I saw you briefly on the map the other night... im still at Heart nebular, making my way back from the outer rim... it made me feel that I have a very long way to go.....
Micheal May It is a very long way but even though I've been flying towards Sag A for over 3 weeks now it doesn't seem that bad. Always something interesting to see. I've only had one mishap so i'm doing good. Maybe well all meet up there at some point! I intend to linger there a bit and investigate other interesting areas as well.
Micheal May sorry to hear that. Lost a friend recently myself so I can relate to the effects it has on everything. sorry for your loss. I've not made any progress yesterday or today. just too many competing priorities. I'm only one Jump from the location listed above.
If I average 30 jumps an hour for the rest of the way back to the Bubble, I reckon it's going to take me another 15 hours of flight time to make it back to cash in my explorer data. Oh my... Originally shared by Iain McC Today's exploration statistics (to accompany the pretty pictures): Hours flown: 12 Nebulae visited: 2 (IOWHAIL & FROARKS) Systems surveyed: 200-ish? Distance from Great Annihilator: 8.4kly Distance from Sag A*: 11.2kly Distance from Colonia: 10.6kly Distance from Shinrarta Dezhra: 14.7kly Minimum number of jumps back to the Bubble: 455 Heat sinks deployed: 1 (after being dumped out of hyperspace into the canyon between an A-type and an F-type binary pair) Notable bodies surveyed: 25 Neutron stars (15 first discoveries) 18 Costners (17 first discoveries) 7 Black holes (1 first discovery) 6 O-type supergiants (2 first discoveries) 6 Gas Giants with Water-Based Life (6 first discoveries) 1 Earth-Like World (1 first discovery) 1 MS-type star (1 first discovery)...
I didn't make it far today. Only 200 ly. As I had planned I visited all the class O stars in NGC 6357. In the third of these systems I came across the first black hole. I ended up spending most of 2.5h visiting those systems. In total I have found 5 black holes and a neutron star. And an ELW in a system between the ones I targeted. So while I didn't make much progress towards Sagittarius A*, I did make a bit of progress towards Elite Explorer.
The various hints and rumours about the Formadine Rift have been playing on my mind. I'm strongly tempted to take my anaconda out for a research mission. I still have a 2nd account so it would make more sense to take that one instead of my main one but that account has virtually no money so maybe someone could drop me a few creds of cargo. So.. this is me suggesting we run a parallel exploration trip with some lightly armed surface capable ships. Who is in?
"Are we there yet ??"....
ReplyDeleteMicheal May lol, we're getting there. Long trip! Not at all boring though. Especially with the occasional reminder that space is a dangerous place!
ReplyDeleteI saw you briefly on the map the other night... im still at Heart nebular, making my way back from the outer rim... it made me feel that I have a very long way to go.....
ReplyDeleteMicheal May It is a very long way but even though I've been flying towards Sag A for over 3 weeks now it doesn't seem that bad. Always something interesting to see. I've only had one mishap so i'm doing good. Maybe well all meet up there at some point! I intend to linger there a bit and investigate other interesting areas as well.
ReplyDeleteHad a death in the family on Sunday, so not much playing time this week. Hopefully, will make up for lost time this weekend....
ReplyDeleteMicheal May sorry to hear that. Lost a friend recently myself so I can relate to the effects it has on everything. sorry for your loss. I've not made any progress yesterday or today. just too many competing priorities. I'm only one Jump from the location listed above.
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