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{{Spoiler}}<blockquote>''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Lustrum#The_Wound_that_Saves_Your_Life|Store the sigil safely|Sunless Skies}}</ref></blockquote>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.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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."''</ref> Along the way, they established the first [[Transit Relays|transit relays]],<ref name=":0" /> called Singh-Jenkins relays in their honor, to allow locomotives to jump to different parts of space.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Transit_Relay|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."''</ref> | {{Spoiler}}<blockquote>''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Lustrum#The_Wound_that_Saves_Your_Life|Store the sigil safely|Sunless Skies}}</ref></blockquote>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 High Wilderness as we know it, but its primary motive was to search for [[Correspondence]] sigils around space and learn more about the language.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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."''</ref> Along the way, they established the first [[Transit Relays|transit relays]],<ref name=":0" /> called Singh-Jenkins relays in their honor, to allow locomotives to jump to different parts of space.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Transit_Relay|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."''</ref> | ||
The expedition found their first sigil at | The expedition found their first sigil at the obelisk in the [[Reach]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Lustrum#The_Wound_that_Saves_Your_Life|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."''</ref> near which [[Polmear & Plenty's Inconceivable Circus]] now stands.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Commingling_of_Radiances|A rubbing, identified|Sunless Skies}} ''"The lost Singh-Jenkins expedition began its search for undiscovered correspondence sigils here."''</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Lustrum#Explore_Lustrum|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."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Lustrum#The_Wound_that_Saves_Your_Life|Store the sigil safely|Sunless Skies}} ''"Finding this sigil cost them two bearers, half their provisions, and a donkey."''</ref> After this, they built a relay to travel from the Reach to [[Eleutheria]],<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/An_Elaborate_But_Fragile_Artifice|Duplicate the sigil|Sunless Skies}} ''"They left the Reach for Eleutheria, constructing the transit relay that allowed passage to that midnight domain."''</ref> where another crew member departed the expedition to become a hermit,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Imagined_Contents_of_a_Span_of_Time_Between_When_an_Event_was_Supposed_to_Occur,_and_When_it_Finally_Did|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."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/A_Blind_Hermitage|A Blind Hermitage|Sunless Skies}}</ref> and one of the expedition leaders made a bargain with the mysterious [[Measurers]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/An_Elaborate_But_Fragile_Artifice|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."''</ref> They were eventually lost<ref name=":0" /> somewhere off the maps, in the [[Space Between Stars]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Lustrum#The_Wound_that_Saves_Your_Life|Store the sigil safely|Sunless Skies}} ''"It is also said that they went off the maps, into the sunless wastes where the winds wait."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Graveyard_of_Stars|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."''</ref> | ||
Professor Singh's daughter, the '''Insistent Surveyor''', still works in [[New London]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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 [...]"''</ref> and aims to continue her father's work.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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."''</ref> | Professor Singh's daughter, the '''Insistent Surveyor''', still works in [[New London]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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 [...]"''</ref> and aims to continue her father's work.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Surveyor%27s_Proposal|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."''</ref> | ||
