Around the Galaxy in 80 days 2 - The voyage of Gloria Coelis

Maia Posidana · Feb 27, 2017

Restarted and continued from: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-the-galaxy-in-80-days-(with-any-luck)/page31

A new beginning:

DAY 1

Well, it's been a little over a year since I left on my mad quest with the Distant Worlds Expedition, and some 8 months or so since I returned. Prometheus has served me well, and is now enjoying a well earned retirement. In that time, I have managed to obtain and outfit an Anaconda. Hell, I even upgraded from a reprogrammed sexbot to a real live person on board. And thus, I hired a 22 year old mostly harmless fighter pilot, Maile Lehner, to accompany me on this next long duration voyage into the deep.

I have given this beautiful ship the name Gloria Coelis (pronounced Chay - Lees), which is old Earth Latin for Glory of Heaven...or in this case Glory of the Heavens. It seems to suit her. I have spent the last couple of months fitting and refitting her, and doing short range trips to test her out. Now, I have her how I want her; and she is completely stocked for a voyage of as much as a year, if we so choose.

https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/ana.../9e3/f4lPHAwMInrCDAzCCxgYGP7/Z4ADAPUb7REmAAAA

And thus, at 0234 last night, Gloria Coelis lifted off from pad 10 at Jameson Memorial, turned her nose toward the core, and jumped away into the deep. My intention is to ultimately reattempt my galactic circumnavigation, but first, there are some sights in the core regions that I wish to see, and some that I wish to see again. This, therefore, will be my public log of this epic journey across and around the galaxy.

Our first day of flight brought us out about 2000 Light years from the bubble. No discoveries to make this close to home, but some great sights. I had Maile deploy and get some pictures of the ship for posterity.

Towards the end of the days flight, we came upon a system with a neutron star. I took the opportunity to make a little extra distance. It was a little dicey in the jet, but we made it through. I had heard a rumor of a method to get a double-tap on the supercharge, but either the information was in error, or I failed to perform the maneuver correctly. I will attempt it again at some point.

At a little about 2000 LY and a good days flight out, I found a good HMC moon to put down on for the night. Maile and I enjoyed our first real meal together aboard ship, as a crew, and toasted the completion of the first day. I must say, flying the Anaconda is something akin to flying an asteroid, but the amenities are fantastic compared to the cramped quarters aboard Prometheus.

Well, that about wraps it up for now. Time to begin flight ops for day 2. Really looking forward to getting back to deep range exploration. I'll be in touch.

Till then
Fly safe, Fly smart
Maia

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**OOC WARNING**

What ever happened to Spoiler wrappers?

ForeverN00b · Feb 27, 2017

I'm glad you are restarting your voyage, I always wonder what happened.

Unfortunately, none of the pics are showing up on my end, just the generic imgur of a bad link. :/ I have been having problems with imgur too, I wonder what is going on.

iain666 · Feb 27, 2017

It looks like you're using the IMGUR tag rather than IMG but your links are to individual pictures.

For a picture just use IMG, the IMGUR tag is to embed an album - for that you just wrap the last bit of the album URL (a 5 or 6 character bit of gobbledegook) in the IMGUR tag.

Raiko · Feb 27, 2017

It's great that you're returning to your epic voyage Maia. I'm looking forward to following your adventures again - and to seeing your lonely green marker out on the edge of the galaxy. Fly safe Commander. o7

I don't think that spoiler tags have gone anywhere.

Maia Posidana · Feb 28, 2017

**OOC warning**

Ok, image linking and spoiler wrapping fixed. Thank you guys

ForeverN00b · Feb 28, 2017

Glad you fixed the links! Yeah, the Annie handles like an office building in supercruise, but it is a good ship nonetheless. Any engi mods on the FSD (or anything else)?

SMcA · Feb 28, 2017

Good to see you back.

