Long Range Exploration

Bored scientists from the School of Applied Knowledge took all their remaining soon-obsolete Observator probes (over 9000!) this weekend, scattered them in a 3dimensional synthetic aperture pattern around connected-highsec, fired them all in a coordinated burst (you might have heard about that flash in space) strong enough to make them explode almost instantly.

The raw data was then processed using advanced VLBI technology, allowing to extract data on the celestials of a far-away patch of space.

An inebriated bighead of the SAK 8th division confirmed that they were originaly still looking for the lost Brother Melarius while mining ice, but the budget-grade matar slaves used to place the probes made mistakes despite having given easy to read pictureguides, which resulted in the discovery of this advanced longrange probing pattern.

It also showed that it doesnt help to buy cheap when the task is more complicated than moving icecubes from cargohold to transfer can. The new workforce for the probing will be Slaver Hounds, which are more expensive than matar, but at least they know how to follow orders and dont make a mess on the floor.

Rendered in about 400 ice miner cycles.
Used about 2.5 bottles of zydrine-spiced booze.