So I crashed...
After a couple of weeks doing my own stuff (ooc: Vacationing in Hawaii), I was rushing to catch up to the rest of expedition.
After two sessions (sunday and monday) fast-travelling through and visiting the camps for waypoints 9, 10, 11 including Sag A* and 12, only stopping for earthlikes and such, I was ready for WP 13.
I took off from the nice pointy cliff at Gagarin's Reach, diving down the canyon, wanting a last ride before travelling on.
Down there, not thinking too straight, I made an impulsive decision to swerve right to ascend along a rough looking cleft - Didn't judge the inertia right, and got thrown into the cliffside.
Hull at 38%...could have handled that, but the canopy was gone as well...So this was it.
With five minutes of life support left, somewhat stunned, I thought about dropping out in an SRV and dismissing the ship and wait it out. But that would be a real sad and lonely story, so I chose otherwise...
Back at the bubble I found myself at some starport on some planet, where I apparently stocked up the last of my supplies before taking off for the expedition. Feeling rather down and angry at myself, I immediately took off, wanting to get on my way again, after all I now had 44.000 ly to catch up instead og 12.000...
I then caught myself, stopped and returned to the starport to get restocked...and calm down.
I took a bit of time to think about if I wanted to put all that time in again to catch up.
Alternatively I could set out to recover the most interesting of my data. There was the ringed earthlike with a ringed moon, the eartlike orbiting a waterworld, the earthlike in a white dwarf system and all the other goodies.
I came to the conclusion, that I did want to catch up, and took off for real, starting to speed-travel, making a beeline for waypoint 13 since I still want to visit all camps. This time I was not stopping for anything but scooping.
Now, after two more sessions (tuesday and wednesday) and about 11.000 ly out, I am struggling to keep my motivation going. The routine of "jump - throttle down - check star - adjust accordingly - throttle up - honk - scoop if possible - jump" is getting on my nerves.
I am an explorer, I want to stop and explore, check out that ring, scan that earthlike or water world, land on that big landable, and generally see all the amazing stuff that is there.
But I am not doing that speeding like this. I am not even looking at the system maps now because I know I will not be able to resist. And if I do not, I will not have time to catch up.
And I want to catch up. To be there when history is made, enjoy the camaraderie at the camps, travel further than was possible for Erimus on his first expedition, and also actually do some prospecting...
I might soldier through this and catch up at some waypoint or other, but right now it is a struggle with tediousness and I feel myself wavering.
Wish me the luck - or rather the will and stubbornness - to finish this and I will see you out there.
. She's into North African hip hop (not cello) and doesn't play CQC. But we make it work somehow. Lol.
