(note: This post may sound a bit self congratulatory. I suppose I'm pleased with the way the last year has gone!)
Well here we are again, another Christmas, another year of awesome flying fun. The plot trundles along, cool new things get added, more players join the community, and I continue racking up my ship's odometer!
Today's a special day for me, because 00:47 this morning marks one year to the minute, since I grabbed my ship, filled it with snacks and beer, and set out on my expedition into deep space.
I've had a few quiet times when I was too busy to play, but I'm pretty pleased with my journey so far. I've seen some new star types I've never seen before, seen some new stellar phenomena that weren't even a thing when I launched, and missed out on the autopilot features that would have made my life so much easier, because I'm far from the nearest station and can't get them fitted.
Across 4,241 jumps, and 245,769Ly, my ship and I have bonded pretty well. I docked up once at Gorgon Research Station (later on launch day) to make some minor tweaks to my ship before continuing outwards, but at this time of night on the 25th, it still means that I have not seen another station, another ship, another player, for over one year. I know that's probably not a record, but it's got to be up there somewhere
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And the whole time, the whole year, I've been flying with my festive Christmas cockpit lights installed, winking happilly away. They went out of season, and came back into season!
My plan was to visit every single stellar region in the galaxy. That's still my plan, but real life has introduced a few delays. I can live with that.
What I am going to do is finish circumnavigating the outer regions, and then spiral inwards to the most remote station on my path to drop off my stellar cartography data (one year's worth of data is a lot of money to be sitting on and I want to offload it!) before making some minor fitting changes to my ship, repairing my power plant, and getting straight back out into the black.
I'm gonna spiral through the galaxy, from the rim, to the center, continuing on my journey to visit every single region, and hopefully things will continue to go well.
And the payoff? I'll worry about credits when I get back. They're valueless to me out here. They don't buy a beautiful view, a strange anomaly, a safe path to a distant extremity of some region or other, or the nervous ecstasy that comes when your nav computer finally plots a successful route into the bleakest, most distant regions in the galaxy.
All things considered, it's been an awesome year so far, I hope the next twelve months will be as awesome.
Safe flying, explorers! May the next 12 months bring you interesting sights, new discoveries, and as few of those pesky white dwarves as possible!
CMDR Arvel Yael
A.Y.S. Aurora Dawn.
Well here we are again, another Christmas, another year of awesome flying fun. The plot trundles along, cool new things get added, more players join the community, and I continue racking up my ship's odometer!
Today's a special day for me, because 00:47 this morning marks one year to the minute, since I grabbed my ship, filled it with snacks and beer, and set out on my expedition into deep space.
I've had a few quiet times when I was too busy to play, but I'm pretty pleased with my journey so far. I've seen some new star types I've never seen before, seen some new stellar phenomena that weren't even a thing when I launched, and missed out on the autopilot features that would have made my life so much easier, because I'm far from the nearest station and can't get them fitted.
Across 4,241 jumps, and 245,769Ly, my ship and I have bonded pretty well. I docked up once at Gorgon Research Station (later on launch day) to make some minor tweaks to my ship before continuing outwards, but at this time of night on the 25th, it still means that I have not seen another station, another ship, another player, for over one year. I know that's probably not a record, but it's got to be up there somewhere
.And the whole time, the whole year, I've been flying with my festive Christmas cockpit lights installed, winking happilly away. They went out of season, and came back into season!
My plan was to visit every single stellar region in the galaxy. That's still my plan, but real life has introduced a few delays. I can live with that.
What I am going to do is finish circumnavigating the outer regions, and then spiral inwards to the most remote station on my path to drop off my stellar cartography data (one year's worth of data is a lot of money to be sitting on and I want to offload it!) before making some minor fitting changes to my ship, repairing my power plant, and getting straight back out into the black.
I'm gonna spiral through the galaxy, from the rim, to the center, continuing on my journey to visit every single region, and hopefully things will continue to go well.
And the payoff? I'll worry about credits when I get back. They're valueless to me out here. They don't buy a beautiful view, a strange anomaly, a safe path to a distant extremity of some region or other, or the nervous ecstasy that comes when your nav computer finally plots a successful route into the bleakest, most distant regions in the galaxy.
All things considered, it's been an awesome year so far, I hope the next twelve months will be as awesome.
Safe flying, explorers! May the next 12 months bring you interesting sights, new discoveries, and as few of those pesky white dwarves as possible!
CMDR Arvel Yael
A.Y.S. Aurora Dawn.