Maia Posidana · Mar 5, 2017

Day 8

In space no one can hear you hurl

Well, this voyage is off to an auspicious start...
For the record, there is something on that moon I put down on at the end of the first day. I took an eva to check out some odd readings in the landing gear sensors, and made the mistake of forgoing the standard decontamination procedures when I came back in. It must have been when I took my helmet off in the airlock. All I know is that when I woke up the next morning I was deathly ill. To make matters worse, Maile attempted to tend to me personally instead of the putting me in the infirmary,and fell sick herself.

The next few days were a blur of misery. Why neither of us actually died, Im not altogether sure, but the evidence is now abundantly clear, that whatever it was, it isn't completely out of our systems yet. Earlier this morning, I THOUGHT I felt well enough to continue our voyage. Apparently I was wrong.

I began the day by getting us as far away from that cursed moon as possible. Along the way, I came across my first tagged system in over 2000LY...Shoutout to CMDR Deadzone67. I was still feeling a little shaky but still managed to put Glory down on a pair of lovely moons while I did some scouting for Polonium, Arsenic and volcanism (sadly, I have yet to EVER discover any on my own

).

Unfortunately, while landing on a fourth moon, I appear to have blacked out temporarily. By the time I came to my senses, it was too late. The impact knocked out Glory's shields and took our structural integrity down to about 40%. Fortunately neither of us were hurt too bad (bruised ego's more than anything).

Some small measure of luck was with us however, as Hillary Depot was only 375LY almost directly above us. Thus it was that a few short jumps later we made port at the first long-term colony in the Colonia highway.

A couple of hours of repair (and several hundred thousand credits) later, we were back on our way. We set course again at a downward angle, to bring us well below the plane of the galaxy. 680Ly later We came across a system with some beautiful sights. Including a close orbiting binary pair of planets, both of which showed signs of iron magma volcanism. I decided to put her down to try and find some again...

Sadly, on the second planet, a gorgeous ringed HMC (and high gravity as well unfortunately) I suffered a second blackout. The impact was rather worse than the first one. Gloria is down to 32% structure, I have broken my ankle, and Maile has broken her wrist and recieved a rather nasty concussion in the process. The limp back to Hillary Depot was beyond unpleasant. I was forced to give them the unpleasant news that there MAY be a contagion on board. While they did not deny me docking, they have quarantined hangar 12 and informed me that I must effect any further repairs on my own (can't say that I blame them). Hopefully, this will pass in another day or two.

Fly safe, Fly smart (swear to god, don't you DARE say it!)
Maia

ForeverN00b · Mar 5, 2017

Maia Posidana · Mar 6, 2017

Day - 8

This time, without the oops...

Well, I must say; the crew at Hillary depot is definitely professional. Within a couple of hours of our arrival, medical personel arrived from the bubble. They came aboard Glory in their Haz suits, and tested Maile and myself. In the end, it was determined that we had suffered from a serious flu that we had likely picked up at Jameson, and NOT from some alien bug. The quarantine was lifted, repairs were affected, we were given proper medication and treatment for our injuries, and managed to get Gloria Coelis back out into the stars in under 18 hours. We even managed to get a couple of hours of sleep in.

I opted to retrace my path back to the world in the AUCOKS sector, where we had crashed the second time while looking for signs of volcanism. We spent some time there searching the planet, but found no sign of what we were looking for. In the end, I chose to investigate the beauty of the rings, including an asteroid landing...NOT an easy feat in an Anaconda. There are days when I miss Prometheus.

Having not found what we came here seeking, we continued down along our original route plot. About 6 jumps in, I came across this curiously small Ammonia World. This thing was TINY for what it was, A radius of only 2100Km. At last, we came to the end of the plot and decided to set Gloria down for the night (still feeling a touch weak for flying, but NOT necessarily for driving). In this system I came across a proper spud world, with a radius of only 431KM. Scanners showed that it had silicate magma volcanism. I landed us in the deepest canyon I could find, and spent the nest couple of hours (and about 100KM) following it in one of Glory's SRV's. Sadly, I still came up empty. I really wish I could figure out how to locate these things. Well, in the meantime, as per doctors orders, its time for us to eat and get some rest.

