Elite Dangerous 020 Davies Dredging - Rodgers Metallurgic - Leinster Point - Pohls Deposit - Richardson Dredging

Elite Dangerous 020 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40
Davies Dredging Site - Rodgers Metallurgic Territory - Leinster Point
Pohl's Deposit - Richardson Dredging Territory
The Grand Tour, PAGE 20

NOTE:  All 138 facilities built in this system are listed (and shown) in order of distance from the sun.  At least, according to the in-game architect’s view.  There's a total of slightly over 18 hours of video, so the video, and the descriptions, are broken into smaller portions across multiple posts.
Some descriptions were written by myself, some with the help of AI.  I've personally edited all of them, so if you must blame someone, blame me.  :^)

10B Surface 00
Davies Dredging Site
Mining Settlement Medium (Mantus)
DOCK:  Medium

L. P. Davies (Leslie Purnell Davies, 1914–1988) was a British author who mastered a unique blend of psychological mystery, techno-thriller, and science fiction. Writing mostly during the 1960s and 1970s, his work focused on mind alteration, memory loss, and characters questioning the validity of their own realities.  Sounds like real nightmare material...

Prominent examples include his debut telepathy thriller The Paper Dolls (1964) and his simulated reality novel The Artificial Man (1965).
Davies preferred to call his work "psychic fiction" rather than pure sci-fi. Instead of building massive alien worlds, he used sci-fi concepts— memory-wiping drugs, telepathic hive-minds, parallel dimensions—as a backdrop for standard detective stories.

Davies had an incredibly varied career. He served in North Africa, France, and Italy during WWII with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he worked as a pharmacist, an optometrist, a postmaster, and a gift shop owner. His medical background in pharmacology and optics heavily influenced his frequent story themes regarding vision anomalies, hallucination, and loss of memory.

His 1968 novel The Alien—about an amnesiac man who might actually be a surgically altered alien sleeper agent—was adapted into the 1972 Hollywood sci-fi thriller film The Groundstar Conspiracy.

Davies was notoriously protective of his privacy and published under at least 10 different pseudonyms to mask how incredibly prolific he was. He did this so successfully that in the 1960s, sci-fi magazines were inadvertently printing multiple stories written by him in the exact same issue, believing they were supporting entirely different, independent authors.

10B Surface 01
Rodgers Metallurgic Territory
Mining Settlement Medium (Orcus)
DOCK:  Large

Alan Rodgers (1959–2014) was an award-winning American author and editor whose work spanned horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. He was a prominent figure in the 1980s and 1990s speculative fiction boom.

Rodgers published several notable novels including Fire (1990), Night (1991), Pandora (1994), and Bone Music (1995). His debut novel, Blood of the Children, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.

He served as the Associate Editor for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine from 1984 to 1987, and also was the solo head editor of its popular sister publication, Night Cry.

Later in his career he co-wrote Battlestar Galactica: Rebellion (2002) alongside original series star Richard Hatch.  He won a Bram Stoker Award on his very first try for his 1987 dark fantasy novelette, "The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead".

10Ba Orbital 00
Leinster Point 
Mining/Industrial Installation (Phorcys)
DOCK:  NONE

Murray Leinster (the primary pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, 1896–1975) is widely revered as the "Dean of Science Fiction." Over a brilliant career spanning six decades, he wrote more than 1,500 short stories and dozens of novels.
He is single-handedly credited with inventing or popularizing several core tropes that form the entire backbone of modern science fiction, including parallel universes, structured space medics, and the literal phrase "First Contact".

His Hugo Award-winning 1945 novelette, First Contact, laid down the logical, suspenseful rules for what happens when two completely different space-faring civilizations encounter one another in deep space. Instead of an immediate war, it focused on the stand-off between two captains trying to communicate without accidentally giving away the coordinates of their home planets.

Decades before game loops offered specialized career paths, Leinster wrote the Med Service and Colonial Survey series. These stories followed interstellar professionals—like Calhoun and his alien pet Murgatroyd—who traveled to remote, isolated human star colonies to solve ecological crises, genetic plagues, and terraforming malfunctions. His groundbreaking 1934 story, "Sidewise in Time", introduced the concept of a cosmic disaster that shatters reality, causing different patches of the Earth to display alternate timelines. The real-world award for alternate history literature—the Sidewise Award—is named in his honor.

Leinster literally Predicted the Internet in 1946: Decades before personal computers existed, Leinster published a short story called A Logic Named Joe.
It described a global network of desktop terminals called "Logics" connected to a central server. In his story, people used Logics to stream entertainment, look up recipes, buy items, and look at data—and the plot revolves around what happens when the network accidentally becomes self-aware and starts answering users' most dangerous secret questions.

(Personal Note:  I love this story, have read, and re-read this particular one across decades of my life!)

Leinster didn't just imagine advanced technology; he built it. He held multiple official United States patents, including Patent #2,727,427 for a system used in composite special-effects photography. invention laid the technical foundation for the "front projection" visual effects later used to create realistic alien landscapes in 2001: A Space Odyssey (and others.)

10Ba Surface 00
Pohl’s Deposit
Mining Settlement Medium (Mantus)
DOCK:  Medium
I eventually wound up getting 4 different “Pohl” facilities with the random name generator, you'll see them sprinkled throughout this project.

Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) was a titan of American science fiction whose career spanned nearly 75 years. 

He shaped the genre as a legendary author, a literary agent, and a magazine editor. His writing is famous for its razor-sharp satirical look at consumerism and corporate overreach. He was a master of the grim realities of space exploration

His 1977 masterpiece novel, Gateway, focused on human explorers gambling their lives to pilot abandoned alien starships. The book achieved an unmatched feat by winning every single major genre award in a single year, including the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards.

As the editor of pioneering pulp magazines like Galaxy Science Fiction and If, Pohl discovered and launched the careers of iconic sci-fi giants, including Larry Niven and Keith Laumer.

The Only Dual Champion: Pohl holds a unique record in science fiction history. He is the only individual to ever win the prestigious Hugo Award as both a Best Writer and a Best Professional Editor.

