Elite Explorers (Null)

I'm home! Never again (in an unengineered ship)... Originally shared by Iain McC After an epic 60,000+ light year trip to Sag A* and back (via Colonia on the outbound trip), that started in July last year, I've finally brought my namesake Commander back to Conway City. Ian Norton was on hand for the celebratory fireworks, and I'm quite gratified that the docking computer didn't try to kill me in the final kilometre to the landing pad. I think I'm going to retire my unnamed, unengineered Anaconda and leave it docked at Conway (unrepaired) as a memento of the trip. It's certainly done some space mileage! I haven't cashed in any data as yet, but Sag A* is certainly going to be setting a record for the highest single payout in my exploration stats... 628kCr! I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if I make Explorer Elite on this trip, but it was quite a star trek! Next time I'll do it with a Tier 5 FSD mod, though!!

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)...

Mercury 7 Expedition will come to an end in 2 days but i'm still WAY behind the main fleet and plugging along until I finish the entire expedition so I may be another month until I return CMDR Senan Torr to Colonia.

Wheeeeeee! Originally shared by Iain McC I made it, finally. And I remembered to pack the fireworks. I left the bubble before the Engineers update and have been gradually chipping away the light years in little bursts, that is until yesterday, when I used the bank holiday Monday to blast nearly 7kly to leave me with just 950ly left to go tonight. Seeing the view from the centre of the galaxy has been one of my biggest goals since I backed the Kickstarter, and I'm very glad I stuck with it. It's so pretty out here. Now I just need to get home in one piece, cash in my exploration data to make Pioneer, and then engineer the heck out of my 'conda so I can take the scenic route to Beagle Point. One goal down, but still plenty to go...

Pink space?

Currently 1100 ly vertically down from LTT 4961. Stars getting a bit thinner, I have another 900 plotted.

Found an ammonia world & 3 water worlds in the Cancri sector. Too bad I can't tag them!