Until next time
Fly safe, Fly smart
Maia

Maia Posidana · Sep 16, 2017

(resurrection post)

Voyage of the Gloria Coelis – 6 months later – The rumors of my demise... (part 1)

Day – 198

First off, allow me to apologize for not updating this in the last 6 months. Much has happened in that time. I can tell you that much of that time has been spent in various forms of illness; physical, space mad, and solitude induced depression. It is my goal here to rectify that. I have much to catch up on, so please bear with me a while.

When last I left this log, Glory had recently left Hillary Terminal after recovering from an unknown illness that virtually incapacitated myself and my shipmate Maile. About two days back out, we started showing symptoms again, and were able to finally discover the source...Our food stores had been contaminated (probably at the factory). Thus, we were forced to return to Hillary Terminal once again, only to find out that neither they, nor any other station on the Colonia Highway had the quantity (or quality) of food supplies that I required, that they were able to release to a single vessel. As such, we were forced to make a mad dash all the way to Jaques Station to resupply.

It took some ering (read as bribing) with the Dock and Customs officials at Jaques, but we were finally able to offload our contaminated food stores for proper disposal and destruction (last thing I wanted was to dump it in the shipping lanes and risk somebody finding it).

We launched Glory from Jaques 2 days later feeling much better, and with a freshly patched paint job, some new outfits, a brand new nameplate, and a hold full of fresh food stores. They even had my favorite, NewLave Firesteak Paste (Maile can't stand it, she has a delicate stomach apparently).

From Colonia we set Glory on a nearly photon straight course for Sagittarius A*, arriving some 3 weeks later. Being there, staring at its gaping black maw, brought back memories of being part of the seed of a 101 ship formation there a little over a year earlier. With Sagittarius A* being as popular of a tourist attraction as it has become, I was surprised to find not a single other ship in system. In fact, the last ship that had even appeared on my scanners had been just a few jumps out of Colonia. It was beginning to get lonely.

We decided to head for the roof of the galaxy and see if, with our upgraded engines and some jump mats, if we could set an altitude record. But before starting the climb, I made a short jump over to STUEMEAE KM-W C1-342 and set down for a while at Armstrong's Landing waypoint from Distant Worlds Expedition.

We spent a few hours touring around the site; I remembered fondly the amazing times that were had there, and the horror of the crash which I had suffered which almost ended DWE for me. I decided then and there, that I would hit at least a few of the old waypoints on my journey. The next of which, the extreme cliffs and canyons of Gagarin's Reach at Altum Sagittarii (NYUENA JS-B D342) was right along my climb to the roof.

The climb to the roof was as amazing as it had been the first time. It is a humbling experience looking down and seeing the whole of the disc of the galaxy spread out beneath you. In all, we spent 3 days up on the roof looking for higher and higher points. In the end, we found ourselves in system SYROOMEOU OS-U F2-12 with no way to go higher. I sat there for hours pouring over the star maps, and there simply were NO stars further up than our position. We had actually reached the very edge of the intergalactic void. Sadly, we were not the first to reach that point. (If I remember correctly, it was Alitnil whos name was tagged on the star). I spent a week or so angling Glory down toward another of the old waypoints (Waypoint 13 if I remember correctly); not in any hurry, just taking time to see the sights and smell the stardust.

A bit further on, still in the PHIPEOA sector, we came upon an astonishing sight. We discovered an ice planet with a remarkable north pole. The northern polar region bore a clustered mountain range that was 80 Km tall. It was so high, that from near the summit you could see the curvature of the planet. Equally as impressive, surrounding the base of this mountain range were narrow canyons that were as much as 32 Km DEEP. I made the mistake of taking Glory down into one of these canyons to see just how deep they got. At the bottom, it was so dark and narrow that the ships lights were useless. I was so intensely focused on not hitting the walls that I didn't hear Maile come back onto the bridge, so when she made a sound, it startled me...and I accidentally hit the boost button. When the smoke and the sound of rending metal cleared, and I'd managed to silence all the alarms, and seal off the now breached area of the ship, we found ourselves firmly wedged into the crevasse, more than 30 Km. Down. It took more than 2 weeks with the both of us working outside on the hull, in suits, with hand tools, to get us free enough to back out of that wedge; and another week to reseal and repair the damaged rooms and get us space-worthy again. Thank goodness for shields, we had only lost about 6% of our structural integrity, not the whole ship.

