My long journey to the far side of the galaxy has come to an end, for there are no more stars to jump to (except those in the Magellanic Cloud, but they'll have to wait until the intergalactic jump drive is added! 
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Setting off from the frontier worlds on December 16th, this journey took me through some of the wondrous places of the galaxy.
Along the way I passed by three large areas of unreachable sectors, two of which are larger than human colonized space. I suspect these could be the eventual home-worlds of soon-to-be-added alien civilizations. One is on the far side of the outer core, the other two are on the far fringe of the Scutum-Centaurus Arm.
My ship was badly damaged when hyperspacing into a Red Giant binary pair (the first and only time I've seen such a system). 30% hull was burned off in seconds as I exited hyperspace in the corona of one of the giants. Wear and tear took its toll.
Altogether I visited 2,765 star systems along the way and traveled around 72,000 light years in total.
On the galactic rim there is nothing but inky blackness outside your cockpit window giving you a real sense of remoteness. The Milky Way looks so distant, just a band of distant bright stars with little colour or structure. Outwards looking there are a handful of stars still further out but they're beyond the jump range of a long-ranged Asp, so may never be visited.
I chronicled this journey in a 12-series video blog which can be viewed here : Distant Suns
Accompanying maps...
Its lonely out here...
).Setting off from the frontier worlds on December 16th, this journey took me through some of the wondrous places of the galaxy.
- The Coalsack
- The Lagoon Nebula
- NGC 6357
- The Norma Arm - 3kpc Arm Expanse
- The Greae Phio Stellar Forge
- The Eor Auscs Supernova Remnant (1,200 LYs above the Galactic Core)
- Sagittarius A*
- The Phipoea Nebula
- The Dryao Chrea Stellar Remnant
- The Far 3kpc Arm
- Crossed the Scutum-Centaurus Arm
- The Outer Arm Rim
- The fringe of intergalactic space on the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy
Along the way I passed by three large areas of unreachable sectors, two of which are larger than human colonized space. I suspect these could be the eventual home-worlds of soon-to-be-added alien civilizations. One is on the far side of the outer core, the other two are on the far fringe of the Scutum-Centaurus Arm.
My ship was badly damaged when hyperspacing into a Red Giant binary pair (the first and only time I've seen such a system). 30% hull was burned off in seconds as I exited hyperspace in the corona of one of the giants. Wear and tear took its toll.
Altogether I visited 2,765 star systems along the way and traveled around 72,000 light years in total.
On the galactic rim there is nothing but inky blackness outside your cockpit window giving you a real sense of remoteness. The Milky Way looks so distant, just a band of distant bright stars with little colour or structure. Outwards looking there are a handful of stars still further out but they're beyond the jump range of a long-ranged Asp, so may never be visited.
I chronicled this journey in a 12-series video blog which can be viewed here : Distant Suns
Accompanying maps...
Its lonely out here...
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