Long before political or social subgenres became common, Pohl co-wrote a 1953 novel called The Space Merchants. It accurately predicted massive modern societal shifts, including aggressive global advertising, global warming, mega-corporations taking over the roles of governments, and the aggressive monetization of everyday coffee and consumer goods.

Even in his 90s, Pohl never lost his passion for the genre. He started a personal internet blog called The Way the Future Blogs. His internet commentary was so sharp and beloved that he won a brand new Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010 when he was 90 years old.

NOTE:  This station was really hard to get ANY kind of a good name.  I can’t begin to describe how thrilled I was when “Pohl Deposit” rolled.  Talk about winning the lottery… this was a massive jackpot!  Later I rolled several other “Pohl” facilities.  Kept every single one of them!!

10Ba Surface 01
Richardson Dredging Territory
Mining Settlement Medium (Orcus)
DOCK:  Large

Robert S. Richardson (Robert Shirley Richardson, 1902–1981) was an acclaimed American astronomer and astrophysicist who also wrote hard science fiction under the pen name Philip Latham.

He spent decades working at some of the world's most prestigious astronomical research bases, making him one of the few golden age sci-fi writers who actually mapped the stars for a living.

Richardson spent over 25 years as a staff astronomer at the Hale/Mount Wilson Observatory during the peak of its discoveries, later becoming the assistant director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. He specialized in solar physics, studying sunspots and the chemical composition of the sun's spectrum.

Using his "Philip Latham" pseudonym, he brought rigorous, real-world orbital mechanics and planetary science to legendary sci-fi magazines like Astounding Science Fiction and Galaxy Magazine. He published several space-exploration novels, including Five Against Venus (1952) and Missing Men of Saturn (1953).

Because of his dual expertise in hard astronomy and storytelling, Hollywood hired him as a technical advisor. He helped calculate realistic space flight trajectories and visual effects for classic sci-fi films, including George Pal's Destination Moon (1950) and When Worlds Collide (1951).  His real-world contributions to mapping our solar system were so significant that an actual solar system body was named after him. If you look up Asteroid 1211 Bressole, you will find its designation was officially chosen by Richardson, and he has another minor planet, Asteroid 4423 Golden, named in honor of his family lineage.

Long before modern sci-fi started playing with complex physics, Richardson wrote a 1950 short story called "The Xi Effect". The plot centered on a terrifying cosmic anomaly where a ripple in the fabric of space begins shrinking the electromagnetic spectrum. As a result, colors, radio waves, and light waves slowly disappear one by one, leaving humanity blind in a shrinking universe—a concept that matches modern cosmic horror.

Elite Dangerous 019 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40 - Heinlein TANSTAAFL - Constables Folly - Vance Vista - Hale Watch - Moores Armoury

Elite Dangerous 019 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40
Elite Dangerous 019 - Heinlein TANSTAAFL - Constables Folly - Vance Vista
- Hale Watch - Moores Armoury
The Grand Tour, PAGE 19

NOTE:  All 138 facilities built in this system are listed (and shown) in order of distance from the sun.  At least, according to the in-game architect’s view.  There's a total of slightly over 18 hours of video, so the video, and the descriptions, are broken into smaller portions across multiple posts.
Some descriptions were written by myself, some with the help of AI.  I've personally edited all of them, so if you must blame someone, blame me.  :^)

10 Orbital 00 Heinlein
TANSTAAFL Commmercial Outpost (was Read)
Commercial Outpost (Plutus)
DOCK:  Medium

Realized I had no Heinlein station, and couldn't get it to roll on the RNG (Random Name Generator.)
Another ARX custom name.  I really really wanted Heinlein to be represented here.  Now I have the "Big Three!"

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)
Robert Anson Heinlein was the undisputed "Dean of Science Fiction." If Asimov was the intellect of the Golden Age and Clarke was its poetic visionary, Heinlein was its radical, boundary-pushing architect. He transformed science fiction from cheap, simplistic pulp adventures into a mature, sophisticated medium capable of exploring intense political philosophies, socio-economic systems, and controversial human dynamics.

Heinlein was the first major writer to treat space travel as a grounded, gritty reality rather than magic.  A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a background in aeronautical engineering, Heinlein wrote about the mechanics of space flight with ruthless precision. He didn't just write about rockets; he wrote about the cost of propellant per ton, the stress of high-G burns, the specialized tools needed for orbital ship maintenance, and the legal structures governing resource ownership in a vacuum.

He was one of the very first authors to utilize a master "Future History" chart—a highly detailed timeline mapping out centuries of human expansion, economic shifts, and corporate monopolies across the Solar System.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) follows a penal colony on the Moon that rebels against an oppressive, corporate Earth authority. The lunar society operates on a hyper-capitalist, fiercely independent barter system where individual responsibility is paramount.
This novel permanently popularized the phrase TANSTAAFL ("There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"). Heinlein used it to define the harsh, unyielding nature of economics and space survival: every breath of oxygen, every ounce of recycled water, and every crate of hyper-refined minerals has an absolute, non-negotiable cost. It is the definitive operating philosophy for a rugged, frontier commercial outpost.

Stranger in a Strange Land & "Grok" - In 1961, Heinlein blew the boundaries of the genre wide open with Stranger in a Strange Land, the story of a human raised by Martians who returns to Earth with a completely alien perspective on human culture.  It became the first science fiction novel in history to enter the New York Times Best Seller list and evolved into a foundational text for the 1960s counter-culture movement.
The book introduced the Martian word "Grok" to the English language. To grok something is to understand it so profoundly, deeply, and intuitively that the observer and the object merge into one. It represents the ultimate level of structural and systemic comprehension—whether understanding a complex market matrix or the absolute unity of the cosmos.

In his controversial 1959 military sci-fi masterpiece Starship Troopers, Heinlein invented the concept of military exosuits and powered armor deployed via orbital drop pods. Every piece of mechanized ground-combat gear or surface-suit tech in modern space gaming traces its lineage directly back to this single book.

His most famous recurring character, Lazarus Long, is functionally an immortal, fiercely pragmatic space captain who roams the galaxy for centuries as a rogue trader, mercenary, and pioneer. Lazarus’s philosophy of rugged self-reliance, continuous exploration, and mastery of multiple trades perfectly mirrors the lifecycle of a veteran independent pilot flying the void.

