Orbital Probe Cannon
The Nomai satellite over Giant's Deep that fires a probe at the start of every loop in search of the Eye.
The Orbital Probe Cannon is a large Nomai satellite in orbit around Giant's Deep in Outer Wilds, built to fire a probe out of the system at great speed. At the start of every loop it fires in a random direction and breaks apart, and its wreckage stays in orbit around the planet.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Nomai satellite
- Orbit
- Giant's Deep
- Modules
- Control Module
- Launch Module
- Probe Tracking Module
- Linked to
- Ash Twin Project
- Fires
- At the start of every loop
Facts from the source article.
Background
It has three modules around the cannon itself, reached from a central hub with airlocks: the Control Module, the only one still intact and joined to the hub, the Launch Module and the Probe Tracking Module. Each probe's data goes to the Ash Twin Project, which sends it and the record of every earlier launch back to the start of the loop, so the cannon can try millions of directions, each time building on what it already knows. Mallow and Avens set the power above the recommended level to find the Eye faster, which is why the satellite shatters when it fires; the Probe Tracking Module ended up in the core of Giant's Deep. The cannon's design resembles the Nomai gravity cannons, which seem to have come first.
The probe itself can be chased down with a very long burn of the ship's engines.
Source
Text adapted from Orbital Probe Cannon on the Outer Wilds Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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