{"data":{"id":15692,"title":"DISCOVERED","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/15692-DISCOVERED","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15692","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15692","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":3564,"name":"DiscoveredFI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/aaz0teb4vjf3xr\/source\/DiscoveredFI2.jpg","alt":"","size":598002,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2015-11-30T23:05:12+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/3564","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/3564\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"While many of our features here at Discovered focus on explorers who dive bravely into the unknown, we would be remiss if we did not also take the time to focus on those individuals who unearth greatness right in our own backyard. This was the case in 2944 when scanner-turned-amateur archaeologist, Kamelia Ganesh, unearthed an incredible find in Croshaw, the Empire\u2019s earliest system outside of Sol.\n\nThe following are excerpts from an oral history recorded by the M\u014dhio Museum in Kevric City, Angeli.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: A small mining outfit had picked up a claim in the Icarus Cluster [Croshaw Cluster Beta] and had hired me to do their deep sweep. I had been scanning the area for about two straight months. They were the types who prospected picked-over sites after the easy money had already been squeezed out. A lot of independent operations don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth going after the more difficult veins, and most of the time, they\u2019re right. However, if you invest in the proper hardware, and you get a damn good scanner on your payroll \u2014 aka moi \u2014 to make sure that you don\u2019t waste your time, then well, there are some creds to be made. Now, being that this was Croshaw, the claim had been turned over more times than a by-the-hour hab in Jele, so I had to go real thorough. That kind of scanning takes discipline. When you\u2019re crawling along, meter by meter, it gets real tempting to start cutting corners, but that\u2019s what separates the pros from the enthusiasts. Probably why I was the first one to ever pick up the signal.\n\nTwo days before she was scheduled to complete her work, Kamelia detected a faint signal from within one of the smaller fringe asteroids.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Didn\u2019t know what to make of it at first. Almost ignored the damn thing to be honest. But it had been a good week and I had found a particularly thick run winding its way through the core of a recently cracked asteroid. That find alone was more than enough to pay for the whole operation, so I figured I could take a little break to satisfy my curiosity. Comes with being a scanner, I guess. Never could just leave well enough alone.\n\nThe signal was barely there and it kept fading in and out, so trying to lock onto the source was a real chore. By the time I started to home in on it, I had figured out that the garbled mess was repeating regularly. Since it had a pattern to it, that ruled out some weird EM coming off a floater or the like. Started having fantasies of discovering some weird alien device. My heart nearly leapt out of my suit when I spotted that dim red blinking light.\n\nAs soon as it came into view, I knew I had found something almost as good as aliens. There was no mistaking that can shape. It was an emergency beacon for sure. But from the way it was embedded in the asteroid, almost like it was part of the rock, it had to be old. Really, really old.\n\nDetermined to learn more about her strange discovery, she reached out to an expert, Professor Scott McGonigal at the M\u014dhio Museum.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: The beacon alone was quite the find and I eagerly accepted when Ms. Ganesh generously offered to let the Museum have it if I would help her understand the signal it had been broadcasting. Together we set to work to unravel its secrets.