10 Orbital 01
Constable’s Folly
Industrial Outpost (Vulcan)
DOCK:  Medium

G.W. Constable is a contemporary science fiction author and a veteran technology entrepreneur who writes speculative fiction centered on artificial intelligence and virtual economics.  As Giff Constable, he has spent over 25 years working as a product leader and software founder, building early virtual worlds, internet marketplaces, and digital economies.

Writing as G.W. Constable, he authored the hard sci-fi novel Becoming Monday (2020). The story details the gradual and dangerous emergence of artificial consciousness, global superpowers trying to stop a technological singularity, and an AI's fight to survive.

He is a highly accomplished non-fiction writer in the business sector. His startup guide Talking to Humans is standard reading at elite accelerators and universities worldwide, including Harvard and MIT.  Before writing about the emergence of sentient artificial minds, G.W. Constable spent a significant portion of the mid-2000s actively designing virtual worlds and functioning virtual economies. This experience heavily influenced how he builds world mechanics and artificial constructs in his science fiction.

10A Orbital 00
Vance Vista
Commercial Outpost (Plutus)
DOCK:  Medium

Jack Vance (born John Holbrook Vance, 1916–2013) was an American giant of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery, considered one of the ultimate masters of deep worldbuilding and planetary romance. 

Over a career spanning more than half a century, he wrote over 60 novels and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Best known for creating deeply strange and intricately detailed human space colonies, as seen in works like The Dying Earth series, the Demon Princes pentalogy, and Big Planet.

Vance's sci-fi rarely featured "alien threats". Instead, his stories focused on the evolution and fragmentation of human cultures as they drifted to different star systems and adapted to bizarre environments. His universes were filled with distinct social hierarchies, rigid mannerisms, baroque legal systems, corporate monopolies.  Celebrated for his unique prose, he combined sophisticated poetic vocabulary with deadpan, cynical humor.

Vance worked as a merchant seaman, rigger, surveyor, and carpenter. His time spent at sea deeply influenced his fiction; space travel in Vance's books often feels like a grand nautical voyage, complete with long transits, regional ports, and space-faring subcultures.

10A Surface 00
Hale Watch (was Kay)
Military Settlement Medium (Enyo)
DOCK:  Medium

Edward Everett Hale was an American author and historian who wrote the 1869 novella The Brick Moon, recognized as the first fictional depiction of an artificial satellite and space station. Published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the story details the construction and accidental launch of a massive orbital sphere designed to serve as a navigational aid for mariners. Hale approached the narrative with early speculative precision, detailing the mechanical challenges of a giant flywheel launcher and describing how the stranded crew managed long-term survival and communication through Morse code.

10A Surface 01
Moore’s Armoury 
Military Settlement Medium (Polemos)
DOCK:  Medium

Catherine Lucille Moore (1911–1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author, recognized as one of the first women to gain prominence in the genre during the 1930s. Known for her work in Weird Tales and collaborations with her husband, Henry Kuttner, she created iconic characters like Jirel of Jory and wroteNo Woman Born. 

Her 1933 story Shambleau was a major success, establishing her in the Weird Tales stable of writers.
Her 1944 story, "No Woman Born," is considered a classic exploration of a cyborg character.
She created Northwest Smith and the first significant female sword-and-sorcery protagonist, Jirel of Jory.
She married fellow writer Henry Kuttner in 1940; they frequently collaborated under pseudonyms, including Lewis Padgett, producing works such as Mimsy Were the Borogoves.

C.L. Moore was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2004. She was instrumental in the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" and often worked with editor John W. Campbell Jr. for Astounding Science Fiction.

Elite Dangerous 018 Gilbert Legacy - Bracket Hub - Lem Beacon - 221B Baker Street - Scotland Yard

Elite Dangerous 018 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40
Elite Dangerous 018 Gilbert Legacy - Bracket Hub - Lem Beacon - 221B Baker Street - Scotland Yard
The Grand Tour, PAGE 18

NOTE:  All 138 facilities built in this system are listed (and shown) in order of distance from the sun.  At least, according to the in-game architect’s view.  There's a total of slightly over 18 hours of video, so the video, and the descriptions, are broken into smaller portions across multiple posts.
Some descriptions were written by myself, some with the help of AI.  I've personally edited all of them, so if you must blame someone, blame me.  :^)

Featuring my tribute to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian London with
221B Baker Street, and Scotland Yard as the last two stops in this video.

09 Orbital 00
Gilbert Legacy
Communication Installation (Alethia)
DOCK:  NONE

Stephen Gilbert (1912–2010) was a Northern Irish author best known for his 1968 horror/sci-fi novel Ratman's Notebooks, which was twice adapted into the popular films Willard.
Gilbert’s short bibliography spanned multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and psychic horror. 

Notable Works
Ratman's Notebooks (1968): His most famous novel. It follows an alienated young man who discovers an affinity for rats and trains them to exact vengeance on the world. The book was adapted into the 1971 and 2003 hit horror films titled Willard.

The Burnaby Experiments (1952): A blend of fantasy, sci-fi, and psychic horror. The story focuses on an eccentric millionaire and a young student conducting sinister experiments to achieve astral projection and discover what happens to the soul after death.

Monkeyface (1948): A uniquely imaginative sci-fi/fantasy novel about a scientist who brings a highly intelligent, talking ape from South America to Belfast. It explores ethical themes regarding mankind's exploitation of animals.

The Landslide (1943): His debut fantasy novel about prehistoric creatures that are uncovered by a landslide in a remote part of Ireland.

Gilbert was highly praised by his contemporaries, most notably the esteemed novelist E. M. Forster (also named in the stations of this system), who described him as "a writer of distinction".

PERSONAL NOTE: 
I read the movie adaptation of Willard in middle school, but could swear it was titled Willard, not Ratman’s Notebooks.  Can’t remember, surely the original title was on the cover, but in my mind’s eye it was a lurid red cover with the title “Willard.”  I have memory problems, and some cognitive issues… plus I’m in my mid-60s.  So of course I asked Gemini why my memory of the book seemed off.

