After a full weekend of racing, results are starting to show up on the Double Action Jackson scoreboard!
Our first contestant, CMDR Beth Johanson, who suffered an untimely collision with a race official manning the docking slot. Luckily that doesn't disqualify you in Buckyballing, and she restarted mere minutes later, unfazed by her brush with death. It's possible the adrenaline injections in the RemLok suit aided her concentration as well, as she turned in a dashing time of 17:27 while flying
Lord Thunderhead III, well below the advertised time of 20 minutes, and making 15 seem within reach. Come back soon Beth, we hope to get you some competition!
In Open Unlimited, CMDR Jak was the first to brave the Open Unlimited course, in a stylish red Dolphin,
Enigma Limo. While he overfilled the tank at some point during the race (and really, who among us hasn't?), his extra jump didn't hurt his standings at all, with a time of 25:20 placing him at the top of the leaderboard for the first day.
CMDR Stern Winter followed shortly after in his well-known Asp Explorer,
Polar Express. Unfortunately he left the Planetary Approach Suite equipped , which led to a very unfortunate "TOO FAST FOR ORBITAL CRUISE" warning from his "helpful" nav computer outside O'Neill Settlement. Better luck next time CMDR, I'm always forgetting my PAS, leaving it off when I'm trying to visit engineers, or on while racing past planets. With just a minute between him and first place, it could make all the difference, and, what's this? Oh, a new entry has just been received from CMDR Winter, too late for tonight's update, but it'll be on the board first thing tomorrow. CMDR Jak better watch his back!
Last, but not at all least, CMDR Edelgard von Rhein swung the Federal Corvette
Pierre Aronnax around the course with admirable aplomb. It's not often we see racing ships above 1,000 tones, but CMDR Edelgard enjoys cruising in the big ones, . Appropriate to name is after Prof Pierre, although I think the fictional
Nautilus still has a higher displacement (1507 tons, which I'm pretending is similar since water ships confuse me). In a class of her own, she finished in just over an hour, after being plagued by strange witchspace issues. Well done CMDR! I certainly didn't expect to see any Federal vessels on this race, but love being surprised!
See you tomorrow racers, the competition has only just begun! o7
And may the purple wave roll ever in your favor.