\n\nThe emergency beacon had been badly worn by time. The power cells were barely holding a charge, its casing had been severely corroded, and the electronics were near complete deterioration from exposure, so it was a slight miracle that it was still able to broadcast at all. My initial estimates based on the rate of decay placed the object at least over half a millennium old. Working inside our lab\u2019s zero-G preservation tanks, we managed to recover from the heavily damaged memory bank a partial registration number and launch coordinates.\n\nI scoured the registration archives to see if I could uncover the identity of the missing ship that had launched the beacon, while Ms. Ganesh investigated the coordinates.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: The coordinates were always going to be a bit of a long shot. Not only were they incomplete, but without knowing when they were recorded, the extrapolated position could be anywhere in a huge swath of the system. Rolling back my starmap, I traced a route along centuries of possibilities but I didn\u2019t turn up anything. I didn\u2019t want to admit that we\u2019d hit a dead end, but with the fact that the wreckage would be most likely be completely powered down as well as the fact that it could have just drifted away, I knew stumbling across whoever sent the beacon would be next to impossible.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Despite the archives turning up numerous possible matches for the partial registration number, none of them fit the profile we were looking for. Any of the more recent ships of course were ruled out, as were all the ships who had been noted as successfully retired. After weeks of tracing the histories of the remaining candidates, it seemed that the ship from which our beacon had originated simply did not exist in the records. Sadly, I had to give up the search and return to my duties here at the museum.\n\nWith their leads seemingly exhausted, the pair\u2019s search had come to a disappointing conclusion. As a consolation, Professor McGonigal invited Kamelia to attend the unveiling of the exhibit that would become the beacon\u2019s new home.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: We had incorporated the beacon into our History of Spaceflight wing. It was placed alongside several other notable emergency beacons that had been recovered during Humanity\u2019s expansion throughout the stars. As a curator, I couldn\u2019t be more pleased that its inclusion in the exhibit is what gave us our most important revelation.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: The laser etching had been mostly worn away on the outside, but there were still a few marks here and there. One of them we had taken to be the remnants of a UNE crest, since the patterns were about the same, but seeing it next to another beacon with a similar marking, I noticed that it was a little bit off.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Bless her scanning skills, because I don\u2019t know many experts who would have picked up on the discrepancy. But once she pointed it out, it was plain as day. The crest wasn\u2019t for the United Nations of Earth at all. It was in fact the very similar but distinct crest of the old Earth North American Alliance. The beacon was even older than we had thought.\n\nThe NAA crest hadn\u2019t been used since the mid-23rd century, which meant that the beacon Kamelia had discovered dated back to Humanity\u2019s earliest years of spaceflight. But what was it doing all the way out in Croshaw?\n\nProfessor McGonigal: With this new information in hand, it began to make sense why I was unable to find the ship in the registration archives. Knowing that the ship should be in the NAA records, I traveled to the University of Rhetor to access their datastore library directly. Sure enough, by re-configuring the alphanumeric sequence into the NAA format, we got a hit. What Ms. Ganesh had discovered was an actual emergency beacon from one of the first ships to ever travel through a jump point, the Goodman.\n\nOutside of the Artemis, the Goodman was one of Humanity\u2019s greatest unsolved mysteries. A Type-IV cargo vessel, it had in August of 2262 embarked on a supply run to a station in orbit around Sol VIII. The ship never arrived. Disappearing without a trace, the poor vessel and the eight souls aboard were victims of a phenomenon known then as the Neso Triangle, and what we know today as the Sol-Croshaw jump point.