65,509 LY (Plus a lot more) and I'm home!

Cybindis · Oct 26, 2016

I'm home!!!!

Now I can finally share what I found.

I'm going to keep this short and sweet because otherwise you'd be sitting here with a wall of text, and nobody except the most dedicated read it, and even then if it's too much they just tune out.

Took a trip to Beagle, just got back. Found a point 65,509 from SOL, which I'm deciding between calling "Point Black" because when I was out there and looked away from the galaxy there was literally nothing; or I just thought of calling it "The Drop" something similar, but "Point Black" has been the one I'm leaning more towards.

Anyway enough of the text. Gratuitous ship shots/dashboards incoming!!!

(Not many, just the relevant ones. After all I took a trip up one outer spiral arm, got to beagle, then took a spiral arm back, needless to say I took many pictures, too many for one post)

(Your standard Beagle snap)

(Beagle from where I was)

(SOL from my system)

So there we are. I took the trip in a Conda, and I had 54LY jump with an almost empty fuel tank (I take a 64 ton reserve because I can) and I'm not surprised no-one made it to the system before I did.

I needed to carefully use FSD boosts on a manual route plot.

The jump I needed to even get into jump range of this star was 108LY, so it also shows why nobody ever went. It was the only route available and if you came there in anything other than an Anaconda with 54LY+ base then you weren't really getting there.....

So yes, if you ever go to beagle, and you have a 54+ jump range, be sure to check out the system!

There are no stars to get in the way of Beauty shots!

It's also kind of terrifying.

Overall the trip was incredibly worth it, but I'm going to cut it short, and not gush, just to keep you in suspense, and mainly because I've just been invited to an Overwatch game.

Peace out suckers!

Minoo Minou · Oct 26, 2016

Right on Commander!

Repped of course O7

Erimus Kamzel · Oct 26, 2016

Epic trip! And welcome home

Andrew Gaspurr · Oct 26, 2016

Welcome 'home' CMDR! Fantastic trip you've made and I hope you bought a house with a view at Point Black

dynamicbob · Oct 26, 2016

You should visit jaques and perhaps consider a longer term trip to look at nebula locations especialy the procedural ones

Zeeman · Oct 26, 2016

Well done on owning that one, CMDR! Always nice to have a tag way out there, doesn't it? Just make sure you get home safe to sell data - perhaps sell it at Jaques?

Once I get a 60LY lucky dice roll, I think I'll head back that way with my own Anaconda. I have a few stars I've been eyeing off that I hope to own...

Z...

Cybindis · Oct 26, 2016

dynamicbob said:
You should visit jaques and perhaps consider a longer term trip to look at nebula locations especialy the procedural ones

Jacques is my next expedition. My first was Sag A*, went from nothing to Ranger, this trip was Beagle. I have an ambitious plan to get to Jacques in something other than a straight line

Zeeman said:
Well done on owning that one, CMDR! Always nice to have a tag way out there, doesn't it? Just make sure you get home safe to sell data - perhaps sell it at Jaques?

Once I get a 60LY lucky dice roll, I think I'll head back that way with my own Anaconda. I have a few stars I've been eyeing off that I hope to own...

Z...

I watched Jacques sail 13KLY away about 2 weeks ago. I'm already back! And I don't think you'l need 60LY, I doubt anyone can get 60.

From my experience you only need about 106-109 to get past the really big jumps with a lvl 3 FSD boost. I went out with 6 and only used 2 lvl 3s and one lvl2

Karla · Oct 27, 2016

For me going beyond Beagle's Point was the best part of the entire trip. It really felt like true exploration. I too had to write down every jump and keep track of the amount of jumponium I had left. One small mistake and I would have been stranded out there. I only had an Asp. It's made me want to engineer an Anaconda for maximum jump range and go back there but I'm sure most of the distant systems will have been tagged by now. The tip of the western or eastern arm seems like good candidates for a trip though. What I realised afterwards though was that I should have taken note of distance from Saggy A. It would be great to find the most isolated spot in the entire galaxy rather than the one furthest away from Sol.

Since getting back to the bubble I've been saving up all my Yttrium and Polonium in anticipation of another trip.

Allitnil · Oct 27, 2016

Karla said:
For me going beyond Beagle's Point was the best part of the entire trip. It really felt like true exploration. I too had to write down every jump and keep track of the amount of jumponium I had left. One small mistake and I would have been stranded out there.

