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(2021) The second link has died, as so many others have. I have copied the entire contents of the first link below.
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FRONTIER (ELITE II) Game Info
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collected by lots of people on comp.sys.amiga.games
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compiled by Christoph Tietz (Christoph.Tietz@gmd.de)
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April 5, 1994
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I Disclaimer
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I play this game on a PC and have tried to verify as much of the given
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information as possible.
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Information that is marked with "(?)" is untested and may apply to the
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Amiga version only or may be wrong altogether. (-; Anything else may be
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wrong too ;-). If you find any mistake, I would be glad to hear from you.
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Parts of the information listed here were not found by me initially, but
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unfortunately I cannot reconstruct who contributed all the bits and
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pieces. Instead I dedicate this collection to the Frontier playing network
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community with many thanks. I hope you don't mind, that I have put your
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contribution together with lots of others and redistributed the whole
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thing without mentioning your name.
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Enough smalltalk and excuses. Now to the facts:
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II Game Tips
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Golden Rule
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Before you do anything that looks only remotely dangerous, SAVE YOUR GAME.
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Do this even if you only want to do something perfectly normal. The game
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is full of bad surprises that have nothing to do with the game itself but
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with bugs and strange crashes. Always keep the last few games, in case a
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saved game is unusable.
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Dongles and Other Strange Beasts
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There have been reports of problems with Frontier on an Amiga if a dongle
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occupies the 2nd joystick port. If you cannot control your ship because it
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starts to spin uncontrollably remove the dongle and try again.
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Copy Protection
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The copy protection scheme counts headlines as text and ignores the case
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of your input. Page headers and footers and the captions of pictures are
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not counted as text.
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Ships In System Maps
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Ships are marked in the system map as little crosses in the color in which
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the ships would appear on the scanner. Your own position is marked with a
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purple dot regardless of the type of your ship and your hyperjump cloud
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will be marked with a blue dot. You will see the blue dot also for the
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hyperjump clouds of ships that you had selected before they jumped out of
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the system. Sometimes it is even possible to use your cloud analyzer on
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such clouds. You can not center the map relative to ship marks.
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Planet Selection
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A planet or station can only be selected if it is annotated with its name.
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This annotation is only performed when the game assumes that the object is
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clearly visible. The heuristic that is used for this decision sometimes
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fails badly. Therefore some planets can only be selected if the system is
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zoomed and rotated until the observer's position is near the planet. Try it
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with Pluto in Sol [0, 0]. It really is selectable!
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Autopilot
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Your autopilot tries to fly to your target in a straight line. If there is
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a planet between you and your target, the autopilot will happily try to
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fly through the planet, crashing you in the process.
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If you don't want to risk crashes because of high gravity or other mishaps
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that could confuse your autopilot you should always land using time
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acceleration at least at level 2. If you don't watch it too closely your
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autopilot definitely performs better.
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Docking
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Docking your ship in a space station without causing damage can become a
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quite complicated task for large ships. You have to remember that your
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forward view from a ship like the Panther Clipper is not centered in the
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ship but instead you look out of your forward window that may be high
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above the center axis of your ship. As a result you have to aim not at the
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middle of the docking bay of a station but at a point somewhere in the
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upper half of the back wall of the dock. One nicely working trick is to
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use the outside view to look at your ship from a point in front of it and
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align your ship such that you look at it from within the station and it
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keeps well clear of the dock walls. In a station you may keep your landing
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gear up to keep your ship as small as possible.
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Initial Trading
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As a beginner you will want to make fast cash to be able to buy a better
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ship that brings you to all the wonders of the universe. You can earn your
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money with trading. As a beginner you should choose a trading route where
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there is no risk of being attacked by pirates. Sol and Barnard are two
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such systems. You can carry luxury goods from Sol to Barnard and robots
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back. Sell all of your initial equipment you don't need, to make room for
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merchandise. You won't need missiles, laser or your scanner. As soon as
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you have left Merlin (on Ross 154) you can sell your atmospheric shielding
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too at the next starport, if you avoid planets with atmosphere in the
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future. On the route between Sol and Barnard this will pose no problem,
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because there are enough space stations in either system. Be sure to check
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the bulletin board when you bring robots to Sol. Very often you can get a
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better price there than on the stock market.
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You cannot afford Luxury Goods or Computers in the very beginning. Carry
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Fruit and Vegetables to Barnard instead until you have enough cash to
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switch to more profitable goods. Buy a bigger ship as soon as you have
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enough money to pay it AND enough cash to buy some initial cargo for your
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new ship too.
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Another good route in imperial space has been reported to be Facece to
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Vequess and back. You can perform military missions on one way and carry
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slaves back, if you don't mind the moral implications.
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Crew Members
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Every day at midnight the bulletin board is updated and may show new
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potential crew members.
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It is a very bad idea to fire someone of your crew. Your reputation will
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suffer badly. If you repeat this several times, it will take you a very
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long time (sometimes years!) to hire crew members again.
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Passengers
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Passengers want to be delivered to their destination in one month or less.
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If they get impatient, they will tell you so, leave at the next starport
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and refuse to pay. The main problem is, that your reputation will suffer
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badly and future passengers may even refuse to be transported by you. You
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can persuade them sometimes by asking several times. You should be careful
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with passengers that tell you, that they owe someone money. They will most
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probably refuse to pay at the destination port. For some systems you need
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a permit to enter. The only way to get a permit is to transport a
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passenger or parcel to such a system. The people that give you military
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missions assume that you already have a permit.
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Charity
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If you give money to charity, you will get a better reputation and people
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will trust you more. This means that you can get 10% more money for
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deliveries, get all or part of the money in advance and more people will
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want to work for you (?). Your reputation will also grow if you succeed
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with passenger transports without receiving too much damage to your ship.
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Therefore giving away your money is not really necessary if your
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reputation is not too bad for passengers to accept you carrying them.
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Dumping Radioactives
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One way to get rid of the radioactive waste from military drives is to
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dump it into space right out of your cargo bay. If you are in a system
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where a strong police force is watching, this can get you in trouble even
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if you dump directly after your jump into the system. In such systems you
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should simply sell your waste or (if radioactives are illegal) find a
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reliable merchant on the black market who takes it back.
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You can have loads of fun if you try a few highly illegal dumping
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places. A space port is a very nice place to dump your waste on. Some
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people prefer to dump their radioactives into the still open landing bay
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of an underground spaceport. You can even fling your waste into a long
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range cruiser that waits outside of some space stations. Of course you can
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do the same with mines for the thrill of finally seeing a mine hit
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something!
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There seem to exist systems where you can get real money for your
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radioactives. Look out for systems in the state of civil war. Sometimes
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you can sell your radioactives there on the black market.
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Countryside Landing
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Lower your speed and raise your nose until you fall with approx. 3 m/s.
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When you are down to 10-15 m, cut your speed to 0 and align your nose with
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the horizon. Don't forget to lower you landing gear!
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Mining
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Select a system with little or no registered settlers, look for an unnamed
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planet above 0 degrees and below 200 degrees without a starport or station
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and unload your MB4. Wait a few months and land near your mining
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equipment. Pick it up and leave. If you try again at the same place you
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will find less and the third time you will find nothing. This is not
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dependent on the time you let your machine work or the amount of minerals
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the machine has produced. Only the number of trials counts.
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A builtin camera (you get it for your first reconnaissance mission) does
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not prevent you from using the mining machines. Just use the camera icon
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in the near of the mining machine. Frontier will know, that you don't want
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to take pictures.
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Fuel Scoop from a Gas Giant
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Autopilot to the target, aim at the horizon and set your speed to 15,000
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km/h. Use time acceleration and decelerate to keep the target tunnel
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frames coming at constant speed; when the atmosphere gets visible, aim for
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the middle and reduce your speed to 4000 km/h, go back to normal time. The
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fuel scoop will first fill up the cargo space and then the internal tanks.
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Fighting
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There seem to exist a lot of misunderstandings with respect to fighting.
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The first one is, that your movement vector has to point to your enemy to
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move towards him. This is not true. Your movement vector is shown as the
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vector of your movement with respect to the currently selected reference
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mass. This is totally insignificant for a fight, because there only the
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relative velocities of the fighting ships count. This also means, that you
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don't have to decelerate for a fight. Your attacker will have a similar
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velocity vector as you or he wouldn't stay in your vicinity for long.
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Important are the tiny differences in your movement vectors that result in
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movements of your ships relative to each other. If you both fly parallel
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with 10,000 m/s in the same direction and accelerate towards each other,
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this will have the same effect as when you don't move at all and
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accelerate towards each other. What counts is the resulting relative
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movement. To make a long story short: Simply ignore your displayed
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velocity during a fight. It doesn't matter at all!
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What does count is your velocity relative to the attacking ships. You
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cannot measure it directly, but you can select an attacking ship and watch
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the distance change to get an estimate of your velocity. This is the only
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velocity information that helps you to maneuver during a fight.
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* Always switch your engines off while fighting and use mouse direction
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control and acceleration/deceleration buttons for maneuvering.
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* Ignore the indication of your velocity vector. It is insignificant for a
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fight.
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* Be careful not to shoot yourself with your own turret mounted lasers.
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* If you attack a ship with your front laser, aim 5 deg past it,
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accelerate until near, decelerate and follow accelerating while it flies
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by. Shoot it from behind.
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* You can shoot incoming missiles: evade with full thrusters, u-turn,
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select with annotation (to make the missile visible) and shoot.
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I have developed a standard sequence for fighting that uses a little
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cheating to compensate for the very poor HUD and the bad interface to the
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functions you need during a fight:
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* When the attack warning comes up, stop time.
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* Switch off your engines.
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* Select the outside view of your ship and zoom out as far as possible.
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* Switch on the id labels to identify the attacker.
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* Move the outside view until the attacker rotates into your view.
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* Select the attacker and activate your radar scanner to get type and
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damage info.
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* Remember the position of the attacker on your scanner.
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* Switch back to the front view.
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* Restart time.
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* If you use your front laser, rotate your ship to face the attacker and
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use your engines to accelerate at the same time to evade the initial
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attack.
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* Perform any maneuvers necessary and shoot to get rid of the attacker.
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* Select the system map and reselect your initial target.
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Some players find it sufficient to use the id labels, so they don't have
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to deselect the original flight target and select the attacker. I found
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the distance information the selection provides very helpful
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though. Especially when I have to use a powerful laser economically
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because it can be fired only a limited time until it overheats and needs
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time for cooling.
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Military Missions
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Be careful not to accept military missions that clearly cannot be finished
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in time. You will have to look at the destination starsystem, estimate
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your travelling time through hyperspace and the time you need in the
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target system to reach your destination. A good distance estimate is to
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add 10 AU to the orbital distance of your destination. If your destination
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is orbiting another planet use the orbital distance of this planet instead
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and add the orbital distance of your destination to the result.
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If you don't get missions from your local military agent, don't despair.
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Often it is sufficient to change the starport in the same system to get
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missions. If all else fails and you don't want to change the base for your
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military career, simply make a small hyperspace jump out of the system and
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back. In the mean time your military agent may have changed his mind. If
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he still has nothing to do for you you should ask yourself a few
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questions. Would you give someone like you military missions? For whom
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have you worked in the past? Are you really trustworthy? See, you know the
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reason!
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Assassination
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* Always save the game before accepting a contract.
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* Don't arrive in your target system too early. If the police has enough
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time to investigate, the victim will be warned. This makes it very
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difficult to finish a contract in systems like 61 Cygni [-1, 1] or
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Omicron Eridani [2, 0] where you have to travel 40 AU or more to the
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next station. Don't even think about a mission for Alpha Centauri [0, 0]
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or Cegreth [-1, -3]. Such missions can only be accomplished if you
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cheat. For details see the Autopilot Break below. It seems to be ok. to
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arrive at the target system about one week before contract time.
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* Don't wait too long in front of the target station or port, the victim
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may get frightened and refuse to start. 15 minutes before contract time
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seems ok.
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There seems to be a way to force victims out of a station if they refuse
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to start. If you attack the station, the launch bay must be cleared for
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the police vipers. If your victim is in the station, he/she will be in
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the launch bay and get forced to start as soon as you attack the
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station.
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* Don't wait directly in front of the station, the victim may run into
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you.
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* Don't wait directly above a star port. If the launch bay doesn't close
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after your start, your victim cannot start.
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* You should never try to watch the take off of your victim in accelerated
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time. In most cases your victim will sneak past you while you are
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dreaming your time away and be gone before you even know it.
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* Don't attack too close to a star port or station, the victim may try to
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land again.
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* If you have to attack near a star port, don't use missiles too early. If
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you do, your victim might try to evade the missile and crash in the
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process. If your victim kills himself, you failed.
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* You can use missiles to prevent the victim from hyperjumping while you
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attack. If you fire a missile before you use your lasers, the local
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authorities will charge you only 600 credits for illegal weapon usage.
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Otherwise you will get fined 10,000 credits for piracy and murder.
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One very nice attack method based on this trick is to wait at some
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planet far from your destination until you can spot your victim on the
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system map. As soon as it appears, target it and fire a missile. This is
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already sufficient to prevent your victim from hyperjumping and you can
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approach now and do what you came for.
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* If the victim hyperjumps, use a cloud analyzer and simply follow. Select
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the arrival cloud and wait until the victim arrives or you can be sure
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it made a misjump. If you are not fast enough to overtake your victim on
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the direct route, you can always use a wormhole route that is nearly
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always faster. A drawback of the wormhole route is, that your entry
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point of the target system may be far away from the entry point of your
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victim.
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* If you are too far from your victim when he or she starts, use the
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system map and watch for a ship mark on the map that belongs to your
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victim. Select it and proceed as usual. You can verify your selection
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via communication. Don't call, just verify the registration number.
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* If you have more than one assassination on your list, collect the money
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for the first one before you try the next. Your employer seems to
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actively look for you to pay you and spreads rumors of your profession
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in the process. This obviously warns other victims.
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With these points in mind I have succeded with every contract (civil or
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military) that I have accepted so far. In every case a victim didn't show
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up I could find a reason from the list above and succeeded in the next
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trial.
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On the other hand there have been reported lots of problems with victims
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not showing up or refusing to land at the port of destination. Some of
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these problems seem to stay even if you use every trick in the book. In
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such a case your only chance is to reload a saved game from the time
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before you accepted the contract.
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Reconnaissance Missions
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One problem with such missions is, to find your target at all. It should
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work if you approach the planet until it nearly fills your screen. If the
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military base is visible, you should see it as a grey pixel that can be
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selected. If you don't see it, fly to the back of the planet or simply
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wait a few hours (in accelerated time) until the planet rotates the base
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into your view. The maximum distance to take pictures from is about 80 km.
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You get excellent pictures if you fly below 10 km. One nicely working
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method for an approach is:
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* Use autopilot and maximum time acceleration until you arrive in the
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"vicinity of the planet".
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* Use time acceleration 3-4 and 50,000 km/h to fly to 7000-8000 km
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distance.
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* Orbit the planet and lock on the target when it is at the horizon.
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* Save the game.
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* Aim a little below the horizon and descend to 1000-3000 m.
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On planets with high gravity this is the most difficult part. I always
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save a game before actually reaching the planet so I can try different
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routes to the target station. The problem on planets with high gravity
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is, that you don't get height information until you cannot decelerate
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anymore in time to avoid a crash. You have to approach such planets very
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carefully. Another problem is, that you can control you descent only via
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the velocity readings because you cannot see your actual velocity vector
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or the target tunnel with your nose up high enough to make a controlled
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descent to your target. You can aim at your target with your nose up, if
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you use the outside view.
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* Continue towards your target with 10,000 km/h and time acceleration 2
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until your distance is down to 200 km.
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* Decelerate to 5,000 km/h and switch off time acceleration.
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* From a distance of 80 km downwards you can take pictures. I usually fly
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between the towers or a small distance above. After you have taken the
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pictures, accelerate with full power and make your escape.
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* After having taken my pictures I often pick a few interesting enemies
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and practice my fighting skills before jumping out of the system.
  +
  +
  +
  +
A few times I managed to rough land between the buildings of a target
  +
  +
station. The stations don't seem to have a starport, but only a hangar out
  +
  +
of which the interceptors start. It is interesting to watch them
  +
  +
materialize in front of this hangar (and crash shortly afterwards).
  +
  +
Reconnaissance missions to imperial stations are most difficult, because
  +
  +
you are attacked by Imperial Couriers with 20 MW lasers. For my Asp with
  +
  +
up to 10 shields this means that you are history with only one direct
  +
  +
hit. If you fly very low between the buildings of a target station you
  +
  +
must be extremely careful, not to be rammed by an enemy ship that suddenly
  +
  +
appears directly in front of you.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Bombing Missions
  +
  +
If you have succeeded with reconnaissance missions and shot a lot of
  +
  +
excellent pictures you will find bombing missions very boring. You can
  +
  +
fire your nuclear missile from 500 km distance or even more without
  +
  +
