On 20 Feb 2016 at 12:27, Knapp wrote:

> I got to thinking that if you want to run a misjump salvage operation
> you should go to where the ships are jumping a lot and then around
> this area set up a bunch of satellites that watch for jump flashes in
> the wrong place, like deep space. Once you get a couple of flashes
> from 3 points then you can triangulate where the ship landed. You
> know that the flash is at least a couple of hundred years old, light
> speed, so it should be people free.

Except it's going to be *really* hard to see a jump flash from
several sectors away (as that "several hundred years" bit would
require).

> So a normal day is jumping from satellite to satellite collecting the
> data and hoping for a hit. Naturally one points flash would be much
> latter than the next points flash data if the point is not between
> the two points but over time you should get hits. A bit like looking
> for sunken ships in hopes of finding the gold. You could also amass
> all the lost ship reports from the last 1000 years or so.

Given that jumps take a week, that wouldn't be a "normal day". It'd
be a several months.

Also, again with the "several hundred years" bit, you'd need
observations from several parsecs apart to triangulate properly.
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