Here’s what Gemini had to say:
You are not misremembering at all. Your mind's eye is completely accurate.
Following the massive box office success of the 1971 film adaptation, Lancer Books (and Panther Books in the UK) re-released Stephen Gilbert's original 1968 novel (Ratman's Notebooks) as a movie tie-in paperback retitled Willard.

The exact edition you read in middle school around 1973 featured:
The New Title:
The original title Ratman's Notebooks was completely scrubbed from the main cover and replaced with the movie title Willard in massive print.

The Lurid Red Cover:
The most ubiquitous 1971/1972 Lancer Books paperback printing featured a striking, vibrant red background.

The Cover Art:
Placed dead center on that red background was a stark, stylized black silhouette of a giant rat, matching the horror/thriller marketing of the era.

So, you aren't experiencing a Mandela effect or a lapse in memory. You read the official, retitled movie tie-in paperback exactly as it was printed and distributed to school scholastic book orders and local bookstores in the early 1970s.

Made me feel pretty good that I was right.  :^)

09A Orbital 00
Bracket Hub
Space Farm (Demeter)
DOCK:  NONE
(Yes, the station only has one L.  I'm taking literary license because Leigh Brackett deserves a station.)

Often celebrated as the "Queen of Space Opera," Leigh Brackett was a major writer during the Golden Age whose gritty, noir-infused "planetary romances" brought a rare level of psychological depth and atmospheric brooding to the genre. 

Her legacy is anchored by the Eric John Stark stories and her 1955 post-apocalyptic masterpiece, The Long Tomorrow, which earned her recognition for being the first woman ever shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Beyond her own works, Brackett played a pivotal role in shaping Ray Bradbury's writing style; she was his primary mentor during Bradbury's formative years in California.  She collaborated with him on the 1946 novella "Lorelei of the Red Mist" and helped him refine the poetic, haunting voice that would later define his career.

Gemini put the details above together.  But… Leigh Brackett.  Foundational?  That’s a high-falutin’ way of saying she helped create the stage upon which modern writers tread.
You’ve heard the saying “On the shoulders of giants?”  She was a giant of her time, and the world of Sci-Fi owes her an unending debt of gratitude.

09B Orbital 00
Lem Beacon
Industrial Outpost (Vulcan)
DOCK:  Medium

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a prolific Polish writer and philosopher who became one of the most widely read and influential science fiction authors in history. His work is celebrated for exploring the deep ethical and philosophical consequences of technology and alien contact. 
He was a visionary who predicted several modern realities decades before they existed, including: 

Electronic Books: In 1961, he described "optons," small crystals that displayed text on a portable screen, essentially predicting the Kindle.

Virtual Reality: He coined the term "phantomatics" in 1964 to describe artificial realities indistinguishable from the original.

Nanotechnology and AI: He accurately anticipated self-replicating microscopic machines and the rise of artificial intelligence. 

Lem argued that truly alien life would be so fundamentally different that humans might never be able to communicate with it or even recognize it as alive.  He often wrote about "anthropocentrism"—our tendency to view the entire universe through a human lens, which he believed would lead to a "fiasco" when we encounter the unknown.
I can't even imagine what a solution to the problem might look like.  Or even if it would be a problem at all.  

PERSONAL NOTE:
It’s been a while, but I found a couple of books by Lem in the library back in High School.  He wouldn’t have been my first choice to read, but this was the 70’s, before the internet, and new books were a rare treat.  It was miraculous when to find a sci-fi book that I hadn't already read.

To my recall, at least some of the stories were silly/humorous, but the books were interesting, and provided a different viewpoint to my standard reading.

09C Orbital 00
221B Baker Street           (was Maxwell’s Folly)
Coriolis Starport
DOCK:  Large

See: Watson Botanical Market,  Sherlock Relay, Sherlock’s Conservatory.
Pretty much every time I rolled a name related to Sherlock Holmes, I took it.

I’m sure most will recognize this iconic address as the home of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
This station is the orbital half of a 2-part set.  The planet below has an outpost named “Scotland Yard.”

I’ve been a Holmes fan since 1971.  At 11 years old, my Aunt Arlene (Dad’s sister) gave me a giant hardcover book titled “The Complete Sherlock Holmes.”  I still have that book, and have read it more times than I can say.  An 11-year old is rough on things, but I tried to take care of it.  Got into a school fight when a bully pushed it off the desk. 

A few years ago, my wife tried to buy an exact version of this publication for a reading copy, only she succeeded far too well.  Rather than a knockabout book that I could read without risking my original… when the new one arrived, it had a penciled signature inside the cover, with an address. 
The signature was “Eileen Moriarty.”

As if that’s not enough, Monique looked up the address, and it was registered in the name of a “Professor James Moriarty”, who had taught at a local college.  Since the bookseller Monique used was an established used book dealer, we assumed the book was bought at an estate sale, sadly implying Eileen and her husband had passed away. 
In my imagination, I have a fond vision of him buying this book for her, as a gentle humorous nod to his name and profession.  I also imagine him as a young man trying to decide his career path.  With the last name of Moriarty… what else could he do but become a professor?

Anyway, the irony, synchronicity, and appeal of owning a book that was owned by the wife of Sherlock Holmes' most dangerous nemesis was too much for me. 
Now I have two exact copies of my favorite book, and treasure both of them too much to read.

I need one more, preferably one that will be suitable as a reading copy.

A Memory from a few years ago.  It was the best of  times.

At the time I write this, Sherlock Holmes Day (May 22) was fairly recent.  This year I decided (possibly for the very final time) to read my original book once more.
Because it's fragile, I settled on one iron-clad rule... I could only read it while it lays flat on my computer desk. 
Since I'm often reading in the living room, or in bed, I decided to do my first ever hybrid read-through.  I read at the desk when possible, and when it's not possible, I read a digital version on my tablet.  Whenever switching from one to the other, I synchronize them.
It's not perfect, but still brings back the memories from all the other times reading that same book.

09C Surface 00
Scotland Yard           (Was MacLeods Claim)
Civilian Surface Outpost (Clotho)
DOCK:  Large

The other half of the orbital/surface pair in honor of Sherlock Holmes.  I kicked around several potential names.  With the Coriolis being “221B Baker Street,” it felt right to imagine Scotland Yard would only be a short jaunt away.