adverse effects if the station lies within your line of sight. The crater
  +
  +
that replaces the station after a successful attack is no hole in the
  +
  +
ground. It hovers above the planet just where the station used to be. If
  +
  +
you rough land at the position of the station you land actually below the
  +
  +
crater. Very strange...
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Ratings
  +
  +
If you want to improve your combat rating fast, there is one simple trick.
  +
  +
Buy a Panther Clipper and equip it with about 300 shield generators. It is
  +
  +
nearly invincible now. Select a system with lots of pirates. Anarchies are
  +
  +
very nice and some dictatorships also work very well. Jump into the system
  +
  +
and switch off your engines. Accelerate time to the maximum and wait for
  +
  +
the pirates to come. When they arrive, simply wait. They will crash into
  +
  +
you and you will get the bonus for destroying them. Only one ship can get
  +
  +
dangerous to you and this is the Imperial Courier which is very often
  +
  +
equipped with a 20 MW laser. Fight this one and do it carefully because
  +
  +
once this gun starts to hit you, your shields will degrade very fast and
  +
  +
you don't have the engine power to evade quickly.
  +
  +
  +
  +
After you have cleaned up the system, jump to a neighbor system and back
  +
  +
or still better, simply jump to another anarchy. Repeat until you run out
  +
  +
of fuel, are bored too much or have advanced to ELITE after 6000 destroyed
  +
  +
ships.
  +
  +
  +
  +
As soon as you get reconnaissance missions from the military, you can
  +
  +
advance even faster. Pick a mission to a station on a planet with low
  +
  +
gravity and fly towards it. From approximately 500 km downward you can
  +
  +
watch interceptors start continuously. All you have to do is to reduce
  +
  +
your velocity or switch off your engines and wait until they start
  +
  +
crashing into you. In the near of imperial stations it is not as easy,
  +
  +
because you will have to actively fight the attacking Imperial Couriers
  +
  +
that would cut you into pieces otherwise. They are quite easy to destroy,
  +
  +
if you adapt your course until they approach you in a straight line. Then
  +
  +
you can activate the autopilot and fire as soon as they are in range. As
  +
  +
long as you move to follow one of the Imperial Couriers the others are
  +
  +
usually too clumsy to hit you hard enough to cause damage. Other ships can
  +
  +
safely be ignored. They will crash into you from time to time or reduce
  +
  +
your shields a few percent if they hit you with their lasers. Keep well
  +
  +
above the planet to avoid crash landings.
  +
  +
  +
  +
You can accelerate all this still further if you use an energy bomb to wipe
  +
  +
out a lot of enemies with one keypress. This works most satisfactory if you
  +
  +
are surrounded by lots of police vipers after some little disagreements
  +
  +
with the local authorities.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Sling shot
  +
  +
Aim just past a large gas giant and get fast enough (700 km/s for
  +
  +
Jupiter). Switch off your engines and watch. Speed and distance are
  +
  +
critical. You will have to practice a bit to get the feeling.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Sightseeing
  +
  +
You can fly through all the domes on planets without a breathable
  +
  +
atmosphere and land between the buildings. If you do this for the
  +
  +
transparent domes at Ross 154 you will find in one dome administration
  +
  +
buildings of Vega Line, Sirius Corporation and other trading houses and in
  +
  +
the second dome the usual combination of concrete blocks and green patches
  +
  +
in between with scattered brick houses. It is definitely fun to fly
  +
  +
between the buildings and look at your surroundings. Agriculture domes are
  +
  +
a bit boring, because they contain nothing more than lots of green balls
  +
  +
at ground level.
  +
  +
Domes that are not tranparent, can be entered too but contain absolutely
  +
  +
nothing. It is interesting, that they are no obstacle for you though. At
  +
  +
least they are good for some very strange graphical effects if you land in
  +
  +
one of these domes and use your outside view to look at your surroundings.
  +
  +
  +
  +
In every major city with more than the space port and a little industry you
  +
  +
can find little churches with working clocks. The cities are structured as
  +
  +
large blocks of ugly concrete buildings and patches of green between them
  +
  +
with scattered brick houses and every now and then a little church. Try to
  +
  +
rough land in the vicinity of such a church and watch the clock on the
  +
  +
church steeple. Use time acceleration for better effect. If you are close
  +
  +
enough you can even read the roman numbers on the clock face. The buildings
  +
  +
give you an interesting impression of the size of your ship. A Cobra MK III
  +
  +
looks huge compared with this tiny little church. And have you ever seen a
  +
  +
huge space ship standing in the graveyard behind a church? It looks
  +
  +
definitely strange.
  +
  +
  +
  +
At some time in the future I will look for one of the bridges you can see in
  +
  +
the intro sequence of the game. This will be my last action before voluntary
  +
  +
retirement. A kind soul already gave me the tip to look in the near of New
  +
  +
San Francisco on Earth, Sol [0, 0]. Do you really want me to retire?
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Other Galaxies
  +
  +
If you use the galactic view and zoom out of the galaxy you can see lots
  +
  +
of other galaxies that are arranged in a regular grid. These galaxies are
  +
  +
all copies of your home galaxy, so it is really not worth the effort to
  +
  +
try and find wormhols to distant galaxies. There is only one galaxy and a
  +
  +
lot of mirror images.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Thargoids
  +
  +
A lot of oldtimers from the era of the original Elite game still remember
  +
  +
the menace of the Thargoids and miss them in Frontier. Nobody has seen a
  +
  +
Thargoid in Frontier yet but in an interview David Braben shall have told
  +
  +
that there is a single Thargoid ship in a system far out in the galaxy. I
  +
  +
personally think this is only a trick to keep us playing Frontier until
  +
  +
add-ons appear. But who knows?
  +
  +
  +
  +
If you fly bombing missions to federal bases you can sometimes see two big
  +
  +
violet octagonal ships that look just like the good old Thargoid ships but
  +
  +
they are not disturbed by your approach. Perhaps the Thargoids sleep for a
  +
  +
few hundred years after the exhausting fight with mankind?
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
III Bugs / Features
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Enemies One At a Time
  +
  +
Maximum time acceleration will separate groups of ships to get them in
  +
  +
line, waiting for you.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Perfect Autopilot
  +
  +
Your autopilot always succeeds if you use maximum time acceleration.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Planet Landing Without Fuel
  +
  +
While you still have fuel, use the autopilot to align with your target
  +
  +
planet, switch to maximum time acceleration and wait for the landing
  +
  +
sequence. Switch back to maximum time acceleration and you are save.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Zero Time Shooting from Gun Turrets
  +
  +
If an attacker approaches, get him in sight of a laser turret, stop time,
  +
  +
select the attacker, aim the laser and test fire (you see the blue or the
  +
  +
explosion light effect if you hit). Keep firing while releasing the time
  +
  +
stop. Repeat if necessary.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Missile Fire While Docked
  +
  +
You can fire missiles even from within a space station. This might help in
  +
  +
case of the passenger/no crew problem described in the Bugs / Bugs
  +
  +
section.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Certain Missile Hit
  +
  +
Switch to maximum time acceleration after firing the missile. Your missile
  +
  +
will hit even if you use a nuclear missile and/or have 900 km distance to
  +
  +
your target.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Selling Ship With Passenger
  +
  +
If you sell a ship with passenger on board you get the money and keep the
  +
  +
ship (and the passenger). This bug seems to be fixed in the 1.05 version
  +
  +
of the game for the Amiga and in the American PC version.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Engine Upgrade for Imp Courier or Imp Trader
  +
  +
The only way to get an upgrade for the non-removable engine in an Imperial
  +
  +
Courier or an Imperial Trader seems to be to let it fail due to
  +
  +
maintenance neglection and then put in a new engine. The new engine will
  +
  +
be fixed just as the original drive. To let time pass in a controlled way
  +
  +
select a route between two star systems an perform lots of jumps. If you
  +
  +
select Barnard <-> Sol, you can sell all your equipment except for the
  +
  +
autopilot and load your ship with fuel for the jumps. After 10 or 11
  +
  +
months you should stop jumping around to avoid a misjump. The few
  +
  +
remaining days you can simply wait outside a station until your drive
  +
  +
falls off.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Autopilot Break
  +
  +
You can activate the autopilot for immediate deceleration from arbitrary
  +
  +
high velocities in the vicinity of your selected target, if you use
  +
  +
maximum time acceleration.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Crash Avoidance
  +
  +
Assume you have to perform a mission on some planet, reached it and find
  +
  +
out that you are too fast to be able to decelerate in time to avoid a
  +
  +
crash landing. What can you do? The correct way is to watch the crash,
  +
  +
reload a previously saved game and try again. The Frontier way is to use
  +
  +
time acceleration to avoid the crash. Simply switch to maximum time
  +
  +
acceleration just before the crash. You will make a big jump through the
  +
  +
planet and be safe at some distance at the other side.
  +
  +
  +
  +
This is not really a bug but more or less a consequence of the
  +
  +
implementation of time acceleration. Collisions are detected if your ship
  +
  +
collides with an object at a given time frame of the simulation. When you
  +
  +
accelerate time these time frames are farther apart and so are your
  +
  +
positions in space if you are moving. If your position at one time frame
  +
  +
is above a planet and at the next time frame on the other side of the
  +
  +
planet Frontier will not detect the collision that should have happened in
  +
  +
between.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Fast Ascent to ELITE
  +
  +
You can use the properties of time acceleration to acsend to ELITE status
  +
  +
very fast, once you get foto or bombing missions. Just buy a Panther with
  +
  +
lots of shields, get yourself an imperial foto or bombing mission and stop
  +
  +
about 10 km above the target station. Next destroy all ships in your
  +
  +
near. You can use your turrets and the zero time shooting feature to
  +
  +
achieve this. Now you can select the first level of time acceleration. The
  +
  +
ships that now start from the station fly directly into your shields and
  +
  +
are destroyed. The only thing you have to watch very carefully is your
  +
  +
height above the planet. You can expect a `right on commander' message
  +
  +
every 7 to 10 minutes. These messages reset time acceleration, so you will
  +
  +
have to destroy all ships in your near again and select time acceleration
  +
  +
until the next message comes up. After a few hours of work you will have
  +
  +
advanced to ELITE status.
  +
  +
You can not use higher time acceleration levels because then the destroyed
  +
  +
interceptors are not counted.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Negotiations With The Police
  +
  +
If you have been caught selling or buying illegal goods or having them on
  +
  +
board, the police will fine you. If the officer is not corrupt, you can
  +
  +
always lower your fine to the original amount if you claim you "haven't
  +
  +
done it".
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
IV Bugs / Bugs
  +
  +
  +
  +
Most of the bugs can be circumvented in one or another way. The only bug
  +
  +
that really annoyed me is the crash that happens after you have unloaded a
  +
  +
mining machine and leave the system (PC only). This bug makes the mining
  +
  +
part of the game unplayable and should have been found if the game had
  +
  +
been beta tested at all. The many program confusions and crashes during
  +
  +
heavy fights are a nuisance that can only be partially avoided with
  +
  +
frequent game saving.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The german translation is a complete mess. Most of the time it gives you
  +
  +
crippled nonsense texts and hides important information in a ruined
  +
  +
screen layout. Game and manuals are full of spelling errors and
  +
  +
sometimes you have to translate text back to English to be able to
  +
  +
understand it at all.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The protection scheme sometimes gets confused and asks for the first
  +
  +
letter of e. g. page 8238,line 27764, word 29263.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The attack and missile warnings and the "photograph taken" message stay
  +
  +
on the screen much too long, hiding vital scanner information. In case
  +
  +
of an attack warning you can stop time as soon as the warning is given,
  +
  +
select the attacker and start normal time again. The warning is
  +
  +
sometimes repeated, but then you already have some hints about the
  +
  +
position of the attacker.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* In some systems (mostly large systems with more than one sun, e. g.
  +
  +
Cegreeth [-1, -3]) the reference mass selection is broken and will not
  +
  +
switch to the nearest planet or station. In some cases it is sufficient
  +
  +
to avoid the autopilot and fly by hand. In some systems even this does
  +
  +
not work (because of discretization problems if the reference mass is
  +
  +
too far away?) and the target will jump around wildly. Sometimes it
  +
  +
helps not to use maximum time acceleration or fly by hand. If this does
  +
  +
not help either:
  +
  +
  +
  +
1. Avoid such systems.
  +
  +
2. If you absolutely have to dock or land in such a system use the
  +
  +
autopilot to accelerate under maximum time acceleration, switch off
  +
  +
your engines until you are 1-2 AU from your target and reactivate
  +
  +
autopilot (still under maximum time acceleration) to decelerate and
  +
  +
teleport to your target.
  +
  +
3. If 2. fails, try again from another angle.
  +
  +
  +
  +
Reconnaissance missions to such systems are very difficult, because you
  +
  +
cannot use the teleport-and-decelerate trick. Furthermore the drawing
  +
  +
of the target planet gets totally inconsistent with the drawing of the
  +
  +
station to be filmed, resulting in "flying" stations that seem to be
  +
  +
located above the planet and other strange effects that make navigation
  +
  +
by hand a matter of pure luck. I got such missions to
  +
  +
Micanex C,Da [3, -4] and Hoethan A,B3b [3, -5].
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Bombing missions for systems like Candaess [2, -4] lead to problems
  +
  +
too. You cannot hit the flying station above Candaess A,B1b because the
  +
  +
nuclear missile seems to have a fixed velocity between 15,000 and 25,000
  +
  +
km/h. Because the gravitation reference is never switched to the planet,
  +
  +
you have to adjust your velocity relative to Candaess C,D. In my case I
  +
  +
had to select around 28,000 km/h to be able to approach the station at
  +
  +
all. Whenever I fired my missile it somehow decelerated and never
  +
  +
reached the station. The only trick that worked was to fire the missile
  +
  +
from a distance around 900 km and use the missile-hit feature/bug to
  +
  +
destroy the station. You can do this only from a great distance because
  +
  +
you are unable to switch to full time acceleration if the interceptors
  +
  +
are near you.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* In systems with a central supergiant, the simulation of this sun is
  +
  +
broken. In the Betelgeuse system [59, 14] I got no gravitational effect
  +
  +
of the central sun and could fly right through it. The displayed disk
  +
  +
sometimes transformed into a rotating rectangle (e. g. at 1.39 AU
  +
  +
distance) and sometimes vanished completely (e. g. at 0.8 AU distance).
  +
  +
The supergiant was never selected as reference mass.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you are near a planet that was not selected as reference mass (see
  +
  +
above), you can watch the same effects for this planet as have been
  +
  +
described for supergiants.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Sometimes the scanner may fail without damage report. All systems seem
  +
  +
to be ok., but the scanner doesn't show the attacking ships. It has been
  +
  +
reported that you can fly through these ghost ships without damaging
  +
  +
them or you. This seems to happen mostly in the near of the famous
  +
  +
"flying" stations above planets that have not been selected as reference
  +
  +
mass. The attacking ships also fire at you but seem to be unable to hit.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Be careful not to accept delivery missions to systems without bases or
  +
  +
spacestations. You might not be able to deliver.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* You sometimes get reconnaissance or bombing missions from the military
  +
  +
that are impossible to accomplish, because there is no planet in the
  +
  +
denoted system. These missions are cancelled as soon as you select them
  +
  +
but they stay in the mission list.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you are stuck in an underground base but have enough fuel and your
  +
  +
engines are ok., there is no safe way to start but you can try out a few
  +
  +
alternatives that have been reported to work in some cases:
  +
  +
  +
  +
1. Use maximum time acceleration just after you have got launch
  +
  +
permission. When you get the message that your launch time expired,
  +
  +
switch to maximum time acceleration again.
  +
  +
2. Build up a little motion, pull up your landing gear and use maximum
  +
  +
time acceleration to warp through the wall.
  +
  +
3. Buy lots of shields and fly through the wall.
  +
  +
4. Perform takeoff as if all were normal (up gear, increase throttle,
  +
  +
pull up nose) this might result in your ship starting normally.
  +
  +
  +
  +
For some of these methods a few retries might help (save the game before
  +
  +
you try anything!). If nothing else helps, select a target for a
  +
  +
hyperjump and force a misjump via ALT + F8.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Some versions of the game for the Amiga don't allow you to jump into the
  +
  +
van Maanens [0, 1] system. Neighbor systems are reachable without
  +
  +
problem, the star map shows the system as reachable but you cannot
  +
  +
trigger the hyperjump to van Maanens.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* On planets with a breathable atmosphere you are sometimes cleared for
  +
  +
landing on pads that are already occupied by other ships that seem to
  +
  +
have landed far from their destination pad.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Mountains are sometimes placed directly on the landing pads of a
  +
  +
starport on planets with a breathable atmosphere.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Sometimes a starport is reported to be busy even if there are free
  +
  +
landing pads and no incoming ship exists that may have been assigned to
  +
  +
the pad.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you do not have enough crew and a fugitive passenger on board,
  +
  +
someone might attack you from outside a station, preventing time
  +
  +
acceleration to wait for enough crew and (through the passenger) also
  +
  +
the selling of your ship. The only way to solve this dilemma seems to be
  +
  +
to use the missile bug to shoot the attacker from inside the station (?).
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The autorefuel system may magically empty your internal tanks if you try
  +
  +
to fill them by hand. I had this effect in a Panther Clipper once even
  +
  +
without the autorefuel system.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* When a passenger gets impatient waiting to be delivered and leaves at
  +
  +
the next starport, you get cabins that are falsely reported occupied,
  +
  +
preventing you from selling your ship or using the cabin again. The only
  +
  +
way out of this situation seems to be to buy an escape capsule and use
  +
  +
it at the next opportunity. You will lose your ship but you can at least
  +
  +
buy a new one.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you have more than one MB4 mining machine, you must always deal with
  +
  +
the last one on your list first. If you by accident destroy or even sell
  +
  +
another one first, the game crashes (?).
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Do not leave a system with mining gear left behind. The game will crash.
  +
  +
This seems to be a problem that appears only in the PC version. As in
  +
  +
the missile fire bug on the Panther this is a bug in the EMS handling
  +
  +
that hits you whenever you hyperjump.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If, as a result of your asteroid mining operation, many objects appear
  +
  +
in your neighborhood, the game may crash (?).
  +
  +
  +
  +
* You have not fulfilled a killing contract if your victim crashes.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you fly towards the horizon of a planet, strange graphical effects
  +
  +
may happen, showing pie slices of the planet flashing everywhere. Also
  +
  +
the horizon may jump wildly up and down.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The same effect happens if you are in the midst of a fight at the right
  +
  +
height above a planet. Your enemies will wildly jump around making them
  +
  +
impossible to hit. Interesting enough they don't seem to have the same
  +
  +
problems.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* You can fly through mountains, transparent domes, buildings and the
  +
  +
walls of spaceports.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* On some star ports ships of contract targets seem to be unable to start
  +
  +
without crash. This happens preferably on planets with gravity
  +
  +
comparable to earth gravity or higher. Example: Lion Transport in
  +
  +
Manchester City on Matthews World in Behoqu [2, -4]. The only workaround
  +
  +
I have found is to avoid contracts to such targets.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The height calculations are broken on some planets, e. g. on Hoopers
  +
  +
World in 82 Eridani, where I got a distance reading of 0.65 km for a
  +
  +
target that was at the starport (not yet started!) and my height was
  +
  +
shown as 2345 meters. Another example is Mitterand's World in
  +
  +
Liabeze [2, -4].
  +
  +
  +
  +
* For the upper gun turret on the Tiger Trader at elevation angles above
  +
  +
50 deg, 5 MW beams fill the whole lower screen or strange crossing beams
  +
  +
are shown, hiding possible targets.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Missiles that are fired from a Panther Clipper crash immediately without
  +
  +
hitting anything except the own ship. This makes many bombing missions
  +
  +
impossible to accomplish with a Panther. The bug only appears after
  +
  +
hyperspace jumps (EMS access on the PC) and you can avoid it if you dock
  +
  +
at a station or land at a starport before you try to fire a missile. You
  +
  +
can shorten the extra time you need for this if you use the Autopilot
  +
  +
Break to reach the point of your intermediate landing as early as
  +
  +
possible. This makes bombing missions to systems with spaceports
  +
  +
possible but still leaves a lot of impossible cases.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The trajectory drawing for planets or stations shown in the system map
  +
  +
sometimes gets confused and draws straight lines from one point of the
  +
  +
trajectory to the screen border.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* A jump into the Beta Lyrae system [-146, 85] crashes the game.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The attempt to get system info for the Andolqu system [-76, 29] crashes
  +
  +
the game.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you select system info for an unexplored system, you get the info for
  +
  +
the last selected explored system.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you select population info for an unexplored system, the game may
  +
  +
crash.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Sometimes you may get a starport reported to be located on a sun. While
  +
  +
being docked at Gilmour Orbiter in Tau Ceti, system info showed a
  +
  +
starport on the sun Exbephi B [-1225, -853]. The starport vanished when
  +
  +
I jumped into the system. Also a population of 100,000 to 1 Million was
  +
  +
reported for Ethfala [-2174, -879] which is a binary system without
  +
  +
planets!
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you recenter the star map to your position you will still get the
  +
  +
system info of the system you looked at before recentering until you
  +
  +
have moved the cursor away from your current system and back.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Sometimes a selected star is not surrounded with the green circle at the
  +
  +
position of the star but at the wrong end of the pin which shows the
  +
  +
system's height with respect to the galactic ecliptic.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The ships section of the documentation contains at least 19 errors.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The masses of Panther, Kestrel and Hawk do not add up to the total mass
  +
  +
of 1775t, 20t and 18t respectively.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The reverse thrusters of the Eagle MkII are way too weak to be meant
  +
  +
this way. The available 4g should probably be 14g.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you switch between the status screens of your display, your ship may
  +
  +
get drawn erroneously on the contract list page.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* In the repair section of the shipyard, hull damage is not measured
  +
  +
relative to the actual hull weight and can exceed the actual hull weight
  +
  +
by a large amount.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* After a heavy fight the repair section of the shipyard may get confused.
  +
  +
I once got as a damage report the message of the police officer that
  +
  +
arrests you if you haven't paid your fines. The repair costs were 26315
  +
  +
credits.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Another effect in a similar situation produced damage reports for all my
  +
  +
thrusters that kept reappearing at each entry of the repair screen even
  +
  +
after repair. Save and restore of the game didn't help. I had to return
  +
  +
to a saved game from before the fight.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The effect can be reproduced if you buy a new ship and immediately buy a
  +
  +
new drive for it. If you now enter the repair screen, all your
  +
  +
thrusters are reported to be damaged. You can try to repair them with
  +
  +
very strange effects that cause repaired thrusters to get damaged from
  +
  +
the repair of other thrusters. If you have succeeded with the repair and
  +
  +
no thruster is reported damaged anymore, you will get the old damage
  +
  +
reports again the next time you enter the repair screen.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The effect can be ignored and will vanish after you have refueled and
  +
  +
taken off to the next starport.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* You can get game crashes during a fight. A few times I got strange beeps
  +
  +
from the speaker in my PC that got lower and lower until the game froze.
  +
  +
The exect situation was a fight where I was receiving damage by an enemy
  +
  +
laser when he was hit by my front laser simultaneously.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The ejection system may be triggered if you try to rough land with a
  +
  +
large ship (?).
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you crash during a failed attempt to rough land, the game may crash
  +
  +
with a memory exception.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The system map allows centering on planets only if the planet is
  +
  +
annotated with its name. The annotation sometimes happens only shortly
  +
  +
before the planet vanishes from the screen. For some planets it is very
  +
  +
difficult to find a rotation/zooming combination that works, for some
  +
  +
planets like Phiagre A,B2 [1, -3] I have not yet found a setting that
  +
  +
makes the planet selectable.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* When you have docked at a station using maximum time acceleration, the
  +
  +
system map still shows your position outside the station.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you hyperjump while traffic control is warning you you will get a
  +
  +
final warning message and a fine from the star system you jump into.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* In early versions of the game for the Amiga there is a bug that may
  +
  +
confuse the bulletin board that then shows parts of the stockmarket
  +
  +
section. One trick to avoid this problem is to always return to the top
  +
  +
of the bulletin board before leaving it. If the damage is done, you can
  +
  +
accelerate time to wait until midnight. The bulletin board will then be
  +
  +
reset and corrected.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The manual states that the game is completely playable via keyboard, but
  +
  +
I have not found an equivalent to a right mouse click on the keyboard.
  +
  +
Therefore rotation control for the system and sector maps seems to be
  +
  +
dependent on the mouse.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* A mouse click that misses a function icon or the scanner display in the
  +
  +
lower part of the screen deselects the current target. As a consequence
  +
  +
you often have to reselect your target only because you missed some icon
  +
  +
by a small amount.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* Released mouse keys sometimes keep autorepeating.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* The joystick cannot be calibrated and is way too imprecise (even with a
  +
  +
high quality joystick) on a 40MHz 386 PC.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
V Hacking and Cheating
  +
  +
  +
  +
If you don't want to spoil your game completely, please ignore this
  +
  +
section!
  +
  +
  +
  +
Executables
  +
  +
  +
  +
FRONTIER.EXE and the .OVR files of the PC version have been packed with an
  +
  +
LZEXE compatible packer. You can safely unpack them, they will run without
  +
  +
problems afterwards. The advantage of unpacking your executables is that
  +
  +
you can use your favourite byte editor to look for strings in the game and
  +
  +
find out what you can expect in your future gameplay. It also should speed
  +
  +
up the startup time of your game significantly.
  +
  +
  +
  +
Save Files
  +
  +
  +
  +
Saved games are not portable between the Amiga and the PC versions of the
  +
  +
game. They seem to be compressed in the PC version but the compressor
  +
  +
program is not yet known.
  +
  +
  +
  +
There are some hack sheets floating around for the Amiga version but I
  +
  +
will not include them here because I simply don't like this kind of
  +
  +
cheats. I think it is bad enough to exploit the bugs in the game for your
  +
  +
gameplay. If you really want to cheat badly, write your own game or find
  +
  +
out the cheats for yourself!
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
VI Wish List
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If the system map would follow the events outside, you could watch your
  +
  +
progress in the map without having to switch repeatedly between main
  +
  +
view and map.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* It should be possible to center the system map relative to a displayed
  +
  +
ship.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* There should be a possibility to fast zoom out of the system map just
  +
  +
enough to make your ship or the next planet visible.
  +
  +
  +
  +
* It would be nice to have a stack of autopilot targets: select your
  +
  +
flight target, push it and select a target for a fight, return to your
  +
  +
flight target...
  +
  +
  +
  +
* If you don't use the autopilot, it is very difficult to land on planets
  +
  +
with high gravity, because you have no easy way to estimate your current
  +
  +
position relative to the planet without deselecting your target. It
  +
  +
would be nice to have a switchable height meter that gives you readings
  +
  +
all the time (not only from 50.000 m downwards) in addition to your
  +
  +
information about the target distance. Also some velocity information
  +
  +
like rate of descent and velocity with respect to the planet surface
  +
  +
would be extremely helpful. Why not switch to a HUD that contains this
  +
  +
information in the near of a planet, if your autopilot is not activated?
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
VII Flight Physics
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
1 AU = 1.496 x 10^11 m (astronomical unit)
  +
  +
1 g = 9.81 m/s^2 (gravitational acceleration on earth)
  +
  +
1 h = 3,600 s (hour)
  +
  +
1 d = 86,400 s (day)
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
VII-A Equations for Free Fall
  +
  +
  +
  +
With velocity v [m/s], acceleration a [m/s^2], distance d [m] and time
  +
  +
t [s] we get:
  +
  +
  +
  +
v = a t = sqrt(2 a d); d = 1/2 a t^2; t = v/a = sqrt(2 d/a) (1)
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
VII-B Navigation Equations
  +
  +
  +
  +
For the distance d travelled with initial acceleration a_1 and final
  +
  +
deceleration a_2 the values of interest for the journey are the maximum
  +
  +
velocity at the turning point (where we change from acceleration to
  +
  +
deceleration) v_u, the distance d_2 of the turning point from the target
  +
  +
and the time t_d that is needed for travelling the distance d. We assume
  +
  +
that forces other than those produced by our own engines can be neglected
  +
  +
and that we start and reach the target with zero velocity. Furthermore we
  +
  +
assume that the engines are used all the time at full power. If the main
  +
  +
engine is used for acceleration and deceleration the equations are very
  +
  +
simple:
  +
  +
  +
  +
v_u = sqrt(a d); t_d = 2 sqrt(d/a); d_2 = d/2 (2)
  +
  +
  +
  +
This fastest mode of flight is used to accelerate up to the turning point
  +
  +
velocity at the distance d_2, turn the ship and decelerate until the
  +
  +
target is reached.
  +
  +
  +
  +
If the autopilot is used instead, it will use the main engine for
  +
  +
acceleration and the secondary thrusters (retro thrusters) for
  +
  +
deceleration. In this case we get the equations:
  +
  +
  +
  +
v_u = sqrt( 2 d (a_1 a_2)/(a_1 + a_2) )
  +
  +
  +
  +
t_d = sqrt( 2 d (a_1 + a_2)/(a_1 a_2) ) (3)
  +
  +
  +
  +
d_2 = d a_1/(a_1 + a_2)
  +
  +
  +
  +
The time t_d is always a lower bound for the really used time because the
  +
  +
autopilot doesn't use the engines at full power all the time. I
  +
  +
approximated the real time consumption of autopilot flight with a least
  +
  +
mean square fit of data from 20 undisturbed flights with a Cobra MK III.
  +
  +
Measuring the distance in astronomical units [AU] and the acceleration in
  +
  +
units of earth gravitational acceleration [g], I got for the time [d]:
  +
  +
  +
  +
t_dA = 1.212/86400 *
  +
  +
sqrt( (2.992 * 10^11)/9.81 ( d (a_1 + a_2)/(a_1 a_2) ) ) - 0.001 (4)
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
VII-C Hyperdrives and Jump Ranges
  +
  +
  +
  +
A hyperdrive lets you travel its maximum range in seven days, which is 168
  +
  +
hours. Travel time is linear with distance, so you will use one day to
  +
  +
travel a seventh of your hyperdrive range. For a class n drive you will
  +
  +
need n^2 tons of fuel to travel the maximum range, except for the class 8
  +
  +
hyperdrive which actually is a class 9 drive and therefore uses 81 tons
  +
  +
for a maximum range jump. The fuel consumption is linear with the
  +
  +
distance, using only integer amounts of fuel, so you will need e.g.
  +
  +
ceil(n^2/2) tons of fuel to travel half the maximum drive range. The only
