waypoints
1	Waypoints 1 - 5
2	Waypoints 6-8
3	Waypoints 9-17
4	Waypoints 18-20
5	Waypoints 21-23

Waypoints tended to be set within or around large nebulae. Each way point includes planetary coordinates where a base camp is formed. Base Camps have a designation. Once the Expedition had reached Beagle Point, CMDRs were free to return home in any manner they chose.

CMDRs without Horizons would rendezvous in orbit with each other.

Main Fleet and Slow Boat

Expedition members divided themselves into two fleets

Pre-launch

Registration

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Private groups

Kamzel, Patrecleus, Erimus; also known as Group K, P and E are the three private groups used for the expedition by members.

The first 800 members who signed up for the expedition were added to Group K. The second 400 members were added to Group P. the outliers were added to Group E. After Waypoint 11, Group P members were merged into Group K. After [insert WP here], all groups were merged into Group E.

Commander Profiles

Since there was no CMDR avatars yet, CMDR Katejina started offering to create ship profile images for members on the expedition on request. They contained their ship, an Icon representing their CMDR, and the ship's name.

DW Logo Contest

The DW logo contest was organised by CMDR Kola 2. The submissions were posted on the forum thread until 13th January 3302 where voting was opened. The winner was announced on the Distant Worlds Expedition Twitch stream the next day on the 14th. The launch day of the expedition. The winning submission was created by CMDR Hi-Ban.

DW Logo Contest Entries

Expedition waypoints

Waypoints	Name	System	Planet	Coordinates	Arrival Date
#1	Pallaeni to the Fine Ring Sector	Fine Ring Sector JH-V c2-4	A 1
#2	The Lagoon Nebula	NGC 6530 WFI 16706	A 1 A	-12.71 / 70.28
#3	The Omega Nebula and The PW2010 Super Cluster	Omega Sector EL-Y d60	2 A	18.44 / -139.30
#4	The Eagle Nebula	Eagle Sector EL-Y d203	6 A	40.36 / 167.04
#5	NGC 6357	NGC 6357 Sector DL-Y e22	2	47.77 / -95.71
#6	The Hollow Veil	Blaa Hypai UC-G c12-6
#7	The Greae Phio Stellar Forge	Greae Phio LS-L c23-221
#8	New Botany Bay	Speamoea WU-E d12-543
#9	The Athaip Wisteria Nebula	Athaip CR-C b55-4
#10	The Amethyst Cloud	Myriesly EC-B c27-38
#11	Sagittarius A*	Stuemeae KM-W c1-342
#12	Altum Sagittarii	Nyuena JS-B d342
#13	The Phipoea Nebula	Phipoea DD-F c26-1311
#14	The Dryao Chrea Stellar Remnant	Dryao Chrea VU-P e5-748
#15	The Rose Nebula	Eorld Byoe YA-W e2-4084
#16	The Green Crystal	Eok Gree TO-Q e5-3167
#17	The Magnus Nebula	Pheia Briae DK-A e303
#18	The Greeroi Veil	Greeroi MD-Q d6-5
#19	Rendezvous Point	Rendezvous Point (QAUTHEIA BA-A E0)
#20	Oupailks Furnace	Oupailks BB-M c8-5
#21	The Roncevaux Crossing	Qautheia BA-A e0
#22	The Sublustris Beacon	Cheae Eurl AA-A e0
#23	Beagle Point	Beagle Point (Ceeckia ZQ-L C24-0)

Launch from Pallaeni

Distant Worlds UK Launch

You Brave Explorers, the ones who fly into the wake of giants, yet blaze your own trails. Who seek to explore distant worlds, not for profit, but in the pursuit of knowledge. You who await launch at Brook's Point, Pallaeni, knowing many will fall undertaking such an endeavour. Yet take off regardless, with hope in your heart in spite of the dangers before you. You Brave Explorers, I salute you o7, each and every one. May the journey seem swift, with scoopables at every jump. And may you all find Beagles Point, or fail courageously trying. You Brave Explorers.

