7,500 Light year hop planned

Kazinar

Kazinar
I think I might have something in the Raxxla search so I'm planning a little trip out to a system that I'm keeping secret for now, it's a 7,500 LY trip and I'm planning on taking my Imperial Clipper as it looks SHINY [smile]

I've engineered the FSD up to 25.07 LY and I'm planning on removing some stuff to get a bit more range out of it although I'm sorely tempted to add more fuel tanks.......

Anyway, it'll be the furthest I've gone to date, my previous trip of just 2,000 LY really isn't that far compared to some people's trips :)

It should be fun and I'm planning some sort of journal for it.
 

Kazinar

Kazinar
Cheers all. I'll keep a journal in here. I might see if I can persuade an engineer to beef up the FSD range a bit more and I've a couple of missions to finish up before I sent off so I'm thinking of leaving Khamendu, my home system in a week or two.

I might turn this into a Captains log type of thing if anyone would like to have a little log of my adventures?
 

IcyScope

IcyScope
I did a long distance trip (32KLY) in my clipper, My jump range I believe was in the low 30's. I would say do yourself a favor and put a small fuel tank in the clipper, it has such a small default tank I was happy for the extra fuel on a few occasions where my mind drifted and I forgot to scoop. Good luck on your exploration anyhow.
 

Kazinar

Kazinar
I think I'm going to move over to the Python, it has one more slot than the Imperial Clipper so I can take Shields, cargo space (for limpets), repair limpet controller, AFMS, a couple of SRV's and a few weapons - just in case.

This is roughly what I'm looking at https://coriolis.io/outfit/python/0...4v24f37f5C60k2i2f.Iw18eQ==.Aw18eQ==?bn=Athena

I'll swap out the engineered modules from the clipper tonight and see what range the Python gives me. If I can get 30ish LY then I'll be happy. With the clipper I'm looking at 341 jumps to get to my destination from my "home" system of Khamendu. The two 32T fuel tanks means about 13 jumps between refuels plus the round trip should get me up to Elite in Exploration.
 
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Manticore

Manticore
The important word in the OP is "plan". Anyone who plays this game and makes plans as part of that is bound to succeed.

Safe travels Cmdr and o7!
 

Kazinar

Kazinar
Day one

Well, that could have gone better. True it could have gone a whole lot worse but lessons were learnt.

I left the bubble early this morning and carried on heading in the general direction of the Formadine rift, all the activity around the Pleiades is making me nervous and I've already had two run ins with thargoids. I'm happy to be where ever they are not although I did take the xeno scanner with me because you never know.

Rather foolishly, I took my attention away from a fuel scooping session and ended up taking some heat damage, fortunately the AFMS fixed up everything nicely except for the AFMS itself. That's at 97% so I don't expect there to be any issues and I did make a side trip to pick up some materials to restock the AFMS. The new material options and upgrades to the route planning certainly makes exploration that bit easier!

As I write this, the Athena is settled on a nice rock world with .3G - call me old fashioned but I prefer to sleep when there is some gravity, it makes certain things a lot easier. Also, the ability to check for materials comes in handy as I've managed to pick up a few extra FSD boosts that I'll be keeping in reserve - just in case.

It's odd to think that from here on every light year further out is a bit more of a personal record. I estimate another 4 or so days until I'm at my destination and then I'll see what's there.

Current stats:

Distance to home: 2,108.33 LY or 138 Jumps.
Distance to my destination: 5,451,96 LY - about 349 jumps.
SRV status - Both SRV's fully operational.
SRV Refuels - 59
All modules except the AFMS at 100%
AFMS at 97%

All in all, Athena is in very good shape and good to push on.
 

ITZC0ATL

ITZC0ATL
7500 light years is a good distance for a first exploration trip, you'll get a feel for covering distances and you'll probably have some good outfitting ideas too afterwards. My first trip was about the same length, although it was unfortunately a one-way trip. Best of luck out in the black!
 

Kazinar

Kazinar
I've done a few short trips - 2,000 LY here and there in random directions, this is my first "serious" exploration trip.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
Yeah, 7.5 kly sounds like a pretty good distance for a first serious trip.

My first distance-exploration trip was about 6 kly, and it felt like an enormous distance at the time. I did the entire trip in two evenings, scanning all of the stars, and quite a few planets along the way. It was exciting, nerve-wracking, and at times dull too. By the end of it, I was in a pretty good rhythm, and felt like I could tackle longer distances if I wanted to.

EDIT: Also, I too like to stop for the night while landed on a planet. Not always, but pretty frequently. It just feels better than leaving myself drifting in space for the night. :)
 
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Kazinar

Kazinar
Day 2

An early start today meant that I've cleared the orio-persean gap, during this transit I couldn't believe how many brown dwarfs were there. I think I may have been the first to discovered about 50 of them! I even did a few side trips to M stars just because I was getting uncomfortable with the fuel level! I'm really glad I've got two 32t tanks.