  +
  +
difference between the civil and military versions of a drive is the
  +
  +
weight of the drive and the type of fuel used.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The relation between jump cost c [t], jump time t [h], ship mass m [t] and
  +
  +
jump distance d [lj] can be expressed a little more exact to give you a
  +
  +
few numbers to crunch. Here the equations:
  +
  +
  +
  +
c = ceil( d * m / 200), t = 168/200 * d * m / h^2 (5)
  +
  +
  +
  +
If you set the time to the maximum 168h in the second equation you can
  +
  +
calculate the maximum range of the drive of a given class in a given ship.
  +
  +
If you do this for the class 8 drive in a Panther or Boa you get
  +
  +
inconsistencies. From the ships table you can see that the class 8
  +
  +
drive behaves like a class 9 drive in the Panther and like a class 7.79
  +
  +
drive in the Boa. I hope this indicates a mistake in the table. The
  +
  +
maximum ranges for the Lynx Bulk Carrier and the Long Range Cruiser are
  +
  +
calculated as if the class 8 drive were actually class 9 drive. I don't
  +
  +
know whether these ships can carry hyperdrives at all.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
VIII Wormhole Theory
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
The following seems to be invalid for the newer PC versions of the game.
  +
  +
  +
  +
A ship can jump very large distances due to a modulo effect in the
  +
  +
hyperspace continuum with a base of W_sect = 81.62 sector lengths
  +
  +
(655.36 lj). One can use this behavior to find jump paths that are much
  +
  +
shorter in time and fuel consumption than the straight distance. This also
  +
  +
allows you to use a smaller hyperdrive and leaves more room for fuel and
  +
  +
cargo. The optimal jump points for a journey between two systems with one
  +
  +
intermediate stop are found on the intersections of circles around the two
  +
  +
endpoints of the journey. On such a circle lie the systems that can be
  +
  +
reached from the center of the circle with a minimum amount of fuel and
  +
  +
time. A system at the intersection of such circles can be reached easily
  +
  +
from the centers of both circles, making it an ideal intermediate jump
  +
  +
point. The circles have multiples of the wormhole distance (655.36 lj) as
  +
  +
radii. To make the calculations simple we assume at first, that the
  +
  +
"thickness" of a sector can be neglected and that two jumps with equal
  +
  +
distance shall be made, resulting in circles with equal radius. The
  +
  +
coordinates of the ideal intermediate jump points can now be found on a
  +
  +
line that perpendicular bisects the segment between the two endpoints of
  +
  +
your journey, at the points of intersection of the circles around the
  +
  +
endpoints.
  +
  +
  +
  +
For two star systems at the coordinates (x, y) and (u, v) we define:
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
a = (u - x); b = (v - y) (6)
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
We choose a jump distance of W_n = n x W_sect sectors. With this
  +
  +
definitions we get as coordinates for the intermediate jump (p, q):
  +
  +
  +
  +
p = (x + u)/2 + b sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )
  +
  +
(7)
  +
  +
q = (y + v)/2 - a sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )
  +
  +
  +
  +
or
  +
  +
p = (x + u)/2 - b sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )
  +
  +
(8)
  +
  +
q = (y + v)/2 + a sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )
  +
  +
  +
  +
Now n has to be chosen such that the square root has a real solution (the
  +
  +
jump radius is larger than the half distance between the systems) and we
  +
  +
have to find a system near one of the intermediate jump points. If such a
  +
  +
system cannot be found, we simply increment n and try again with a
  +
  +
wormhole distance of the next greater order.
  +
  +
  +
  +
If you want to perform two jumps with different jump sizes the equations
  +
  +
have essentially the same structure but get a bit more complicated. We
  +
  +
define a and b as in (5) and choose the jump distances W_m = m x W_sect
  +
  +
for the first jump and W_n = n x W_sect for the second jump. m and n must
  +
  +
be chosen such that:
  +
  +
  +
  +
| m - sqrt(a^2 + b^2) / W_sect | <= n <= (9)
  +
  +
m + sqrt(a^2 + b^2) / W_sect
  +
  +
  +
  +
This ensures, that there exists an intermediate jump point at all. With
  +
  +
  +
  +
alpha = (W_m^2 - W_n^2) / (2 (a^2 + b^2)) + 1/2 (10)
  +
  +
  +
  +
we get for the coordinates of the intermediate jump point (p, q):
  +
  +
  +
  +
p = (1-alpha) x + alpha u + b sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )
  +
  +
(11)
  +
  +
q = (1-alpha) y + alpha v - a sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )
  +
  +
  +
  +
or
  +
  +
  +
  +
p = (1-alpha) x + alpha u - b sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )
  +
  +
(12)
  +
  +
q = (1-alpha) y + alpha v + a sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
IX Programs for a HP42S pocket calculator
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
Here comes a collection of programs for my pocket calculator that I have
  +
  +
found useful in navigation and the collection of statistical data.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
IX-A Convert time display formats
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
First a program that converts a time interval given as days:hours:minutes
  +
  +
to decimal fractions of a day:
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% convert number in the form ddhhmm to a decimal dd.dd form
  +
  +
% =========================================================
  +
  +
%
  +
  +
% memory: dhm day in ddhhmm form
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
lbl "dhm->d"
  +
  +
input "dhm % input ddhhmm here
  +
  +
xeq d
  +
  +
stop
  +
  +
goto "dhm->d"
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% subroutine for conversion ddhhmm -> dd.dd
  +
  +
% -----------------------------------------
  +
  +
%
  +
  +
% input: ddhhmm on stack
  +
  +
%
  +
  +
% memory: 00 accumulator for dd.dd
  +
  +
% 01 temporary storage
  +
  +
% 02 unprocessed input
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
lbl d
  +
  +
sto 02
  +
  +
10,000 /
  +
  +
ip % isolate day number
  +
  +
sto 00
  +
  +
10,000 x
  +
  +
sto- 02 % remove days, leaving hhmm
  +
  +
R^ % normalize stack
  +
  +
rcl 02
  +
  +
100 /
  +
  +
ip % hours number
  +
  +
sto 01
  +
  +
24 / % hours per day
  +
  +
sto+ 00
  +
  +
R^ % normalize stack
  +
  +
rcl 01
  +
  +
100 x
  +
  +
rcl 02
  +
  +
x<>y
  +
  +
- % leave mm entry of input
  +
  +
1440 / % minutes per day
  +
  +
rcl+ 00
  +
  +
rtn
  +
  +
end
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
IX-B Estimate travel time
  +
  +
  +
  +
The next program uses equation (4) to calculate an estimate for the duration
  +
  +
of a flight. You put the acceleration of your main and secondary thrusters
  +
  +
into the global variables mn_g and bk_g and the program asks you for the
  +
  +
distance in astronomical units. Acceleration is measured in units of earth
  +
  +
gravitational acceleration and is constant for a given ship, so you have to
  +
  +
initialize the variables only once for a ship. The calculated time is output
  +
  +
in decimal fractions of a day.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% calculate time estimate in days for a local journey
  +
  +
% ===================================================
  +
  +
%
  +
  +
% memory: mn_g acceleration of main thruster in g
  +
  +
% bk_g acceleration of back thruster in g
  +
  +
%
  +
  +
% s_au distance to be travelled in AU
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
lbl "au->t"
  +
  +
input "s_au"
  +
  +
sqrt
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% calc. factor for conversion
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
rcl "mn_g"
  +
  +
rcl+ "bk_g"
  +
  +
9.81 /
  +
  +
rcl/ "bk_g"
  +
  +
rcl/ "mn_g"
  +
  +
2.992E11 *
  +
  +
sqrt
  +
  +
1.212 *
  +
  +
  +
  +
* % mult with conversion factor
  +
  +
86400 / % convert to days dd.dd
  +
  +
0.001 -
  +
  +
end
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
IX-C Calculate jump points
  +
  +
  +
  +
The following program uses equations (9) to (11) to calculate the position
  +
  +
of jump points for wormhole jumps. You provide it with the jump orders and
  +
  +
in complex form the coordinates of your current and target system. It gives
  +
  +
you the coordinates of the optimal jump points as output (also in complex
  +
  +
form). If no jump point exists for the given jump orders, an error is
  +
  +
produced while calculating the square root.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% calculate coordinates of jump point
  +
  +
% ===================================
  +
  +
%
  +
  +
% memory: ord1 order of first jump
  +
  +
% ord2 order of second jump
  +
  +
% x,y coordinates of start system (complex)
  +
  +
% u,v coordinates of target system (complex)
  +
  +
%
  +
  +
% 00 x
  +
  +
% 01 y
  +
  +
% 02 u
  +
  +
% 03 v
  +
  +
�
  +
  +
17
  +
  +
% 04 a = u-x
  +
  +
% 05 b = v-y
  +
  +
% 06 alpha
  +
  +
% 07 x + alpha * a
  +
  +
% 08 y + alpha * b
  +
  +
% 09 a^2 + b^2
  +
  +
% 10 sqrt (...)
  +
  +
% 11 a * sqrt
  +
  +
% 12 b * sqrt
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
lbl "hjmp"
  +
  +
realres % only real results of sqrt
  +
  +
fix 02 % only two digits after decimal point
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
input "ord1" % get order of jumps
  +
  +
input "ord2"
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
input "x,y" % get start coordinate
  +
  +
complex % convert to real/real
  +
  +
sto 01
  +
  +
R^
  +
  +
sto 00
  +
  +
R^
  +
  +
input "u,v" % get target coordinate
  +
  +
complex
  +
  +
sto 03
  +
  +
rcl- 01
  +
  +
sto 05 % store b
  +
  +
R^
  +
  +
sto 02
  +
  +
rcl- 00
  +
  +
sto 04 % store a
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% calculate alpha
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
x^2 % a^2
  +
  +
rcl 05
  +
  +
x^2
  +
  +
+
  +
  +
sto 09 % save a^2 + b^2
  +
  +
2 *
  +
  +
rcl "ord1"
  +
  +
81.62 *
  +
  +
x^2
  +
  +
rcl "ord2"
  +
  +
81.62 *
  +
  +
x^2
  +
  +
-
  +
  +
x<>y
  +
  +
/
  +
  +
0.5 +
  +
  +
sto 06 % store alpha
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% calculate sums in front of square root
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
rcl* 04
  +
  +
rcl+ 00
  +
  +
�
  +
  +
18
  +
  +
sto 07 % x + alpha * a
  +
  +
R^
  +
  +
rcl 06
  +
  +
rcl* 05
  +
  +
rcl+ 01
  +
  +
sto 08 % y + alpha * b
  +
  +
R^
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% calculate square root
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
rcl "ord1"
  +
  +
81.62 *
  +
  +
x^2
  +
  +
rcl/ 09
  +
  +
rcl 06
  +
  +
x^2
  +
  +
-
  +
  +
sqrt
  +
  +
sto 10
  +
  +
rcl* 04
  +
  +
sto 11 % a * sqrt
  +
  +
R^
  +
  +
rcl 10
  +
  +
rcl* 05
  +
  +
sto 12 % b * sqrt
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% calculate coordinates of first jump point
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
rcl+ 07 % p coordinate on stack
  +
  +
rcl 08
  +
  +
rcl- 11 % q coordinate on stack
  +
  +
complex
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
% and now the second jump point
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
rcl 07
  +
  +
rcl- 12 % p coordinate on stack
  +
  +
rcl 08
  +
  +
rcl+ 11 % q coordinate on stack
  +
  +
complex
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
end
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
X Keyboard Reference (German Keyboard)
  +
  +
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|_______________global_control_____________|
  +
  +
game exit : ^C
  +
  +
pause : ESC
  +
  +
accelerate time, level x : SHIFT + Fx
  +
  +
dump screen (?) : numeric *
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|_______________cursor_control_____________|
  +
  +
move cursor : ALT + arrow keys
  +
  +
select (= mouse left) : numeric 0
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|_______________flight_control_____________|
  +
  +
turn down : A
  +
  +
turn up : Y
  +
  +
turn starboard : .
  +
  +
turn port : ,
  +
  +
accelerate : CR
  +
  +
decelerate : RIGHT SHIFT
  +
  +
hyperjump : H
  +
  +
force misjump : ALT + F8 in flight menu
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|____________external_view_control_________|
  +
  +
rotate : arrow keys
  +
  +
zoom in : sz
  +
  +
zoom out : '
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|______________weapon_control______________|
  +
  +
fire laser : SPC
  +
  +
fire missile : M
  +
  +
fire ECM : E
  +
  +
fire energy bomb : B
  +
  +
activate radar scanner : R
  +
  +
activate milit. camera : D
  +
  +
activate escape capsule : X
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|________________sector_map________________|
  +
  +
recenter map : C
  +
  +
hyperjump : H
  +
  +
map panning : arrow keys
  +
  +
fast map panning : SHIFT + arrow keys
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|________________system_map________________|
  +
  +
time forward : RIGHT arrow key
  +
  +
time backward : LEFT arrow key or #
  +
  +
fast zoom-in : double click zoom-in
  +
  +
___________________________________________
  +
  +
|___________________misc___________________|
  +
  +
unload/pick up MB4 : D
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
In menues you can select the items via keyboard. To select an item you
  +
  +
simply type the number (NOT on the numerical keypad!) of it's position in
  +
  +
the list. The items are numbered from top to bottom, starting at 1. The
  +
  +
keys 2, 4, 6 and 8 on the numerical keypad are equivalent to the arrow
  +
  +
keys.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI Game Tables
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI-A Ships
  +
  +
  +
  +
Ships are given with their type, hull weight, loading capacity, retro
  +
  +
thruster acceleration, main thruster acceleration, number of crew members,
  +
  +
number of gun mountings, number of missile pylons, jump distances for
  +
  +
different drive classes, possibility to mount a fuel scoop, the initial
  +
  +
drive class and the price.
  +
  +
  +
  +
_______________________________________________________________________________
  +
  +
_Type________Hull__Cap__Re__Mn___Cr__Gn_Ms_Drive__________________FS_Cl____Pr_k
  +
  +
  +
  +
Adder 15 40 8.0 18.1 1 1 0 1 : 3.63/14.54/32.72 y 2 73 k
  +
  +
Anaconda 150 650 3.0 6.0 8 2 8 4 : 4/6.25/9/12.25 y 6 1,060 k
  +
  +
Asp 30 120 7.0 22.2 2 2 1 2 : 5.33/12/21.33 y 3 187 k
  +
  +
Boa 200 1300 4.0 8.0 10 4 6 5 : 3.33/4.8/6.53/8.1 y 8 2,474 k
  +
  +
Cobra Mk I 15 60 6.0 16.1 1 2 2 2 : 10.66/24 y 2 97 k
  +
  +
Cobra Mk III 20 80 7.0 20.1 1 2 4 2 : 8/18 y 2 124 k
  +
  +
Constrictor 30 90 10.0 22.0 2 2 2 2 : 6.66/15/26.66 y 2 143 k
  +
  +
Eagle Mk I 5 20 10.0 25.2 1 1 2 1 : 8/32 n 1 38 k
  +
  +
Eagle Mk II 6 22 4.0 28.2 1 1 2 1 : 7.14/28.57 n 1 41 k
  +
  +
Eagle Mk III 8 22 15.1 28.2 1 1 2 1 : 6.66/26.66 n 1 43 k
  +
  +
Falcon 5 11 9.0 30.2 1 1 2 1 : 12.5 n 1m 46 k
  +
  +
Gecko 11 34 9.0 16.1 1 2 1 1 : 4.44/17.77/40 n 2 66 k
  +
  +
Hawk 5 7 6.0 27.2 1 1 2 1 : 11.11 n 1m 48 k
  +
  +
Imp Courier 130 350 6.0 16.1 1 1 6 3 : 3.75/6.66/10.41/15 n 5 609 k
  +
  +
Imp Trader 175 525 4.0 9.0 1 1 6 4 : 4.57/7.14/10.28/14 n 6 949 k
  +
  +
Int. Shuttle 4 4 3.0 5.0 1 0 0 _ n I 14 k
  +
  +
Kestrel 5 9 6.0 25.2 1 1 2 1 : 10 n 1m 50 k
  +
  +
Krait 8 27 10.0 20.1 1 1 4 1 : 5.71/22.85/51.42 n 1 50 k
  +
  +
Lifter 3 7 2.0 4.0 1 0 0 1 : 20 n I 16 k
  +
  +
Lion 65 235 3.0 5.0 4 3 8 3 : 6/10.66/16.66 y 3 348 k
  +
  +
Moray 17 70 6.0 14.1 1 1 4 2 : 9.19/20.68 y 2 109 k
  +
  +
Osprey 4 11 8.0 27.2 1 1 2 1 : 13.33 n 1m 45 k
  +
  +
Panther 400 2000 3.0 6.0 12 4 8 6 : 4.05/5.52/9.1 n 8 2,753 k
  +
  +
Puma 175 825 3.0 6.0 9 4 8 4 : 3.2/5/7.2/9.8 y 6 1,265 k
  +
  +
Python 100 400 4.0 10.0 7 2 4 3 : 3.6/6.4/10/14.4 y 4 575 k
  +
  +
Sidewinder 8 25 12.1 23.2 1 1 0 1 : 6.06/24.24/54.54 y 1 44 k
  +
  +
Tiger Trader 80 320 5.0 12.1 5 3 1 3 : 4.5/8/12.5/18 y 4 472 k
  +
  +
Transporter 40 160 4.0 9.0 3 3 2 2 : 4/9/16/25 n 3 241 k
  +
  +
Viper 15 50 10.0 24.2 1 1 4 1 : 3.07/12.3/27.69 y 2 87 k
  +
  +
Lynx Bulk
  +
  +
Carrier 1200 6000 1 3 20 0 0 8 : 2.25 ? ? 7,228 k
  +
  +
Long Range
  +
  +
Cruiser 1000 15000 1 3 100 1 0 8 : 1.01 ? ? 16,110 k
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
The drives for Imperial Courier and Imperial Trader are fixed and not
  +
  +
changeable. The Interplanetary Drive of the Lifter cannot be removed to
  +
  +
add a jump drive.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The Lynx Bulk Carrier and the Long Range Cruiser can both sometimes be
  +
  +
seen in the near of space stations. They don't seem to move but if I
  +
  +
remember right, the Lynx Bulk Carriers at least answer your
  +
  +
communication. Long Range Cruisers seem to be abandoned and are only good
  +
  +
for hide and seek games with the Vipers of the local police or for target
  +
  +
practice. I know of no opportunity to buy one of the ships.
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI-B Lasers and Shields
  +
  +
  +
  +
A shield works like an extra hull that can take up to 16 tons damage
  +
  +
before your real hull is damaged. It regenerates at a few percent per
  +
  +
second and does this faster if you use an Energy Booster (approximately 3%
  +
  +
per second). The regeneration rate is independent of the number of shields
  +
  +
you have and the state of your shields. The strength of your shielding is
  +
  +
proportional to the number of your shields, so 10 shields can take 160
  +
  +
tons damage before your hull is damaged. A pulse laser can inflict 12.5
  +
  +
tons of damage per MW power. This means that one shield can absorb one hit
  +
  +
of an 1 MW pulse laser and will degrade to 22% in the process. A directly
  +
  +
following second hit would reduce your shield to 0% and cause nine tons of
  +
  +
damage to your hull. This shows that the damage a shield can absorb is
  +
  +
proportional to its state, which means that one shield can take e.g. eight
  +
  +
tons of damage at 50% reducing it to 0% without causing damage to your
  +
  +
hull.
  +
  +
  +
  +
Here a more complex example: You have two shields and get hit four times
  +
  +
by an 1MW pulse laser. Your shields recharge 5% between the hits. The
  +
  +
first hit reduces your shields from the original 32 tons protection to
  +
  +
19.5 tons protection or 60%. Before the next hit the shields recharge 5%
  +
  +
to 21.1 tons protection. The next hit reduces the shields to 8.6 tons
  +
  +
which are recharged to 10.2 tons. The third hit cuts through your shields
  +
  +
and causes 2.3 tons damage to your hull. Recharge will bring your shields
  +
  +
back to 1.6 tons protection and the last hit will take them down again and
  +
  +
cause another 10.9 tons of damage to your hull for a total damage of 13.2
  +
  +
tons.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The higher firing rate of beam lasers seems to result in approximately
  +
  +
five times the power of pulse lasers resulting in higher damage over the
  +
  +
same time interval. This means that a 1 MW beam laser should be
  +
  +
approximately equivalent to a 5 MW pulse laser. Mining lasers have a very
  +
  +
low firing rate but inflict enough damage to destroy an Imperial Courier
  +
  +
with one hit. The damage they can cause with one hit is estimated to be
  +
  +
somewhere between 750 and 1,500 tons.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI-C Equipment
  +
  +
  +
  +
The possible equipment items together with their weight are given in the
  +
  +
following table:
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
_______Equipment________Weight_|_____Equipment______Weight_
  +
  +
  +
  +
XB13 Dummy Mine 1 t |XB74 Proximity Mine 1 t
  +
  +
Energy Bomb 4 t |KL760 Homing Missile 1 t
  +
  +
LV111 Smart Missile 1 t |NN500 Navy Missile 1 t
  +
  +
30 MW Mining Laser 10 t |1 MW Pulse Laser 1 t
  +
  +
5 MW Pulse Laser 3 t |1 MW Beam Laser 5 t
  +
  +
4 MW Beam Laser 20 t |20 MW Beam Laser 75 t
  +
  +
100 MW Beam Laser 200 t |Laser Cooling Booster 1 t
  +
  +
Small Plasma Accel. 500 t |Large Plasma Accel. 900 t
  +
  +
ECM 2 t |Naval ECM 2 t
  +
  +
Cargo Bay Life Support 1 t |Extra Passenger Cabin 5 t
  +
  +
Auto Pilot 1 t |Auto Refueller 1 t
  +
  +
Scanner 1 t |Radar Mapper 1 t
  +
  +
Hyper-Space Cloud Anal. 1 t |Shield Generator 4 t
  +
  +
Energy Booster 5 t |Escape Capsule 5 t
  +
  +
Atmospheric Shielding 1 t |Hull Auto Repair 40 t
  +
  +
Fuel Scoop 6 t |Cargo Scoop Converter 2 t
  +
  +
MB4 Mining Machine 30 t |Interplanetary Drive 4 t
  +
  +
Hyperdrive Class 1 10 t |Hyperdrive Class 2 25 t
  +
  +
Hyperdrive Class 3 45 t |Hyperdrive Class 4 80 t
  +
  +
Hyperdrive Class 5 150 t |Hyperdrive Class 6 250 t
  +
  +
Hyperdrive Class 7 400 t |Hyperdrive Class 8 600 t
  +
  +
Military Drive Class 1 6 t |Military Drive Class 2 12 t
  +
  +
Military Drive Class 3 24 t |Military Drive Class 4 ? t
  +
  +
Fighter Launcher ? t |
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
A Class 8 Hyperdrive can only be bought as a builtin drive with the Boa or
  +
  +
the Panther Clipper.
  +
  +
No one has ever seen a Class 4 Military Drive or a Fighter Launcher but
  +
  +
there are rumors that they exist in the game somewhere.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI-D Merchandise
  +
  +
  +
  +
Just for reference, here the list of merchandise:
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
__________________________Merchandise____________________________
  +
  +
  +
  +
Water Liquid Oxygen Grain Fruit and Veg.
  +
  +
Animal Meat Synthetic Meat Liquor Medicines
  +
  +
Fertilizer Luxury Goods Heavy Plastics Metal Alloys
  +
  +
Precious Metals Gem Stones Minerals Hydrogen Fuel
  +
  +
Military Fuel Industrial Parts Computers Air Processors
  +
  +
Farm Machinery Roboters Radioactives Rubbish
  +
  +
Narcotics Animal Skins Live Animals Slaves
  +
  +
Hand Weapons Battle Weapons Nerve Gas
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI-E Ranks
  +
  +
  +
  +
Here comes the list of ranks in the German and the English version version
  +
  +
together with the number of points you have to get to advance to a given
  +
  +
rank.
  +
  +
  +
  +
_Federation_German_|English_______|Empire_German_|English___|__Points_
  +
  +
  +
  +
Keiner None Aussenseiter Outsider 0
  +
  +
Gefreiter Private Leibeigener Serf 1
  +
  +
Unteroffizier Corporal Master Master 16
  +
  +
Feldwelbel Sergeant Sir Sir 81
  +
  +
Hauptfeldwebel Sgt-Major Squire Squire 256
  +
  +
Major Major Lord Lord 625
  +
  +
Oberst Colonel Baron Baron 1,296
  +
  +
Leutnant Lieutnant Viscount Viscount 2,401
  +
  +
Korvettenkapitaen Lt. Commander Count Count 4,096
  +
  +
Kapitaen Captain Earl Earl 6,561
  +
  +
Kommodore Commodore Marquis Marquis 10,000
  +
  +
Konteradmiral Rear Admiral Herzog Duke 14,641
  +
  +
Admiral Admiral Prinz Prince 20,736
  +
  +
  +
  +
The following table shows the correspondence between the mission type and
  +
  +
the points you get for the successful completion of a mission:
  +
  +
  +
  +
_Mission_Type____|_Points_
  +
  +
  +
  +
delivery 2
  +
  +
assassination 14
  +
  +
foto 16
  +
  +
bombing 18
  +
  +
`excellent' foto 20
  +
  +
  +
  +
Different kinds of military missions are bound to your rank. In the
  +
  +
federation you carry unimportant stuff until you get promoted to Sergeant;
  +
  +
then the first secret messages may be carried by you. You will get your
  +
  +
first military assassination mission as Sgt-Major. After your promotion to
  +
  +
Major you will get additional reconnaissance missions and a Colonel may
  +
  +
execute bombing missions. The empire handles equivalent ranks the same
  +
  +
way. You seem to get no new type of mission when you advance further in
  +
  +
rank although there are many rumors that you get new missions to destroy
  +
  +
enemy ships at Commodore/Marquis level.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The above does not hold, if you execute missions for more than one side. I
  +
  +
made the mistake of working for the empire after I advanced to Colonel and
  +
  +
had gotten my first few bombing missions.
  +
  +
I advanced to Squire in the empire and went back to the federation. Now I
  +
  +
had the problem, that I got no more bombing missions but had to stay with
  +
  +
the usual reconnaissance missions. I eventually got bombing missions again,
  +
  +
but working for the empire surely stopped my federal career for a while.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The safest way to advance in the federation and the empire at the same
  +
  +
time seems to be the famous `rank swing': Advance one rank in the
  +
  +
federation, work for the empire and advance one rank there, return to the
  +
  +
federation and so on until you are Admiral/Prince and ELITE and bored to
  +
  +
death.
  +
  +
  +
  +
Your rank is not the only prerequisite you need to get a certain type of
  +
  +
mission. You have to own all the possible medals for earlier missions
  +
  +
first. You get medals for:
  +
  +
  +
  +
1. the first delivery of an important item like gravitic detonators,
  +
  +
2. the first delivery of secret communication,
  +
  +
3. the first successful assassination,
  +
  +
4. the first successful reconnaissance mission,
  +
  +
5. the first reconnaissance mission with resulting excellent film and
  +
  +
6. the first successful bombing mission.
  +
  +
  +
  +
A strange side effect is, that you must not perform all reconnaissance
  +
  +
missions perfectly, because if you do, you will not get your fourth medal!
  +
  +
  +
  +
The complete list of medals for the German and the English version of the
  +
  +
game looks as follows:
  +
  +
  +
  +
_Federation_German|_English____________|_Empire German___|_English___
  +
  +
  +
  +
Tapferkeitsurkunde Certificate of Valor Rote Armbinde Crimson Brassard
  +
  +
Sternexplosion Starburst Schwarzes Polygon Black Polygon
  +
  +
Purpur-Omega Purple Omega Goldene Lanze Gold Spike
  +
  +
Zinnober-Krone Vermillion Crest Platinkreuz Platinum Cross
  +
  +
Blauer Exzelsior Blue Excelsior Ehrenlegion Legion of Honour
  +
  +
Frontier Medaille Frontier Medal Himmelskrieger Celestial Warrior
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI-F Combat Rating
  +
  +
  +
  +
And here your combat rating with more magic numbers. They seem to denote
  +
  +
the number of ships you have destroyed multiplied by 256. In other words,
  +
  +
you get 256 points for each destroyed ship regardless of its type.
  +
  +
  +
  +
_German_______________|_English_________| _Points _|Kills_
  +
  +
  +
  +
Harmlos Harmless 0 0
  +
  +
Meistens Harmlos Mostly Harmless 1,024 4
  +
  +
Schwach Poor 2,048 8
  +
  +
Unterdurchschnittlich Below Average 4,096 16
  +
  +
Durchschnittlich Average 8,192 32
  +
  +
U"berdurchschnittlich Above Average 16,384 64
  +
  +
Kompetent Competent 32,768 128
  +
  +
Gef"ahrlich Dangerous 256,000 1,000
  +
  +
T"odlich Deadly 768,000 3,000
  +
  +
ELITE ELITE 1,536,000 6,000
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
For every 256 destroyed ships you will get a message like: "right on
  +
  +
commander". This is an indication of your advances between the ranks. From
  +
  +
the table you can see, that you should get Dangerous between the third and
  +
  +
the fourth message of this kind. You advance to Deadly between the 11th
  +
  +
and 12th message. You should become ELITE after the 23rd message.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XI-G Legal Status
  +
  +
  +
  +
The last table gives the possible legal status with the associated fines (?):
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
_German_______|__English__|_____Fine_
  +
  +
  +
  +
W. Weste Clean 0
  +
  +
Straff`ll. Offender 1
  +
  +
Krimin. Criminal 5,500
  +
  +
Outlaw Outlaw 20,000
  +
  +
Fluechtig Fugitive 100,000
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XII System Info
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
There seem to be differences between the coordinates of systems in the PC
  +
  +
and the Amiga version of the game. Usually they are smaller than one
  +
  +
sector, the only verified case of a large difference being the Andolqu
  +
  +
system [PC -76, 29], [Amiga -74, 29]. The following tables correspond to
  +
  +
the PC version. If you find systems to be located in a different sector on
  +
  +
your Amiga, I would be glad to include a list of differences (that you will
  +
  +
have to provide). If they are too many, it would be interesting to find
  +
  +
out, whether a more systematic approach could be successful.
  +
  +
  +
  +
The system names in the tables that correspond with really existing
  +
  +
astronomical objects are printed with a leading "_" character. Not all
  +
  +
probable candidates for astronomical objects (like 82 Eridani) could be
  +
  +
found in the star catalogues I have access to. They may be astronomical
  +
  +
objects or not.
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XII-A Settlements and Tourist Attractions Far Out
  +
  +
  +
  +
Here comes a list of inhabited systems with starports far from the core
  +
  +
systems, mixed with a few systems of specific interest.
  +
  +
  +
  +
______________________________________________________________________
  +
  +
___System_______Coord______Politics______________Comments_____________
  +
  +
  +
  +
Aaqu [ 771, -1302] indep corp
  +
  +
Ackargre [-4310, -1999] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Ackarol [-2000, -879] indep corp
  +
  +
_Alcyone [ 32, 32] uninhabited
  +
  +
Aliafa [-2107, -1017] indep corp
  +
  +
_Antares [ -39, -34] uninhabited no planets
  +
  +
Anvequ [ 360, -5] indep corp
  +
  +
Arfaess [ 1020, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
Arwabe [ -766, -766] indep corp
  +
  +
_Atlas [ 32, 32] uninhabited
  +
  +
Ayessand [-1022, -1022] indep corp
  +
  +
Aysool [-1495, -1574] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Ayurda [ -666, 117] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Becaness [ 772, -1303] indep corp
  +
  +
Becanol [-1509, -35] indep corp
  +
  +
Beenbe [-2757, -35] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Beenla [ 254, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
_Beta Lyrae [ -146, 85] uninhabited contact binary star
  +
  +
_Betelgeuse [ 59, 14] uninhabited supergiant
  +
  +
Betiess [-2344, -35] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Daaya [ 937, 789] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Edaso [-1790, -1790] indep corp
  +
  +
Edcelia [-2107, 503] indep corp
  +
  +
Edenve [ 254, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
_Electra [ 32, 32] uninhabited
  +
  +
Enangre [-1225, -922] indep corp
  +
  +
Enlabe [-1792, -1792] indep corp
  +
  +
Enquze [-1674, -1498] indep corp
  +
  +
Esswaze [-1790, -1790] indep corp
  +
  +
Exvefa [-2000, -194] indep corp
  +
  +
Faarfa [ -509, -770] indep corp
  +
  +
Fainin [ 771, -1302] indep corp
  +
  +
Famiay [-2107, -63] indep corp
  +
  +
Greurqu [ 772, -1303] indep corp
  +
  +
_Hadar [ -6, -40] uninhabited supergiant
  +
  +
Hoessce [-5180, -2000] indep corp
  +
  +
Ioandqu [ 772, -1303] indep corp
  +
  +
Ioceay [-1509, -35] indep corp
  +
  +
Ioquex [ 772, -1303] indep corp
  +
  +
Iozeio [ -376, -426] indep corp
  +
  +
Lahola [ 1022, -4] indep corp
  +
  +
Lasolia [-2000, -1566] indep corp
  +
  +
_Maia [ 32, 32] uninhabited
  +
  +
_Merope [ 32, 32] uninhabited
  +
  +
Micanex [ -739, -539] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Miphimi [-2102, -1745] indep corp
  +
  +
Oletphi [-2331, -35] indep corp
  +
  +
Phiolbe [-2187, -35] indep anarchy
  +
  +
_Pleione [ 32, 32] uninhabited
  +
  +
_Polaris [ 0, 76] uninhabited supergiant
  +
  +
Qumia [-2107, 503] indep corp
  +
  +
_Rigel [ 92, 6] unexplored supergiant
  +
  +
Solaqu [-2107, -1017] indep corp
  +
  +
_Spica [ -4, -17] uninhabited no planets
  +
  +
_Taygete [ 32, 32] uninhabited
  +
  +
Tiafa [ -748, -863] indep corp
  +
  +
Urbela [ -719, -6] indep corp
  +
  +
Urceve [-1814, -1745] indep corp
  +
  +
Urioed [-2000, -879] indep corp
  +
  +
Ururur [-1814, -1745] indep corp
  +
  +
Vewela [-1790, -1790] indep corp
  +
  +
Wafaa [ -666, 117] indep anarchy
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
  +
XII-B System Database
  +
  +
  +
  +
A table of systems I have had contact with is given on the next pages. For
  +
  +
every system the sector coordinates, maximum distance to the nearest
  +
  +
starport or station and the political system are listed together with
  +
  +
some comments.
  +
  +
____________________________________________________________________________
  +
  +
_____System_____Coord__AU_______Politics_______________Comments_____________
  +
  +
  +
  +
1o4774 [-1, 1] 9.02 indep corp
  +
  +
AC+79o3888 [ 0, 2] 8.97 indep corp
  +
  +
Aandti [ 0,-5] 8.58 indep corp no starport
  +
  +
Achenar [ 1,-4] 57.78 imp capital luxury goods export, computer
  +
  +
import, radioactives illegal,
  +
  +
Honest John Thatcher's ok,
  +
  +
avoid Ulrich's Warehouse
  +
  +
Ackcanphi [-4,-4] indep disputed
  +
  +
Ackdati [ 0,-5] 19.74 imperial
  +
  +
Ackexa [-3, 3] indep corp
  +
  +
Acklave [ 2,-2] 18.30 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Ackwada [-5,-3] indep corp
  +
  +
Ackzece [ 1,-5] 10.30 imperial
  +
  +
Aenze [ 3,-6] 8.68 indep anarchy
  +
  +
_Alcor [ 0, 5] indep corp no planets
  +
  +
_Aldebaran [ 6, 4] uninhabited no planets
  +
  +
_Alioth [ 0, 4] 23.63 indep democracy disputed system
  +
  +
_Altair [-2, 1] 10.87 fed democracy robot import
  +
  +
_Alpha Centauri [ 0, 0] 990.00 fed colony
  +
  +
Anacka [ 4,-4] 9.21 indep corp no starport
  +
  +
Anacketh [ 0,-5] 13.79 imperial
  +
  +
Anave [ 3, 0] 7.70 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Anayeth [-1,-4] imp colony
  +
  +
Andceeth [-5, 2] indep disputed
  +
  +
Andcefa [ 2,-3] 11.15 imp colony
  +
  +
Andinol [ 3,-6] 4.15 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Andwafa [-2, 3] indep corp
  +
  +
Anlaol [ 1,-6] 11.19 imperial
  +
  +
Anlave [ 0, 3] 10.57 fed democracy
  +
  +
Anphiex [ 2,-2] 10.98 indep corp
  +
  +
Arayess [ 4,-7] indep dict under federal interdict
  +
  +
_Arcturus [-2, 0] 12.02 fed democracy
  +
  +
Arexack [-1,-5] indep corp
  +
  +
Aveed [ 3, 0] 12.73 indep corp
  +
  +
Ayarlia [ 3, 1] 6.94 indep corp
  +
  +
Ayethti [-3,-1] indep democracy
  +
  +
Ayfati [ 1,-5] 9.69 imperial
  +
  +
Aymiay [ 1, 4] 6.17 fed democracy
  +
  +
Aymifa [ 2,-5] 10.81 imperial
  +
  +
Aymigre [ 2,-3] 9.32 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Ayqugre [ 4,-5] 11.02 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Ayurso [ 4, 0] 9.09 indep civil war exorbitant prices for robots
  +
  +
and luxury goods
  +
  +
BD 946 [-1, 2] indep corp
  +
  +
_Barnard [-1, 0] 11.08 fed colony robot export, luxury goods
  +
  +
import, Haynes and Son Inc.,
  +
  +
Merchant Darke's ok
  +
  +
Becanin [ 3, 0] 7.71 indep corp
  +
  +
Bedaho [-4,-2] 7.74 fed democracy
  +
  +
Befaqu [-2, 8] indep dict under federal interdict
  +
  +
Behoqu [ 2,-4] 9.34 imperial contract targets may crash on
  +
  +
start from Manchester City
  +
  +
Besaex [ 3, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
_Beta Hydri [ 0,-2] 10.69 fed democracy
  +
  +
Beuress [ 0,-5] 10.62 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Beurqu [ 3,-5] 10.60 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Bewaack [ 0,-5] 10.92 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
CD-37o15492 [ 0, 0] 10.52 indep corp
  +
  +
CD-44o11909 [-1,-1] 11.20 indep anarchy
  +
  +
CD-46o11540 [-1,-1] 10.94 indep corp
  +
  +
CD-49o13515 [-1,-1] 8.65 indep corp
  +
  +
Canayce [ 2,-6] 421.41 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Candaess [ 2,-4] 238.55 imperial
  +
  +
Caninve [ 3,-2] 9.48 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
_Canopus [ 6,-6] indep anarchy supergiant
  +
  +
_Capella [ 4, 4] indep corp
  +
  +
Ceessze [ 3,-4] 10.15 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Cegreeth [-1,-3] 220.00 imp colony reference selection fixed on
  +
  +
Cegreeth D, discretization
  +
  +
problems
  +
  +
Cemiess [-2,-2] imperial negative black market prices
  +
  +
for gem stones and precious
  +
  +
metals, Richard's Exchange,
  +
  +
Patrick's Exchange, Judd's
  +
  +
Trading ok
  +
  +
Cetilia [ 4,-5] 17.10 indep anarchy
  +
  +
_Cygni, 61 [-1, 1] 48.62 fed democracy single starport, often busy
  +
  +
Daceess [ 2,-5] 17.01 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Dainay [ 2, 3] 10.49 indep corp
  +
  +
Dainfa [ 3,-6] 10.72 indep corp
  +
  +
_Delta Pavonis [-1,-2] 10.59 fed democracy many political contracts
  +
  +
Diso [-3,-6] indep democracy
  +
  +
Edethex [ 3,-3] 8.35 fed democracy
  +
  +
Edlave [ 3,-2] 15.64 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Edliaze [ 2,-2] 10.01 indep corp
  +
  +
Enaness [-5, 1] indep communist
  +
  +
Encea [-2, 2] 10.73 indep corp
  +
  +
Enquze [ 4,-3] 10.79 indep corp
  +
  +
_Epsilon Eridani[ 1, 0] 11.07 indep corp
  +
  +
_Epsilon Indi [-1,-1] 10.63 fed democracy
  +
  +
Eridani, 82 [ 1,-1] 9.02 indep corp
  +
  +
Essaa [ 1,-5] 10.37 imperial
  +
  +
