Trying to derive a ship's location

[vburg91]

I am going through the XML savefile and Im trying to locate a ship. I can figure out its x:y:z easy enough, but I don't see the string that would indicate its cluster or sector. Any insight? Sorry if its a noob question!

[Duncaroos]

Ships are stored within a Zone of a Sector of a Cluster.

Clusters (Systems) are under:

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"universe" -> "component" -> "connections"

Sectors are under each Cluster (within the "connections" above):

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(Cluster connection) -> "component" -> "connections"

Zones are under each Sector (within the "connections" above):

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(Sector connection) -> "component" -> "connections"

Ships are, lastly, under a specific Zone (within "connections" above):

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(Zone connection) -> "component" -> "connections"

Not all zones have nice names that designate the current cluster/sector, so you have to go up to the Sector connection.

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(Ship Connection) -> "connections" -> "component" -> (Zone Connection) -> "connections" -> "component" -> (Sector Connection)

Unfortunately ships don't have a reference parameter to just store it for debug purposes (likely due to too much memory required to store all ship sector/zone info)