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Researchers have been trying to locate the Goodman since Humans first explored Croshaw in earnest, and some seven hundred years later, Ms. Ganesh had found a major piece of the puzzle. Incredible.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Talk about an a-ha! moment. That\u2019s why the coordinates didn\u2019t make sense. They weren\u2019t incomplete, they were for a whole different system. See, since interstellar coordinates hadn\u2019t been put into effect at the time, the Goodman had been forced to relay their emergency position using the old Sol mapping method. Can you imagine how confused the Goodman must have been when they got sucked through and saw a different sun?\n\nI immediately flew back to Croshaw and began the search again. This time, with the starmap set to 2262 and the coordinates transposed from the Sol-method into our current standards, I was able to pinpoint where the Goodman had launched the beacon. Starting there and figuring that the ship must have drifted away from any of the usual flight lanes to have avoided detection for so long, I began doing what I do best, scanning. It took me a while, but the best things worth doing usually do. After weeks of looking, my scanner lit up as I detected the Goodman\u2019s cross-signature and damn it all if it wasn\u2019t right there in the middle of Croshaw floating peacefully in the black.\n\nAs soon as it made the press, the discovery was hailed as the archaeological find of the century. People were amazed and captivated by a piece of history that had been floating so close to them, just waiting to be discovered.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: We are still trying to piece together what happened to the Goodman\u2019s crew once they arrived in the system, from the remains found aboard, but even if we never know the full story, the ship alone is an important piece of Humanity\u2019s exploration of the stars.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: People been asking me if I\u2019m going to switch jobs now, discover ancient wrecks full time. But to be honest, one find of a lifetime is probably enough for me. I\u2019m just glad I got to discover a bit more of history\u2019s story.\n\nThe Goodman is currently on display at the M\u014dhio Museum and there are hopes that other wrecks that disappeared through the Neso Triangle may soon be discovered in Croshaw now that archaeologists have a better idea where to look, thanks to the incredible efforts of Kamelia Ganesh.","de_DE":"W\u00e4hrend sich viele unserer Features hier bei Discovered auf Entdecker konzentrieren, die tapfer in das Unbekannte eintauchen, w\u00e4ren wir nachl\u00e4ssig, wenn wir uns nicht auch die Zeit nehmen w\u00fcrden, uns auf diejenigen zu konzentrieren, die Gr\u00f6\u00dfe direkt in unserem eigenen Hinterhof entdecken. Dies war der Fall, als die Amateurarch\u00e4ologin Kamelia Ganesh im Jahr 2944 einen unglaublichen Fund in Croshaw, dem fr\u00fchesten System des Imperiums au\u00dferhalb von Sol, fand.\n\nNachfolgend finden Sie Ausz\u00fcge aus einer m\u00fcndlichen Geschichte, die vom M\u014dhio Museum in Kevric City, Angeli, aufgenommen wurde.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Eine kleine Minengesellschaft hatte einen Claim im Icarus Cluster[Croshaw Cluster Beta] aufgenommen und mich angeheuert, um ihre Tiefensuche durchzuf\u00fchren. Ich hatte das Gebiet etwa zwei Monate lang in Folge gescannt. Sie waren die Typen, die Pick-Over-Sites suchten, nachdem das einfache Geld bereits ausgepresst worden war. Viele unabh\u00e4ngige Unternehmen denken nicht, dass es sich lohnt, die schwierigeren Venen zu durchbrechen, und meistens haben sie Recht. Wenn Sie jedoch in die richtige Hardware investieren und einen verdammt guten Scanner auf Ihrer Gehaltsliste haben - alias moi - um sicherzustellen, dass Sie Ihre Zeit nicht verschwenden, dann gibt es einige Punkte, die man beachten muss. Nun, da dies Croshaw war, war die Behauptung mehr als nur ein stundenlanger Aufenthalt in Jele umgedreht worden, also musste ich wirklich gr\u00fcndlich vorgehen. Diese Art des Scannens erfordert Disziplin. Wenn Sie Meter f\u00fcr Meter weiterkriechen, wird es wirklich verlockend, mit dem Schneiden von Kurven zu beginnen, aber das ist es, was die Profis von den Enthusiasten unterscheidet. Wahrscheinlich war ich deshalb der Erste, der das Signal empfangen hat.