Essethlia [ 4,-2] indep corp
  +
  +
Essliagre [ 2,-4] 11.33 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
_Eta Cassiopeia [ 0, 2] 10.09 fed base bring your own military fuel
  +
  +
Ethgrece [ 2,-5] 9.23 indep corp
  +
  +
Exbeur [-3, 4] 10.31 fed colony no military fuel
  +
  +
Exhoed [ 2, 4] 9.90 indep dict
  +
  +
Exioce [-1,-3] 10.54 imperial
  +
  +
Exiool [ 2,-4] 10.79 imperial
  +
  +
Exlagre [-5, 3] indep corp
  +
  +
Extila [-4,-1] indep feudal
  +
  +
Facece [ 0,-4] 9.59 imp base luxury goods, medicine
  +
  +
export, many military
  +
  +
missions
  +
  +
Famiso [ 3,-4] 7.59 indep corp
  +
  +
Faphive [ 3,-4] 8.73 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Fawaol [ 2,-3] 15.84 imp colony
  +
  +
_Fomalhaut [-1,0 ] 14.11 fed democracy radioactives illegal,
  +
  +
Austin's Exchange,
  +
  +
Shepherd's Merchandise ok,
  +
  +
avoid O'Hanlon's Goods
  +
  +
Emporium.
  +
  +
Greayqu [ 3,-2] 272.33 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Gretiay [ 3, 2] indep no population
  +
  +
Groombridge 34 [ 0, 1] 135.23 indep corp
  +
  +
Hobegre [ 2,-6] 111.44 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Hocancan [ 1,-3] 14.38 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Hoethcan [ 3,-5] 614.74 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Inedol [ 3,-5] 5.81 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Inena [ 3,-6] 9.22 indep dict
  +
  +
Intiol [ 2,-4] 380.41 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Ioarqu [ 2,-3] 530 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Iohoay [ 3, 0] 8.46 indep corp interesting contracts
  +
  +
Ioioqu [ 4,-5] 11.21 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Ioliaa [ 2,-6] 10.06 indep corp
  +
  +
Ioququ [ 3,-4] 10.93 imperial
  +
  +
Iozegre [ 3,-2] 634.68 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
LP 658-2 [ 2, 0] 10.14 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Lacaille 8760 [-1, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
Lacaille 9352 [-1, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
Lacancan [ 3,-6] indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Laedgre [ 2,-2] 9.14 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Laedla [-4, 1] imp colony
  +
  +
Laesscan [ 4,-3] 74.92 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Laiogre [ 4,-4] 8.13 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Lalande 21185 [ 0, 0] 9.94 indep corp
  +
  +
Lalande 25372 [ 0, 0] 10.48 indep corp
  +
  +
Lave [-3,-6] indep dict
  +
  +
Liabeze [ 2,-4] 10.77 imperial
  +
  +
Liaedin [ 4, 3] indep disputed
  +
  +
Liaququ [ 2,-2] 10.07 indep democracy
  +
  +
Luyten [-1, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
Luyten 97-12 [ 1,-2] 11.14 indep corp
  +
  +
Luyten 205-128 [-1,-2] 7.88 indep corp
  +
  +
Luyten 674-15 [ 2,-1] 10.68 indep corp
  +
  +
Luyten 789-6 [-1, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
Maanens, van [ 0, 1] 9.49 indep dict isolationistic religious
  +
  +
enclave, permit required
  +
  +
Miandze [ 3,-5] 547.58 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Micanex [ 3,-4] 92.42 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Miolgre [ 2,-5] 8.52 imperial
  +
  +
Miolze [ 2,-3] 9.25 indep corp
  +
  +
_Mizar [ 0, 5] indep corp no planets
  +
  +
Olaygre [ 4,-3] 7.63 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Olcanze [ 1,-3] imperial
  +
  +
Ollaex [ 2,-3] 11.19 indep corp no starport
  +
  +
Oltiqu [-1, 4] 11.76 fed democracy
  +
  +
_Omicron Eridani[ 2, 0] 43.38 indep corp
  +
  +
Ophiuchi, 36 [-1,-1] 78.84 indep corp
  +
  +
Ophiuchi, 70 [-2, 0] indep corp
  +
  +
_Phekda [ 2, 5] 13.61 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Phiagre [ 1,-3] 241.90 indep corp
  +
  +
Quexce [-2,-2] 9.45 indep corp
  +
  +
Quince [-1,-5] imperial
  +
  +
Quphieth [-3, 0] indep feudal
  +
  +
Ququve [ 1, 4] fed democracy
  +
  +
_Regulus [ 5,-1] indep corp no starport
  +
  +
Riedquat [-3,-6] indep anarchy
  +
  +
Ross 128 [ 0, 0] 10.71 fed colony prison colony, permit needed,
  +
  +
Donaldson's Warehouse ok
  +
  +
Ross 154 [-1, 0] 10.65 fed colony single starport, often busy,
  +
  +
Merchant Nakamichi's ok
  +
  +
Ross 986 [ 2, 1] 9.96 fed democracy
  +
  +
_Sigma Draconis [-1, 2] indep corp
  +
  +
_Sirius [ 1, 0] 20.18 indep corp
  +
  +
Sodaack [ 1,-6] 12.34 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Sohoa [ 0,-4] 10.71 imperial
  +
  +
_Sol [ 0, 0] 9.47 fed capital luxury goods export, robot
  +
  +
import, good ship selection
  +
  +
at Moon, radioactives
  +
  +
illegal, Haynes Merchandise,
  +
  +
Greenhill's Warehouse,
  +
  +
Brennans Holdings, Honest
  +
  +
John Coate's, Baker's
  +
  +
Trading Company, Merchant
  +
  +
London's Honest John Loma's
  +
  +
ok, avoid Honest John
  +
  +
Brennan, Merchant Gomez's,
  +
  +
Thatcher's Merchandise,
  +
  +
Macmillan's Goods Emporium,
  +
  +
Shehan's Exchange
  +
  +
Sophilia [ 3,-1] 10.38 indep corp
  +
  +
_Tau Ceti [ 0, 0] 10.04 fed democracy many military missions,
  +
  +
Gilmour Orbiter is a good
  +
  +
base for a federal military
  +
  +
career
  +
  +
Tiacan [ 3,-4] 6.48 imperial overpopulated
  +
  +
Tiancan [ 4,-5] 11.95 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Tiaycan [ 3, 0] 10.83 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Tiessgre [ 3,-3] 306.07 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Tiliala [-4,-1] fed democracy
  +
  +
Tivecan [ 2,-3] 248.84 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Urfaa [ 5, 7] uninhabited station
  +
  +
Urlaay [ 3,-2] 10.82 indep corp robot export for Zeaex
  +
  +
Urquay [ 4,-5] 6.85 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Veareth [ 0,-5] 21.02 imperial no starport
  +
  +
Vecanlia [ 0,-5] 11.31 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
_Vega [-3, 2] 10.40 fed democracy
  +
  +
Vequess [ 0,-4] 8.88 imperial
  +
  +
WX Ursa Majoris [ 1, 1] uninhabited no planets
  +
  +
Waarze [ 4,-4] 133.73 indep anarchy
  +
  +
Waayol [ 4,-5] 9.77 fed democracy
  +
  +
Waceol [ 3,-4] 162.38 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Waessol [ 2,-3] 305.88 indep anarchy no starport
  +
  +
Wainze [ 3,-2] 9.90 indep corp
  +
  +
Waolex [ 4,-4] 549.67 indep anarchy
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Wolf 359 [ 0, 0] 11.35 indep corp
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Wolf 630 [-2,-1] 170.00 fed democracy radioactives illegal
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YZ Canis Minoris[ 2, 0] 8.79 indep communist permit required
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Zeaex [ 3,-2] 10.29 indep disputed robot import, lots of trouble
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Zeancan [ 2,-2] 9.68 indep anarchy
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Zeanlia [ 2, 2] 34.99 indep corp
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Zearla [-5, 1] indep feudal
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Zeceand [ 6,10] uninhabited starport
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Zeessze [ 0, 3] 9.20 fed democracy
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Zeessze [ 1,-6] 9.02 indep anarchy
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Zelada [ 1, 4] indep anarchy
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XIII Wormhole Routes
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In this table, sector coordinates are interpreted relative to the integer
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coordinates of a sector center(the intersection of the faintly colored
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lines). Therefore the sector [0, 0] has the corners [-0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5],
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[0.5, -0.5] and [-0.5, -0.5]. Furthermore the coordinates [-0.7, 1.3] are
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located in sector [-1, 1].
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I am sure that for many jumps better jump points can be found, but this
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little navigation library already helps me a lot. It gets continuously
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updated.
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____From_______Coord_______To________ Coord____ _Via______Coord____
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1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Delta Pavonis [-0.90,-1.70] Exaycan [80.80,-7.25]
  +
  +
1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Anlaso [-72.80,39.60]
  +
  +
1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Maanens, van [-0.05, 1.10] Anexess [19.65,80.40]
  +
  +
1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Exquar [-70.10,-42.05]
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  +
1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Milaze [-54.95,-59.90]
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AC+79o3888 [ 0.15, 1.80] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Aressan [80.15,19.30]
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AC+79o3888 [ 0.15, 1.80] Zeanlia [ 1.60, 1.95] Inarin [8.80,-79.60]
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  +
Aandti [-0.10,-4.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Dalaar [81.60,-8.05]
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Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Inarho [76.00,28.20]
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  +
Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Zetiso [81.35,10.80]
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  +
Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Ayvequ [-11.65,-85.10]
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  +
Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ceioho [80.45,15.20]
  +
  +
Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vecanwa [81.45,9.90]
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  +
Ackdati [ 0.40,-5.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Esshocan [-81.25,-9.20]
  +
  +
Ackdati [ 0.40,-5.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeandar [-81.35,-3.80]
  +
  +
Acklave [ 1.80,-2.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anmiay [73.80,36.15]
  +
  +
Ackzece [ 1.30,-5.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Olethan [-79.50,-17.75]
  +
  +
Aenze [ 2.95,-5.85] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Greanda [-73.35,-35.10]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Anlave [-0.20, 2.80] Ethveur [80.55,18.60]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Aymiay [ 0.90, 4.25] Grececan [9.15,85.80]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Etheneth [-45.85,-63.65]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Migreur [-79.30,-17.40]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Exhoed [ 1.95, 4.00] Phicanve [14.25,85.00]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Oltiqu [-1.50, 3.95] Arsoa [-34.30,78.80]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Enphiphi [23.80,-74.20]
  +
  +
Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Andesswa [81.85,12.00]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Andwafa [-1.90, 3.05] Ackgrean [-83.75,5.30]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Arquho [73.25,32.70]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] CD-46O11540 [-1.20,-1.30] Ackena [-77.30,-31.35]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Tiioess [35.25,-72.35]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Delta Pavonis [-0.90,-1.70] Iozeti [-75.50,-35.15]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Daayho [52.40,61.65]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Miarfa [54.75,-58.30]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Lalande 25372 [-0.45,-0.25] Aydami [39.60,70.95]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Ceandphi [-65.90,-50.60]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Soedar [-55.00,-61.65]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Ophiuchi, 36 [-1.80,-1.15] Greliave [-83.25,-9.30]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Ophiuchi, 70 [-2.05, 0.00] Beurcan [79.65,-5.30]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Otiqu [-1.50, 3.95] Quceve [79.20,-9.80]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Hoenve [-61.00,-55.85]
  +
  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Fasove [-18.70,-79.40]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiwaze [-9.80,-80.70]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Tiancan [ 4.35,-5.15] Anququ [-53.75,-62.70]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Soanden [70.20,39.05]
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  +
Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Grecaneth [78.70,-11.95]
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  +
Anacka [ 3.75,-3.70] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Faqua [64.55,51.10]
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  +
Anacketh [ 0.05,-5.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Besoso [-81.45,1.85]
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  +
Andcefa [ 1.55,-3.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zephila [74.80,33.30]
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  +
Andcefa [ 1.55,-3.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Cemiho [77.90,25.95]
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Andinol [ 2.90,-6.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Cemiho [77.90,25.95]
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Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Greence [-80.10,-15.05]
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  +
Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]
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  +
Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ceioho [80.45,15.20]
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  +
Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Weethwa [81.45,10.80]
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Anphiex [ 1.60,-1.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Waayan [62.65,52.65]
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Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Ethaso [50.15,-63.85]
  +
  +
Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] BD 946 [-0.70, 1.65] Zeexce [-77.75,29.20]
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Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Delta Pavonis [-0.90,-1.70] Anbeda [72.60,34.40]
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Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Tiesswa [-13.15,-81.53]
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Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Ophiuchi, 70 [-2.05, 0.00] Esseuve [-56.65,-60.85]
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  +
Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zecanmi [33.60,-74.40]
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  +
Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anayce [-37.60,72.85]
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  +
Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Faenex [-75.70,-34.70]
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Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Tiexex [-29.40,76.45]
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Ayarlia [ 3.15, 0.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tiayho [12.50,-80.70]
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Ayarlia [ 3.15, 0.65] Sophilia [ 3.20,-1.35] Grewalia [-78.60,-2.65]
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Ayfati [ 1.35,-5.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]
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Aymiay [ 0.90, 4.25] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Ayaen [73.20,-34.00]
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Aymifa [ 1.55,-5.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Uracka [79.25,19.80]
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Aymifa [ 1.55,-5.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Essandeth[-78.85,-20.00]
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Aymigre [ 2.10,-2.85] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ackackar [72.60,38.50]
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Ayurso [ 3.80,-0.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waackio [23.80,78.75]
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  +
Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Aylaeth [77.85,-22.75]
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Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Arethwa [35.15,-73.40]
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Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Ethiool [-62.40,53.95]
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Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Hoessho [11.05,-80.85]
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Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ackphied [21.60,-78.70]
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Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Wolf 359 [ 0.40,-0.15] Liagrelia[-17.80,-79.90]
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Bedaho [-4.20,-1.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edphibe [-33.20,75.00]
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Bedaho [-4.20,-1.50] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Beessbe [-31.65,75.40]
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Behoqu [ 2.10,-4.40] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Tiliada [79.65,22.20]
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Behoqu [ 2.10,-4.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]
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Behoqu [ 2.10,-4.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Veingre [-75.10,-31.30]
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Beta Hydri [-0.10,-1.80] Luyten 674-15 [ 2.10,-1.00] Ackdawa [-27.20,75.30]
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Beta Hydri [-0.10,-1.80] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phigreay [80.60,-15.05]
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Beta Hydri [-0.10,-1.80] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Sophimi [35.45,72.15]
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Beta Lyrae [-146.20,85.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Vewaay [-143.40,-78.40]
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Betelgeuse [58.85,13.75] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Aredcan [12.10,81.15]
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Beuress [-0.35,-5.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoinqu [81.10,-12.10]
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Beurqu [ 2.90,-5.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiveay [75.40,32.70]
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Bewaack [-0.50,-5.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Liaethlia[-80.95,8.90]
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CD-37o15492 [-0.30,-0.20] Lalande 21185 [ 0.35, 0.30] Labeex [50.15,-64.65]
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CD-37o15492 [-0.30,-0.20] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Greurmi [-25.10,-78.10]
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CD-37o15492 [-0.30,-0.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zeurce [65.40,-49.15]
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CD-46o11540 [-1.20,-1.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Sodabe [63.15,-51.75]
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Canayce [ 2.30,-6.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ququfa [78.50,23.85]
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Canayce [ 2.30,-6.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Edacka [-77.00,-26.25]
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Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Tiliada [79.65,22.20]
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Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Hoyaze [10.25,77.20]
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Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]
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Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Beackwe [-75.20,-31.15]
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Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Veingre [-75.10,-31.30]
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Caninve [ 2.50,-2.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Grewaho [-61.80,-52.70]
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Ceessze [ 3.30,-3.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoessar [-63.95,-50.15]
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Cemiess [-1.50,-2.50] Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Exdain [-75.80,31.70]
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Cemiess [-1.50,-2.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Uressmi [70.10,-41.90]
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Cetilia [ 4.15,-4.90] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Dalaqu [65.35,49.20]
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Cetilia [ 4.15,-4.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tizeay [68.20,45.85]
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Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Zecephi [79.15,17.50]
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Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Andolda [-82.10,10.75]
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Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laackho [-61.20,-54.05]
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Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Philaso [45.30,68.65]
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Daceess [ 2.15,-4.55] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]
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Daceess [ 2.15,-4.55] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Essessze [77.90,26.10]
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Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Exhoed [ 1.95, 4.00] Inayphi [-75.90,29.30]
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Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Veethphi [-80.35,0.25]
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Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Olcanen [81.50,14.70]
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Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edzemi [71.40,-39.85]
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Dainfa [ 3.15,-6.45] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Inbeex [77.35,27.85]
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Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Andzeand [75.75,-30.45]
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Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Exioce [-0.60,-2.90] Bequan [78.70,17.75]
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Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Luyten 205-128[-1.25,-1.80] Mizece [21.25,-80.30]
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Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Quexce [-1.60,-1.80] Bedaqu [-13.40,79.20]
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Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Haethda [59.90,-56.60]
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Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Inphiur [61.25,-55.00]
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Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tiinay [-75.20,32.45]
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Edethex [ 3.25,-2.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tisophi [-55.35,-60.10]
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Edethex [ 3.25,-2.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Begreho [-59.65,-55.30]
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Edlave [ 2.95,-1.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Latifa [-46.65,-66.95]
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Edlave [ 2.95,-1.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Laessay [55.85,60.35]
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Encea [-1.90, 2.05] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Inolack [-20.05,81.90]
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Enquze [ 4.45,-2.80] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Candalia [102.25,128.05]
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Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Urgrebe [82.60,-0.60]
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Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Arethur [62.80,-53.30]
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Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] YZ Canis Minoris [2.25,0.05] Olwada [16.70,80.70]
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Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] Zeanlia [ 1.60, 1.95] Iozebe [76.55,-30.70]
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Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Quexce [-1.60,-1.80] Iophice [-60.25,55.40]
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Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Uressmi [70.10,-41.90]
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Eridani, 82 [ 1.10,-0.70] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Edbeeth [15.10,79.95]
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Eridani, 82 [ 1.10,-0.70] Sirius [ 1.05,-0.15] Laayqu [82.40,6.85]
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Essaa [ 0.95,-4.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ayliaur [81.80,7.35]
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Essliagre [ 2.40,-3.75] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Greolar [70.95,40.80]
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Essliagre [ 2.40,-3.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Canvefa [-71.30,-39.10]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Enaed [74.40,-31.65]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Ioioqu [ 3.85,-4.60] Ethcanphi[-70.00,-39.65]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Lalande 25372 [-0.45,-0.25] Cearce [80.40,-11.95]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Essandeth[-78.85,-20.00]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Liaququ [ 2.35,-2.40] Arayess [74.80,35.40]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Miolze [ 2.20,-2.65] Aressfa [-74.10,-32.20]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Oltiqu [-1.50, 3.95] Inenda [56.10,62.00]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Liafaze [-42.10,-67.75]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Faenol [-81.85,0.85]
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Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]
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Ethgrece [ 1.95,-4.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoceed [78.90,22.80]
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Exbephi [-1224.85,-852.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Aeda [-801.40,-154.55]
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Exbeur [-3.40, 3.85] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Beinfa [-79.20,-26.75]
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Exiool [ 1.95,-3.75] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Micanack [74.35,34.25]
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Exiool [ 1.95,-3.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Arvephi [-74.80,-32.05]
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Exiool [ 1.95,-3.75] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Laphiess [62.40,51.35]
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Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Andliafa [82.05,-3.60]
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Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Phiedur [82.30,3.75]
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Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Laarar [-81.35,-1.80]
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Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Lafacan [-11.80,76.85]
  +
  +
Famiso [ 3.35,-4.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Entiar [70.05,43.20]
  +
  +
Faphiwe [ 2.50,-4.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiveay [75.40,32.70]
  +
  +
Fawaol [ 2.45,-2.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Betila [63.25,52.05]
  +
  +
Fawaol [ 2.45,-2.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vequcan [-65.65,-48.00]
  +
  +
Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Luyten 205-128[-1.25,-1.80] Lasocan [-82.80,3.80]
  +
  +
Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Lacanfa [78.20,19.80]
  +
  +
Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ensoda [-21.25,79.20]
  +
  +
Greayqu [ 3.15,-2.35] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Enqugre [-54.85,-59.90]
  +
  +
Gretiay [ 3.15, 1.70] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Aexar [-32.55,75.65]
  +
  +
Hobegre [ 2.45,-5.55] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Qulaur [78.15,25.35]
  +
  +
Hocancan [ 1.50,-3.00] Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] Zedaar [-74.20,-33.8]
  +
  +
Hocancan [ 1.50,-3.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zephila [74.80,33.30]
  +
  +
Hocancan [ 1.50,-3.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Cemiho [77.90,25.95]
  +
  +
Hoethcan [ 3.50,-4.90] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zelati [68.95,44.10]
  +
  +
Hoethcan [ 3.50,-4.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoquso [141.65,82.45]
  +
  +
Inedol [ 3.20,-4.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ayquar [72.35,39.20]
  +
  +
Inena [ 3.40,-6.45] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zemive [-72.70,-36.60]
  +
  +
Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] LP 658-2 [ 2.35, 0.25] Behoar [83.55,-9.45]
  +
  +
Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]
  +
  +
Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Essessze [77.90,26.10]
  +
  +
Ioarqu [ 1.90,-2.80] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Arcear [-71.85,-38.15]
  +
  +
Ioioqu [ 3.85,-4.60] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Arioand [-62.30,-52.85]
  +
  +
Ioliaa [ 1.55,-6.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]
  +
  +
Ioququ [ 2.80,-3.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeayur [70.80,41.70]
  +
  +
Iozegre [ 3.15,-2.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiedda [-54.35,-60.35]
  +
  +
LP 658-2 [ 2.35, 0.25] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edbear [3.15,-81.60]
  +
  +
Lacancan [ 3.40,-6.05] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiveay [75.40,32.70]
  +
  +
Laedgre [ 2.00,-2.10] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Canveol [68.90,44.90]
  +
  +
Laesscan [ 3.85,-2.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anessur[-103.30,-125.95]
  +
  +
Laiogre [ 4.35,-4.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Begreho [-59.65,-55.30]
  +
  +
Lalande 21185[ 0.35, 0.30] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Miurar [81.95,-5.15]
  +
  +
Lalande 21185[ 0.35, 0.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Auray [73.20,37.40]
  +
  +
Lalande 25372[-0.45,-0.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Falaa [-53.60,61.90]
  +
  +
Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ededeth [77.60,25.90]
  +
  +
Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ioioack [-77.80,-23.90]
  +
  +
Liaququ [ 2.35,-2.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Phiayand [-59.40,-55.90]
  +
  +
Liaququ [ 2.35,-2.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Olveve [-65.10,-48.75]
  +
  +
Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Laceti [76.90,28.10]
  +
  +
Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Beanfa [-74.70,-32.90]
  +
  +
Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Argreed [-78.65,-20.80]
  +
  +
Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] Maanens, van [-0.05, 1.10] Miolfa [-56.20,-58.40]
  +
  +
Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edexed [-39.60,-71.35]
  +
  +
Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] Sophilia [ 3.20,-1.35] Enhove [-21.35,-79.35]
  +
  +
Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] YZ Canis Minoris[2.25,0.05] Ceioeth [83.25,-12.10]
  +
  +
Miandze [ 2.60,-5.35] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ioayess [-72.75,-37.05]
  +
  +
Miandze [ 2.60,-5.35] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Inbeex [77.35,27.85]
  +
  +
Micanex [ 2.75,-4.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zequess [71.05,40.70]
  +
  +
Miolgre [ 2.10,-4.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Qulaur [78.15,25.35]
  +
  +
Miolze [ 2.20,-2.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Arlada [70.50,42.45]
  +
  +
Olaygre [ 3.95,-3.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Inquol [62.15,53.95]
  +
  +
Ollaex [ 1.95,-2.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Urayda [74.60,34.50]
  +
  +
Ophiuchi, 36 [-1.80,-1.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Enbeay [-50.15,64.85]
  +
  +
Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Esszeand [78.70,-22.10]
  +
  +
Phiagre [ 0.85,-2.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tisoess [-79.95,-15.35]
  +
  +
Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Omicron Eridani[1.50, 0.45] Mienio [47.95,-66.90]
  +
  +
Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Hoarti [73.40,36.45]
  +
  +
Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Eddafa [82.20,-0.25]
  +
  +
Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zecanmi [33.60,-74.40]
  +
  +
Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anayce [-37.60,72.85]
  +
  +
Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Waave [43.75,-68.90]
  +
  +
Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoolti [-41.80,70.50]
  +
  +
Sirius [ 1.05,-0.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Cecanlia [-25.00,-77.75]
  +
  +
Sodaack [ 1.30,-5.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waethwa [81.45,10.80]
  +
  +
Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Exedce [81.70,4.50]
  +
  +
Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hovea [82.00,-1.65]
  +
  +
Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Liaandex [46.85,-70.85]
  +
  +
Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Sophilia [ 3.20,-1.35] Ceessess [-33.90,-74.25]
  +
  +
Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Edbeur [-68.05,45.40]
  +
  +
Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tivecan [ 2.30,-3.45] Canedand [-67.85,-45.55]
  +
  +
Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Iocanwa [81.15,-9.75]
  +
  +
Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Waolex [ 3.60,-4.35] Arioay [65.95,48.45]
  +
  +
Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Zeliaur [31.25,-75.35]
  +
  +
Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zeancan [ 1.55,-2.00] Bemiio [-66.35,-47.60]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tiacan [ 2.85,-3.50] Ackgreho [-66.85,-46.30]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tiancan [ 4.35,-5.15] Ollaan [68.40,45.75]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tiessgre [ 2.70,-3.45] Zeayur [70.80,41.75]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tivecan [ 2.30,-3.45] Anmiay [73.80,36.15]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Urlaay [ 3.15,-2.35] Enqugre [-54.85,-59.90]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Urquay [ 4.30,-5.10] Zesoand [-63.75,-50.40]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Veareth [ 0.00,-4.65] Arquho [81.70,-6.70]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vecanlia [ 0.00,-5.00] Arquho [81.70,-6.70]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Laceti [80.65,-14.45]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waarze [ 3.85,-4.35] Enengre [-63.65,-50.70]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waayol [ 3.95,-5.15] Arlada [70.50,42.45]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waceol [ 2.75,-3.55] Canquar [70.85,41.65]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waessol [ 1.70,-3.35] Zeceeth [77.65,27.20]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Wainze [ 3.45,-1.70] Hoexho [47.40,67.30]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeaex [ 3.35,-1.70] Quayho [48.05,66.70]
  +
  +
Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeessze [-0.30, 2.75] Phitiay [-79.20,-18.65]
  +
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Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeessze [ 0.75,-5.70] Veexio [-162.35,-14.60]
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Latest revision as of 19:16, 22 April 2021