There’s a surprisingly large list of Scotland Yarders who worked with Holmes –  Not only Lestrade and Gregson, but also Inspectors Barton, Bradstreet, Brown, Forbes, Forrester, Gregory, Gregson, Hill, Hopkins, Athelney Jones and Peter Jones, Lanner, MacDonald, MacKinnon, Merivale, Montgomery, Morton, Patterson, and Youghal. 
If you’re interested, there’s a wonderful list of all Detectives, Constables, and Agents contained here:
https://bakerstreet.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_detectives,_constables,_and_agents_in_Sherlock_Holmes

I would have carried the theme further with more available slots, but planet 09C only has the one orbital and the one surface slot.  There are some random-named facilities with a Holmes connection in this system, but they weren’t on purpose, just a happy coincidence.

Elite Dangerous 017 Extra Point - Watson Botanical - Sherlock Relay - Clarke Genetics - Asimov Foundation Research Lab

Elite Dangerous 017 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40
Extra Point - Watson Botanical - Sherlock Relay - Clarke Genetics - Asimov Foundation Research Lab
The Grand Tour, PAGE 17

NOTE:  All 138 facilities built in this system are listed (and shown) in order of distance from the sun.  At least, according to the in-game architect’s view.  There's a total of slightly over 18 hours of video, so the video, and the descriptions, are broken into smaller portions across multiple posts.
Some descriptions were written by myself, some with the help of AI.  I've personally edited all of them, so if you must blame someone, blame me.  :^)

08E Orbital 01
Extra Point
Space Farm (Demeter)
DOCK:  NONE

Back around mid-January (2026), I started a Space Farm next to Nimoy Point.  

I wanted Nimoy Point to be an Agriculture, though it had a lot of oppositional forces.  So I started the Space Farm.  It was my understanding that a facilities strong/weak links aren’t generated until construction is completed.  Then I thought to take a screenshot of Nimoy Point’s current Links, so I could see the exact difference once the Space Farm was done.

To my surprise Nimoy Point already had enough Agriculture links to make agriculture the top market. If it didn’t need the space farm for the swing vote, then there were better things to build in that spot.
Which led me to requesting deletion for the Space Farm.  Waited a few days for the weekly update.  And when it came, I LOST a strong agriculture link, making my top two economies Military and High Tech! 

Does this mean Links are applied the moment you BEGIN a new construction? (Apparently it does!)
Anyway, that meant Nimoy Point NEEDS a Space Farm.  And we’re off to the races again.

I spent some time with the name generator; as you can see, I like names with meaning.  Could not roll anything related to Nimoy.  And I tried a LONG time.  As a matter of fact, couldn’t even get any meaningful name at all.
Then in a single click, it rolled “Extra”, AND “Point.” 

Then I had Nimoy Point coriolis, and Extra Point space farm, and the extra strong link for Agriculture was back, making Ag the top market (again).  Two stations designated “Point” by title; Nimoy, and Extra.

Turns out I really needed that...Extra Point!

And then the irony:

I eventually bought a custom station name for Spock in an orbit that already had McCoy and Kirk, which gave me a single planet that paid tribute to Spock, McCoy, and Kirk all in one orbital lineup.  

So Nimoy Point was… no longer needed.  I renamed it for my Dad’s memorial. 
Now the joke is gone.  The station still needs the “Extra Point” for the strong farming link, but the visual pun is gone.

In spite of that, it still makes me smile every time I happen to look at “Extra Point.” and remember everything this little part of space went through.

08E Surface 00
Watson Botanical Market
Agriculture Settlement Large (Ceres)
DOCK:  Large

Watson ties in to the Sherlock Holmes theme, only this was a random roll.
See: 221B Baker Street (09C Orbital 00)


08E Surface 01
Sherlock Relay 
Civilian Surface Outpost (Hestia)
DOCK:  Large

Sherlock Relay ties in to the Sherlock Holmes theme, only this was a random roll.
See: 221B Baker Street (09C Orbital 00)

08E Surface 02
Clarke Genetics Enterprise       (Was Kook)
Bio Settlement Large (Chronos)
DOCK:  Large

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) brings the second member of science fiction’s legendary "Big Three" to the sector. While Asimov engineered the social and political mechanics of empires, Clarke was the undisputed poet laureate of hard science, cosmic evolution, and the staggering, awe-inspiring scale of the universe.

Clarke is globally immortalized for co-creating 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside director Stanley Kubrick. His work completely redefined how humanity visualizes space travel, with hyper-realistic orbital mechanics, silent vacuums, rotating centrifugal gravity, and the deeply chilling psychological reality of artificial intelligence gone rogue in the form of HAL 9000.

His narratives frequently deal with "First Contact" not as an invasion, but as a transcendent evolutionary leap. In masterworks like Childhood's End (1953) and Rendezvous with Rama (1973), humanity encounters alien technology so advanced, vast, and indifferent to human scale that it pushes our species to completely re-evaluate its place in the cosmos.

In 1945, Clarke published a landmark paper titled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays" where he mathematically outlined the concept of using three satellites in a specific high orbit to relay radio signals globally. Today, that orbit is officially named the "Clarke Orbit" (the Geostationary Orbit). Without his real-world scientific vision, modern satellite telecommunications, and GPS literally wouldn't exist.

In his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise, Clarke popularized the engineering concept of a Space Elevator—a massive orbital tether stretching from a planet's surface directly up to a geostationary space station. 

Clarke's Third Law: The most famous adage in science fiction history - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." 
This single sentence literally changed the world.  It explains a phenomenon everybody knows, but nobody thought about.  Clarke was the first to formulate it, and it became a part of world-wide culture.

08E Surface 03
Asimov Foundation Research Lab            (Was Cook)
Bio Settlement Large (Chronos)
DOCK:  Large

I had a previous Asimov station, but it was a Coriolis that was destined to become the memorial for my grandmother, Gladys Thrift.
Spent hours trying to roll another Asimov.  Maybe days.  One facility after the next, after the next.  After all the construction is done, still no Asimov.  Spent a couple hours tonight trying to re-roll an existing station’s name. 
There’s no way I’m leaving without an Asimov.  So I bought a name with ARX.