It was about this point that illness and depression began to set in. With all the time that we had spend outside, the cold in the depths of the crevasses had been more than our suits heaters could keep up with. We had come in every day nearly frozen to death. I guess it was just a matter of time before that caught up with us. Maile was the first to come down sick just two days after we'd left that system; I followed a day later. All Glory's med bay could do was to prescribe rest, fluids, and chicken soup (I cannot begin to describe the horror of reconstituted chicken soup. I think whoever created it did not actually know what a chicken was...or soup for that matter). It took about 4 days, but the illness passed. Sadly, it gave way to despair. I saw my quest as an impossible folly, and felt as though I would never see civilization again. I'm not sure how long I spent locked in my cabin (with Maile getting angrier at me every day) but it had to have been at least a week, if not two. Maile finally managed to hack her way through my security codes and into my cabin and basically slapped me into some semblance of my former self. And just like that, we were off again.

We made a beeline for Beagle Point, stopping occasionally to scan worthy looking targets. Glory's flight path was taking us toward a promising looking pair of nebula (the very last between us and the edge of the galaxy), but about 3 jumps shy of the higher one, we hit a wall. The nebula was just inside the boarder of the BLEIA5 sector, and it turned out that the entire sector was somehow closed off. As we were completely unable to navlock onto anything within that sector, I was left with little choice but to skirt around the edge looking for a clear path, all the while scanning and listening for any signals coming from within the locked off region. We detected nothing. I don't know about you, but any civilization that has the technology to not only block all navigation within an entire SECTOR, but to also give off no other sign of their existance, scares the hell out of me. As soon as we rounded that sector enough to find clear space, we got away from that sector...fast.

Our new course had us angling down and away toward the second nebula, about 1500 LY distant. Along the way, we came across a system with a second, and even a third asteroid belt, all within about 800LS of the parent star. I dropped Glory out of supercruise inside ove of the belts to find a set of very large and gorgeous ice asteroids. As I had not done so for quite a while, I set Gloria Coelis down upon one of them, and we made a day of it.

We continued our slow trek across the Perseus Stem and the Boreas region, always keeping a fixed line on Beagle Point. Then disaster struck again. One night, while crossing Styx, I pulled Glory to a relative stop to refuel in the corona of a star...and apparently dozed off. I woke to alarms blaring, and electrical fires throughout the ship. The flight deck was full of smoke. I immediately activated my Remlok and began trying to salvage the situation. The heat index was at 190 and climbing. I tried launching a heatsink, only to find that both launchers had already melted off, along with all their charges. I immediately dropped from supercruise and shut off everything that collected or generated heat. As I watched the heat index slowly drop, I found that Maile was busy fighting fires in the lower decks. Sadly, as we were still in the corona, I could not simply open the hatches and vent the ship to space...yet. I aligned out and when the heat index finally fell low enough, went back into supercruise, and got the hell away from that star. It was entirely too long before I was able to vent the ship and get the fires out. When all was said and done, We had lost another 21% of our structural integrity...and that was the good news. Every system on the ship had been cooked, and not a single one of them were above 40%, most were closer to 30, and some were gone entirely. It took weeks in my SRV trying to collect the materials to fix the AFMU's, and to refill them enough times to get Gloria Coelis space-worthy again.