6) Other Relevant FAQs

The Frontier Elite II FAQ: http://www.jades.org/files/frontier.faq

FFE FAQ (v1.1): http://www.jades.org/files/faq11.txt 


 (2021) The second link has died, as so many others have. I have copied the entire contents of the first link below.





                       FRONTIER (ELITE II) Game Info

            collected by lots of people on comp.sys.amiga.games



           compiled by Christoph Tietz (Christoph.Tietz@gmd.de)




                               April 5, 1994


I Disclaimer 



  I play this game on a PC and have tried to verify as much of the given

  information as possible.

  Information that is marked with "(?)" is untested and may apply to the

  Amiga version only or may be wrong altogether.  (-; Anything else may be

  wrong too ;-).  If you find any mistake, I would be glad to hear from you.

  Parts of the information listed here were not found by me initially, but

  unfortunately I cannot reconstruct who contributed all the bits and

  pieces. Instead I dedicate this collection to the Frontier playing network

  community with many thanks. I hope you don't mind, that I have put your

  contribution together with lots of others and redistributed the whole

  thing without mentioning your name. 

  Enough smalltalk and excuses. Now to the facts:




II Game Tips



Golden Rule 

  Before you do anything that looks only remotely dangerous, SAVE YOUR GAME.

  Do this even if you only want to do something perfectly normal. The game

  is full of bad surprises that have nothing to do with the game itself but

  with bugs and strange crashes. Always keep the last few games, in case a

  saved game is unusable.



Dongles and Other Strange Beasts 

  There have been reports of problems with Frontier on an Amiga if a dongle

  occupies the 2nd joystick port. If you cannot control your ship because it

  starts to spin uncontrollably remove the dongle and try again.



Copy Protection 

  The copy protection scheme counts headlines as text and ignores the case

  of your input. Page headers and footers and the captions of pictures are

  not counted as text.



Ships In System Maps 

  Ships are marked in the system map as little crosses in the color in which

  the ships would appear on the scanner. Your own position is marked with a

  purple dot regardless of the type of your ship and your hyperjump cloud

  will be marked with a blue dot. You will see the blue dot also for the

  hyperjump clouds of ships that you had selected before they jumped out of

  the system.  Sometimes it is even possible to use your cloud analyzer on

  such clouds.  You can not center the map relative to ship marks.



Planet Selection 

  A planet or station can only be selected if it is annotated with its name.

  This annotation is only performed when the game assumes that the object is

  clearly visible. The heuristic that is used for this decision sometimes

  fails badly. Therefore some planets can only be selected if the system is

  zoomed and rotated until the observer's position is near the planet. Try it

  with Pluto in Sol [0, 0]. It really is selectable!



Autopilot 

  Your autopilot tries to fly to your target in a straight line. If there is

  a planet between you and your target, the autopilot will happily try to

  fly through the planet, crashing you in the process.



  If you don't want to risk crashes because of high gravity or other mishaps

  that could confuse your autopilot you should always land using time

  acceleration at least at level 2. If you don't watch it too closely your

  autopilot definitely performs better.



Docking 

  Docking your ship in a space station without causing damage can become a

  quite complicated task for large ships. You have to remember that your

  forward view from a ship like the Panther Clipper is not centered in the

  ship but instead you look out of your forward window that may be high

  above the center axis of your ship. As a result you have to aim not at the

  middle of the docking bay of a station but at a point somewhere in the

  upper half of the back wall of the dock.  One nicely working trick is to

  use the outside view to look at your ship from a point in front of it and

  align your ship such that you look at it from within the station and it

  keeps well clear of the dock walls. In a station you may keep your landing

  gear up to keep your ship as small as possible.



Initial Trading 

  As a beginner you will want to make fast cash to be able to buy a better

  ship that brings you to all the wonders of the universe. You can earn your

  money with trading. As a beginner you should choose a trading route where

  there is no risk of being attacked by pirates. Sol and Barnard are two

  such systems. You can carry luxury goods from Sol to Barnard and robots

  back. Sell all of your initial equipment you don't need, to make room for

  merchandise. You won't need missiles, laser or your scanner. As soon as

  you have left Merlin (on Ross 154) you can sell your atmospheric shielding

  too at the next starport, if you avoid planets with atmosphere in the

  future. On the route between Sol and Barnard this will pose no problem,

  because there are enough space stations in either system. Be sure to check

  the bulletin board when you bring robots to Sol. Very often you can get a

  better price there than on the stock market.



  You cannot afford Luxury Goods or Computers in the very beginning. Carry

  Fruit and Vegetables to Barnard instead until you have enough cash to

  switch to more profitable goods. Buy a bigger ship as soon as you have

  enough money to pay it AND enough cash to buy some initial cargo for your

  new ship too.



  Another good route in imperial space has been reported to be Facece to

  Vequess and back. You can perform military missions on one way and carry

  slaves back, if you don't mind the moral implications.



Crew Members 

  Every day at midnight the bulletin board is updated and may show new

  potential crew members.

  It is a very bad idea to fire someone of your crew. Your reputation will

  suffer badly. If you repeat this several times, it will take you a very

  long time (sometimes years!) to hire crew members again.



Passengers 

  Passengers want to be delivered to their destination in one month or less.

  If they get impatient, they will tell you so, leave at the next starport

  and refuse to pay. The main problem is, that your reputation will suffer

  badly and future passengers may even refuse to be transported by you. You

  can persuade them sometimes by asking several times. You should be careful

  with passengers that tell you, that they owe someone money. They will most

  probably refuse to pay at the destination port.  For some systems you need

  a permit to enter. The only way to get a permit is to transport a

  passenger or parcel to such a system. The people that give you military

  missions assume that you already have a permit.



Charity 

  If you give money to charity, you will get a better reputation and people

  will trust you more. This means that you can get 10% more money for

  deliveries, get all or part of the money in advance and more people will

  want to work for you (?). Your reputation will also grow if you succeed

  with passenger transports without receiving too much damage to your ship.

  Therefore giving away your money is not really necessary if your

  reputation is not too bad for passengers to accept you carrying them.



Dumping Radioactives 

  One way to get rid of the radioactive waste from military drives is to

  dump it into space right out of your cargo bay. If you are in a system

  where a strong police force is watching, this can get you in trouble even

  if you dump directly after your jump into the system. In such systems you

  should simply sell your waste or (if radioactives are illegal) find a

  reliable merchant on the black market who takes it back.



  You can have loads of fun if you try a few highly illegal dumping

  places. A space port is a very nice place to dump your waste on. Some

  people prefer to dump their radioactives into the still open landing bay

  of an underground spaceport. You can even fling your waste into a long

  range cruiser that waits outside of some space stations. Of course you can

  do the same with mines for the thrill of finally seeing a mine hit

  something!



  There seem to exist systems where you can get real money for your

  radioactives. Look out for systems in the state of civil war. Sometimes

  you can sell your radioactives there on the black market.



Countryside Landing 

    Lower your speed and raise your nose until you fall with approx. 3 m/s.

  When you are down to 10-15 m, cut your speed to 0 and align your nose with

  the horizon. Don't forget to lower you landing gear!



Mining 

  Select a system with little or no registered settlers, look for an unnamed

  planet above 0 degrees and below 200 degrees without a starport or station

  and unload your MB4. Wait a few months and land near your mining

  equipment. Pick it up and leave. If you try again at the same place you

  will find less and the third time you will find nothing. This is not

  dependent on the time you let your machine work or the amount of minerals

  the machine has produced. Only the number of trials counts.



  A builtin camera (you get it for your first reconnaissance mission) does

  not prevent you from using the mining machines. Just use the camera icon

  in the near of the mining machine. Frontier will know, that you don't want

  to take pictures.



Fuel Scoop from a Gas Giant 

  Autopilot to the target, aim at the horizon and set your speed to 15,000

  km/h. Use time acceleration and decelerate to keep the target tunnel

  frames coming at constant speed; when the atmosphere gets visible, aim for

  the middle and reduce your speed to 4000 km/h, go back to normal time. The

  fuel scoop will first fill up the cargo space and then the internal tanks.



Fighting 

  There seem to exist a lot of misunderstandings with respect to fighting.

  The first one is, that your movement vector has to point to your enemy to

  move towards him. This is not true. Your movement vector is shown as the

  vector of your movement with respect to the currently selected reference

  mass. This is totally insignificant for a fight, because there only the

  relative velocities of the fighting ships count. This also means, that you

  don't have to decelerate for a fight. Your attacker will have a similar

  velocity vector as you or he wouldn't stay in your vicinity for long.



  Important are the tiny differences in your movement vectors that result in

  movements of your ships relative to each other. If you both fly parallel

  with 10,000 m/s in the same direction and accelerate towards each other,

  this will have the same effect as when you don't move at all and

  accelerate towards each other. What counts is the resulting relative

  movement. To make a long story short: Simply ignore your displayed

  velocity during a fight. It doesn't matter at all!



  What does count is your velocity relative to the attacking ships. You

  cannot measure it directly, but you can select an attacking ship and watch

  the distance change to get an estimate of your velocity. This is the only

  velocity information that helps you to maneuver during a fight.



  * Always switch your engines off while fighting and use mouse direction

    control and acceleration/deceleration buttons for maneuvering.

  * Ignore the indication of your velocity vector. It is insignificant for a

    fight.

  * Be careful not to shoot yourself with your own turret mounted lasers.

  * If you attack a ship with your front laser, aim 5 deg past it,

    accelerate until near, decelerate and follow accelerating while it flies

    by. Shoot it from behind.

  * You can shoot incoming missiles: evade with full thrusters, u-turn,

    select with annotation (to make the missile visible) and shoot.



  I have developed a standard sequence for fighting that uses a little

  cheating to compensate for the very poor HUD and the bad interface to the

  functions you need during a fight:



  * When the attack warning comes up, stop time.

  * Switch off your engines.

  * Select the outside view of your ship and zoom out as far as possible.

  * Switch on the id labels to identify the attacker.

  * Move the outside view until the attacker rotates into your view.

  * Select the attacker and activate your radar scanner to get type and

    damage info.

  * Remember the position of the attacker on your scanner.

  * Switch back to the front view.

  * Restart time.

  * If you use your front laser, rotate your ship to face the attacker and

    use your engines to accelerate at the same time to evade the initial

    attack.

  * Perform any maneuvers necessary and shoot to get rid of the attacker.

  * Select the system map and reselect your initial target.



  Some players find it sufficient to use the id labels, so they don't have

  to deselect the original flight target and select the attacker. I found

  the distance information the selection provides very helpful

  though. Especially when I have to use a powerful laser economically

  because it can be fired only a limited time until it overheats and needs

  time for cooling.



Military Missions 

  Be careful not to accept military missions that clearly cannot be finished

  in time. You will have to look at the destination starsystem, estimate

  your travelling time through hyperspace and the time you need in the

  target system to reach your destination. A good distance estimate is to

  add 10 AU to the orbital distance of your destination. If your destination

  is orbiting another planet use the orbital distance of this planet instead

  and add the orbital distance of your destination to the result.



  If you don't get missions from your local military agent, don't despair.

  Often it is sufficient to change the starport in the same system to get

  missions. If all else fails and you don't want to change the base for your

  military career, simply make a small hyperspace jump out of the system and

  back. In the mean time your military agent may have changed his mind. If

  he still has nothing to do for you you should ask yourself a few

  questions.  Would you give someone like you military missions? For whom

  have you worked in the past? Are you really trustworthy? See, you know the

  reason!



Assassination 


  * Always save the game before accepting a contract.

  * Don't arrive in your target system too early. If the police has enough

    time to investigate, the victim will be warned. This makes it very

    difficult to finish a contract in systems like 61 Cygni [-1, 1] or

    Omicron Eridani [2, 0] where you have to travel 40 AU or more to the

    next station. Don't even think about a mission for Alpha Centauri [0, 0]

    or Cegreth [-1, -3]. Such missions can only be accomplished if you

    cheat. For details see the Autopilot Break below. It seems to be ok. to

    arrive at the target system about one week before contract time.

  * Don't wait too long in front of the target station or port, the victim

    may get frightened and refuse to start. 15 minutes before contract time

    seems ok.

    There seems to be a way to force victims out of a station if they refuse

    to start. If you attack the station, the launch bay must be cleared for

    the police vipers. If your victim is in the station, he/she will be in

    the launch bay and get forced to start as soon as you attack the

    station. 

  * Don't wait directly in front of the station, the victim may run into

    you.

  * Don't wait directly above a star port. If the launch bay doesn't close

    after your start, your victim cannot start.

  * You should never try to watch the take off of your victim in accelerated

    time. In most cases your victim will sneak past you while you are

    dreaming your time away and be gone before you even know it.

  * Don't attack too close to a star port or station, the victim may try to

    land again.

  * If you have to attack near a star port, don't use missiles too early. If

    you do, your victim might try to evade the missile and crash in the

    process.  If your victim kills himself, you failed.

  * You can use missiles to prevent the victim from hyperjumping while you

    attack. If you fire a missile before you use your lasers, the local

    authorities will charge you only 600 credits for illegal weapon usage.

    Otherwise you will get fined 10,000 credits for piracy and murder.

    One very nice attack method based on this trick is to wait at some

    planet far from your destination until you can spot your victim on the

    system map. As soon as it appears, target it and fire a missile. This is

    already sufficient to prevent your victim from hyperjumping and you can

    approach now and do what you came for.

  * If the victim hyperjumps, use a cloud analyzer and simply follow. Select

    the arrival cloud and wait until the victim arrives or you can be sure

    it made a misjump. If you are not fast enough to overtake your victim on

    the direct route, you can always use a wormhole route that is nearly

    always faster. A drawback of the wormhole route is, that your entry

    point of the target system may be far away from the entry point of your

    victim.

  * If you are too far from your victim when he or she starts, use the

    system map and watch for a ship mark on the map that belongs to your

    victim. Select it and proceed as usual. You can verify your selection

    via communication. Don't call, just verify the registration number.

  * If you have more than one assassination on your list, collect the money

    for the first one before you try the next. Your employer seems to

    actively look for you to pay you and spreads rumors of your profession

    in the process. This obviously warns other victims.



  With these points in mind I have succeded with every contract (civil or

  military) that I have accepted so far. In every case a victim didn't show

  up I could find a reason from the list above and succeeded in the next

  trial.

  On the other hand there have been reported lots of problems with victims

  not showing up or refusing to land at the port of destination. Some of

  these problems seem to stay even if you use every trick in the book. In

  such a case your only chance is to reload a saved game from the time

  before you accepted the contract.



Reconnaissance Missions 

  One problem with such missions is, to find your target at all. It should

  work if you approach the planet until it nearly fills your screen. If the

  military base is visible, you should see it as a grey pixel that can be

  selected. If you don't see it, fly to the back of the planet or simply

  wait a few hours (in accelerated time) until the planet rotates the base

  into your view. The maximum distance to take pictures from is about 80 km.

  You get excellent pictures if you fly below 10 km. One nicely working

  method for an approach is:



  * Use autopilot and maximum time acceleration until you arrive in the

    "vicinity of the planet".

  * Use time acceleration 3-4 and 50,000 km/h to fly to 7000-8000 km

    distance.

  * Orbit the planet and lock on the target when it is at the horizon.

  * Save the game.

  * Aim a little below the horizon and descend to 1000-3000 m.



    On planets with high gravity this is the most difficult part. I always

    save a game before actually reaching the planet so I can try different

    routes to the target station. The problem on planets with high gravity

    is, that you don't get height information until you cannot decelerate

    anymore in time to avoid a crash. You have to approach such planets very

    carefully. Another problem is, that you can control you descent only via

    the velocity readings because you cannot see your actual velocity vector

    or the target tunnel with your nose up high enough to make a controlled

    descent to your target. You can aim at your target with your nose up, if

    you use the outside view.

  * Continue towards your target with 10,000 km/h and time acceleration 2

    until your distance is down to 200 km.

  * Decelerate to 5,000 km/h and switch off time acceleration.

  * From a distance of 80 km downwards you can take pictures. I usually fly

    between the towers or a small distance above. After you have taken the

    pictures, accelerate with full power and make your escape.

  * After having taken my pictures I often pick a few interesting enemies

    and practice my fighting skills before jumping out of the system.



  A few times I managed to rough land between the buildings of a target

  station. The stations don't seem to have a starport, but only a hangar out

  of which the interceptors start. It is interesting to watch them

  materialize in front of this hangar (and crash shortly afterwards).

  Reconnaissance missions to imperial stations are most difficult, because

  you are attacked by Imperial Couriers with 20 MW lasers. For my Asp with

  up to 10 shields this means that you are history with only one direct

  hit. If you fly very low between the buildings of a target station you

  must be extremely careful, not to be rammed by an enemy ship that suddenly

  appears directly in front of you.



Bombing Missions 

  If you have succeeded with reconnaissance missions and shot a lot of

  excellent pictures you will find bombing missions very boring. You can

  fire your nuclear missile from 500 km distance or even more without

  adverse effects if the station lies within your line of sight. The crater

  that replaces the station after a successful attack is no hole in the

  ground. It hovers above the planet just where the station used to be. If

  you rough land at the position of the station you land actually below the

  crater. Very strange...



Ratings 

  If you want to improve your combat rating fast, there is one simple trick.

  Buy a Panther Clipper and equip it with about 300 shield generators. It is

  nearly invincible now. Select a system with lots of pirates. Anarchies are

  very nice and some dictatorships also work very well. Jump into the system

  and switch off your engines. Accelerate time to the maximum and wait for

  the pirates to come. When they arrive, simply wait. They will crash into

  you and you will get the bonus for destroying them. Only one ship can get

  dangerous to you and this is the Imperial Courier which is very often

  equipped with a 20 MW laser. Fight this one and do it carefully because

  once this gun starts to hit you, your shields will degrade very fast and

  you don't have the engine power to evade quickly.



  After you have cleaned up the system, jump to a neighbor system and back

  or still better, simply jump to another anarchy. Repeat until you run out

  of fuel, are bored too much or have advanced to ELITE after 6000 destroyed

  ships.



  As soon as you get reconnaissance missions from the military, you can

  advance even faster.  Pick a mission to a station on a planet with low

  gravity and fly towards it. From approximately 500 km downward you can

  watch interceptors start continuously. All you have to do is to reduce

  your velocity or switch off your engines and wait until they start

  crashing into you. In the near of imperial stations it is not as easy,

  because you will have to actively fight the attacking Imperial Couriers

  that would cut you into pieces otherwise. They are quite easy to destroy,

  if you adapt your course until they approach you in a straight line. Then

  you can activate the autopilot and fire as soon as they are in range. As

  long as you move to follow one of the Imperial Couriers the others are

  usually too clumsy to hit you hard enough to cause damage. Other ships can

  safely be ignored. They will crash into you from time to time or reduce

  your shields a few percent if they hit you with their lasers. Keep well

  above the planet to avoid crash landings.



  You can accelerate all this still further if you use an energy bomb to wipe

  out a lot of enemies with one keypress. This works most satisfactory if you

  are surrounded by lots of police vipers after some little disagreements

  with the local authorities.



Sling shot 

  Aim just past a large gas giant and get fast enough (700 km/s for

  Jupiter). Switch off your engines and watch. Speed and distance are

  critical. You will have to practice a bit to get the feeling.



Sightseeing 

  You can fly through all the domes on planets without a breathable

  atmosphere and land between the buildings. If you do this for the

  transparent domes at Ross 154 you will find in one dome administration

  buildings of Vega Line, Sirius Corporation and other trading houses and in

  the second dome the usual combination of concrete blocks and green patches

  in between with scattered brick houses. It is definitely fun to fly

  between the buildings and look at your surroundings. Agriculture domes are

  a bit boring, because they contain nothing more than lots of green balls

  at ground level.

  Domes that are not tranparent, can be entered too but contain absolutely

  nothing. It is interesting, that they are no obstacle for you though. At

  least they are good for some very strange graphical effects if you land in

  one of these domes and use your outside view to look at your surroundings.



  In every major city with more than the space port and a little industry you

  can find little churches with working clocks. The cities are structured as

  large blocks of ugly concrete buildings and patches of green between them

  with scattered brick houses and every now and then a little church. Try to

  rough land in the vicinity of such a church and watch the clock on the

  church steeple. Use time acceleration for better effect. If you are close

  enough you can even read the roman numbers on the clock face. The buildings

  give you an interesting impression of the size of your ship. A Cobra MK III

  looks huge compared with this tiny little church. And have you ever seen a

  huge space ship standing in the graveyard behind a church? It looks

  definitely strange.



  At some time in the future I will look for one of the bridges you can see in

  the intro sequence of the game. This will be my last action before voluntary

  retirement. A kind soul already gave me the tip to look in the near of New

  San Francisco on Earth, Sol [0, 0]. Do you really want me to retire?



Other Galaxies 

  If you use the galactic view and zoom out of the galaxy you can see lots

  of other galaxies that are arranged in a regular grid. These galaxies are

  all copies of your home galaxy, so it is really not worth the effort to

  try and find wormhols to distant galaxies. There is only one galaxy and a

  lot of mirror images.



