Security Post Walvis
Security Post Walvis is underground bunker on Yela in the Stanton system. It sits at 52.1 degrees noerdlich latitude and 57.8 degrees longitude.
Day and night on Yela
A full day on Yela lasts 1 hour 49 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 Security Post Walvis.
Approach
The nearest quantum point on Yela is ArcCorp Mining Area 157. From there it is 117.2 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 118.0 km on a fixed compass heading of 290.0 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 8 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 Security Post Walvis 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 | 283.62 km |
| OM-2 | 728.31 km |
| OM-3 | 396.51 km |
| OM-4 | 673.54 km |
| OM-5 | 460.54 km |
| OM-6 | 631.49 km |
Mining on Yela
Ship mining on Yela turns up: Quartz, Agricium, Taranite, Silicon, Quantanium. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.