Starcom: Nexus

Starcom: Nexus

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Solving the "Crashed Surveyor" anomaly
By Captain828
Explains how to solve the mistery of the Crashed Surveyor anomaly/map.
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Solving the anomaly
At some point in your adventures, you will find an anomaly that has an image attached to it:


If we take a closer look at it, we can identify some unique features:
  1. Some kind of pink/purple nebula
  2. What appears to be a binary system (2 stars)
  3. A system in the center of the image which seems to have a cursor pointing to it
  4. Several other systems
  5. What seems to be Aurebesh writing in the top left? :) (aka Galactic Basic Standard alphabet)

By reading the description of the anomaly, we can quickly piece together that this is some kind of map to a "Progent Primer", the center being the place we need to find.

The first thing we will try to do is to look at our navmap for something that matches the pattern described by the image... yet there is nothing that matches up at first glance, which is why you are probably reading this guide in the first place :)

The trick is to find the two defining features separately and use them as a reference to match the rest: so the pinkish nebula and the binary system.

There is a single nebula on our navmap that matches the image:


As for the binary system, while there a few of them on the map, there is a single one that is close enough to the nebula that would be a match:


With those two found, we can zoom out a bit and see that the rest of the systems that are on the original image are starting to match up as well, just that the angle is different... so if we actually rotate the image clockwise:


the pattern is actually matching up!

So all that is left is to find the missing system, which we can do by calculating the distance between the X axis and Y axis of our pattern to the missing system (each map square being 1 unit tall in X and Y axis), thus placing the location at roughly -4X and -1Y relative to the system with a Nexus gate on it:

Exploring this system, we can find, as mentioned by the surveyor's log, an outer planetoid with a Progent artifact.

You will need 10 Neutronium to access it in return for 25 Adamantine and 250 research.
Credits
Special thanks to Exam for writing the final location of this puzzle map in the forums which I actually was not able to find by myself.

This also led me to try and find an explanation on how to get there, which made me write this guide :)
22 Comments
Captain828  [author] 17 Mar, 2022 @ 11:57am 
I've updated the guide for the latest version.

The screenshots might not be perfectly accurate but not that much has changed in terms of where the anomaly can be found.
Mia Ishata 16 Feb, 2020 @ 5:37am 
It was on the same locatiopn for me as described in this guide. Got Adamantine and Research however
Morticia Mellian 1 Feb, 2020 @ 9:31am 
As of 1.0.10, unable to open the thing on the planet. That and last bit of message fragments is like the only quest left I can do and complete that I can see, and I do not have the neutronium option. :/
한쿡외쿡인 17 Jan, 2020 @ 11:53am 
took me 10 neutronium, gave me 250 research and 25 adamantine.
Sereomontis 16 Dec, 2019 @ 4:17pm 
The location and method of obtaining the shield has indeed changed, however I believe the location is now randomized.
If this is the case it would obviously be difficult to provide a guide for finding it.
Donnicton 16 Dec, 2019 @ 4:03am 
I believe they changed where you learn the shield tech at this point. I now receive it from the people in the shielded dome at 10.6 x 0.37
Cao Cao qp 26 Oct, 2019 @ 9:26am 
I just got the game, I see the locations but never got Crashed Surveyor mission or log.
Recurring Nightmare 30 Jul, 2019 @ 5:51pm 
I got some information from the planet about some etched plates, but no shield tech, I also got the surveyor prompt before visiting the planet. Is this not working again?
Captain828  [author] 9 Jun, 2019 @ 1:16pm 
Things seem to have changed for 0.14 so this guide is now outdated.

I will update it when I get a chance.
[HF]Solanaceae 8 Jun, 2019 @ 5:41pm 
yo so 0.14 just came out a couple days ago and i just tried to get shield tech again and it didnt give me shield tech all it gave me was some etched plates and thats it, i thought it gave you the shield tech immediately when your engineer on the ship or whoever says something about putting a beam through an engine core or whatever?