The Singh-Jenkins Expedition

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"The Clerk's notes suggest that Singh and Jenkins began their expedition at a great obelisk in the Reach. It is also said that they went off the maps, into the sunless wastes where the winds wait."[1]

The Singh-Jenkins Expedition took place in the Sunless Skies timeline after London departed the Neath for the High Wilderness. Its crew charted much of the Wilderness as we know it, but its primary motive was to search for Correspondence sigils around space and learn more about the language.[2] Along the way, they established the first transit relays,[2] called Singh-Jenkins relays in their honor, to allow locomotives to jump to different parts of space.[3]

The expedition found their first sigil at an obelisk in the Reach,[4] located near the site that would become Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus.[5] They then visited Lustrum, where they found a sigil on its Mother of Mountains; they lost two of their crew and plenty of supplies on the grueling climb.[6][7] After this, they built a relay to travel from the Reach to Eleutheria,[8] where another crew member departed the expedition to become a hermit,[9][10] and one of the expedition leaders made a bargain with the mysterious Measurers.[11] They were eventually lost[2] somewhere off the maps, in the Space Between Stars.[12][13]

Professor Singh's daughter, the Insistent Surveyor, still works in New London[14] and aims to continue her father's work.[15][16]

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  1. ↑ Store the sigil safely, Sunless Skies
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Recall what your academic associates told you about her, Sunless Skies "[...] the Singh-Jenkins expedition. It constructed the first transit relays, exploring far-flung regions in an attempt to decipher the language of the heavens. The expedition was lost, years ago."
  3. ↑ Transit Relay, Sunless Skies "A stone edifice, scintillant with sigils, is encased in a contrivance of steel and brass. This is a Singh-Jenkins relay, allowing transport (via a loophole in some cosmic mandate) to a far-flung district of heaven."
  4. ↑ Store the sigil safely, Sunless Skies "The Clerk's notes suggest that Singh and Jenkins began their expedition at a great obelisk in the Reach."
  5. ↑ A rubbing, identified, Sunless Skies "The lost Singh-Jenkins expedition began its search for undiscovered correspondence sigils here."
  6. ↑ Climb the Mother of Mountains in search of a lost sigil, Sunless Skies "Near the summit, ice-mummified and huddled together, are two corpses. The bodies have the quill-and-star emblem of the Singh-Jenkins expedition sewn onto their frozen jackets. Carved on the mountain behind them is a sigil. You copy it quickly, and make your way back down."
  7. ↑ Store the sigil safely, Sunless Skies "Finding this sigil cost them two bearers, half their provisions, and a donkey."
  8. ↑ Duplicate the sigil, Sunless Skies "They left the Reach for Eleutheria, constructing the transit relay that allowed passage to that midnight domain."
  9. ↑ Consider the meaning of the sigil, Sunless Skies "You have also heard that one member of the expedition left them before they were lost, and became one of Eleutheria's blind hermits."
  10. ↑ A Blind Hermitage, Sunless Skies
  11. ↑ Duplicate the sigil, Sunless Skies "More lurid stories suggest that one of the leaders of the expedition made a bargain with the things at Eleutheria's crossroads."
  12. ↑ Store the sigil safely, Sunless Skies "It is also said that they went off the maps, into the sunless wastes where the winds wait."
  13. ↑ Search the frosted ruins for one of the lost sigils, Sunless Skies "[...] You [...] discover a camp, frozen hard as iron. Perhaps the movement was this brittle flag [...] It is marked with the quill-and-star emblem of the Singh-Jenkins expedition."
  14. ↑ Recall what your academic associates told you about her, Sunless Skies "You know that her areas are engineering and celestial archaeology. You know that she has been pursuing the same secretive line of research for years [...]"
  15. ↑ Recall what your academic associates told you about her, Sunless Skies "And you know that her father was Professor Singh, of the Singh-Jenkins expedition."
  16. ↑ Press her for more information, Sunless Skies "She leans forward and lowers her voice. "Old paths cross the sky, worn by the passage of something ancient and vast. By building transit relays at either end of these paths, we can access them, and use them to travel to far corners of the sky. I believe I've located another such road, one that links Albion directly to Eleutheria. I want to build a new relay."
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