It was good wasn't it? The early days of jumponium were the most rewarding exploring experience I've had in ED. But now that the materials are so much easier to find, the risk element is pretty much gone unless you go out of your way to make it so. An extra hour or two farming mats and you have a comfortable surplus.

Karla said:
What I realised afterwards though was that I should have taken note of distance from Saggy A. It would be great to find the most isolated spot in the entire galaxy rather than the one furthest away from Sol.

Completely the wrong part of the galaxy for that as it's actually one of the closest parts of the outer rim to Sag A*! Angosk OM-W d1-0 is the record for furthest from Sag A* at some 45,374 LY (discovered by CMDR Turambar pre-Engineers). By comparison, Beagle Point is "only" 39,386 LY out and you can't get a huge amount further.

Cybindis · Oct 27, 2016

Karla said:
For me going beyond Beagle's Point was the best part of the entire trip. It really felt like true exploration. I too had to write down every jump and keep track of the amount of jumponium I had left. One small mistake and I would have been stranded out there. I only had an Asp. It's made me want to engineer an Anaconda for maximum jump range and go back there but I'm sure most of the distant systems will have been tagged by now. The tip of the western or eastern arm seems like good candidates for a trip though. What I realised afterwards though was that I should have taken note of distance from Saggy A. It would be great to find the most isolated spot in the entire galaxy rather than the one furthest away from Sol.

Since getting back to the bubble I've been saving up all my Yttrium and Polonium in anticipation of another trip.

That was kind of my whole thinking with the spiral arms. Any sucker can go straight on at Sag A* I decided to go the long way, and from what I saw, and what I found it was totally worth it, from the 16,000 LY long carpet of brown dwarfs, to the completely undiscovered neutron field that I subsequently hit up like a mad man, I also found so many earthlikes it was surprising, on my Sag A* trip I only found less than 10, on this one I got to ten before I even got to Beagle, and by the time I was in sight of the Bubble I'd lost count and it felt like it was getting closer to 25.

My advice to you would for most isolated spot would be to the left of beagle. I came back on the third arm from the centre because that's how I plotted my route because it took me all the way to Heart and Soul which is where I wanted to finish up, there's actually an arm on the other side that stops somewhere around a line with Jacques. The hump of this arm up in the top left of the galmap looking towards beagle would be my best bet for the most isolated, I mean everyone flies past it after getting to Beagle, I doubt there's been anyone who's gone to check, and I may find myself out there again when I feel up to my third expedition. I don't know about the most distant, although it may be. I just hope you find the mats dude.

I acquired them through much effort and a great amount of luck, which is why I only had 6. I don't get how people have enough for 50 or so.... lucky sods....

Allitnil said:
It was good wasn't it? The early days of jumponium were the most rewarding exploring experience I've had in ED. But now that the materials are so much easier to find, the risk element is pretty much gone unless you go out of your way to make it so. An extra hour or two farming mats and you have a comfortable surplus.

Completely the wrong part of the galaxy for that as it's actually one of the closest parts of the outer rim to Sag A*! Angosk OM-W d1-0 is the record for furthest from Sag A* at some 45,374 LY (discovered by CMDR Turambar pre-Engineers). By comparison, Beagle Point is "only" 39,386 LY out and you can't get a huge amount further.

I think I might know where you're talking about. I went anti-clockwise on the 2nd outermost arm, I got around 40,000 LY from SagA* at one point and there was still an outer arm to the right of me. Either that, or in the top left past beagle is my best bet for furthest from Sag A*. Also maybe bottom right where that outer arm just below the bubble ends.

And yes the struggle to find what I can actually jump to was very demanding. I saw it coming and switched off my fuel scoop so I could ride the low fuel and get my max ~55LY out of the old girl. Felt good using good tactics and knowledge of my ship to do things, something that's missing from Exploration I feel (As well as the rewards... he says after cashing in 101mil from a 2 month trip).

Also I expected the stuff I wanted to go to as already scanned.

Most of it isn't. Everything before beagle in the map is scanned.

Everything after is stuff the ASP plebs can't get to, and since people don't go to Beagle often it's untouched and probably won't be for a while.

(Jokes aside the ASP is cool, I'm just kind of glad I got sick of it early on and ground for a Splorerconda, the extra jump range was so worth it at Beagle. I mean I got to Beagle, but with the Conda I got to that point, and I'm going to speculate here, but I think that it would be the furthest anyone's got from SOL, unless there's another star I missed. And after all none of the stars I went to were taken and they were the ones that were immediately possible to get to.)