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Maybe something to do with the NASA D&D campaign?

My gut reaction is to say "Wormhole" might be the answer. Especially given that the name of the symbol is given as "Interstellar", possibly a reference to the movie in which a wormhole is used to traverse great distances in space.

Watch it be something Doctor Who.

Star Trek seems more likely, though.

...you know, probably. I know that Kim was wildly excited about that!

Ooh, good idea. I watched it last year, I'll keep an eye on this thread 👀

Jupiter Rising? Maybe? I feel like the NASA thing is more relevant.

That symbol looks a LOT like the NASA symbol. I'm pretty confident this has to do with NASA's D&D adventure.

I would say it still could be Interstellar, as it resembles a visualization of the slingshot technique they use in Interstellar (and a lot of space movies lol), but you're right 😌 I participate in citizen science projects and follow their Twitter, but I haven't seen NASA's game, so I don't think I can contribute much if that's the case

There's the third clue!

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Ooh, the 'bulk beings', or gravity? Murph started noticing stuff and other things are also shown later in Interstellar because of/using gravity.

I wonder if this has something to do with Polaris (the North Star also a Scifi/fantasy convention)

If this is something to do with the NASA adventure, we might be looking at "Hubble Space Telescope", or "Hubble" "globular clusters". They're used to point the players towards a location!

Or "gravitational lens".

Alright, last go-around I tried out those things in my other post, plus a couple of others from the NASA adventure - "wavelength", "gravitational lensing", "red light", and none of that was right.

I tried Gravity, Murph, the bulk beings, globular clusters, and Gravitational Lens, as well as Polaris.

Looking at the clues, could this relate to a pathfinder mission of some kind? A real world NASA mission. Think on ARTEMIS, the plan to go back to the moon which will help develop tech and procedures for future space exploration across space and time. Goddess of the hunt. Showing us the way?

Did a little more looking at the tabletop adventure. In the appendices, there're two more things that are interesting: one is a Map of Aldastron, and the other is a reference image for when the characters are supposed to use the gravitational lens to determine the way to go next:

Ooh, I was thinking maybe a Rover or something. Map sounds accurate 👀

Tried those things, didn't get anywhere. The only other thing I can think of that might be relevant from the NASA adventure is "miniature gravitational lens"; didn't have the time to enter it before rollover. Otherwise, we may be having to figure out something else.