Entering the wayfarers graveyard has not only been a milestone but it's also lived up to it's name, stopping off on a planet to mine vanadium I came across a crashed Vulture with two occupied escape pods. What are the chances of finding survivors out here? I wonder if this is a ship that either hitched a ride with someone else or misjumped. I'm tempted to take one of the survivors out of hypersleep and find out but I know it could be a bad idea, then again, maybe I shouldn't have watched the 20th century movie "Alien" last night.

Right now I'm settled on another .3G world, Athena is in great shape with no refuelling mishaps and all systems except the AFMS at 100%, AFMS itself is at 97%. I did take the chance for a quick outside hull survey and noticed that the imperial decals are starting to show some wear and tear due to dust erosion but the hull itself is in perfect shape.

Both SRV's are also in good shape although one is down to 4% fuel, I've got plenty of refuels so I see no issues here at all.

Distance to home: 4,142.91 LY or 254 Jumps.
Distance to my destination: 3,415.11 LY - about 198 jumps.

The plan for tomorrow is for about 50 jumps, I swear that too much witchspace does something odd to the human body, I might even take a "day off" just before I arrive.

I've been checking some rumours and I think that there is an asteroid base in the rift so I think I'm going to seek that out as well. All in all, everything is in good shape to press on and crossing the halfway point has been encouraging.

My flight log has been sent to EDSM for anyone who wants to see the route I'm taking -> https://www.edsm.net/en/user/flight-logs/id/11953/cmdr/Kazinar
 
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Kazinar

Kazinar
Day 3

Yes, I got over confident. I slipped into a pattern, jump, scan, jump, scan, jump, scan, ohh interesting world!, jump, scan and so on.

I took my eye off the ball near a brown dwarf, the emergency systems kicked me out of frameshift before I became a part of it, once the FSD cooled down I was able to frameshift away but that cost me some damage and once at a comfortable distance I dropped out of frameshift, fired up the AFMS and conducted repairs which cost me a quarter of the AFMS capacity. I was also able to test out a hull repair limpet which worked like a charm. I'm grateful I waited for those to be available.

On the plus side, I found my first ammonia world today, some water worlds but not an Earth like yet. They do seem to be quite rare.

I did manage just over 50 jumps but now I'm down on a rocky world and will do a few integrity checks, all seems ok but I want to be sure. I'm a long way out.

Athena is reporting that she is is good shape, everything is at 100%, the AFMS is at 97% and the power plant at 99%. SRV 1 needed a refuel but I've still plenty of materials.

Distance to go - 148 jumps or 2,443.95 LY.
Distance from home - 5,113.32 LY or 316 Jumps.
 

Chrystoph

Chrystoph
A couple of things to point out.

First, if I am not mistaken, you are flying in travel mode, which is to say, maximum distance per hop. If you want to discover things like ELWs, you will improve your success rate by going Economical jumps, but this will also greatly extend the number of jumps you need to make because you are going "door to door" instead of "highway".

Next, including Proto stars in your plot will give you more options distance wise, but they are not fueling stars and are less likely, not impossible but less likely to produce WW/AW/ELW planets. If you wet the Star Class filter to use everything above (not including) M, and everything below Proto (also not including) and use Apply Filter, you increase your chances of finding "interesting" systems by eliminating the statistically less likely systems. This will somewhat increase your jumps, although not hugely.
 

Kazinar

Kazinar
Chrystoph said:
A couple of things to point out.

First, if I am not mistaken, you are flying in travel mode, which is to say, maximum distance per hop
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Correct, I'm planning on doing something of a survey when I get to my destination, right now this is more about getting there in one piece :)

Chrystoph said:
Next, including Proto stars in your plot will give you more options distance wise, but they are not fueling stars and are less likely, not impossible but less likely to produce WW/AW/ELW planets. If you wet the Star Class filter to use everything above (not including) M, and everything below Proto (also not including) and use Apply Filter, you increase your chances of finding "interesting" systems by eliminating the statistically less likely systems. This will somewhat increase your jumps, although not hugely.
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Yeah I know but leaving all the stars selected made it easier to cross the gap between the arms of the galaxy and I'm taking the odd diversion to occasionally interesting stars.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
Kazinar said:
Yes, I got over confident. I slipped into a pattern, jump, scan, jump, scan, jump, scan, ohh interesting world!, jump, scan and so on.
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Hehe! Yes, indeed, "travel complacency" is a very real thing. :)

Personally I prefer to filter out the brown dwarfs. They have a surprisingly large exclusion zone, relative to their radius, and of course are not scoopable. They're also far less likely to have anything interesting orbiting them. So I consider them to be bad news, all around.

It sounds like your expedition is going quite well though, overall. Excellent. :) It's not really a bad thing to have the occasional mistake to keep you on your toes, especially if you get to test out your repair equipment. ;)
 
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