— You Brave Explorers by CMDR Cula-Ta

End of the expedition

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Beagle Point - Arrival Day (Distant Worlds 3302)

WP 24 - Reunion

Waypoint 24 was an added waypoint to reunite members of the expedition on its anniversay. It was hosted on the moon, Mitterand Hollow in Epsilon Indi.

Notable CMDRS and organizations

The Distant Worlds Centralized Photo Gallery Team

CMDR Qohen Leth, CMDR Galaxyutii, CMDR PaleoGamer, CMDR HeyPinkiePie, CMDR Alistair Hope, CMDR Jerek, CMDR Timotheus Sr., CMDR Txakal, CMDR TK-421994, CMDR Cold Tallinn, CMDR May, CMDR atomicb0mb, CMDR Leonardo White

Prospecting & Cartography

Prior to Horizons 2.1, Scanning a planet did not provide information on what materials can be found on a planet. Prospecting & Cartography was formed to prospect waypoint and surrounding systems for jumponium materials. Systems with level 1 jumponium materials are considered "Green systems".

Members of Prospecting & Cartography include but are not limited to Akira Makasari, Nexolek, Jhyrrl (for Trello), Eisen, Michael Darkmoor, Lyneira, Baroness Galaxy and many others. They eventually formed the player faction Rock Rats.

Candy Crew

Formed by a collection of Cmdr's who gained a reputation for risky stunts, tom foolery and all manner of crazy shenanigans!

Building towers and arches from ships at way points, launching SRV's into space (on the backs of ships), organising SRV races and Destruction Derby's and host of daring stunts, including the infamous way point 5 explosion...

Notable CMDR's include, Raijiin, Isokix, Krollin, Astromiko, Nookie Mr. Smith, Katazz Trofee, SyntheticEQ... etc

The Candy Crew Guild was formed during and after the exploration trip so that the memory and group may stay together and keep up the shenanigans they had become notorious for. 

Wasp Radio

Wasp Radio Logo

The Expeditions radio station ran out of the Distant World's Flagship, Zombie Wasp III (Later Zombie Wasp IV.)

It played an eclectic selection of music tied to the main theme, "Travel, exploration and Loneliness" The playlist of musics grew as CMDRs recommended music to add to the radio station. The expedition had 5 playlists that it alternated between days. Radio Hosts are Olivia Vespera, iDragox, Sternmann, Zelryn

Fleet Security

CMDR Shascar Vas, JDude1 and Fulst organised security for the fleet during and around base camps to prevent potential terrorists or space mad explorers from destroying expedition ships.

Newletter Team

Newsletter Cover

The newletter was a weekly publication managed by CMDR Eisen and Astromiko. The newsletter contained the following sections:

Fleet Progress

• And what’s to come

Comms Chatter

• All the latest from the community via our Teamspeak and Discord reps

The Mapping Project

• CMDR Akira Masakari gives us the latest on the state of prospecting and cartographics

FGE Exploration Wing – Weekly debriefing

• CMDR Corbin Moran, our FGE correspondent has a column where he discusses some of the work the FGE have done, and some interesting places to go yourself

Content Makers

• A little blog on some of the prolific and exceptional content being borne from the expedition by the community

Photo of the Week

• The photographers department chooses a screenshot of the week Bringing it all into perspective. A short essay on some of the interesting science and facts about the trip, the galaxy and everything else

Erimus’ Diary

• All the latest news, current and upcoming, and some interesting stories and events, from CMDR Erimus

Travellers Log

• A weekly section where someone from the community can write something up on any topic

Latest Advisory Warnings

• Hot travel advisories off the press, warnings and precautions to take

Notable Events

Spot the Wasp

Spot the Wasp was a game amongst members where CMDRs could rendezvous with the expedition flagship during it's journey between WPs and take a candid photo with it. Its success was largely due to the flagship being the only Type-9 Heavy in the fleet and its vibrant orange colour. The flagship lumbered at a slow enough pace that most expedition ships could catch up to it.