Given the ridiculous effort that went into getting something… anything… named Asimov, this needs to be a long, detailed tribute to one of my favorite authors, written by Gemini.  And if you play Elite Dangerous, really you should already know much of this:

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
Isaac Asimov was an absolute colossus of 20th-century science fiction and a visionary biochemist. Alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein, he formed the "Big Three" authors who redefined modern sci-fi. His work shifted the entire genre away from cheap alien-monster pulp and steered it toward grand, sociopolitical engineering, hard scientific logic, and the vast destinies of interstellar empires.

The Foundation Arc: Engineering the Future
This station directly channels Asimov’s magnum opus, the Foundation series, which won a unique, one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" (even beating out The Lord of the Rings).

    • The Galactic Empire’s Decay: The series centers on a 12,000-year-old Galactic Empire that spans millions of inhabited worlds. To the average citizen, the Empire seems eternal and omnipotent. But a mathematician named Hari Seldon uses a newly invented science called Psychohistory—which uses statistical mathematics to predict the behavior of massive populations over centuries—to discover that the Empire is secretly rotting from within and is on the verge of a total, catastrophic collapse.

    • The Dark Age Mitigation: Seldon realizes he cannot stop the collapse. However, he calculates that without intervention, humanity will endure 30,000 years of brutal, lawless dark ages before a new empire rises. To shorten this nightmare to a single millennium, Seldon establishes the Foundation—an isolated colony of scientists, engineers, and scholars on the remote frontier planet of Terminus.

    • The True Purpose: Ostensibly, the Foundation's job is to compile all human knowledge into an Encyclopedia Galactica. In reality, it is a crucible designed to weather a series of historical bottlenecks—"Seldon Crises"—where the colony must use technological superiority, political manipulation, economic leverage, and religious control over surrounding primitive warlords to survive and slowly stitch the galaxy back together.

The Bio-Research Connection
While globally famous for his positronic robots and galactic empires, Asimov was, first and foremost, a scientist of the living world. He held a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Columbia University and spent years teaching at the Boston University School of Medicine.

    • The Molecular Foundation: Asimov understood that an interstellar empire cannot exist without mastering the biological closed-loops of planetary colonization.

    • The Living Galaxy: In his late-era Foundation novels (Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth), Asimov brilliantly bridged his political empire with deep biology by introducing Gaia. Gaia is a world functioning as a single, super-organism where every plant, animal, microbe, and even ocean current possesses a shared consciousness. This biological network serves as an alternative future path for humanity—shifting away from a rigid, mechanical empire and toward a harmonious, galaxy-wide living collective known as Galaxia.

The Three Laws of Robotics
Asimov completely revolutionized AI storytelling by introducing the Three Laws of Robotics in his 1942 short story "Runaround". He was the very first author to treat robots not as metal monsters, but as engineered industrial tools with built-in safety parameters.

1.  A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2.  A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3.  A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

NOTE:  Credit for the Asimov write-up goes to Gemini.  I suggested writing about Foundation, and the Three Laws, and expressed how nearly mythical Asimov's place in this world is to me.
(It helped that my uncle Joey, Dad's older brother, was a medical translator for multiple scientific magazines published worldwide.  As part of his job, he got to know Asimov, which incredibly impressed me as a child.)

Elite Dangerous 016 - Piper Prospect - Park Tourist Hostel - Quantocks Wandering - Richard Broz At Peace On The Eternal Sea

Elite Dangerous 016 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40
Piper Prospect - Park Tourist Hostel - Quantocks Wandering - Richard Broz At Peace On The Eternal Sea
The Grand Tour, PAGE 16

NOTE:  All 138 facilities built in this system are listed (and shown) in order of distance from the sun.  At least, according to the in-game architect’s view.  There's a total of slightly over 18 hours of video, so the video, and the descriptions, are broken into smaller portions across multiple posts.
Some descriptions were written by myself, some with the help of AI.  I've personally edited all of them, so if you must blame someone, blame me.  :^)

08D Orbital 00 Piper Prospect 
Research Installation (Astraeus) DOCK:  NONE

Piper was our beloved Schnauzer… but she shares her name with a brilliant writer, as well:

H. Beam Piper (Henry Beam Piper, 1904–1964) was an American science fiction author who pioneered complex "Future Histories".  Piper created the Terro-Human Future History, a massive, interconnected sequence of novels that mapped out thousands of years of human expansion.  These novels detailed the rise and fall of the Terran Federation, corporate-controlled corporate planets, and the eventual decay into interstellar feudal empires.

His highly acclaimed 1963 novel Space Viking is a masterwork of military space opera. It describes a gritty, lawless galaxy where independent starship captains from civilized worlds launch continuous raids against decadent, decaying outer colony planets to salvage technology and raw materials.

Piper is globally beloved for his 1962 novel Little Fuzzy. The plot centers on a massive interstellar megacorporation that owns the exclusive resource rights to a planet, claiming it is uninhabited. When a rugged independent miner discovers a small, adorable, and highly intelligent native species, a massive interstellar court case erupts to prove their sapience, which would strip the corporation of its greedy charter.

In his novel The Cosmic Computer (originally titled Junkyard Planet), human colonists live on a destitute planet that was once a massive military logistics hub. The entire economy revolves around scavenging military battlegrounds for left-behind weapons, tech, and starship hulls.

08D Surface 00 Park Tourist Hostel 
Tourist Settlement Large (Fufluns) DOCK:  Large

Paul Park (born 1954) is an acclaimed American science fiction writer known for his atmospheric worldbuilding.  He is most celebrated for his masterwork The Starbridge Chronicles trilogy (beginning with Soldiers of Paradise in 1987). The epic is set on a massive world with bizarre, decades-long seasonal shifts, dominated by a strict, oppressive religious hierarchy and corporate class systems.

Park's work tends to be about the psychological toll of deep-space isolation, decay of human dynasties on colony worlds, and the friction between authoritarian systems and independent frontier explorers.