\n\nZwei Tage bevor sie ihre Arbeit beenden sollte, entdeckte Kamelia ein schwaches Signal aus einem der kleineren Rand-Asteroiden.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Ich wusste anfangs nicht, was ich davon halten sollte. Ich habe die verdammte Sache fast ignoriert, um ehrlich zu sein. Aber es war eine gute Woche gewesen und ich hatte einen besonders dicken Lauf gefunden, der sich durch den Kern eines k\u00fcrzlich geplatzten Asteroiden schl\u00e4ngelte. Dieser Fund allein war mehr als genug, um die ganze Operation zu bezahlen, also dachte ich, ich k\u00f6nnte eine kleine Pause machen, um meine Neugierde zu befriedigen. Kommt wohl daher, dass man ein Scanner ist. Ich konnte nie gut genug in Ruhe lassen.\n\nDas Signal war kaum da und es verblasste immer wieder, so dass der Versuch, die Quelle zu erfassen, eine echte Aufgabe war. Als ich anfing, mich darauf einzulassen, hatte ich herausgefunden, dass sich das verst\u00fcmmelte Chaos regelm\u00e4\u00dfig wiederholte. Da es ein Muster zu ihm hatte, schloss das ein seltsames EM aus, das von einem Floater oder dergleichen kam. Ich fing an, Fantasien zu haben, um ein seltsames au\u00dferirdisches Ger\u00e4t zu entdecken. Mein Herz sprang fast aus meinem Anzug, als ich das dunkle rote blinkende Licht entdeckte.\n\nSobald es in Sichtweite kam, wusste ich, dass ich etwas fast so Gutes wie Au\u00dferirdische gefunden hatte. Es gab keinen Zweifel, dass sich etwas formen l\u00e4sst. Es war mit Sicherheit ein Notfeuer. Aber so wie er in den Asteroiden eingebettet war, fast so, als w\u00e4re er Teil des Felsens, musste er alt sein. Wirklich, wirklich alt.\n\nEntschlossen, mehr \u00fcber ihre seltsame Entdeckung zu erfahren, wandte sie sich an einen Experten, Professor Scott McGonigal im M\u014dhio Museum.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Das Leuchtfeuer allein war schon ein ziemlicher Fund und ich akzeptierte es eifrig, als Frau Ganesh gro\u00dfz\u00fcgig anbot, es dem Museum zu \u00fcberlassen, wenn ich ihr helfen w\u00fcrde, das Signal zu verstehen, das es gesendet hatte. Gemeinsam machen wir uns an die Arbeit, um seine Geheimnisse zu l\u00fcften.\n\nDas Notsignal war von Zeit zu Zeit stark getragen worden. Die Kraftzellen hielten kaum eine Ladung, ihr Geh\u00e4use war stark korrodiert, und die Elektronik war durch die Belastung fast vollst\u00e4ndig zerst\u00f6rt, so dass es ein kleines Wunder war, dass sie noch \u00fcberhaupt senden konnte. Meine ersten Sch\u00e4tzungen, die auf der Rate des Verfalls basieren, haben das Objekt mindestens \u00fcber ein halbes Jahrtausend alt gemacht. In den Zero-G Konservierungstanks unseres Labors gelang es uns, von der stark besch\u00e4digten Speicherbank eine Teilregistrierungsnummer und Startkoordinaten zu erhalten.\n\nIch durchsuchte die Registrierungsarchive, um zu sehen, ob ich die Identit\u00e4t des vermissten Schiffes aufdecken konnte, das das Leuchtfeuer gestartet hatte, w\u00e4hrend Frau Ganesh die Koordinaten untersuchte.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Die Koordinaten waren immer ein bisschen zu weit weg. Sie waren nicht nur unvollst\u00e4ndig, sondern ohne zu wissen, wann sie aufgezeichnet wurden, konnte die extrapolierte Position \u00fcberall in einem riesigen Bereich des Systems sein. Als ich meine Sternkarte zur\u00fcckrollte, verfolgte ich eine Route entlang jahrhundertelanger M\u00f6glichkeiten, aber ich habe nichts gefunden. Ich wollte nicht zugeben, dass wir in eine Sackgasse geraten waren, aber mit der Tatsache, dass das Wrack h\u00f6chstwahrscheinlich komplett abgeschaltet sein w\u00fcrde, und der Tatsache, dass es einfach weggetrieben sein k\u00f6nnte, wusste ich, dass es fast unm\u00f6glich w\u00e4re, \u00fcber denjenigen zu stolpern, der das Signal gesendet hatte.