Listening Posts have been largely found in systems on the frontier of the bubble. Their origin is not known for sure, but it is possible that they are deployed by the Sirius Corporation as reported 7 OCT 3302.
Locating
When a Listening Post is present in a system, it will appear on your Navigation Panel when your ship is within 1,000 Ls of it. They have been found not just around the primary star, but secondary stars, and even planets and moons deeper into the system.
Explorers are suggested to regularly check their Navigation Panel when traversing a system to perform surface scans, and report any strange signal sources, including Listening Posts.
The signal source for the Listening Post can be locked as a target to drop out of supercruise, like any other. Contrary to the Galnet article, these devices have no known defenses, and it is safe to approach them.
Triangulating the Source
Target the Listening Post and allow your ship’s scanner to download the data; you will receive it in your ship’s Messages Panel.
For the majority of Listening Posts, data always comes in groups of three identified by the same signal identifier, with the specific packet having an A, B, or C suffix appropriately.
Each packet identifies the systems where the other two Listening Posts that received the signal may be found. All three must be visited to receive the complete location data.
- Packet A contains the longitude co-ordinate of the signal source.
- Packet B contains the latitude co-ordinate of the signal source.
- Packet C contains the body designation of the signal source, e.g. “AB 1 c”.
To identify the source system, each packet gives a minimum and maximum range from that Listening Post. The recommended approach is to bookmark the three systems containing Listening Posts, and use the galaxy map to select potential systems. The three systems form a triangle in space, and the source of the signal is within that triangle. Rough estimation based on the ratios of the three ranges is good enough.
Most of the time there is only one system within the correct range of all three stars, but where multiple candidate systems exist, the body designation is sufficient to eliminate incorrect candidates. Rarely do multiple systems next to each other have a landable body with the same designation.
Newly found Listening Posts seem to break this pattern; posts have referred to only the next signal in the chain, meaning you might not have the complete message and not know it; and to posts by signal name, which have been found in the same system.
Known Listening Posts
- 5 Chi Lupi 1
- 42 n Persei A 7
- 58 Eridani A 1
- Alacarakmo 7 a Distress Calls : Diamond Bear – Related to the Buckyball Racing Club
- Alpha Centauri B 1
- Alrai Sector WZ-P B5-6 A 4
- Batar A 1
- Belispel A 3
- Bhadaba
- Bilfrost AB 2
- California Sector IH-V C2-1
- Celaeno 1
- Cerritics 2
- Chipi 1 a
- Chukchan 5 b (only visible at the ghost ship)
- Col 285 Sector AX-S a33-0
- Col 285 Sector AV-M b21-5 1
- Col 285 Sector AZ-B b15-0 A
- Col 285 Sector CI-V b18-0 A 3
- Col 285 Sector DY-F b25-0 A 3
- Col 285 Sector EC-J c10-4 ABC 1
- Col 285 Sector EC-U d3-59
- Col 285 Sector EF-A b16-1
- Col 285 Sector ER-V d2-46 2
- Col 285 Sector FG-X d1-49 2
- Col 285 Sector FW-D c12-24 A 1
- Col 285 Sector GI-H b11-6 A
- Col 285 Sector GM-V d2-72 A 7
- Col 285 Sector GN-H b11-0
- Col 285 Sector HG-F b27-0
- Col 285 Sector IZ-R b20-2 A
- Col 285 Sector JJ-F c12-10
- Col 285 Sector KD-H c11-3 A
- Col 285 Sector KL-Y b16-2 5
- Col 285 Sector KM-V b18-3 A
- Col 285 Sector KO-E b26-3 A
- Col 285 Sector LJ-P c6-17
- Col 285 Sector LO-P c6-1
- Col 285 Sector LU-M c8-6 A
- Col 285 Sector ML-Z b15-5 3
- Col 285 Sector MY-O b7-2 A
- Col 285 Sector NO-Q d5-59
- Col 285 Sector OR-F b26-2 A 1
- Col 285 Sector PH-E b14-2 5
- Col 285 Sector QA-L c9-3 1
- Col 285 Sector RV-K c9-8
- Col 285 Sector SF-N c7-2
- Col 285 Sector SR-F b13-1 2
- Col 285 Sector UB-T a33-4
- Col 285 Sector YC-F b26-9
- Col 285 Sector YF-O d6-99 A 1
- Col 359 Sector HT-H b40-2 3 b
