HDRSO Franz
HDRSO Franz is underground bunker on Hurston in the Stanton system. It sits at 54.2 degrees noerdlich latitude and 140.6 degrees longitude, 1.7 km above ground.
Day and night on Hurston
A full day on Hurston lasts 2 hours 29 minutes, and roughly half of that is daylight. In Stanton and Pyro every body lies in one plane with no axial tilt — so there are no seasons, and the daylight phase is the same length everywhere. The directory below works out in real time when the sun is up at HDRSO Franz.
Approach
The nearest quantum point on Hurston is HDMS-Stanhope. From there it is 272.8 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 273.9 km on a fixed compass heading of 295.9 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 18 minutes of flight time. The great circle is shorter but needs constant correction; on the rhumb line you hold one heading.
Orbital markers
Distances from HDRSO Franz to the six orbital markers. It works the other way round too: read those numbers off your HUD and you can work out exactly where you are.
| OM-1 | 856.87 km |
| OM-2 | 2324.12 km |
| OM-3 | 1413.95 km |
| OM-4 | 2033.85 km |
| OM-5 | 2090.71 km |
| OM-6 | 1328.42 km |
Mining on Hurston
Ship mining on Hurston turns up: Aluminium, Tin, Ouratite, Quantanium. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.