Thargoids 

  A lot of oldtimers from the era of the original Elite game still remember

  the menace of the Thargoids and miss them in Frontier. Nobody has seen a

  Thargoid in Frontier yet but in an interview David Braben shall have told

  that there is a single Thargoid ship in a system far out in the galaxy. I

  personally think this is only a trick to keep us playing Frontier until

  add-ons appear. But who knows?



  If you fly bombing missions to federal bases you can sometimes see two big

  violet octagonal ships that look just like the good old Thargoid ships but

  they are not disturbed by your approach. Perhaps the Thargoids sleep for a

  few hundred years after the exhausting fight with mankind?




III Bugs / Features



Enemies One At a Time 

  Maximum time acceleration will separate groups of ships to get them in

  line, waiting for you.



Perfect Autopilot 

  Your autopilot always succeeds if you use maximum time acceleration.



Planet Landing Without Fuel 

  While you still have fuel, use the autopilot to align with your target

  planet, switch to maximum time acceleration and wait for the landing

  sequence. Switch back to maximum time acceleration and you are save.



Zero Time Shooting from Gun Turrets 

  If an attacker approaches, get him in sight of a laser turret, stop time,

  select the attacker, aim the laser and test fire (you see the blue or the

  explosion light effect if you hit). Keep firing while releasing the time

  stop. Repeat if necessary.



Missile Fire While Docked 

  You can fire missiles even from within a space station. This might help in

  case of the passenger/no crew problem described in the Bugs / Bugs

  section.



Certain Missile Hit 

  Switch to maximum time acceleration after firing the missile. Your missile

  will hit even if you use a nuclear missile and/or have 900 km distance to

  your target.



Selling Ship With Passenger 

  If you sell a ship with passenger on board you get the money and keep the

  ship (and the passenger). This bug seems to be fixed in the 1.05 version

  of the game for the Amiga and in the American PC version.



Engine Upgrade for Imp Courier or Imp Trader 

  The only way to get an upgrade for the non-removable engine in an Imperial

  Courier or an Imperial Trader seems to be to let it fail due to

  maintenance neglection and then put in a new engine. The new engine will

  be fixed just as the original drive. To let time pass in a controlled way

  select a route between two star systems an perform lots of jumps. If you

  select Barnard <-> Sol, you can sell all your equipment except for the

  autopilot and load your ship with fuel for the jumps. After 10 or 11

  months you should stop jumping around to avoid a misjump. The few

  remaining days you can simply wait outside a station until your drive

  falls off.



Autopilot Break 

  You can activate the autopilot for immediate deceleration from arbitrary

  high velocities in the vicinity of your selected target, if you use

  maximum time acceleration.



Crash Avoidance 

  Assume you have to perform a mission on some planet, reached it and find

  out that you are too fast to be able to decelerate in time to avoid a

  crash landing. What can you do? The correct way is to watch the crash,

  reload a previously saved game and try again. The Frontier way is to use

  time acceleration to avoid the crash. Simply switch to maximum time

  acceleration just before the crash. You will make a big jump through the

  planet and be safe at some distance at the other side.



  This is not really a bug but more or less a consequence of the

  implementation of time acceleration. Collisions are detected if your ship

  collides with an object at a given time frame of the simulation. When you

  accelerate time these time frames are farther apart and so are your

  positions in space if you are moving. If your position at one time frame

  is above a planet and at the next time frame on the other side of the

  planet Frontier will not detect the collision that should have happened in

  between.



Fast Ascent to ELITE 

  You can use the properties of time acceleration to acsend to ELITE status

  very fast, once you get foto or bombing missions. Just buy a Panther with

  lots of shields, get yourself an imperial foto or bombing mission and stop

  about 10 km above the target station. Next destroy all ships in your

  near. You can use your turrets and the zero time shooting feature to

  achieve this. Now you can select the first level of time acceleration. The

  ships that now start from the station fly directly into your shields and

  are destroyed. The only thing you have to watch very carefully is your

  height above the planet. You can expect a `right on commander' message

  every 7 to 10 minutes. These messages reset time acceleration, so you will

  have to destroy all ships in your near again and select time acceleration

  until the next message comes up. After a few hours of work you will have

  advanced to ELITE status.

  You can not use higher time acceleration levels because then the destroyed

  interceptors are not counted.



Negotiations With The Police 

  If you have been caught selling or buying illegal goods or having them on

  board, the police will fine you. If the officer is not corrupt, you can

  always lower your fine to the original amount if you claim you "haven't

  done it".




IV Bugs / Bugs 


  Most of the bugs can be circumvented in one or another way. The only bug

  that really annoyed me is the crash that happens after you have unloaded a

  mining machine and leave the system (PC only). This bug makes the mining

  part of the game unplayable and should have been found if the game had

  been beta tested at all. The many program confusions and crashes during

  heavy fights are a nuisance that can only be partially avoided with

  frequent game saving.



  * The german translation is a complete mess. Most of the time it gives you

    crippled nonsense texts and hides important information in a ruined

    screen layout. Game and manuals are full of spelling errors and

    sometimes you have to translate text back to English to be able to

    understand it at all.



  * The protection scheme sometimes gets confused and asks for the first

    letter of e. g. page 8238,line 27764, word 29263.



  * The attack and missile warnings and the "photograph taken" message stay

    on the screen much too long, hiding vital scanner information. In case

    of an attack warning you can stop time as soon as the warning is given,

    select the attacker and start normal time again. The warning is

    sometimes repeated, but then you already have some hints about the

    position of the attacker.



  * In some systems (mostly large systems with more than one sun, e. g.

    Cegreeth [-1, -3]) the reference mass selection is broken and will not

    switch to the nearest planet or station. In some cases it is sufficient

    to avoid the autopilot and fly by hand. In some systems even this does

    not work (because of discretization problems if the reference mass is

    too far away?) and the target will jump around wildly. Sometimes it

    helps not to use maximum time acceleration or fly by hand. If this does

    not help either: 



    1. Avoid such systems.

    2. If you absolutely have to dock or land in such a system use the

       autopilot to accelerate under maximum time acceleration, switch off

       your engines until you are 1-2 AU from your target and reactivate

       autopilot (still under maximum time acceleration) to decelerate and

       teleport to your target.

    3. If 2. fails, try again from another angle.



    Reconnaissance missions to such systems are very difficult, because you

    cannot use the teleport-and-decelerate trick.  Furthermore the drawing

    of the target planet gets totally inconsistent with the drawing of the

    station to be filmed, resulting in "flying" stations that seem to be

    located above the planet and other strange effects that make navigation

    by hand a matter of pure luck. I got such missions to

    Micanex C,Da [3, -4] and Hoethan A,B3b [3, -5].



  * Bombing missions for systems like Candaess [2, -4] lead to problems

    too. You cannot hit the flying station above Candaess A,B1b because the

    nuclear missile seems to have a fixed velocity between 15,000 and 25,000

    km/h. Because the gravitation reference is never switched to the planet,

    you have to adjust your velocity relative to Candaess C,D. In my case I

    had to select around 28,000 km/h to be able to approach the station at

    all. Whenever I fired my missile it somehow decelerated and never

    reached the station. The only trick that worked was to fire the missile

    from a distance around 900 km and use the missile-hit feature/bug to

    destroy the station. You can do this only from a great distance because

    you are unable to switch to full time acceleration if the interceptors

    are near you.



  * In systems with a central supergiant, the simulation of this sun is

    broken. In the Betelgeuse system [59, 14] I got no gravitational effect

    of the central sun and could fly right through it.  The displayed disk

    sometimes transformed into a rotating rectangle (e. g. at 1.39 AU

    distance) and sometimes vanished completely (e. g. at 0.8 AU distance).

    The supergiant was never selected as reference mass.



  * If you are near a planet that was not selected as reference mass (see

    above), you can watch the same effects for this planet as have been

    described for supergiants.



  * Sometimes the scanner may fail without damage report.  All systems seem

    to be ok., but the scanner doesn't show the attacking ships. It has been

    reported that you can fly through these ghost ships without damaging

    them or you. This seems to happen mostly in the near of the famous

    "flying" stations above planets that have not been selected as reference

    mass. The attacking ships also fire at you but seem to be unable to hit.



  * Be careful not to accept delivery missions to systems without bases or

    spacestations. You might not be able to deliver.



  * You sometimes get reconnaissance or bombing missions from the military

    that are impossible to accomplish, because there is no planet in the

    denoted system. These missions are cancelled as soon as you select them

    but they stay in the mission list.



  * If you are stuck in an underground base but have enough fuel and your

    engines are ok., there is no safe way to start but you can try out a few

    alternatives that have been reported to work in some cases:



    1. Use maximum time acceleration just after you have got launch

       permission. When you get the message that your launch time expired,

       switch to maximum time acceleration again.

    2. Build up a little motion, pull up your landing gear and use maximum

       time acceleration to warp through the wall.

    3. Buy lots of shields and fly through the wall.

    4. Perform takeoff as if all were normal (up gear, increase throttle,

       pull up nose) this might result in your ship starting normally.



    For some of these methods a few retries might help (save the game before

    you try anything!). If nothing else helps, select a target for a

    hyperjump and force a misjump via ALT + F8.



  * Some versions of the game for the Amiga don't allow you to jump into the

    van Maanens [0, 1] system. Neighbor systems are reachable without

    problem, the star map shows the system as reachable but you cannot

    trigger the hyperjump to van Maanens.



  * On planets with a breathable atmosphere you are sometimes cleared for

    landing on pads that are already occupied by other ships that seem to

    have landed far from their destination pad.



  * Mountains are sometimes placed directly on the landing pads of a

    starport on planets with a breathable atmosphere.



  * Sometimes a starport is reported to be busy even if there are free

    landing pads and no incoming ship exists that may have been assigned to

    the pad.



  * If you do not have enough crew and a fugitive passenger on board,

    someone might attack you from outside a station, preventing time

    acceleration to wait for enough crew and (through the passenger) also

    the selling of your ship. The only way to solve this dilemma seems to be

    to use the missile bug to shoot the attacker from inside the station (?).



  * The autorefuel system may magically empty your internal tanks if you try

    to fill them by hand. I had this effect in a Panther Clipper once even

    without the autorefuel system.



  * When a passenger gets impatient waiting to be delivered and leaves at

    the next starport, you get cabins that are falsely reported occupied,

    preventing you from selling your ship or using the cabin again. The only

    way out of this situation seems to be to buy an escape capsule and use

    it at the next opportunity. You will lose your ship but you can at least

    buy a new one.



  * If you have more than one MB4 mining machine, you must always deal with

    the last one on your list first. If you by accident destroy or even sell

    another one first, the game crashes (?).



  * Do not leave a system with mining gear left behind. The game will crash.

    This seems to be a problem that appears only in the PC version. As in

    the missile fire bug on the Panther this is a bug in the EMS handling

    that hits you whenever you hyperjump.



  * If, as a result of your asteroid mining operation, many objects appear

    in your neighborhood, the game may crash (?).



  * You have not fulfilled a killing contract if your victim crashes.



  * If you fly towards the horizon of a planet, strange graphical effects

    may happen, showing pie slices of the planet flashing everywhere. Also

    the horizon may jump wildly up and down.



  * The same effect happens if you are in the midst of a fight at the right

    height above a planet.  Your enemies will wildly jump around making them

    impossible to hit. Interesting enough they don't seem to have the same

    problems.



  * You can fly through mountains, transparent domes, buildings and the

    walls of spaceports.



  * On some star ports ships of contract targets seem to be unable to start

    without crash. This happens preferably on planets with gravity

    comparable to earth gravity or higher. Example: Lion Transport in

    Manchester City on Matthews World in Behoqu [2, -4]. The only workaround

    I have found is to avoid contracts to such targets.



  * The height calculations are broken on some planets, e. g. on Hoopers

    World in 82 Eridani, where I got a distance reading of 0.65 km for a

    target that was at the starport (not yet started!) and my height was

    shown as 2345 meters. Another example is Mitterand's World in

    Liabeze [2, -4]. 



  * For the upper gun turret on the Tiger Trader at elevation angles above

    50 deg, 5 MW beams fill the whole lower screen or strange crossing beams

    are shown, hiding possible targets.



  * Missiles that are fired from a Panther Clipper crash immediately without

    hitting anything except the own ship. This makes many bombing missions

    impossible to accomplish with a Panther. The bug only appears after

    hyperspace jumps (EMS access on the PC) and you can avoid it if you dock

    at a station or land at a starport before you try to fire a missile. You

    can shorten the extra time you need for this if you use the Autopilot

    Break to reach the point of your intermediate landing as early as

    possible. This makes bombing missions to systems with spaceports

    possible but still leaves a lot of impossible cases.



  * The trajectory drawing for planets or stations shown in the system map

    sometimes gets confused and draws straight lines from one point of the

    trajectory to the screen border.



  * A jump into the Beta Lyrae system [-146, 85] crashes the game.



  * The attempt to get system info for the Andolqu system [-76, 29] crashes

    the game.



  * If you select system info for an unexplored system, you get the info for

    the last selected explored system.



  * If you select population info for an unexplored system, the game may

    crash.



  * Sometimes you may get a starport reported to be located on a sun.  While

    being docked at Gilmour Orbiter in Tau Ceti, system info showed a

    starport on the sun Exbephi B [-1225, -853].  The starport vanished when

    I jumped into the system.  Also a population of 100,000 to 1 Million was

    reported for Ethfala [-2174, -879] which is a binary system without

    planets!



  * If you recenter the star map to your position you will still get the

    system info of the system you looked at before recentering until you

    have moved the cursor away from your current system and back.



  * Sometimes a selected star is not surrounded with the green circle at the

    position of the star but at the wrong end of the pin which shows the

    system's height with respect to the galactic ecliptic.



  * The ships section of the documentation contains at least 19 errors.



  * The masses of Panther, Kestrel and Hawk do not add up to the total mass

    of 1775t, 20t and 18t respectively.



  * The reverse thrusters of the Eagle MkII are way too weak to be meant

    this way. The available 4g should probably be 14g.



  * If you switch between the status screens of your display, your ship may

    get drawn erroneously on the contract list page.



  * In the repair section of the shipyard, hull damage is not measured

    relative to the actual hull weight and can exceed the actual hull weight

    by a large amount.



  * After a heavy fight the repair section of the shipyard may get confused.

    I once got as a damage report the message of the police officer that

    arrests you if you haven't paid your fines. The repair costs were 26315

    credits.



  * Another effect in a similar situation produced damage reports for all my

    thrusters that kept reappearing at each entry of the repair screen even

    after repair. Save and restore of the game didn't help. I had to return

    to a saved game from before the fight.



    The effect can be reproduced if you buy a new ship and immediately buy a

    new drive for it.  If you now enter the repair screen, all your

    thrusters are reported to be damaged. You can try to repair them with

    very strange effects that cause repaired thrusters to get damaged from

    the repair of other thrusters. If you have succeeded with the repair and

    no thruster is reported damaged anymore, you will get the old damage

    reports again the next time you enter the repair screen.



    The effect can be ignored and will vanish after you have refueled and

    taken off to the next starport.



  * You can get game crashes during a fight. A few times I got strange beeps

    from the speaker in my PC that got lower and lower until the game froze.

    The exect situation was a fight where I was receiving damage by an enemy

    laser when he was hit by my front laser simultaneously.



  * The ejection system may be triggered if you try to rough land with a

    large ship (?).



  * If you crash during a failed attempt to rough land, the game may crash

    with a memory exception.



  * The system map allows centering on planets only if the planet is

    annotated with its name.  The annotation sometimes happens only shortly

    before the planet vanishes from the screen.  For some planets it is very

    difficult to find a rotation/zooming combination that works, for some

    planets like Phiagre A,B2 [1, -3] I have not yet found a setting that

    makes the planet selectable.



  * When you have docked at a station using maximum time acceleration, the

    system map still shows your position outside the station.



  * If you hyperjump while traffic control is warning you you will get a

    final warning message and a fine from the star system you jump into.



  * In early versions of the game for the Amiga there is a bug that may

    confuse the bulletin board that then shows parts of the stockmarket

    section. One trick to avoid this problem is to always return to the top

    of the bulletin board before leaving it. If the damage is done, you can

    accelerate time to wait until midnight. The bulletin board will then be

    reset and corrected.



  * The manual states that the game is completely playable via keyboard, but

    I have not found an equivalent to a right mouse click on the keyboard.

    Therefore rotation control for the system and sector maps seems to be

    dependent on the mouse.



  * A mouse click that misses a function icon or the scanner display in the

    lower part of the screen deselects the current target. As a consequence

    you often have to reselect your target only because you missed some icon

    by a small amount.



  * Released mouse keys sometimes keep autorepeating.



  * The joystick cannot be calibrated and is way too imprecise (even with a

    high quality joystick) on a 40MHz 386 PC.




V Hacking and Cheating 


  If you don't want to spoil your game completely, please ignore this

  section!


Executables 


  FRONTIER.EXE and the .OVR files of the PC version have been packed with an

  LZEXE compatible packer. You can safely unpack them, they will run without

  problems afterwards. The advantage of unpacking your executables is that

  you can use your favourite byte editor to look for strings in the game and

  find out what you can expect in your future gameplay. It also should speed

  up the startup time of your game significantly.


Save Files 


  Saved games are not portable between the Amiga and the PC versions of the

  game. They seem to be compressed in the PC version but the compressor

  program is not yet known.



  There are some hack sheets floating around for the Amiga version but I

  will not include them here because I simply don't like this kind of

  cheats. I think it is bad enough to exploit the bugs in the game for your

  gameplay.  If you really want to cheat badly, write your own game or find

  out the cheats for yourself!




VI Wish List 



  * If the system map would follow the events outside, you could watch your

    progress in the map without having to switch repeatedly between main

    view and map.



  * It should be possible to center the system map relative to a displayed

    ship.



  * There should be a possibility to fast zoom out of the system map just

    enough to make your ship or the next planet visible.



  * It would be nice to have a stack of autopilot targets: select your

    flight target, push it and select a target for a fight, return to your

    flight target...



  * If you don't use the autopilot, it is very difficult to land on planets

    with high gravity, because you have no easy way to estimate your current

    position relative to the planet without deselecting your target. It

    would be nice to have a switchable height meter that gives you readings

    all the time (not only from 50.000 m downwards) in addition to your

    information about the target distance. Also some velocity information

    like rate of descent and velocity with respect to the planet surface

    would be extremely helpful. Why not switch to a HUD that contains this

    information in the near of a planet, if your autopilot is not activated?




VII Flight Physics 



     1 AU = 1.496 x 10^11 m      (astronomical unit)

     1 g  =          9.81 m/s^2  (gravitational acceleration on earth)

     1 h  =         3,600 s      (hour)

     1 d  =        86,400 s      (day)



VII-A Equations for Free Fall 


  With velocity v [m/s], acceleration a [m/s^2], distance d [m] and time

  t [s] we get:



     v = a t = sqrt(2 a d);    d = 1/2 a t^2;    t = v/a = sqrt(2 d/a) (1)



VII-B Navigation Equations 


  For the distance d travelled with initial acceleration a_1 and final

  deceleration a_2 the values of interest for the journey are the maximum

  velocity at the turning point (where we change from acceleration to

  deceleration) v_u, the distance d_2 of the turning point from the target

  and the time t_d that is needed for travelling the distance d. We assume

  that forces other than those produced by our own engines can be neglected

  and that we start and reach the target with zero velocity. Furthermore we

  assume that the engines are used all the time at full power. If the main

  engine is used for acceleration and deceleration the equations are very

  simple:



           v_u = sqrt(a d);     t_d = 2 sqrt(d/a);     d_2 = d/2       (2)



  This fastest mode of flight is used to accelerate up to the turning point

  velocity at the distance d_2, turn the ship and decelerate until the

  target is reached.



  If the autopilot is used instead, it will use the main engine for

  acceleration and the secondary thrusters (retro thrusters) for

  deceleration. In this case we get the equations:



                  v_u = sqrt( 2 d (a_1 a_2)/(a_1 + a_2) )



                  t_d = sqrt( 2 d (a_1 + a_2)/(a_1 a_2) )              (3)



                          d_2 = d a_1/(a_1 + a_2)



  The time t_d is always a lower bound for the really used time because the

  autopilot doesn't use the engines at full power all the time. I

  approximated the real time consumption of autopilot flight with a least

  mean square fit of data from 20 undisturbed flights with a Cobra MK III.

  Measuring the distance in astronomical units [AU] and the acceleration in

  units of earth gravitational acceleration [g], I got for the time [d]:



   t_dA = 1.212/86400 *

     sqrt( (2.992 * 10^11)/9.81 ( d (a_1 + a_2)/(a_1 a_2) ) ) - 0.001  (4)




VII-C Hyperdrives and Jump Ranges 


  A hyperdrive lets you travel its maximum range in seven days, which is 168

  hours. Travel time is linear with distance, so you will use one day to

  travel a seventh of your hyperdrive range. For a class n drive you will

  need n^2 tons of fuel to travel the maximum range, except for the class 8

  hyperdrive which actually is a class 9 drive and therefore uses 81 tons

  for a maximum range jump. The fuel consumption is linear with the

  distance, using only integer amounts of fuel, so you will need e.g.

  ceil(n^2/2) tons of fuel to travel half the maximum drive range. The only

  difference between the civil and military versions of a drive is the

  weight of the drive and the type of fuel used.



  The relation between jump cost c [t], jump time t [h], ship mass m [t] and

  jump distance d [lj] can be expressed a little more exact to give you a

  few numbers to crunch. Here the equations:



           c = ceil( d * m / 200),    t = 168/200 * d * m / h^2        (5)



  If you set the time to the maximum 168h in the second equation you can

  calculate the maximum range of the drive of a given class in a given ship.

  If you do this for the class 8 drive in a Panther or Boa you get

  inconsistencies. From the ships table you can see that the class 8

  drive behaves like a class 9 drive in the Panther and like a class 7.79

  drive in the Boa. I hope this indicates a mistake in the table. The

  maximum ranges for the Lynx Bulk Carrier and the Long Range Cruiser are

  calculated as if the class 8 drive were actually class 9 drive. I don't

  know whether these ships can carry hyperdrives at all.




VIII Wormhole Theory 



  The following seems to be invalid for the newer PC versions of the game.



  A ship can jump very large distances due to a modulo effect in the

  hyperspace continuum with a base of W_sect = 81.62 sector lengths

  (655.36 lj). One can use this behavior to find jump paths that are much

  shorter in time and fuel consumption than the straight distance. This also

  allows you to use a smaller hyperdrive and leaves more room for fuel and

  cargo. The optimal jump points for a journey between two systems with one

  intermediate stop are found on the intersections of circles around the two

  endpoints of the journey. On such a circle lie the systems that can be

  reached from the center of the circle with a minimum amount of fuel and

  time. A system at the intersection of such circles can be reached easily

  from the centers of both circles, making it an ideal intermediate jump

  point. The circles have multiples of the wormhole distance (655.36 lj) as

  radii. To make the calculations simple we assume at first, that the

  "thickness" of a sector can be neglected and that two jumps with equal

  distance shall be made, resulting in circles with equal radius. The

  coordinates of the ideal intermediate jump points can now be found on a

  line that perpendicular bisects the segment between the two endpoints of

  your journey, at the points of intersection of the circles around the

  endpoints.



  For two star systems at the coordinates (x, y) and (u, v) we define:




                      a = (u - x);       b = (v - y)                 (6)




  We choose a jump distance of W_n = n x W_sect sectors. With this

  definitions we get as coordinates for the intermediate jump (p, q):



            p = (x + u)/2 + b sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )

                                                                      (7)

            q = (y + v)/2 - a sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )



  or

            p = (x + u)/2 - b sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )

                                                                      (8)

            q = (y + v)/2 + a sqrt( W_n^2 / (a^2 + b^2) - 1/4 )



  Now n has to be chosen such that the square root has a real solution (the

  jump radius is larger than the half distance between the systems) and we

  have to find a system near one of the intermediate jump points.  If such a

  system cannot be found, we simply increment n and try again with a

  wormhole distance of the next greater order.



  If you want to perform two jumps with different jump sizes the equations

  have essentially the same structure but get a bit more complicated. We

  define a and b as in (5) and choose the jump distances W_m = m x W_sect

  for the first jump and W_n = n x W_sect for the second jump. m and n must

  be chosen such that: 



                | m - sqrt(a^2 + b^2) / W_sect |  <=  n  <=            (9)

                  m + sqrt(a^2 + b^2) / W_sect



  This ensures, that there exists an intermediate jump point at all. With



              alpha = (W_m^2 - W_n^2) / (2 (a^2 + b^2)) + 1/2          (10)



  we get for the coordinates of the intermediate jump point (p, q):



     p = (1-alpha) x + alpha u + b sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )

                                                                       (11)

     q = (1-alpha) y + alpha v - a sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )



  or         



     p = (1-alpha) x + alpha u - b sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )

                                                                       (12)

     q = (1-alpha) y + alpha v + a sqrt( W_m^2 / a^2 + b^2 - alpha^2 )




IX Programs for a HP42S pocket calculator 



Here comes a collection of programs for my pocket calculator that I have

found useful in navigation and the collection of statistical data.




IX-A Convert time display formats 



First a program that converts a time interval given as days:hours:minutes

to decimal fractions of a day:



% convert number in the form ddhhmm to a decimal dd.dd form

% =========================================================

%

% memory: dhm day in ddhhmm form



lbl "dhm->d"

input "dhm  % input ddhhmm here

xeq d

stop

goto "dhm->d"



% subroutine for conversion ddhhmm -> dd.dd

% -----------------------------------------

%

% input: ddhhmm on stack

%

% memory: 00 accumulator for dd.dd

% 01 temporary storage

% 02 unprocessed input



lbl d

sto 02

10,000 /

ip  % isolate day number

sto 00

10,000 x

sto- 02  % remove days, leaving hhmm

R^  % normalize stack

rcl 02

100 /

ip  % hours number

sto 01

24 /  % hours per day

sto+ 00

R^  % normalize stack

rcl 01

100 x

rcl 02

x<>y

-  % leave mm entry of input

1440 /  % minutes per day

rcl+ 00

rtn

end



IX-B Estimate travel time 


The next program uses equation (4) to calculate an estimate for the duration

of a flight. You put the acceleration of your main and secondary thrusters

into the global variables mn_g and bk_g and the program asks you for the

distance in astronomical units. Acceleration is measured in units of earth

gravitational acceleration and is constant for a given ship, so you have to

initialize the variables only once for a ship. The calculated time is output

in decimal fractions of a day.



% calculate time estimate in days for a local journey

% ===================================================

%

% memory: mn_g acceleration of main thruster in g

% bk_g acceleration of back thruster in g

%

% s_au distance to be travelled in AU



lbl "au->t"

input "s_au"

sqrt



% calc. factor for conversion



rcl "mn_g"

rcl+ "bk_g"

9.81 /

rcl/ "bk_g"

rcl/ "mn_g"

2.992E11 *

sqrt

1.212 *


  •  % mult with conversion factor

86400 /  % convert to days dd.dd

0.001 -

end




IX-C Calculate jump points 


The following program uses equations (9) to (11) to calculate the position

of jump points for wormhole jumps. You provide it with the jump orders and

in complex form the coordinates of your current and target system. It gives

you the coordinates of the optimal jump points as output (also in complex

form). If no jump point exists for the given jump orders, an error is

produced while calculating the square root.