- Col 359 Sector KB-W D2-47
- Col 359 Sector LH-J b10-5 A 1
- Col 359 Sector NH-J b10-1 A
- Col 359 Sector NZ-F b41-1 A
- Col 359 Sector QC-B c1-11
- Col 359 sector QJ-V c17-7
- Col 359 Sector QI-Z c1-11
- Col 359 Sector RN-S c4-14 1
- Col 359 Sector TV-J B11-4
- Col 359 Sector UE-G d11-8
- Col 69 Sector JI-I c10-4
- Col 359 sector ZQ-R c19-7
- Colonia 2 b
- Delphi 2 (was Pleiades Sector IR-W d1-55 2)
- EE Leonis
- Electra 3
- George Pantazis A 12
- Gliese 452.3
- Graffias
- Guarijio B 2c, B 3b and B 4a
- Halbangaay 3 A
- HD 63587
- HIP 290
- HIP 12959 4
- HIP 15787 1
- HIP 16378
- HIP 16431 1
- HIP 16753
- HIP 17044 1
- HIP 17225 A 1
- HIP 17694 A 1
- HIP 17892 1
- HIP 17892 2 A
- HIP 19072 2
- HIP 19072 4
- HIP 19847
- HIP 21559 Vanguard Navigation Beacon – obsolete message pointing to system that Vanguard jumped to next (from 3304)
- HIP 26176
- HIP 37105
- HIP 49538 1
- HIP 54181 A 3
- HIP 63386 A
- HIP 73773 A 1
- HIP 79256
- HIP 83788
- HIP 97146
- HIP 93780 3
- HIP 98328 A
- HIP 98406 2
- HIP 105408 2 b
- HR 1183
- HR 1185 A 5
- HR 1185 A 9
- HR 4535
- HR 6348 A
- HR 6514 A
- HR 7999 – a memorial
- Hun Nu A 2
- Hyades Sector EB-X d1-59 1
- Hyades Sector IR-U b3-5 1 d
- Irandan – in Acropolis Navigation Beacon – obsolete message pointing to system that Acropolis jumped to next (from 3304)
- Jotunheim 7 a
- LHS 1047 2
- LHS 1596 2
- LHS 2206 2
- LP 855-10 1
- LP 926-40 A 1
- Lupus Dark Region AF-Z B 1
- Lupus Dark Region DW-V b2-1 A
- Lupus Dark Region JY-Q b5-1 A 2
- Maia A 1
- Maia A 2
- Maidjin
- Mel 111 Sector BL-O B6-0 A
- Mel 111 Sector CL-P b5-1 4
- Merope 1
- Merope 1 b
- NGC 2632 Sector IW-W c1-0
- NLTT 55164
- Neche 2 a
- Perseus Dark Region LN-K B8-0
- Pegasi Sector TT-X a2-2 4
- Pic Tok 2
- Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4 2
- Pleiades Sector AB-W b2-4 3
- Pleiades Sector DL-Y d40 1
- Pleiades Sector GW-W c1-13 A 6
- Pleiades Sector HR-W d1-57 A 3
- Pleiades Sector HR-W d1-57 A 5
- Pleiades Sector HR-W d1-74 A 2
- Pleiades Sector HR-W d1-79 A 1
- Pleiades Sector IH-V c2-5 1 : two Listening Posts Victoria’s Song and Research Base KG 3362
- Pleiades Sector IH-V c2-16 A : two Listening Posts Relay Station PSJ 17 and Scrump Landing
- Pleiades Sector IR-W d1-55 2 (Delphi)
- Pleiades Sector KC-V c2-4 5
- Pleiades Sector KX-T B3-1 A 2
- Pleiades Sector OI-T c3-7 A 3
- Pleiades Sector PD-S b4-0 2 : two Listening Posts Comms Facility 89563 and Penal Colony BV 2259
- Pleione 6
- Plio Eurl JI-H b25-0 A 3 (incorrectly placed, should be in Wregoe VK-H b25-0)
- Pollux 1 D568 – CMDR memorial
- Praea Euq AQ-X c1-8
- Praea Euq BQ-X C1-11
- Praea Euq FV-Y c12
- Praea Euq NN-S B4-0
- Praea Euq XJ-Z c0
- Pulano 3
- Puppis Sector FB-X b1-4 3
- Quiness
- Ross 446 1
- Ruka 2
- Saffron
- Scorpii Sector IR-W c1-35 A
- Swoilz XR-W c4-31
- Swoilz TU-R b10-2
- Swoilz TZ-R b10-4
- Swoiwns YM-J b1-6 A 1
- Synuefai JI-R d5-12 6
- Synuefai ML-U b20-0 A
- Synuefai SS-Y b18-0 1 a
- Synuefai VJ-C b19-1 2 a
- Synuefe CV-P c8-11 6
- Synuefe DP-J b56-5 – 2 A
- Synuefe GB-O c9-8
- Synuefe KM-E b59-10 A
- Synuefe KN-A a82-0
- Synuefe TI-A b20-1 A
- Synuefe XE-Y C17-7 (unsolved)
- Taurus Dark Region UY-R B4-0
- Taygeta 3
- Temnet A 1
- Teorge 1 c
- Teorge 3 c
- Teorge 3 e
- Teorge 4 a
- Teorge 4 b
- Teorge 5 d
- Teorge 5 e
- Thoth 1 a (Distress Beacon)
- Tseen Foo
- Upaniklis A 5
- Varati
- Waikiri A
- Wasat A 1
- Wregoe DZ-D b39-6 (some distance from any bodies – scan the system to detect)
- Wregoe DK-R b4-1
- Wregoe IB-Z c28-1 8
- Wregoe TA-E d12-6 1
- Wregoe YB-C d12-36 A
- Wredguia DQ-R b20-0
- Wredguia EB-F d11-37 AB 5 a
- Wredguia EB-M c21-11 ABC 1 a
- Wredguia IT-J b51-2 A
- Wredguia KC-K c22-1 A
- Wredguia ML-P d5-21
- Wredguia PR-N d6-28
- Wredguia QO-K b24-0
- Wredguia RI-S d4-10
- Wredguia UX-L d7-53
- Wregoe CU-B B15-0
- Wregoe IJ-M b22-0
- Wregoe NW-X B16-0
- Wregoe RZ-W c2-1
- Wregoe PD-K d8-40
- Wregoe PV-C c26-16
- Wregoe VK-H b25-0 (Post is referenced, but incorrectly placed around Plio Eurl JI-H b25-0 A 3)
- Wregoe YY-B B15-0
- Zhao Jin