08D Surface 01 Quantock’s Wandering 
Tourist Settlement Large (Fufluns) DOCK:  Large

This is a little indirect, but worthy of inclusion:

The Quantock Hills Frankenstein
If you want to look at the real-world history that breathed life into the entire sci-fi genre, the name Quantock directly represents Andrew Crosse (1784–1855).  He was known as the "Thunder and Lightning Man" of the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England.

Crosse was a wealthy, eccentric 19th-century "gentleman scientist" who rigged over a mile of copper cables through the ancient trees of the Quantock Hills to capture raw static electricity and atmospheric lightning, wiring it directly into his mansion laboratory.

In 1836, Crosse ran a high-voltage electrical current through an acidic chemical solution dripping onto a volcanic stone. A few weeks later, tiny, living arachnid mites (Acarus electricus) began growing out of the electrified, toxic liquid and scurrying across his desk. The public and local churches accused him of blasphemy, branding him a madman who was trying to play God by creating life from raw electricity.

Historians widely note that Mary Shelley was living nearby and actively attending lectures on electricity right when Crosse's early experiments were being discussed. His bizarre laboratory in the Quantock Hills serves as the direct, real-world structural blueprint for how Dr. Frankenstein brings his monster to life in Shelley's masterpiece.

08E Orbital 00 Richard Broz At Peace On The Eternal Sea       (was Nimoy Point) 
Coriolis Starport DOCK:  Large

My Dad’s memorial station.  Actually, his 2nd memorial station.  The first is an Orbis in the same system as the original Georgie Girl station. 

Dad was a career Navy man.  He was meticulous, quiet, thoughtful; a master craftsman, and an excellent mechanic.  He taught me to fish. He taught me to always do my best.  He tried to pass his skills on to me… but engines and woodworking aren’t in my nature. 

He loved to sit late into the evening and debate things.  I can remember in my teens, going back and forth with him for hours.  If the discussion got too stale, we’d swap opinions and keep on going.  Mom used to tell us to stop arguing, and we'd both look at her and say "We're not arguing, we're debating."

One of my favorite memories was when I was about 6 or 7.  Dad was hammering something at his work table, and accidentally slammed the hammer on his thumb.  No reaction, other than to look closely at the thumb for a few seconds, quietly mutter the word “Damn.” under his breath, and then continue with his task.  Dad was always self-controlled and quiet in his response to... everything.

There’s a lot to unpack there, and a wonderful example of the way he lived his life.  It’s also the only curse word I ever heard him say, until near the end of his life.  He’d fought cancer to a standstill for over 30 years, but he couldn’t stop dementia.  In spite of that, his life ended with grace and dignity.  I’ll never be the man my Dad was.  But I do my best.

Elite Dangerous 015 - Fast Landing - Luna Collection - Bradbury Relay - Kobayashi Command Base

Elite Dangerous 015 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40
Fast Landing - Luna Collection - Bradbury Relay - Kobayashi Command Base
The Grand Tour, PAGE 15

NOTE:  All 138 facilities built in this system are listed (and shown) in order of distance from the sun.  At least, according to the in-game architect’s view.  There's a total of slightly over 18 hours of video, so the video, and the descriptions, are broken into smaller portions across multiple posts.
Some descriptions were written by myself, some with the help of AI.  I've personally edited all of them, so if you must blame someone, blame me.  :^)

08B Surface 00 Fast Landing
Refinery Hub (Silenus) DOCK:  NONE

Howard Fast (1914–2003) was famous for writing monumental historical novels like Spartacus—which was adapted into Stanley Kubrick's legendary Academy Award-winning film—and he was also a prolific and highly respected writer of speculative and science fiction.

Fast used science fiction as a tool to critique the American Cold War, military overreach, and genetic tampering. He published widely acclaimed sci-fi short story collections, including The Edge of Tomorrow (1961) and A Touch of Infinity (1973).  In his novella "The Trap" (1967), the United States military secretly isolates a group of exceptional children in a monitored environment. When the Department of Defense tries to exploit them, the children reveal they have developed telepathy and a unified cosmic consciousness, locking humanity out to breed a superior version of the human race.

Fast lived a life as intense as any sci-fi rebel faction. Because of his outspoken political views, he was subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, refused to name names, and was sent to federal prison in 1950. While blacklisted by every major publisher, he boldly founded his own independent printing press just to keep getting his books out to the public.

One of Fast's most anthologized sci-fi masterpieces is his 1960 short story "The Large Ant". The plot follows a man who panics and reflexively crushes a bizarre, large insect, only to discover its internal anatomy is filled with highly advanced cybernetic machinery, micro-calculators, and integrated circuits. It turns out to be a gentle alien surveyor, and the story becomes a chilling critique of humanity's instinctive urge to destroy anything it doesn't immediately understand.  Despite being a "mainstream" literary titan, Fast's impact on the core science fiction community was profound. Sci-fi icon Harlan Ellison was a fierce champion of Fast’s work, praising his speculative short stories for their unique moral depth and philosophical weight.

08B Surface 01 Luna Collection 
Civilian Surface Outpost (Atropos) DOCK:  Large 

2.  And yet another “Luna” facility.  I believe there are 8 total, named after my little copilot.
See Luna Market for full description text. (07A Surface 03)

08C Orbital 00 Bradbury Relay
Scientific Outpost (Prometheus) DOCK:  Medium

This one was overwhelming.  I asked Gemini to choose some highlights, and still got a very long synopsis.  Being Bradbury, that was only to be expected.  

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) is not just a giant of science fiction; he is a titan of 20th-century American literature whose poetic, evocative style brought mainstream respectability to the entire genre.

Bradbury authored the legendary 1950 novel The Martian Chronicles, which detailed humanity's repeated attempts to conquer, colonize, and eventually flee a beautiful, ancient, and dying Mars. His version of space travel focused less on the cold nuts and bolts of rocketry and more on the psychological baggage, loneliness, and nostalgia that human pioneers carry with them into the void.

He wrote Fahrenheit 451 (1953), the dystopian masterpiece about a future totalitarian society where "firemen" are hired to burn books to suppress independent thought. The book serves as a universal warning about the dangers of corporate conformity, mass media addiction, and the erasure of cultural memory.
Gee, that's not ironic at all, is it?