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Obwohl die Archive zahlreiche m\u00f6gliche \u00dcbereinstimmungen mit der Teilregistrierungsnummer aufwiesen, passte keiner von ihnen in das von uns gesuchte Profil. Alle neueren Schiffe wurden nat\u00fcrlich ausgeschlossen, ebenso wie alle Schiffe, die als erfolgreich abgefahren galten. Nach wochenlanger Suche nach den Geschichten der verbleibenden Kandidaten schien es, dass das Schiff, von dem unser Leuchtfeuer stammt, einfach nicht in den Aufzeichnungen existierte. Leider musste ich die Suche aufgeben und zu meinen Aufgaben hier im Museum zur\u00fcckkehren.\n\nDa ihre F\u00fchrung scheinbar ersch\u00f6pft war, war die Suche des Paares zu einem entt\u00e4uschenden Ergebnis gekommen. Als Trost lud Professor McGonigal Kamelien ein, an der Enth\u00fcllung der Ausstellung teilzunehmen, die das neue Zuhause des Bakens werden sollte.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Wir hatten das Leuchtfeuer in unsere Geschichte der Raumfahrt integriert. Es wurde neben mehreren anderen bemerkenswerten Notfallbaken platziert, die w\u00e4hrend der Expansion der Menschheit in die Sterne geborgen wurden. Als Kurator k\u00f6nnte ich nicht zufriedener sein, dass die Aufnahme in die Ausstellung unsere wichtigste Offenbarung war.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Die Laser\u00e4tzung war meist au\u00dfen abgenutzt, aber es gab noch ein paar Spuren hier und da. Eines davon hatten wir als \u00dcberreste eines UNE-Wappens angesehen, da die Muster ungef\u00e4hr gleich waren, aber als ich es neben einem anderen Leuchtfeuer mit einer \u00e4hnlichen Markierung sah, bemerkte ich, dass es ein wenig seltsam war.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Segne ihre Scan-F\u00e4higkeiten, denn ich kenne nicht viele Experten, die die Diskrepanz aufgegriffen h\u00e4tten. Aber als sie darauf hinwies, war es klar wie der Tag. Das Wappen war \u00fcberhaupt nicht f\u00fcr die Vereinten Nationen der Erde. Es war in der Tat das sehr \u00e4hnliche, aber unterschiedliche Wappen der alten Earth North American Alliance. Das Leuchtfeuer war noch \u00e4lter, als wir gedacht hatten.\n\nDas NAA-Wappen war seit Mitte des 23. Jahrhunderts nicht mehr benutzt worden, was bedeutete, dass das Leuchtfeuer, das Kamelia entdeckt hatte, aus den ersten Jahren der Raumfahrt der Menschheit stammt. Aber was hat es den ganzen Weg nach Croshaw gemacht?\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Mit diesen neuen Informationen in der Hand begann es Sinn zu machen, warum ich das Schiff nicht im Registrierungsarchiv finden konnte. In dem Wissen, dass das Schiff in den NAA-Aufzeichnungen enthalten sein sollte, reiste ich zur University of Rhetor, um direkt auf ihre Datenspeicherbibliothek zuzugreifen. Tats\u00e4chlich haben wir durch die Rekonfiguration der alphanumerischen Sequenz in das NAA-Format einen Treffer erzielt. Was Ms. Ganesh entdeckt hatte, war ein echtes Notlichtsignal von einem der ersten Schiffe, die jemals einen Sprungpunkt, die Goodman, passiert hatten.\n\nAu\u00dferhalb der Artemis war der Goodman eines der gr\u00f6\u00dften ungel\u00f6sten Geheimnisse der Menschheit. Als Typ-IV-Frachtschiff hatte sie im August 2262 einen Versorgungslauf zu einer Station im Orbit um Sol VIII begonnen. Das Schiff kam nie an. Das arme Schiff und die acht Seelen an Bord, die spurlos verschwanden, waren Opfer eines Ph\u00e4nomens, das damals als Neso-Dreieck bekannt war und das wir heute als Sol-Croshaw-Sprungpunkt kennen.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Forscher haben versucht, den Goodman zu finden, seit die Menschen den Croshaw zum ersten Mal ernsthaft erforscht haben, und etwa siebenhundert Jahre sp\u00e4ter hatte Frau Ganesh ein gro\u00dfes St\u00fcck des Puzzles gefunden. Unglaublich.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Sprich \u00fcber einen a-ha! Moment. Deshalb haben die Koordinaten keinen Sinn ergeben. Sie waren nicht unvollst\u00e4ndig, sie waren f\u00fcr ein ganz anderes System. Da die interstellaren Koordinaten zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht umgesetzt waren, waren die Goodman gezwungen, ihre Notfallposition mit der alten Sol-Mapping-Methode zu \u00fcbermitteln. Kannst du dir vorstellen, wie verwirrt der Goodman gewesen sein muss, als er durchgesaugt wurde und eine andere Sonne sah?