Sagittarius A* Star

What started as a photo opportunity with Dr.Kaii and Erimus, shortly thereafter turned into an epic battle to see how many commanders we could fit into one instance. The incident soon heralded bragging rights and a warning being issued to the organisers from Frontier Develpoments "Please don't do that again, we recommend a maximum of 32 commanders in one instance." On the first attempt we managed to get over 50 commanders into one instance, the second attempt was made, which broke into the 100's of commanders.

Recording Breaking mass Instancing and mass jumps

There were two mass jumps during Distant Worlds.

one at Sagittarius A* and one at [insert system name here].

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Climbing Greeroi's Mountain

Elite- Dangerous - Epic (and Deadly!) Mountain Climb - Distant Worlds

Greeroi Mountain is located next to the base camp for Waypoint 18.

It is dwarfs the basecamp, standing at 18km. Several explorers had launched mini-expedition to climb and "conquer" the mountain. The Mountain is described as both epic and deadly with high slopes and several false peaks. Attempts by some pilots to scale the mountain had lost them their SRVs, failing the climb.

The few that made it to the top managed to take in the view of the base camp planet as well as the base camp itself.

Beagle Point Week

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Beagle Point Wedding

Darwin's Legacy hosted the furthest wedding between CMDR Johnathan Thal and Elena.

The Flagship's CMDR, Olivia Vespera married them under and archway of ships made by distant world friends.

Salome's Warning

Elite Dangerous Distant Worlds - Salomé's Message

It was rumoured that Salome had been travelling with the expedition. During the Beagle Point week, Salome reavealed herself and her entourage of Children of Raxxla members after having a meeting. She warned that the data we carried was important and should be wary of who we give it to. [Quote and maybe video. Transcribe video > into a quote.

Arrival of FGE Sub-fleet

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Failure of Jacque's Station

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Impact

Attention in the wider gaming world

Numerous gaming news outlets took noticed of the Distant Worlds Expedition prior to and during the expedition. A list can be found under External Links

Exploration Community - visibility, interest, and spin-off expeditions

Interest in exploration and topics exploded since Distant Worlds Expedition. Expeditions started coming out of the woodwork in all manner of sizes and types.

Fleetcomm - resources for expeditions to come

The Kamzel (Group K) private group was renamed to Fleetcomm and has since been used as the premier private group to host major expeditions since - just as the companion Fleetcomm discord group continues to provide essential fleet communication services.

Explorer's Legacies - never to return

5 units of Lavian Brandy were set aside at Beagle Point to be passed from Explorer to Explorer in "a continued, unbroken and never-ending chain of the spirit of exploration, wanderlust and well wishes to future expeditions." While the Wanderlust legacy was lost with the ship carrying it, the other four continue to traverse the galaxy to this day.

Distant Worlds Expedition Decal on a Cobra

Official Recognition

Frontier gave all DWE CMDRs who reached Beagle Point by Beagle Week the game's first exclusive player decal, featuring the Distant Worlds Expedition logo. In a game update in May 2016, the system itself was renamed from Ceeckia ZQ-L c24-0 to Beagle Point in game.

Distant Worlds II

On the 10th October 3303, CMDR Erimus made an early announcement for the sequel to [[Distant Worlds II]] in Q4 3304/Q1 3305Template:DistantWorldsNavbox

Gallery

External Links

• PC Gamer: http://www.pcgamer.com/500-elite-players-journey-to-the-end-of-the-universe/
• Rock Paper Shotgun: http://rockpapershotgun.com/2016/01/26/elite-dangerous-galaxy-edge-journey/
• Kotaku: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116450
• PC Gamer: http://www.pcgamer.com/watch-50-elite-cmdrs-make-synchronous-hyperspace-jump/
• Euro Gamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...nto-hyperspace
• Rock Paper Shotgun: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...er-hyperspace/
• Gamestar: http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/elite-...8,3268262.html
• Polygon: http://www.polygon.com/2016/4/6/1137...ideo-interview