It took time, but Glory finally made it across the Styx divide. Some days later however, as we were crossing the far Scutum-Centaurus arm and approaching the Galactic Aphelion, we hit another wall. At TRUECHOAE HV-F B40-0 we found our way blocked again by the PRAEI5 sector, which like the BLEIA5 sector, was mysteriously unreachable by our navigation computers. Once again we picked our way around this sector (or in this case, over), listening the whole way to the profound silence emanating from that sector. It took 2 days, but we managed to slowly pick a route around that sector, and continued on across the arm. A day later we found ourselves setting out across The Abyss, where stellar density began to grow a little thin. Even with thinning stars, we were still able to make very nearly a beeline across to the fading end of the Sagittarius-Carina Arm, and finally, after nearly 5 months, to Beagle Point. I set Glory down at Darwins Legacy on the 5^th of July, 3303 at 2254. After such a long journey, we spent the next couple of days celebrating by getting blue blind paralytic drunk. When I was sober enough to speak, I would regale Maile with stories of the greatness, madness, mayhem, and general shenanigans that had taken place on this hallowed site. The only thing that would have made it better, would have been to have had some of my old friends here to share it with.

Thus ends part one of my 2 part catch-up. I will have the rest for you soon. I have recently been encouraged by another Commander to take up the story again...and that, in itself, is part of the story.

See you soon.
Fly safe, fly smart
Maia

Erimus Kamzel · Sep 16, 2017

Welcome back Maia!

Great write up of your travels, and some cracking pics there [up]

Raiko · Sep 16, 2017

Great to hear of your travels again Maia, I was thinking about how much I missed hearing about your travels just the other day.

Fly safe - I'll look out for your green marker out on the edge of the galaxy.

- Cmdr Raiko

OOC: Do you still play in open or are you on Fleetcom or another PG these days?

Maia Posidana · Sep 16, 2017

Pretty much always in open. I occasionally jump into fleetcom to see if there's anybody there, but I never see anyone.

Maia Posidana · Sep 17, 2017

Part 2

Day 199

The landing at Beagle Point was not the end of this expedition. In fact it was only the beginning. Now came the real journey, the actual galactic circumnavigation. Before really beginning that trip, I decided to attempt to set some distance records. With much research of the star map and judicious use of Jumponium, I was able to get Glory to OEVASY LF-A D0. Sadly, this was as far as I was able to get. If I'd forgon the fighter and SRV's, I probably would have been able to make it another jump or two further out. As it was, this was not a record, and I was certainly not the first pilot to make it there. That honor went to CMDR Spock Oddsocks.

And thus, we made our way down the arm to see how far we could get. Along the way, I stopped to show Maile the glorious sight that is Podar. We spend a day there admiring the beauty of its rings and moons. As we passed through the IORASP sector, we came across a system with 2 minor planetoids close in to the star. The first of these only had a radius of 359 Km. Just out of sheer boredom, I spent a week and a half circumnavigating the planet in my SRV. I would drive through the day, and have Maile track my progress from orbit. At the end of each day, I would recall the ship for some rest (have you ever tried sleeping in an SRV?!).

At IORASM FZ-S D3-0 We had gone as far down the arm as we could reasonably go, and so, we turned Glory coreward and began slowly picking out a route back across the abyss from there. In the end, we did wind up angling back a little ways, but not too far, and using up most of our stock of low and mid level jump mats, we eventually succeeded in picking our way across, 1 jump at a time.

Once we were able to confirm our position as being in the Scutum-Centaurus arm, I turned Glory anti-spinward, and we began the next arm of our long journey. Maile has declared that she has had enough and wants to go back to civilization, so, when I get a quarter of the way around, I may have to make a mad dash to Colonia to drop her off before continuing on. I'm hoping to talk her out of it as it is incredibly lonely out here without someone aboard for company.

Thus far, we are about 2 months since leaving Beagle Point. We are currently traversing the Abyssal Plain, nearing the fading end of the Scutum-Centaurus arm. About a week ago, I received a trans-stellar hail from an old friend back in the bubble. He informed me that a friend of his, one Commander Picard, is not far from me, heading in the same direction, and for the same reason. I was able to contact Commander Picard, who is on his own circumnavigation voyage, it is in fact he who implored me to restart my journal here

. I am hoping to have a meet up with him soon, BUT, the very next day, I received ANOTHER hail, this time from an old friend from Distant Worlds; CMDR Sand Dan Gloka. CMDR Gloka was 14KLY behind me (whereas Commander Picard is about 4KLY ahead of me). As it turns out, CMDR Sand Dan Gloka is ALSO headed in the same direction...and for the same reason! It is my hope that I can get the three of us together and either fly together, or at least arrange occasional meetups along the way.