\n\nIch flog sofort zur\u00fcck nach Croshaw und begann die Suche erneut. Diesmal, mit der auf 2262 eingestellten Sternkarte und den von der Sol-Methode in unsere aktuellen Standards umgesetzten Koordinaten, konnte ich feststellen, wo der Goodman das Bake gestartet hatte. Ausgehend von dort und der Annahme, dass das Schiff von einer der \u00fcblichen Flugrouten weggetrieben sein muss, um die Erkennung so lange vermieden zu haben, begann ich das zu tun, was ich am besten kann: zu scannen. Es hat eine Weile gedauert, aber die besten Dinge, die es wert sind, getan zu werden, tun es normalerweise. Nach wochenlangem Suchen leuchtete mein Scanner auf, als ich die Kreuzunterschrift des Goodman entdeckte und alles verfluchte, wenn es nicht genau dort mitten in Croshaw war, das friedlich in Schwarz schwebte.\n\nSobald es in die Presse kam, wurde die Entdeckung als der arch\u00e4ologische Fund des Jahrhunderts gefeiert. Die Menschen waren erstaunt und fasziniert von einem St\u00fcck Geschichte, das so nah an ihnen schwebte und nur darauf wartete, entdeckt zu werden.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Wir versuchen immer noch, das, was mit der Goodman's Crew passiert ist, nachdem sie im System angekommen ist, von den \u00dcberresten an Bord zusammenzusetzen, aber selbst wenn wir nie die ganze Geschichte kennen, ist das Schiff allein ein wichtiges St\u00fcck der Erforschung der Sterne durch die Menschheit.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Die Leute fragten mich, ob ich jetzt den Job wechseln und alte Wracks in Vollzeit entdecken werde. Aber um ehrlich zu sein, ein Fund des Lebens reicht mir wahrscheinlich aus. Ich bin nur froh, dass ich etwas mehr von der Geschichte der Geschichte entdecken konnte.\n\nDer Goodman ist derzeit im Museum M\u014dhio ausgestellt und es besteht die Hoffnung, dass bald weitere Wracks, die durch das Neso-Dreieck verschwunden sind, in Croshaw entdeckt werden k\u00f6nnen, nachdem Arch\u00e4ologen dank der unglaublichen Bem\u00fchungen von Kamelia Ganesh eine bessere Idee haben, wohin sie schauen sollen.","zh_CN":"While many of our features here at Discovered focus on explorers who dive bravely into the unknown, we would be remiss if we did not also take the time to focus on those individuals who unearth greatness right in our own backyard. This was the case in 2944 when scanner-turned-amateur archaeologist, Kamelia Ganesh, unearthed an incredible find in Croshaw, the Empire\u2019s earliest system outside of Sol.\n\nThe following are excerpts from an oral history recorded by the M\u014dhio Museum in Kevric City, Angeli.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: A small mining outfit had picked up a claim in the Icarus Cluster [Croshaw Cluster Beta] and had hired me to do their deep sweep. I had been scanning the area for about two straight months. They were the types who prospected picked-over sites after the easy money had already been squeezed out. A lot of independent operations don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth going after the more difficult veins, and most of the time, they\u2019re right. However, if you invest in the proper hardware, and you get a damn good scanner on your payroll \u2014 aka moi \u2014 to make sure that you don\u2019t waste your time, then well, there are some creds to be made. Now, being that this was Croshaw, the claim had been turned over more times than a by-the-hour hab in Jele, so I had to go real thorough. That kind of scanning takes discipline. When you\u2019re crawling along, meter by meter, it gets real tempting to start cutting corners, but that\u2019s what separates the pros from the enthusiasts. Probably why I was the first one to ever pick up the signal.\n\nTwo days before she was scheduled to complete her work, Kamelia detected a faint signal from within one of the smaller fringe asteroids.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Didn\u2019t know what to make of it at first. Almost ignored the damn thing to be honest. But it had been a good week and I had found a particularly thick run winding its way through the core of a recently cracked asteroid. That find alone was more than enough to pay for the whole operation, so I figured I could take a little break to satisfy my curiosity. Comes with being a scanner, I guess. Never could just leave well enough alone.