Good morning again from The Navy Dark II:
Holloway and I feel that our Crab survey is complete. We have DSS'd every landable body in the nebula and immediate approach, checked the Pulsar system itself 3 times, visited nearly every body out here. Kept close track of all radar and FSS returns, scanned and ID'd the very few D-backs we encountered around the asteroid station. We did some basic visual surveying when encountering interesting features, typically big ray craters or especially severe canyons, but of course that's always limited to the daylight half of the objects. We checked every body with biological returns - every single time they were bark mounds. To be fair we did not visit every bio return on every body, that would have been overly tedious and likely of little value, at least so I imagine. I will be happy to be corrected on that point if other commanders know better.
After careful consideration, we've decided to plot a course south (!) out of here, as we head back towards the bubble on a long, looping path which will focus our search on the Bubble Nebula and the Veil Nebula region, two other places I can imagine looking "radiant" from close-by. We will stop at Heart and Soul on the way through to sell data and maintain equipment. The course south at the start will allow us to cross Kepler's Crest and the Formidine Rift for a while to gain some codex entries instead of just pounding through the Elysian Shore the whole time.
This will obviously take some time. I'll continue posting updates as interesting things happen, and as we achieve our waypoints on the journey around and home. Once home I intend to outfit the Krait with an FSD interdictor, as I realized that if I actually found Gan and he was in supercruise I'd be screwed. Also gonna fit a hull repair limpet controller. After that, if Gan's situation remains the same and our search remains active, we will probably head towards Eta Carinae.
Off to the black again. We're gonna miss Station X, which has been a pleasant and welcoming temporary home for the last week.
Cmdr Q Hung
Holloway and I feel that our Crab survey is complete. We have DSS'd every landable body in the nebula and immediate approach, checked the Pulsar system itself 3 times, visited nearly every body out here. Kept close track of all radar and FSS returns, scanned and ID'd the very few D-backs we encountered around the asteroid station. We did some basic visual surveying when encountering interesting features, typically big ray craters or especially severe canyons, but of course that's always limited to the daylight half of the objects. We checked every body with biological returns - every single time they were bark mounds. To be fair we did not visit every bio return on every body, that would have been overly tedious and likely of little value, at least so I imagine. I will be happy to be corrected on that point if other commanders know better.
After careful consideration, we've decided to plot a course south (!) out of here, as we head back towards the bubble on a long, looping path which will focus our search on the Bubble Nebula and the Veil Nebula region, two other places I can imagine looking "radiant" from close-by. We will stop at Heart and Soul on the way through to sell data and maintain equipment. The course south at the start will allow us to cross Kepler's Crest and the Formidine Rift for a while to gain some codex entries instead of just pounding through the Elysian Shore the whole time.
This will obviously take some time. I'll continue posting updates as interesting things happen, and as we achieve our waypoints on the journey around and home. Once home I intend to outfit the Krait with an FSD interdictor, as I realized that if I actually found Gan and he was in supercruise I'd be screwed. Also gonna fit a hull repair limpet controller. After that, if Gan's situation remains the same and our search remains active, we will probably head towards Eta Carinae.
Off to the black again. We're gonna miss Station X, which has been a pleasant and welcoming temporary home for the last week.
Cmdr Q Hung