% calculate coordinates of jump point

% ===================================

%

% memory: ord1 order of first jump

% ord2 order of second jump

% x,y coordinates of start system (complex)

% u,v coordinates of target system (complex)

%

% 00 x

% 01 y

% 02 u

% 03 v

� 

                                                                          17

% 04 a = u-x

% 05 b = v-y

% 06 alpha

% 07 x + alpha * a

% 08 y + alpha * b

% 09 a^2 + b^2

% 10 sqrt (...)

% 11 a * sqrt

% 12 b * sqrt



lbl "hjmp"

realres  % only real results of sqrt

fix 02  % only two digits after decimal point



input "ord1"  % get order of jumps

input "ord2"



input "x,y"  % get start coordinate

complex  % convert to real/real

sto 01

R^

sto 00

R^

input "u,v"  % get target coordinate

complex

sto 03

rcl- 01

sto 05  % store b

R^

sto 02

rcl- 00

sto 04  % store a



% calculate alpha



x^2  % a^2

rcl 05

x^2

+

sto 09  % save a^2 + b^2

2 *

rcl "ord1"

81.62 *

x^2

rcl "ord2"

81.62 *

x^2

-

x<>y

/

0.5 +

sto 06  % store alpha



% calculate sums in front of square root



rcl* 04

rcl+ 00

� 

                                                                          18

sto 07  % x + alpha * a

R^

rcl 06

rcl* 05

rcl+ 01

sto 08  % y + alpha * b

R^



% calculate square root



rcl "ord1"

81.62 *

x^2

rcl/ 09

rcl 06

x^2

-

sqrt

sto 10

rcl* 04

sto 11  % a * sqrt

R^

rcl 10

rcl* 05

sto 12  % b * sqrt



% calculate coordinates of first jump point



rcl+ 07  % p coordinate on stack

rcl 08

rcl- 11  % q coordinate on stack

complex



% and now the second jump point



rcl 07

rcl- 12  % p coordinate on stack

rcl 08

rcl+ 11  % q coordinate on stack

complex



end



X Keyboard Reference (German Keyboard) 


                ___________________________________________

                |_______________global_control_____________|

                 game exit                : ^C

                 pause                    : ESC

                 accelerate time, level x : SHIFT + Fx

                 dump screen (?)          : numeric *

                ___________________________________________

                |_______________cursor_control_____________|

                 move cursor              : ALT + arrow keys

                 select (= mouse left)    : numeric 0

                ___________________________________________

                |_______________flight_control_____________|

                 turn down                : A

                 turn up                  : Y

                 turn starboard           : .

                 turn port                : ,

                 accelerate               : CR

                 decelerate               : RIGHT SHIFT

                 hyperjump                : H

                 force misjump            : ALT + F8 in flight menu

                ___________________________________________

                |____________external_view_control_________|

                 rotate                   : arrow keys

                 zoom in                  : sz

                 zoom out                 : '

                ___________________________________________

                |______________weapon_control______________|

                 fire laser               : SPC

                 fire missile             : M

                 fire ECM                 : E

                 fire energy bomb         : B

                 activate radar scanner   : R

                 activate milit. camera   : D

                 activate escape capsule  : X

                ___________________________________________

                |________________sector_map________________|

                 recenter map             : C

                 hyperjump                : H

                 map panning              : arrow keys

                 fast map panning         : SHIFT + arrow keys

                ___________________________________________

                |________________system_map________________|

                 time forward             : RIGHT arrow key

                 time backward            : LEFT arrow key or #

                 fast zoom-in             : double click zoom-in

                ___________________________________________

                |___________________misc___________________|

                 unload/pick up MB4       : D




 In menues you can select the items via keyboard. To select an item you

 simply type the number (NOT on the numerical keypad!) of it's position in

 the list. The items are numbered from top to bottom, starting at 1. The

 keys 2, 4, 6 and 8 on the numerical keypad are equivalent to the arrow

 keys.



XI Game Tables



XI-A Ships 


  Ships are given with their type, hull weight, loading capacity, retro

  thruster acceleration, main thruster acceleration, number of crew members,

  number of gun mountings, number of missile pylons, jump distances for

  different drive classes, possibility to mount a fuel scoop, the initial

  drive class and the price.


_______________________________________________________________________________

_Type________Hull__Cap__Re__Mn___Cr__Gn_Ms_Drive__________________FS_Cl____Pr_k 


Adder         15   40  8.0 18.1  1  1  0  1 : 3.63/14.54/32.72   y  2     73 k

Anaconda     150  650  3.0  6.0  8  2  8  4 : 4/6.25/9/12.25     y  6  1,060 k

Asp           30  120  7.0 22.2  2  2  1  2 : 5.33/12/21.33      y  3    187 k

Boa          200 1300  4.0  8.0 10  4  6  5 : 3.33/4.8/6.53/8.1  y  8  2,474 k

Cobra Mk I    15   60  6.0 16.1  1  2  2  2 : 10.66/24           y  2     97 k

Cobra Mk III  20   80  7.0 20.1  1  2  4  2 : 8/18               y  2    124 k

Constrictor   30   90 10.0 22.0  2  2  2  2 : 6.66/15/26.66      y  2    143 k

Eagle Mk I     5   20 10.0 25.2  1  1  2  1 : 8/32               n  1     38 k

Eagle Mk II    6   22  4.0 28.2  1  1  2  1 : 7.14/28.57         n  1     41 k

Eagle Mk III   8   22 15.1 28.2  1  1  2  1 : 6.66/26.66         n  1     43 k

Falcon         5   11  9.0 30.2  1  1  2  1 : 12.5               n  1m    46 k

Gecko         11   34  9.0 16.1  1  2  1  1 : 4.44/17.77/40      n  2     66 k

Hawk           5    7  6.0 27.2  1  1  2  1 : 11.11              n  1m    48 k

Imp Courier  130  350  6.0 16.1  1  1  6  3 : 3.75/6.66/10.41/15 n  5    609 k

Imp Trader   175  525  4.0  9.0  1  1  6  4 : 4.57/7.14/10.28/14 n  6    949 k

Int. Shuttle   4    4  3.0  5.0  1  0  0  _                      n  I     14 k

Kestrel        5    9  6.0 25.2  1  1  2  1 : 10                 n  1m    50 k

Krait          8   27 10.0 20.1  1  1  4  1 : 5.71/22.85/51.42   n  1     50 k

Lifter         3    7  2.0  4.0  1  0  0  1 : 20                 n  I     16 k

Lion          65  235  3.0  5.0  4  3  8  3 : 6/10.66/16.66      y  3    348 k

Moray         17   70  6.0 14.1  1  1  4  2 : 9.19/20.68         y  2    109 k

Osprey         4   11  8.0 27.2  1  1  2  1 : 13.33              n  1m    45 k

Panther      400 2000  3.0  6.0 12  4  8  6 : 4.05/5.52/9.1      n  8  2,753 k

Puma         175  825  3.0  6.0  9  4  8  4 : 3.2/5/7.2/9.8      y  6  1,265 k

Python       100  400  4.0 10.0  7  2  4  3 : 3.6/6.4/10/14.4    y  4    575 k

Sidewinder     8   25 12.1 23.2  1  1  0  1 : 6.06/24.24/54.54   y  1     44 k

Tiger Trader  80  320  5.0 12.1  5  3  1  3 : 4.5/8/12.5/18      y  4    472 k

Transporter   40  160  4.0  9.0  3  3  2  2 : 4/9/16/25          n  3    241 k

Viper         15   50 10.0 24.2  1  1  4  1 : 3.07/12.3/27.69    y  2     87 k

Lynx Bulk

   Carrier 1200  6000  1    3   20  0  0  8 : 2.25               ?  ?  7,228 k

Long Range

   Cruiser 1000 15000  1    3  100  1  0  8 : 1.01               ?  ? 16,110 k




  The drives for Imperial Courier and Imperial Trader are fixed and not

  changeable. The Interplanetary Drive of the Lifter cannot be removed to

  add a jump drive.



  The Lynx Bulk Carrier and the Long Range Cruiser can both sometimes be

  seen in the near of space stations. They don't seem to move but if I

  remember right, the Lynx Bulk Carriers at least answer your

  communication. Long Range Cruisers seem to be abandoned and are only good

  for hide and seek games with the Vipers of the local police or for target

  practice. I know of no opportunity to buy one of the ships.


XI-B Lasers and Shields 


  A shield works like an extra hull that can take up to 16 tons damage

  before your real hull is damaged. It regenerates at a few percent per

  second and does this faster if you use an Energy Booster (approximately 3%

  per second). The regeneration rate is independent of the number of shields

  you have and the state of your shields. The strength of your shielding is

  proportional to the number of your shields, so 10 shields can take 160

  tons damage before your hull is damaged.  A pulse laser can inflict 12.5

  tons of damage per MW power. This means that one shield can absorb one hit

  of an 1 MW pulse laser and will degrade to 22% in the process. A directly

  following second hit would reduce your shield to 0% and cause nine tons of

  damage to your hull.  This shows that the damage a shield can absorb is

  proportional to its state, which means that one shield can take e.g. eight

  tons of damage at 50% reducing it to 0% without causing damage to your

  hull.



  Here a more complex example: You have two shields and get hit four times

  by an 1MW pulse laser. Your shields recharge 5% between the hits. The

  first hit reduces your shields from the original 32 tons protection to

  19.5 tons protection or 60%. Before the next hit the shields recharge 5%

  to 21.1 tons protection. The next hit reduces the shields to 8.6 tons

  which are recharged to 10.2 tons. The third hit cuts through your shields

  and causes 2.3 tons damage to your hull. Recharge will bring your shields

  back to 1.6 tons protection and the last hit will take them down again and

  cause another 10.9 tons of damage to your hull for a total damage of 13.2

  tons.



  The higher firing rate of beam lasers seems to result in approximately

  five times the power of pulse lasers resulting in higher damage over the

  same time interval. This means that a 1 MW beam laser should be

  approximately equivalent to a 5 MW pulse laser. Mining lasers have a very

  low firing rate but inflict enough damage to destroy an Imperial Courier

  with one hit. The damage they can cause with one hit is estimated to be

  somewhere between 750 and 1,500 tons.




XI-C Equipment 


The possible equipment items together with their weight are given in the

following table:




        _______Equipment________Weight_|_____Equipment______Weight_



         XB13 Dummy Mine           1 t |XB74 Proximity Mine      1 t

         Energy Bomb               4 t |KL760 Homing Missile     1 t

         LV111 Smart Missile       1 t |NN500 Navy Missile       1 t

         30 MW Mining Laser       10 t |1 MW Pulse Laser         1 t

         5 MW Pulse Laser          3 t |1 MW Beam Laser          5 t

         4 MW Beam Laser          20 t |20 MW Beam Laser        75 t

         100 MW Beam Laser       200 t |Laser Cooling Booster    1 t

         Small Plasma Accel.     500 t |Large Plasma Accel.    900 t

         ECM                       2 t |Naval ECM                2 t

         Cargo Bay Life Support    1 t |Extra Passenger Cabin    5 t

         Auto Pilot                1 t |Auto Refueller           1 t

         Scanner                   1 t |Radar Mapper             1 t

         Hyper-Space Cloud Anal.   1 t |Shield Generator         4 t

         Energy Booster            5 t |Escape Capsule           5 t

         Atmospheric Shielding     1 t |Hull Auto Repair        40 t

         Fuel Scoop                6 t |Cargo Scoop Converter    2 t

         MB4 Mining Machine       30 t |Interplanetary Drive     4 t

         Hyperdrive Class 1       10 t |Hyperdrive Class 2      25 t

         Hyperdrive Class 3       45 t |Hyperdrive Class 4      80 t

         Hyperdrive Class 5      150 t |Hyperdrive Class 6     250 t

         Hyperdrive Class 7      400 t |Hyperdrive Class 8     600 t

         Military Drive Class 1    6 t |Military Drive Class 2  12 t

         Military Drive Class 3   24 t |Military Drive Class 4   ? t

         Fighter Launcher          ? t |




  A Class 8 Hyperdrive can only be bought as a builtin drive with the Boa or

  the Panther Clipper.

  No one has ever seen a Class 4 Military Drive or a Fighter Launcher but

  there are rumors that they exist in the game somewhere.




XI-D Merchandise


Just for reference, here the list of merchandise: 



       __________________________Merchandise____________________________



        Water           Liquid Oxygen    Grain           Fruit and Veg.

        Animal Meat     Synthetic Meat   Liquor          Medicines

        Fertilizer      Luxury Goods     Heavy Plastics  Metal Alloys

        Precious Metals Gem Stones       Minerals        Hydrogen Fuel

        Military Fuel   Industrial Parts Computers       Air Processors

        Farm Machinery  Roboters         Radioactives    Rubbish

        Narcotics       Animal Skins     Live Animals    Slaves

        Hand Weapons    Battle Weapons   Nerve Gas



XI-E Ranks 


 Here comes the list of ranks in the German and the English version version

 together with the number of points you have to get to advance to a given

 rank.



 _Federation_German_|English_______|Empire_German_|English___|__Points_



  Keiner             None           Aussenseiter    Outsider          0

  Gefreiter          Private        Leibeigener     Serf              1

  Unteroffizier      Corporal       Master          Master           16

  Feldwelbel         Sergeant       Sir             Sir              81

  Hauptfeldwebel     Sgt-Major      Squire          Squire          256

  Major              Major          Lord            Lord            625

  Oberst             Colonel        Baron           Baron         1,296

  Leutnant           Lieutnant      Viscount        Viscount      2,401

  Korvettenkapitaen  Lt. Commander  Count           Count         4,096

  Kapitaen           Captain        Earl            Earl          6,561

  Kommodore          Commodore      Marquis         Marquis      10,000

  Konteradmiral      Rear Admiral   Herzog          Duke         14,641

  Admiral            Admiral        Prinz           Prince       20,736



 The following table shows the correspondence between the mission type and

 the points you get for the successful completion of a mission:



                        _Mission_Type____|_Points_



                         delivery           2

                         assassination     14

                         foto              16

                         bombing           18

                         `excellent' foto  20



  Different kinds of military missions are bound to your rank. In the

  federation you carry unimportant stuff until you get promoted to Sergeant;

  then the first secret messages may be carried by you. You will get your

  first military assassination mission as Sgt-Major. After your promotion to

  Major you will get additional reconnaissance missions and a Colonel may

  execute bombing missions. The empire handles equivalent ranks the same

  way. You seem to get no new type of mission when you advance further in

  rank although there are many rumors that you get new missions to destroy

  enemy ships at Commodore/Marquis level.



  The above does not hold, if you execute missions for more than one side. I

  made the mistake of working for the empire after I advanced to Colonel and

  had gotten my first few bombing missions.

  I advanced to Squire in the empire and went back to the federation. Now I

  had the problem, that I got no more bombing missions but had to stay with

  the usual reconnaissance missions. I eventually got bombing missions again,

  but working for the empire surely stopped my federal career for a while.



  The safest way to advance in the federation and the empire at the same

  time seems to be the famous `rank swing': Advance one rank in the

  federation, work for the empire and advance one rank there, return to the

  federation and so on until you are Admiral/Prince and ELITE and bored to

  death.



  Your rank is not the only prerequisite you need to get a certain type of

  mission. You have to own all the possible medals for earlier missions

  first. You get medals for:



  1. the first delivery of an important item like gravitic detonators,

  2. the first delivery of secret communication,

  3. the first successful assassination,

  4. the first successful reconnaissance mission,

  5. the first reconnaissance mission with resulting excellent film and

  6. the first successful bombing mission.



  A strange side effect is, that you must not perform all reconnaissance

  missions perfectly, because if you do, you will not get your fourth medal!



  The complete list of medals for the German and the English version of the

  game looks as follows:



 _Federation_German|_English____________|_Empire German___|_English___



 Tapferkeitsurkunde Certificate of Valor Rote Armbinde     Crimson Brassard

 Sternexplosion     Starburst            Schwarzes Polygon Black Polygon

 Purpur-Omega       Purple Omega         Goldene Lanze     Gold Spike

 Zinnober-Krone     Vermillion Crest     Platinkreuz       Platinum Cross

 Blauer Exzelsior   Blue Excelsior       Ehrenlegion       Legion of Honour

 Frontier Medaille  Frontier Medal       Himmelskrieger    Celestial Warrior



XI-F Combat Rating 


 And here your combat rating with more magic numbers. They seem to denote

 the number of ships you have destroyed multiplied by 256. In other words,

 you get 256 points for each destroyed ship regardless of its type.



        _German_______________|_English_________|  _Points _|Kills_



         Harmlos                Harmless               0        0

         Meistens Harmlos       Mostly Harmless    1,024        4

         Schwach                Poor               2,048        8

         Unterdurchschnittlich  Below Average      4,096       16

         Durchschnittlich       Average            8,192       32

         U"berdurchschnittlich  Above Average     16,384       64

         Kompetent              Competent         32,768      128

         Gef"ahrlich            Dangerous        256,000    1,000

         T"odlich               Deadly           768,000    3,000

         ELITE                  ELITE          1,536,000    6,000




  For every 256 destroyed ships you will get a message like: "right on

  commander". This is an indication of your advances between the ranks. From

  the table you can see, that you should get Dangerous between the third and

  the fourth message of this kind. You advance to Deadly between the 11th

  and 12th message. You should become ELITE after the 23rd message.




XI-G Legal Status


The last table gives the possible legal status with the associated fines (?): 



                  _German_______|__English__|_____Fine_



                   W. Weste        Clean            0

                   Straff`ll.      Offender         1

                   Krimin.         Criminal     5,500

                   Outlaw          Outlaw      20,000

                   Fluechtig       Fugitive   100,000




XII System Info 



 There seem to be differences between the coordinates of systems in the PC

 and the Amiga version of the game. Usually they are smaller than one

 sector, the only verified case of a large difference being the Andolqu

 system [PC -76, 29], [Amiga -74, 29]. The following tables correspond to

 the PC version. If you find systems to be located in a different sector on

 your Amiga, I would be glad to include a list of differences (that you will

 have to provide). If they are too many, it would be interesting to find

 out, whether a more systematic approach could be successful.



 The system names in the tables that correspond with really existing

 astronomical objects are printed with a leading "_" character. Not all

 probable candidates for astronomical objects (like 82 Eridani) could be

 found in the star catalogues I have access to. They may be astronomical

 objects or not.




XII-A Settlements and Tourist Attractions Far Out 


 Here comes a list of inhabited systems with starports far from the core

 systems, mixed with a few systems of specific interest.



   ______________________________________________________________________

   ___System_______Coord______Politics______________Comments_____________



    Aaqu        [  771, -1302] indep corp

    Ackargre    [-4310, -1999] indep anarchy

    Ackarol     [-2000,  -879] indep corp

    _Alcyone    [   32,    32] uninhabited

    Aliafa      [-2107, -1017] indep corp

    _Antares    [  -39,   -34] uninhabited    no planets

    Anvequ      [  360,    -5] indep corp

    Arfaess     [ 1020,     0] indep corp

    Arwabe      [ -766,  -766] indep corp

    _Atlas      [   32,    32] uninhabited

    Ayessand    [-1022, -1022] indep corp

    Aysool      [-1495, -1574] indep anarchy

    Ayurda      [ -666,   117] indep anarchy

    Becaness    [  772, -1303] indep corp

    Becanol     [-1509,   -35] indep corp

    Beenbe      [-2757,   -35] indep anarchy

    Beenla      [  254,     0] indep corp

    _Beta Lyrae [ -146,    85] uninhabited    contact binary star

    _Betelgeuse [   59,    14] uninhabited    supergiant

    Betiess     [-2344,   -35] indep anarchy

    Daaya       [  937,   789] indep anarchy

    Edaso       [-1790, -1790] indep corp

    Edcelia     [-2107,   503] indep corp

    Edenve      [  254,     0] indep corp

    _Electra    [   32,    32] uninhabited

    Enangre     [-1225,  -922] indep corp

    Enlabe      [-1792, -1792] indep corp

    Enquze      [-1674, -1498] indep corp

    Esswaze     [-1790, -1790] indep corp

    Exvefa      [-2000,  -194] indep corp

    Faarfa      [ -509,  -770] indep corp

    Fainin      [  771, -1302] indep corp

    Famiay      [-2107,   -63] indep corp

    Greurqu     [  772, -1303] indep corp

    _Hadar      [   -6,   -40] uninhabited    supergiant

    Hoessce     [-5180, -2000] indep corp

    Ioandqu     [  772, -1303] indep corp

    Ioceay      [-1509,   -35] indep corp

    Ioquex      [  772, -1303] indep corp

    Iozeio      [ -376,  -426] indep corp

    Lahola      [ 1022,    -4] indep corp

    Lasolia     [-2000, -1566] indep corp

    _Maia       [   32,    32] uninhabited

    _Merope     [   32,    32] uninhabited

    Micanex     [ -739,  -539] indep anarchy

    Miphimi     [-2102, -1745] indep corp

    Oletphi     [-2331,   -35] indep corp

    Phiolbe     [-2187,   -35] indep anarchy

    _Pleione    [   32,    32] uninhabited

    _Polaris    [    0,    76] uninhabited    supergiant

    Qumia       [-2107,   503] indep corp

    _Rigel      [   92,     6] unexplored     supergiant

    Solaqu      [-2107, -1017] indep corp

    _Spica      [   -4,   -17] uninhabited    no planets

    _Taygete    [   32,    32] uninhabited

    Tiafa       [ -748,  -863] indep corp

    Urbela      [ -719,    -6] indep corp

    Urceve      [-1814, -1745] indep corp

    Urioed      [-2000,  -879] indep corp

    Ururur      [-1814, -1745] indep corp

    Vewela      [-1790, -1790] indep corp

    Wafaa       [ -666,   117] indep anarchy




XII-B System Database 


  A table of systems I have had contact with is given on the next pages. For

  every system the sector coordinates, maximum distance to the nearest

  starport or station and the political system are listed together with

  some comments.

____________________________________________________________________________

_____System_____Coord__AU_______Politics_______________Comments_____________



 1o4774          [-1, 1]   9.02 indep corp

 AC+79o3888      [ 0, 2]   8.97 indep corp

 Aandti          [ 0,-5]   8.58 indep corp      no starport

 Achenar         [ 1,-4]  57.78 imp capital     luxury goods export, computer

                                                import, radioactives illegal,

                                                Honest John Thatcher's ok,

                                                avoid Ulrich's Warehouse

 Ackcanphi       [-4,-4]        indep disputed

 Ackdati         [ 0,-5]  19.74 imperial

 Ackexa          [-3, 3]        indep corp

 Acklave         [ 2,-2]  18.30 indep anarchy   no starport

 Ackwada         [-5,-3]        indep corp

 Ackzece         [ 1,-5]  10.30 imperial

 Aenze           [ 3,-6]   8.68 indep anarchy

 _Alcor          [ 0, 5]        indep corp      no planets

 _Aldebaran      [ 6, 4]        uninhabited     no planets

 _Alioth         [ 0, 4]  23.63 indep democracy disputed system

 _Altair         [-2, 1]  10.87 fed democracy   robot import

 _Alpha Centauri [ 0, 0] 990.00 fed colony

 Anacka          [ 4,-4]   9.21 indep corp      no starport

 Anacketh        [ 0,-5]  13.79 imperial

 Anave           [ 3, 0]   7.70 indep anarchy

 Anayeth         [-1,-4]        imp colony

 Andceeth        [-5, 2]        indep disputed

 Andcefa         [ 2,-3]  11.15 imp colony

 Andinol         [ 3,-6]   4.15 indep anarchy   no starport

 Andwafa         [-2, 3]        indep corp

 Anlaol          [ 1,-6]  11.19 imperial

 Anlave          [ 0, 3]  10.57 fed democracy

 Anphiex         [ 2,-2]  10.98 indep corp

 Arayess         [ 4,-7]        indep dict      under federal interdict

 _Arcturus       [-2, 0]  12.02 fed democracy

 Arexack         [-1,-5]        indep corp

 Aveed           [ 3, 0]  12.73 indep corp

 Ayarlia         [ 3, 1]   6.94 indep corp

 Ayethti         [-3,-1]        indep democracy

 Ayfati          [ 1,-5]   9.69 imperial

 Aymiay          [ 1, 4]   6.17 fed democracy

 Aymifa          [ 2,-5]  10.81 imperial

 Aymigre         [ 2,-3]   9.32 indep anarchy   no starport

 Ayqugre         [ 4,-5]  11.02 indep anarchy   no starport

 Ayurso          [ 4, 0]   9.09 indep civil war exorbitant prices for robots

                                                and luxury goods

 BD 946          [-1, 2]        indep corp

 _Barnard        [-1, 0]  11.08 fed colony      robot export, luxury goods

                                                import, Haynes and Son Inc.,

                                                Merchant Darke's ok

 Becanin         [ 3, 0]   7.71 indep corp

 Bedaho          [-4,-2]   7.74 fed democracy

 Befaqu          [-2, 8]        indep dict      under federal interdict

 Behoqu          [ 2,-4]   9.34 imperial        contract targets may crash on

                                                start from Manchester City

 Besaex          [ 3, 0]        indep corp

 _Beta Hydri     [ 0,-2]  10.69 fed democracy

 Beuress         [ 0,-5]  10.62 indep anarchy

 Beurqu          [ 3,-5]  10.60 indep anarchy   no starport

 Bewaack         [ 0,-5]  10.92 indep anarchy   no starport

 CD-37o15492     [ 0, 0]  10.52 indep corp

 CD-44o11909     [-1,-1]  11.20 indep anarchy

 CD-46o11540     [-1,-1]  10.94 indep corp

 CD-49o13515     [-1,-1]   8.65 indep corp

 Canayce         [ 2,-6] 421.41 indep anarchy

 Candaess        [ 2,-4] 238.55 imperial

 Caninve         [ 3,-2]   9.48 indep anarchy   no starport

 _Canopus        [ 6,-6]        indep anarchy   supergiant

 _Capella        [ 4, 4]        indep corp

 Ceessze         [ 3,-4]  10.15 indep anarchy

 Cegreeth        [-1,-3] 220.00 imp colony      reference selection fixed on

                                                Cegreeth D, discretization

                                                problems

 Cemiess         [-2,-2]        imperial        negative black market prices

                                                for gem stones and precious

                                                metals, Richard's Exchange,

                                                Patrick's Exchange, Judd's

                                                Trading ok

 Cetilia         [ 4,-5]  17.10 indep anarchy

 _Cygni, 61      [-1, 1]  48.62 fed democracy   single starport, often busy

 Daceess         [ 2,-5]  17.01 indep anarchy   no starport

 Dainay          [ 2, 3]  10.49 indep corp

 Dainfa          [ 3,-6]  10.72 indep corp

 _Delta Pavonis  [-1,-2]  10.59 fed democracy   many political contracts

 Diso            [-3,-6]        indep democracy

 Edethex         [ 3,-3]   8.35 fed democracy

 Edlave          [ 3,-2]  15.64 indep anarchy   no starport

 Edliaze         [ 2,-2]  10.01 indep corp

 Enaness         [-5, 1]        indep communist

 Encea           [-2, 2]  10.73 indep corp

 Enquze          [ 4,-3]  10.79 indep corp

 _Epsilon Eridani[ 1, 0]  11.07 indep corp

 _Epsilon Indi   [-1,-1]  10.63 fed democracy

 Eridani, 82     [ 1,-1]   9.02 indep corp

 Essaa           [ 1,-5]  10.37 imperial

 Essethlia       [ 4,-2]        indep corp

 Essliagre       [ 2,-4]  11.33 indep anarchy   no starport

 _Eta Cassiopeia [ 0, 2]  10.09 fed base        bring your own military fuel

 Ethgrece        [ 2,-5]   9.23 indep corp

 Exbeur          [-3, 4]  10.31 fed colony      no military fuel

 Exhoed          [ 2, 4]   9.90 indep dict

 Exioce          [-1,-3]  10.54 imperial

 Exiool          [ 2,-4]  10.79 imperial

 Exlagre         [-5, 3]        indep corp

 Extila          [-4,-1]        indep feudal

 Facece          [ 0,-4]   9.59 imp base        luxury goods, medicine

                                                export, many military

                                                missions

 Famiso          [ 3,-4]   7.59 indep corp

 Faphive         [ 3,-4]   8.73 indep anarchy   no starport

 Fawaol          [ 2,-3]  15.84 imp colony

 _Fomalhaut      [-1,0 ]  14.11 fed democracy   radioactives illegal,

                                                Austin's Exchange,

                                                Shepherd's Merchandise ok,

                                                avoid O'Hanlon's Goods

                                                Emporium.