\n\nThe signal was barely there and it kept fading in and out, so trying to lock onto the source was a real chore. By the time I started to home in on it, I had figured out that the garbled mess was repeating regularly. Since it had a pattern to it, that ruled out some weird EM coming off a floater or the like. Started having fantasies of discovering some weird alien device. My heart nearly leapt out of my suit when I spotted that dim red blinking light.\n\nAs soon as it came into view, I knew I had found something almost as good as aliens. There was no mistaking that can shape. It was an emergency beacon for sure. But from the way it was embedded in the asteroid, almost like it was part of the rock, it had to be old. Really, really old.\n\nDetermined to learn more about her strange discovery, she reached out to an expert, Professor Scott McGonigal at the M\u014dhio Museum.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: The beacon alone was quite the find and I eagerly accepted when Ms. Ganesh generously offered to let the Museum have it if I would help her understand the signal it had been broadcasting. Together we set to work to unravel its secrets.\n\nThe emergency beacon had been badly worn by time. The power cells were barely holding a charge, its casing had been severely corroded, and the electronics were near complete deterioration from exposure, so it was a slight miracle that it was still able to broadcast at all. My initial estimates based on the rate of decay placed the object at least over half a millennium old. Working inside our lab\u2019s zero-G preservation tanks, we managed to recover from the heavily damaged memory bank a partial registration number and launch coordinates.\n\nI scoured the registration archives to see if I could uncover the identity of the missing ship that had launched the beacon, while Ms. Ganesh investigated the coordinates.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: The coordinates were always going to be a bit of a long shot. Not only were they incomplete, but without knowing when they were recorded, the extrapolated position could be anywhere in a huge swath of the system. Rolling back my starmap, I traced a route along centuries of possibilities but I didn\u2019t turn up anything. I didn\u2019t want to admit that we\u2019d hit a dead end, but with the fact that the wreckage would be most likely be completely powered down as well as the fact that it could have just drifted away, I knew stumbling across whoever sent the beacon would be next to impossible.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Despite the archives turning up numerous possible matches for the partial registration number, none of them fit the profile we were looking for. Any of the more recent ships of course were ruled out, as were all the ships who had been noted as successfully retired. After weeks of tracing the histories of the remaining candidates, it seemed that the ship from which our beacon had originated simply did not exist in the records. Sadly, I had to give up the search and return to my duties here at the museum.\n\nWith their leads seemingly exhausted, the pair\u2019s search had come to a disappointing conclusion. As a consolation, Professor McGonigal invited Kamelia to attend the unveiling of the exhibit that would become the beacon\u2019s new home.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: We had incorporated the beacon into our History of Spaceflight wing. It was placed alongside several other notable emergency beacons that had been recovered during Humanity\u2019s expansion throughout the stars. As a curator, I couldn\u2019t be more pleased that its inclusion in the exhibit is what gave us our most important revelation.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: The laser etching had been mostly worn away on the outside, but there were still a few marks here and there. One of them we had taken to be the remnants of a UNE crest, since the patterns were about the same, but seeing it next to another beacon with a similar marking, I noticed that it was a little bit off.