About the same time that I was told about Commander Picard, I also learned about a galactic Point of Interest that happened to lie right on my flight path, a few thousand LY ahead of me. It is called The Blue In the Black (FOOTIE AA-A G0). I set Glory on a course for it. Along the way, I happened across an A class Supergiant. The system was spectacular and had several secondary B class stars, the last of which held a binary pair of High-G ringed HMC planets, one of which had rings that were tilted almost directly at the star. Made for some fantastic images...

I finally made it to The Blue In the Black about three days ago. I told Sand Dan Gloka that I would wait for him here. I'm taking the time to catch up with this journal. Commander Picard, if you are reading this, thanks for the nudge

With any luck I will be able to have the three of us at least have a meetup soon.

And that is where Gloria Coelis is as of the writing of this log. I hope not to abandon it again.

Until next time
Fly safe, fly smart
Maia

Maia Posidana · Sep 30, 2017

Day - 212

Sprinting through where angels fear to tread

My last transmission had me waiting at "The Blue in the Black" (well, actually, the nearest system with a landable planet) for CMDR Sand Dan Gloka, who was some 14,000LY behind us, to catch up. We spend the next week and a half housekeeping and doing some exploring on this little moon. Sadly, CMDR never arrived. In fact, th last I have heard from him was the day we made planetfall here. Needless to say, I am concerned for his safety. Unfortunately, given just how far behind us he was when we last made contact, the odds of mounting a successfull search and rescue operation are effectively nonexistant.

And so it is with heavy heart that we departed this world and turned Glory to the task of catching up with Commander Picard, who by now had opened his lead on us to nearly 11,000LY. The last couple of days have been spent in a sprint through the most distant and desolate places in the galaxy. In our mad dash to catch up, we have covered nearly 12,000ly in the last 3 days, and have come to within 2000LY of Picards current position. With any luck, I will be able to arrange a meeting in the next day or two and together we will find a way to cross the great gap of Mare Desperationis.

Even with the sprint, there has been a little time for exploration and wonder. The day we set off from our camp near The Blue in the Black, I looked out across Glory's bow and noticed that from out here, the Andromeda Galaxy seemed to be visible in unprecidented detail (I have to wonder if it's getting closer)

While most of what is out here are snowballs and dead rocks, there were plenty of metal rich worlds

We discovered a couple of Earthlike worlds, a gorgeous ringed Water World and a couple of very pretty Ammonia worlds, one of which had the most fantastic looking geography. I really wished I could have landed there and driven around for a while (but something tells me that the SRV would have not have survived long in that environment. That one was in a fantastic system with 4 Water worlds that had me scratching my head as to how they managed to maintain liquid water.

A few hours before we lifted off from our camp, Glory recieved a navigational patch, broadcast galaxy-wide from the pilots federation. After running simulations to make sure that the programs were stable, we set off...and let me say here and now, I am NOT impressed. Apparently there is a new feature that scans the star ahead, and if it is a close binary, your jump exit window will be plotted a few dozen LS from the target star instead of risking dropping you right between the two. IT DOESN'T WORK!!! So far in the last 3 days, I have been dumped right in between no less that FIVE near-contact binarys (including one that landed me virtually INSIDE A G STAR! ?!?! The only time the program seems to work, is if the binary-pair has a seperation of at least SEVENTY LIGHT SECONDS!! Yeah, needless to say, somebody needs to find the programmer responsible for this and shove him out an airlock.

Toward the end of the first day of the sprint, as I was plotting my next KLY (as an explorer, I have no use for a 20KLY route plotter), I spotted a couple of likely targets ahead of us; a pair of K8 II AB - Orange Giant stars. Sadly I had to give up on the closer one, as it was unreachable, even with jumponium (at least with Glory's current jump range). There was a nearly 200 LY gulf all the way around it. The system is DRYEACHOO XT-Q D5-1 if anybody wants to try for it at a later date.