 Greayqu         [ 3,-2] 272.33 indep anarchy   no starport

 Gretiay         [ 3, 2]        indep           no population

 Groombridge 34  [ 0, 1] 135.23 indep corp

 Hobegre         [ 2,-6] 111.44 indep anarchy   no starport

 Hocancan        [ 1,-3]  14.38 indep anarchy   no starport

 Hoethcan        [ 3,-5] 614.74 indep anarchy   no starport

 Inedol          [ 3,-5]   5.81 indep anarchy   no starport

 Inena           [ 3,-6]   9.22 indep dict

 Intiol          [ 2,-4] 380.41 indep anarchy   no starport

 Ioarqu          [ 2,-3] 530    indep anarchy   no starport

 Iohoay          [ 3, 0]   8.46 indep corp      interesting contracts

 Ioioqu          [ 4,-5]  11.21 indep anarchy   no starport

 Ioliaa          [ 2,-6]  10.06 indep corp

 Ioququ          [ 3,-4]  10.93 imperial

 Iozegre         [ 3,-2] 634.68 indep anarchy   no starport

 LP 658-2        [ 2, 0]  10.14 indep anarchy

 Lacaille 8760   [-1, 0]        indep corp

 Lacaille 9352   [-1, 0]        indep corp

 Lacancan        [ 3,-6]        indep anarchy   no starport

 Laedgre         [ 2,-2]   9.14 indep anarchy

 Laedla          [-4, 1]        imp colony

 Laesscan        [ 4,-3]  74.92 indep anarchy   no starport

 Laiogre         [ 4,-4]   8.13 indep anarchy

 Lalande 21185   [ 0, 0]   9.94 indep corp

 Lalande 25372   [ 0, 0]  10.48 indep corp

 Lave            [-3,-6]        indep dict

 Liabeze         [ 2,-4]  10.77 imperial

 Liaedin         [ 4, 3]        indep disputed

 Liaququ         [ 2,-2]  10.07 indep democracy

 Luyten          [-1, 0]        indep corp

 Luyten 97-12    [ 1,-2]  11.14 indep corp

 Luyten 205-128  [-1,-2]   7.88 indep corp

 Luyten 674-15   [ 2,-1]  10.68 indep corp

 Luyten 789-6    [-1, 0]        indep corp

 Maanens, van    [ 0, 1]   9.49 indep dict      isolationistic religious

                                                enclave, permit required

 Miandze         [ 3,-5] 547.58 indep anarchy   no starport

 Micanex         [ 3,-4]  92.42 indep anarchy   no starport

 Miolgre         [ 2,-5]   8.52 imperial

 Miolze          [ 2,-3]   9.25 indep corp

 _Mizar          [ 0, 5]        indep corp      no planets

 Olaygre         [ 4,-3]   7.63 indep anarchy

 Olcanze         [ 1,-3]        imperial

 Ollaex          [ 2,-3]  11.19 indep corp      no starport

 Oltiqu          [-1, 4]  11.76 fed democracy

 _Omicron Eridani[ 2, 0]  43.38 indep corp

 Ophiuchi, 36    [-1,-1]  78.84 indep corp

 Ophiuchi, 70    [-2, 0]        indep corp

 _Phekda         [ 2, 5]  13.61 indep anarchy

 Phiagre         [ 1,-3] 241.90 indep corp

 Quexce          [-2,-2]   9.45 indep corp

 Quince          [-1,-5]        imperial

 Quphieth        [-3, 0]        indep feudal

 Ququve          [ 1, 4]        fed democracy

 _Regulus        [ 5,-1]        indep corp      no starport

 Riedquat        [-3,-6]        indep anarchy

 Ross 128        [ 0, 0]  10.71 fed colony      prison colony, permit needed,

                                                Donaldson's Warehouse ok 

 Ross 154        [-1, 0]  10.65 fed colony      single starport, often busy,

                                                Merchant Nakamichi's ok

 Ross 986        [ 2, 1]   9.96 fed democracy

 _Sigma Draconis [-1, 2]        indep corp

 _Sirius         [ 1, 0]  20.18 indep corp

 Sodaack         [ 1,-6]  12.34 indep anarchy   no starport

 Sohoa           [ 0,-4]  10.71 imperial

 _Sol            [ 0, 0]   9.47 fed capital     luxury goods export, robot

                                                import, good ship selection

                                                at Moon, radioactives

                                                illegal, Haynes Merchandise,

                                                Greenhill's Warehouse,

                                                Brennans Holdings, Honest

                                                John Coate's, Baker's

                                                Trading Company, Merchant

                                                London's Honest John Loma's

                                                ok, avoid Honest John

                                                Brennan, Merchant Gomez's,

                                                Thatcher's Merchandise,

                                                Macmillan's Goods Emporium,

                                                Shehan's Exchange

 Sophilia        [ 3,-1]  10.38 indep corp

 _Tau Ceti       [ 0, 0]  10.04 fed democracy   many military missions,

                                                Gilmour Orbiter is a good

                                                base for a federal military

                                                career

 Tiacan          [ 3,-4]   6.48 imperial        overpopulated

 Tiancan         [ 4,-5]  11.95 indep anarchy   no starport

 Tiaycan         [ 3, 0]  10.83 indep anarchy

 Tiessgre        [ 3,-3] 306.07 indep anarchy

 Tiliala         [-4,-1]        fed democracy

 Tivecan         [ 2,-3] 248.84 indep anarchy   no starport

 Urfaa           [ 5, 7]        uninhabited     station

 Urlaay          [ 3,-2]  10.82 indep corp      robot export for Zeaex

 Urquay          [ 4,-5]   6.85 indep anarchy   no starport

 Veareth         [ 0,-5]  21.02 imperial        no starport

 Vecanlia        [ 0,-5]  11.31 indep anarchy   no starport

 _Vega           [-3, 2]  10.40 fed democracy

 Vequess         [ 0,-4]   8.88 imperial

 WX Ursa Majoris [ 1, 1]        uninhabited     no planets

 Waarze          [ 4,-4] 133.73 indep anarchy

 Waayol          [ 4,-5]   9.77 fed democracy

 Waceol          [ 3,-4] 162.38 indep anarchy   no starport

 Waessol         [ 2,-3] 305.88 indep anarchy   no starport

 Wainze          [ 3,-2]   9.90 indep corp

 Waolex          [ 4,-4] 549.67 indep anarchy

 Wolf 359        [ 0, 0]  11.35 indep corp

 Wolf 630        [-2,-1] 170.00 fed democracy   radioactives illegal

 YZ Canis Minoris[ 2, 0]   8.79 indep communist permit required

 Zeaex           [ 3,-2]  10.29 indep disputed  robot import, lots of trouble 

 Zeancan         [ 2,-2]   9.68 indep anarchy

 Zeanlia         [ 2, 2]  34.99 indep corp

 Zearla          [-5, 1]        indep feudal

 Zeceand         [ 6,10]        uninhabited     starport

 Zeessze         [ 0, 3]   9.20 fed democracy

 Zeessze         [ 1,-6]   9.02 indep anarchy

 Zelada          [ 1, 4]        indep anarchy




XIII Wormhole Routes 



 In this table, sector coordinates are interpreted relative to the integer

 coordinates of a sector center(the intersection of the faintly colored

 lines). Therefore the sector [0, 0] has the corners [-0.5, 0.5], [0.5, 0.5],

 [0.5, -0.5] and [-0.5, -0.5]. Furthermore the coordinates [-0.7, 1.3] are

 located in sector [-1, 1].

 I am sure that for many jumps better jump points can be found, but this

 little navigation library already helps me a lot. It gets continuously

 updated.

_________________________________________________________________________

____From_______Coord_______To________ Coord____ _Via______Coord____


1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Delta Pavonis [-0.90,-1.70] Exaycan [80.80,-7.25]

1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Anlaso [-72.80,39.60]

1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Maanens, van [-0.05, 1.10] Anexess [19.65,80.40]

1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Exquar [-70.10,-42.05]

1o4774 [-0.65, 1.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Milaze [-54.95,-59.90]

AC+79o3888 [ 0.15, 1.80] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Aressan [80.15,19.30]

AC+79o3888 [ 0.15, 1.80] Zeanlia [ 1.60, 1.95] Inarin [8.80,-79.60]

Aandti [-0.10,-4.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Dalaar [81.60,-8.05]

Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Inarho [76.00,28.20]

Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Zetiso [81.35,10.80]

Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Ayvequ [-11.65,-85.10]

Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ceioho [80.45,15.20]

Achenar [ 0.95,-4.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vecanwa [81.45,9.90]

Ackdati [ 0.40,-5.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Esshocan [-81.25,-9.20]

Ackdati [ 0.40,-5.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeandar [-81.35,-3.80]

Acklave [ 1.80,-2.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anmiay [73.80,36.15]

Ackzece [ 1.30,-5.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Olethan [-79.50,-17.75]

Aenze [ 2.95,-5.85] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Greanda [-73.35,-35.10]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Anlave [-0.20, 2.80] Ethveur [80.55,18.60]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Aymiay [ 0.90, 4.25] Grececan [9.15,85.80]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Etheneth [-45.85,-63.65]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Migreur [-79.30,-17.40]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Exhoed [ 1.95, 4.00] Phicanve [14.25,85.00]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Oltiqu [-1.50, 3.95] Arsoa [-34.30,78.80]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Enphiphi [23.80,-74.20]

Alioth [-0.50, 4.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Andesswa [81.85,12.00]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Andwafa [-1.90, 3.05] Ackgrean [-83.75,5.30]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Arquho [73.25,32.70]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] CD-46O11540 [-1.20,-1.30] Ackena [-77.30,-31.35]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Tiioess [35.25,-72.35]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Delta Pavonis [-0.90,-1.70] Iozeti [-75.50,-35.15]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Daayho [52.40,61.65]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Miarfa [54.75,-58.30]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Lalande 25372 [-0.45,-0.25] Aydami [39.60,70.95]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Ceandphi [-65.90,-50.60]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Soedar [-55.00,-61.65]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Ophiuchi, 36 [-1.80,-1.15] Greliave [-83.25,-9.30]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Ophiuchi, 70 [-2.05, 0.00] Beurcan [79.65,-5.30]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Otiqu [-1.50, 3.95] Quceve [79.20,-9.80]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Hoenve [-61.00,-55.85]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Fasove [-18.70,-79.40]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiwaze [-9.80,-80.70]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Tiancan [ 4.35,-5.15] Anququ [-53.75,-62.70]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Soanden [70.20,39.05]

Altair [-2.00, 0.65] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Grecaneth [78.70,-11.95]

Anacka [ 3.75,-3.70] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Faqua [64.55,51.10]

Anacketh [ 0.05,-5.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Besoso [-81.45,1.85]

Andcefa [ 1.55,-3.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zephila [74.80,33.30]

Andcefa [ 1.55,-3.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Cemiho [77.90,25.95]

Andinol [ 2.90,-6.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Cemiho [77.90,25.95]

Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Greence [-80.10,-15.05]

Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]

Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ceioho [80.45,15.20]

Anlaol [ 1.40,-6.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Weethwa [81.45,10.80]

Anphiex [ 1.60,-1.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Waayan [62.65,52.65]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Ethaso [50.15,-63.85]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] BD 946 [-0.70, 1.65] Zeexce [-77.75,29.20]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Delta Pavonis [-0.90,-1.70] Anbeda [72.60,34.40]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Tiesswa [-13.15,-81.53]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Ophiuchi, 70 [-2.05, 0.00] Esseuve [-56.65,-60.85]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zecanmi [33.60,-74.40]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anayce [-37.60,72.85]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Faenex [-75.70,-34.70]

Arcturus [-1.50,-0.50] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Tiexex [-29.40,76.45]

Ayarlia [ 3.15, 0.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tiayho [12.50,-80.70]

Ayarlia [ 3.15, 0.65] Sophilia [ 3.20,-1.35] Grewalia [-78.60,-2.65]

Ayfati [ 1.35,-5.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]

Aymiay [ 0.90, 4.25] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Ayaen [73.20,-34.00]

Aymifa [ 1.55,-5.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Uracka [79.25,19.80]

Aymifa [ 1.55,-5.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Essandeth[-78.85,-20.00]

Aymigre [ 2.10,-2.85] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ackackar [72.60,38.50]

Ayurso [ 3.80,-0.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waackio [23.80,78.75]

Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Aylaeth [77.85,-22.75]

Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Arethwa [35.15,-73.40]

Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Ethiool [-62.40,53.95]

Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Hoessho [11.05,-80.85]

Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ackphied [21.60,-78.70]

Barnard [-0.75, 0.10] Wolf 359 [ 0.40,-0.15] Liagrelia[-17.80,-79.90]

Bedaho [-4.20,-1.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edphibe [-33.20,75.00]

Bedaho [-4.20,-1.50] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Beessbe [-31.65,75.40]

Behoqu [ 2.10,-4.40] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Tiliada [79.65,22.20]

Behoqu [ 2.10,-4.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]

Behoqu [ 2.10,-4.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Veingre [-75.10,-31.30]

Beta Hydri [-0.10,-1.80] Luyten 674-15 [ 2.10,-1.00] Ackdawa [-27.20,75.30]

Beta Hydri [-0.10,-1.80] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phigreay [80.60,-15.05]

Beta Hydri [-0.10,-1.80] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Sophimi [35.45,72.15]

Beta Lyrae [-146.20,85.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Vewaay [-143.40,-78.40]

Betelgeuse [58.85,13.75] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Aredcan [12.10,81.15]

Beuress [-0.35,-5.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoinqu [81.10,-12.10]

Beurqu [ 2.90,-5.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiveay [75.40,32.70]

Bewaack [-0.50,-5.15] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Liaethlia[-80.95,8.90]

CD-37o15492 [-0.30,-0.20] Lalande 21185 [ 0.35, 0.30] Labeex [50.15,-64.65]

CD-37o15492 [-0.30,-0.20] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Greurmi [-25.10,-78.10]

CD-37o15492 [-0.30,-0.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zeurce [65.40,-49.15]

CD-46o11540 [-1.20,-1.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Sodabe [63.15,-51.75]

Canayce [ 2.30,-6.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ququfa [78.50,23.85]

Canayce [ 2.30,-6.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Edacka [-77.00,-26.25]

Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Tiliada [79.65,22.20]

Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Hoyaze [10.25,77.20]

Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]

Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Beackwe [-75.20,-31.15]

Candaess [ 2.05,-4.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Veingre [-75.10,-31.30]

Caninve [ 2.50,-2.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Grewaho [-61.80,-52.70]

Ceessze [ 3.30,-3.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoessar [-63.95,-50.15]

Cemiess [-1.50,-2.50] Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Exdain [-75.80,31.70]

Cemiess [-1.50,-2.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Uressmi [70.10,-41.90]

Cetilia [ 4.15,-4.90] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Dalaqu [65.35,49.20]

Cetilia [ 4.15,-4.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tizeay [68.20,45.85]

Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Zecephi [79.15,17.50]

Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Andolda [-82.10,10.75]

Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laackho [-61.20,-54.05]

Cygni, 61 [-0.90, 1.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Philaso [45.30,68.65]

Daceess [ 2.15,-4.55] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]

Daceess [ 2.15,-4.55] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Essessze [77.90,26.10]

Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Exhoed [ 1.95, 4.00] Inayphi [-75.90,29.30]

Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Veethphi [-80.35,0.25]

Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Olcanen [81.50,14.70]

Dainay [ 1.60, 2.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edzemi [71.40,-39.85]

Dainfa [ 3.15,-6.45] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Inbeex [77.35,27.85]

Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Andzeand [75.75,-30.45]

Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Exioce [-0.60,-2.90] Bequan [78.70,17.75]

Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Luyten 205-128[-1.25,-1.80] Mizece [21.25,-80.30]

Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Quexce [-1.60,-1.80] Bedaqu [-13.40,79.20]

Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Haethda [59.90,-56.60]

Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Inphiur [61.25,-55.00]

Delta Pavonis[-0.90,-1.70] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tiinay [-75.20,32.45]

Edethex [ 3.25,-2.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tisophi [-55.35,-60.10]

Edethex [ 3.25,-2.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Begreho [-59.65,-55.30]

Edlave [ 2.95,-1.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Latifa [-46.65,-66.95]

Edlave [ 2.95,-1.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Laessay [55.85,60.35]

Encea [-1.90, 2.05] Eta Cassiopeia[ 0.00, 2.50] Inolack [-20.05,81.90]

Enquze [ 4.45,-2.80] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Candalia [102.25,128.05]

Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Urgrebe [82.60,-0.60]

Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Arethur [62.80,-53.30]

Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] YZ Canis Minoris [2.25,0.05] Olwada [16.70,80.70]

Epsilon Eridani[0.90,0.30] Zeanlia [ 1.60, 1.95] Iozebe [76.55,-30.70]

Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Quexce [-1.60,-1.80] Iophice [-60.25,55.40]

Epsilon Indi [-0.50,-0.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Uressmi [70.10,-41.90]

Eridani, 82 [ 1.10,-0.70] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Edbeeth [15.10,79.95]

Eridani, 82 [ 1.10,-0.70] Sirius [ 1.05,-0.15] Laayqu [82.40,6.85]

Essaa [ 0.95,-4.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ayliaur [81.80,7.35]

Essliagre [ 2.40,-3.75] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Greolar [70.95,40.80]

Essliagre [ 2.40,-3.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Canvefa [-71.30,-39.10]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Enaed [74.40,-31.65]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Ioioqu [ 3.85,-4.60] Ethcanphi[-70.00,-39.65]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Lalande 25372 [-0.45,-0.25] Cearce [80.40,-11.95]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Essandeth[-78.85,-20.00]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Liaququ [ 2.35,-2.40] Arayess [74.80,35.40]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Miolze [ 2.20,-2.65] Aressfa [-74.10,-32.20]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Oltiqu [-1.50, 3.95] Inenda [56.10,62.00]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Liafaze [-42.10,-67.75]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Faenol [-81.85,0.85]

Eta Cassiopeia[0.00, 2.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]

Ethgrece [ 1.95,-4.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoceed [78.90,22.80]

Exbephi [-1224.85,-852.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Aeda [-801.40,-154.55]

Exbeur [-3.40, 3.85] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Beinfa [-79.20,-26.75]

Exiool [ 1.95,-3.75] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Micanack [74.35,34.25]

Exiool [ 1.95,-3.75] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Arvephi [-74.80,-32.05]

Exiool [ 1.95,-3.75] Vega [-2.60, 1.80] Laphiess [62.40,51.35]

Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Andliafa [82.05,-3.60]

Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Phiedur [82.30,3.75]

Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Laarar [-81.35,-1.80]

Facece [ 0.30,-4.05] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Lafacan [-11.80,76.85]

Famiso [ 3.35,-4.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Entiar [70.05,43.20]

Faphiwe [ 2.50,-4.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiveay [75.40,32.70]

Fawaol [ 2.45,-2.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Betila [63.25,52.05]

Fawaol [ 2.45,-2.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vequcan [-65.65,-48.00]

Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Luyten 205-128[-1.25,-1.80] Lasocan [-82.80,3.80]

Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Lacanfa [78.20,19.80]

Fomalhaut [-1.15,-0.10] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ensoda [-21.25,79.20]

Greayqu [ 3.15,-2.35] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Enqugre [-54.85,-59.90]

Gretiay [ 3.15, 1.70] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Aexar [-32.55,75.65]

Hobegre [ 2.45,-5.55] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Qulaur [78.15,25.35]

Hocancan [ 1.50,-3.00] Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] Zedaar [-74.20,-33.8]

Hocancan [ 1.50,-3.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zephila [74.80,33.30]

Hocancan [ 1.50,-3.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Cemiho [77.90,25.95]

Hoethcan [ 3.50,-4.90] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zelati [68.95,44.10]

Hoethcan [ 3.50,-4.90] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoquso [141.65,82.45]

Inedol [ 3.20,-4.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ayquar [72.35,39.20]

Inena [ 3.40,-6.45] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zemive [-72.70,-36.60]

Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] LP 658-2 [ 2.35, 0.25] Behoar [83.55,-9.45]

Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Laandlia [75.40,31.80]

Intiol [ 1.90,-4.00] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Essessze [77.90,26.10]

Ioarqu [ 1.90,-2.80] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Arcear [-71.85,-38.15]

Ioioqu [ 3.85,-4.60] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Arioand [-62.30,-52.85]

Ioliaa [ 1.55,-6.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Exedze [81.05,12.85]

Ioququ [ 2.80,-3.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeayur [70.80,41.70]

Iozegre [ 3.15,-2.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiedda [-54.35,-60.35]

LP 658-2 [ 2.35, 0.25] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edbear [3.15,-81.60]

Lacancan [ 3.40,-6.05] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Phiveay [75.40,32.70]

Laedgre [ 2.00,-2.10] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Canveol [68.90,44.90]

Laesscan [ 3.85,-2.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anessur[-103.30,-125.95]

Laiogre [ 4.35,-4.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Begreho [-59.65,-55.30]

Lalande 21185[ 0.35, 0.30] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Miurar [81.95,-5.15]

Lalande 21185[ 0.35, 0.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Auray [73.20,37.40]

Lalande 25372[-0.45,-0.25] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Falaa [-53.60,61.90]

Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ededeth [77.60,25.90]

Liabeze [ 1.60,-4.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Ioioack [-77.80,-23.90]

Liaququ [ 2.35,-2.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Phiayand [-59.40,-55.90]

Liaququ [ 2.35,-2.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Olveve [-65.10,-48.75]

Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Laceti [76.90,28.10]

Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Beanfa [-74.70,-32.90]

Luyten 97-12 [ 0.90,-1.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Argreed [-78.65,-20.80]

Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] Maanens, van [-0.05, 1.10] Miolfa [-56.20,-58.40]

Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Edexed [-39.60,-71.35]

Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] Sophilia [ 3.20,-1.35] Enhove [-21.35,-79.35]

Luyten 674-15[ 2.10,-1.00] YZ Canis Minoris[2.25,0.05] Ceioeth [83.25,-12.10]

Miandze [ 2.60,-5.35] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Ioayess [-72.75,-37.05]

Miandze [ 2.60,-5.35] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Inbeex [77.35,27.85]

Micanex [ 2.75,-4.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zequess [71.05,40.70]

Miolgre [ 2.10,-4.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Qulaur [78.15,25.35]

Miolze [ 2.20,-2.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Arlada [70.50,42.45]

Olaygre [ 3.95,-3.50] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Inquol [62.15,53.95]

Ollaex [ 1.95,-2.95] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Urayda [74.60,34.50]

Ophiuchi, 36 [-1.80,-1.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Enbeay [-50.15,64.85]

Phekda [ 1.50, 5.00] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Esszeand [78.70,-22.10]

Phiagre [ 0.85,-2.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tisoess [-79.95,-15.35]

Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Omicron Eridani[1.50, 0.45] Mienio [47.95,-66.90]

Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Hoarti [73.40,36.45]

Ross 128 [ 0.30,-0.40] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Eddafa [82.20,-0.25]

Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zecanmi [33.60,-74.40]

Ross 154 [-1.10,-0.30] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Anayce [-37.60,72.85]

Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Waave [43.75,-68.90]

Ross 986 [ 1.85, 1.35] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hoolti [-41.80,70.50]

Sirius [ 1.05,-0.15] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Cecanlia [-25.00,-77.75]

Sodaack [ 1.30,-5.60] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waethwa [81.45,10.80]

Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Exedce [81.70,4.50]

Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Hovea [82.00,-1.65]

Sohoa [ 0.30,-3.65] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Liaandex [46.85,-70.85]

Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Sophilia [ 3.20,-1.35] Ceessess [-33.90,-74.25]

Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Edbeur [-68.05,45.40]

Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Tivecan [ 2.30,-3.45] Canedand [-67.85,-45.55]

Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Iocanwa [81.15,-9.75]

Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Waolex [ 3.60,-4.35] Arioay [65.95,48.45]

Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Wolf 630 [-2.20,-0.75] Zeliaur [31.25,-75.35]

Sol [ 0.00, 0.20] Zeancan [ 1.55,-2.00] Bemiio [-66.35,-47.60]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tiacan [ 2.85,-3.50] Ackgreho [-66.85,-46.30]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tiancan [ 4.35,-5.15] Ollaan [68.40,45.75]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tiessgre [ 2.70,-3.45] Zeayur [70.80,41.75]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Tivecan [ 2.30,-3.45] Anmiay [73.80,36.15]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Urlaay [ 3.15,-2.35] Enqugre [-54.85,-59.90]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Urquay [ 4.30,-5.10] Zesoand [-63.75,-50.40]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Veareth [ 0.00,-4.65] Arquho [81.70,-6.70]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vecanlia [ 0.00,-5.00] Arquho [81.70,-6.70]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Vequess [-0.40,-4.15] Laceti [80.65,-14.45]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waarze [ 3.85,-4.35] Enengre [-63.65,-50.70]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waayol [ 3.95,-5.15] Arlada [70.50,42.45]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waceol [ 2.75,-3.55] Canquar [70.85,41.65]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Waessol [ 1.70,-3.35] Zeceeth [77.65,27.20]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Wainze [ 3.45,-1.70] Hoexho [47.40,67.30]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeaex [ 3.35,-1.70] Quayho [48.05,66.70]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeessze [-0.30, 2.75] Phitiay [-79.20,-18.65]

Tau Ceti [ 0.30, 0.40] Zeessze [ 0.75,-5.70] Veexio [-162.35,-14.60]


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