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Bless her scanning skills, because I don\u2019t know many experts who would have picked up on the discrepancy. But once she pointed it out, it was plain as day. The crest wasn\u2019t for the United Nations of Earth at all. It was in fact the very similar but distinct crest of the old Earth North American Alliance. The beacon was even older than we had thought.\n\nThe NAA crest hadn\u2019t been used since the mid-23rd century, which meant that the beacon Kamelia had discovered dated back to Humanity\u2019s earliest years of spaceflight. But what was it doing all the way out in Croshaw?\n\nProfessor McGonigal: With this new information in hand, it began to make sense why I was unable to find the ship in the registration archives. Knowing that the ship should be in the NAA records, I traveled to the University of Rhetor to access their datastore library directly. Sure enough, by re-configuring the alphanumeric sequence into the NAA format, we got a hit. What Ms. Ganesh had discovered was an actual emergency beacon from one of the first ships to ever travel through a jump point, the Goodman.\n\nOutside of the Artemis, the Goodman was one of Humanity\u2019s greatest unsolved mysteries. A Type-IV cargo vessel, it had in August of 2262 embarked on a supply run to a station in orbit around Sol VIII. The ship never arrived. Disappearing without a trace, the poor vessel and the eight souls aboard were victims of a phenomenon known then as the Neso Triangle, and what we know today as the Sol-Croshaw jump point.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: Researchers have been trying to locate the Goodman since Humans first explored Croshaw in earnest, and some seven hundred years later, Ms. Ganesh had found a major piece of the puzzle. Incredible.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: Talk about an a-ha! moment. That\u2019s why the coordinates didn\u2019t make sense. They weren\u2019t incomplete, they were for a whole different system. See, since interstellar coordinates hadn\u2019t been put into effect at the time, the Goodman had been forced to relay their emergency position using the old Sol mapping method. Can you imagine how confused the Goodman must have been when they got sucked through and saw a different sun?\n\nI immediately flew back to Croshaw and began the search again. This time, with the starmap set to 2262 and the coordinates transposed from the Sol-method into our current standards, I was able to pinpoint where the Goodman had launched the beacon. Starting there and figuring that the ship must have drifted away from any of the usual flight lanes to have avoided detection for so long, I began doing what I do best, scanning. It took me a while, but the best things worth doing usually do. After weeks of looking, my scanner lit up as I detected the Goodman\u2019s cross-signature and damn it all if it wasn\u2019t right there in the middle of Croshaw floating peacefully in the black.\n\nAs soon as it made the press, the discovery was hailed as the archaeological find of the century. People were amazed and captivated by a piece of history that had been floating so close to them, just waiting to be discovered.\n\nProfessor McGonigal: We are still trying to piece together what happened to the Goodman\u2019s crew once they arrived in the system, from the remains found aboard, but even if we never know the full story, the ship alone is an important piece of Humanity\u2019s exploration of the stars.\n\nKamelia Ganesh: People been asking me if I\u2019m going to switch jobs now, discover ancient wrecks full time. But to be honest, one find of a lifetime is probably enough for me. I\u2019m just glad I got to discover a bit more of history\u2019s story.\n\nThe Goodman is currently on display at the M\u014dhio Museum and there are hopes that other wrecks that disappeared through the Neso Triangle may soon be discovered in Croshaw now that archaeologists have a better idea where to look, thanks to the incredible efforts of Kamelia Ganesh."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":79,"created_at":"2017-02-01T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"9 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-25 09:42:07","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":15690,"next_id":15693}}