Well, that's about it for now. We made camp last night on a small spud moon (only 351 KM in radius) that was the only landable body in the solar system (in orbit around a FANTASTIC ringed Water World. Our current position is in the BYAA FLEE sector on the extreme fading end of the Scutum Centaurus arm. With any luck, I should be able to catch up to Commander Picard either tonight, or tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes.

Until next time
FLy safe, fly smart
Maia

Maia Posidana · Oct 10, 2017

Day 220

All alone in the night...

It has been since my last transmission since I last heard from Commander Picard, and 3 weeks or more since my last contact with Sand Dan Gloka. I have tried to hail them both, to no avail. It would appear that I am all alone out here once again. If either of you are still alive, let me know. If you are in need of aid, I will come help.

Since my last update I have covered slightly over 7200 LY. I've had this feeling of urgency, like I'm late for something, and thus, my last couple of weeks have been a sprint through dark places. We are making best speed for Erikson's Star, but I'm not certain that we are going to have the jump range to make it. We are curently 5988 LY from that beacon.

Last night, Maille declared that she wanted off the ship as soon as we reached the nearest port. Sooo, I guess when we get about a quarter of the way around, I will have to make a mad dash to Jaques in Colonia, pay her off, and let her go. I can't really blame her, the exploration life isn't for everyone, and I always felt she was the kind of person who needed a very different kind of adventure. Well, if she is going, I guess I can unship the fighter bay. With the increased jump range given by it's loss, with any luck, I might be able to make it to Star One when I get around there. It wil be bloody expensive, but I suppose I can order a new companion bot to be appropriatly programmed for me (sadly, the last two did not survive DWE), but the question is, how the hell to get it shipped clear the hell out to Colonia for me. Perhaps I can put in a call to my old friend Myles Kidder (Im pretty sure it'll only cost me the use of my ship as a studio for his next film...).

Sadly, I have not found a great deal of planets interesting enough to land on. The rare spud, and one semi-high G world (It had a gravity of 2.28 but it from it's size I would have figured it for 4 or higher...still waiting to find a HIGH G world). I'm still hoping to find another Gas giant with bio-luminescent life, like the famous "Nuclear" planet, and it's twin near Colonia. Still, I have much jumping to do, so, I guess I should get to it.

I've gotten a few shots from over the last few days, but not many. The only one with real context was Glory flying down a wide trench. We spend a few fruitless hours searching a planet for a type of volcanism that I'd never heard of before....Methane Magma.

Until next time
Fly safe, fly smart
Maia

**Update**
A shout out to CMDR XBRICO. I found something of yours. It was just laying around, out in the middle of nowhere.

Maia Posidana · Oct 10, 2017

And yet another update.

I just found sign that CMDR Sand Dan Glokta (apparently I've been misspelling it...sorry mate) is not only alive, but has managed to jump ahead of me. Just passed a star listed as "unexplored" but that had been tagged by him. There is no data on him discovering it in the galactic database, EDSM says the discovery goes to me...I am so confused.

Raiko · Oct 11, 2017

EDSM simply credits the first CMDR to enter / synch a star into the database. I'm listed as the first visitor to Great Annihilator in EDSM, but I certainly wasn't the first CMDR to tag it.

Aura Lorell · Oct 11, 2017

Maia Posidana said:
And yet another update.

I just found sign that CMDR Sand Dan Glokta (apparently I've been misspelling it...sorry mate) is not only alive, but has managed to jump ahead of me. Just passed a star listed as "unexplored" but that had been tagged by him. There is no data on him discovering it in the galactic database, EDSM says the discovery goes to me...I am so confused.

What Raiko said. EDSM is a third party tool. It has no connection to the game database and it's only updated by PC commanders who choose to run EDDiscovery or upload their journals directly. I think the "first discovered" mention on EDSM is confusing and misleading. It's essentially who sent the details of the system first on it. And that's just a fraction of the commanders who do it. Consoles are unable to send journals and many PC commanders do not want to run third party tools.