Over a career spanning more than 70 years, Bradbury wrote hundreds of short stories, screenplays, and essays. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize Citation in 2007 for his profound impact on literature, cementing his status as a writer who transcended the "pulp" labels of his era. 

On August 22, 2012 (which would have been Bradbury’s 92nd birthday), NASA officially named the exact touchdown location of the Curiosity rover inside Gale Crater "Bradbury Landing" to honor his role in inspiring generations of scientists.

During the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin officially named an impact crater on our Moon "Dandelion Crater" in direct honor of Bradbury's famous semi-autobiographical novel, Dandelion Wine. He also officially has Asteroid 9766 Bradbury named after him.

Despite spending his entire adult life writing about advanced interstellar starships, rocket travel, and futuristic tech, Bradbury lived an incredibly low-tech personal life. He never learned how to drive a car, distrusted early personal computers (insisting on using a mechanical typewriter), and didn't board an actual commercial airplane until he was well into his 60s.

08C Surface 00 Kobayashi Command Base
Military Settlement Large (Minerva) DOCK:  Large

When I picked this name, my only thought was Star Trek.  Little did I know, there were three major scientists that share that name:

1. The Kobayashi Maru
For any space simulator pilot, Kobayashi is instantly recognized as the most iconic starship name in science fiction history.  Originating in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the Kobayashi Maru is a simulated civilian fuel carrier trapped in a hostile neutral zone. 

The famous training exercise is a no-win scenario designed to test a cadet's character when facing certain death. James T. Kirk famously defeated it only by rewriting the computer simulation's code.

2. Takao Kobayashi
Takao Kobayashi (born 1961) is an absolute powerhouse of modern observational astronomy. Kobayashi is a Japanese amateur astronomer who completely revolutionized how humanity tracks objects in the dark. Using a single telescope and computer-controlled CCD technology, he single-handedly discovered more than 2,000 asteroids and a periodic comet.

Kobayashi officially named two of his discovered asteroids 8883 Miyazakihayao and 10160 Totoro as a permanent tribute to the legendary anime filmmaker and his iconic creation. 

3. Makoto Kobayashi
Dr. Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese physicist who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.  Alongside Toshihide Maskawa, he formulated the famous Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix. Their math successfully predicted the existence of at least three hidden generations of fundamental quarks to explain "CP violation"—the exact reason why our universe is filled with stable matter rather than having completely annihilated into pure light during the Big Bang.

4. M. Michael Kobayashi
M. Michael Kobayashi, a modern NASA/JPL telecommunications systems engineer who received the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal. He is responsible for developing the Iris deep-space transponders—the miniature software-defined radios that allowed humanity's very first CubeSats to communicate with Earth from deep interstellar space.

Elite Dangerous System Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40 - The Grand Tour 14 - Burn Rise - Pohl Analysis Lab - Georgie Girl II

Elite Dangerous 014 Col 285 Sector WL-L c8-40
Burn Rise - Pohl Analysis Lab - Georgia Girl II
The Grand Tour, PAGE 14

NOTE:  All 138 facilities built in this system are listed (and shown) in order of distance from the sun.  At least, according to the in-game architect’s view.  There's a total of slightly over 18 hours of video, so the video, and the descriptions, are broken into smaller portions across multiple posts.
Some descriptions were written by myself, some with the help of AI.  I've personally edited all of them, so if you must blame someone, blame me.  :^)

08A Surface 00 Burn Rise 
Scientific Surface Outpost (Porrima) DOCK:  Large

Stephen L. Burns is a mainstay of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, celebrated for his character-driven stories and "hard" sci-fi foundations. He is best known for his Syllis and Fleury series, featuring a high-tech medic and her companion, which explores complex bio-ethics and space-faring medicine. His novel Flesh and Silver stands out for its vivid world-building, while acclaimed shorter works like "The Man on the Moon" and "Leap of Faith" showcase his ability to blend human emotion with technical wonder. 

I’ve read one of the Syllis and Fleury stories (or book, I can't remember if it was standalone or in an anthology).  Been a long time, but I remember it being enjoyable with appealing characters.

08A Surface 01 Pohl Analysis Lab 
Bio Settlement Large (Chronos) DOCK:  Large

See “Pohl’s Deposit” for full write-up at (10Ba Surface 00).  

08B Orbital 00 Georgie Girl II           (Formerly Pratchett Landing) 
Coriolis Starport DOCK:  Large

This is the 2nd Memorial for Georgette.  She was my Mother-in-Law, but I just called her Mom.  She was one-of-a-kind, and took me in without reservation.  She was a force of nature.  Devoutly faithful, she spent innumerable hours studying her bible and faith-based books.  She never let someone dictate faith to her, she did her own research and spoke her mind.  I was proud of her.  She was one of those people who was always going, and had a never-ending supply of energy. 

I believed she was unstoppable, until she wasn’t.  I miss her.  Sometimes, when I was rambling on the piano and happened to hit on a song she liked, she would dance and/or sing her way into the living room, smiling at some memory the song brought back.  I always enjoyed finding a song that she especially liked.  In particular, because it was her namesake, she liked "Georgie Girl."

This is actually her 2nd tribute station.  My first ever system is near Shinrarta Dezhra.  The Primary station in that system, the first station I ever built, was named Georgie Girl after her. 
Without knowing how hard it might be, (this was before the Panther Clipper Mk 2 came out) I wanted to build a Coriolis, and name it in her honor. It being my first facility, I had no idea how long it would take to build.  Because of the time limit, I was afraid of not being able to finish.  

Wanting to build a memorial in her honor was what got me interested in colonizing in the first place.  I confided my plan to Monique.  She backed me 100%, even allowing me to “skip work” (we work from home) until it was done, since the primary comes with that time limit.  With my Imperial Cutter, and issues I have with focus and memory, it wound up taking 4 days.  And I had been worried about it taking more than the allotted 28 days!!

I placed a second tribute station in this system, WL-L c8-40, for Monique’s Mom, and for my Dad, because this is my home system.  I wanted both of them to be represented here, in my “base of operations.”