( pictures to follow later)
Well I certainly seem to have found a sweet spot on my run. I was a little too busy doing exploration of things that I found to complete my thousand light year run today. I only managed to make about 600.
About 10 jumps in I can't reply yet another earth-like world. A beautiful Blue Island of water and life hanging all alone in the darkness. What made this one stand out was that when I got the results from the discovery scan this planet looked for all the world like a volcanic high metal content Planet. I even listened to the scanner feedback and heard the sounds of a volcanic high metal content Planet. It didn't look visually interesting though, so I went ahead and diverted my course to get a closer look. I almost soiled my flight suit when the planetary scanner came back with the result "Earth-like world". I immediately rechecked the scanner results and the feedback noise. The scanner feedback sounds had actually changed. I think I need to have my scanners looked at. I spent several hours at this world, orbiting it and doing every scan I could. It appears to be an older earth-like, and scanners detected large groups of complex life forms indicating most likely large herd animals. Sadly no signs were detected of advanced life or any form of civilization.
A mere 4 jumps later turned up a beautiful ringed giant water world. Weighing in at 4 Earth masses, this beautiful ball of Bluewater showed no signs whatsoever of any land mass larger than a square meter. I attempted to do an asteroid landing in its metal-rich rings. Sadly I was not able to find a rock that was moving slow enough to allow an extended EVA. I did manage to set down on one just long enough to do a quick once around of the ship. Sadly by that time the rock was moving enough to endanger prometheus and I had to reboard and pull away from it before I could even set up equipment to take samples. Oh well, at least I managed to get a couple of decent pictures.
I managed about another 10 jumps after that, and have power down for the night in the rings of a beautiful class 3 gas giant. Directly over this giant I can see NGC 319 9, which is the next base camp for the FGE Sagittarius mission. She sits a mere 3000 LY coreward of my current position. this leaves me feeling rather conflicted. It looks like the space between me and there is readily navigable. If I chose, I could head that way and clear that distance in two days, three tops. The problem with this course being that I would arrive at the base camp nearly 3 weeks ahead of schedule, leaving me sitting there twiddling my thumbs. however, if however, if I stay in my current course, and head back to inhabited space for repairing we supply, the total distance I will have to travel from my current position back to the nebula is on the order of 35000 light years. Counting travel time and time spent in station I would in all likelihood missed the rendezvous at that base camp and have to press on to the next one, likely arriving there ahead of time. It seems almost a case if I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.
Well I certainly seem to have found a sweet spot on my run. I was a little too busy doing exploration of things that I found to complete my thousand light year run today. I only managed to make about 600.
About 10 jumps in I can't reply yet another earth-like world. A beautiful Blue Island of water and life hanging all alone in the darkness. What made this one stand out was that when I got the results from the discovery scan this planet looked for all the world like a volcanic high metal content Planet. I even listened to the scanner feedback and heard the sounds of a volcanic high metal content Planet. It didn't look visually interesting though, so I went ahead and diverted my course to get a closer look. I almost soiled my flight suit when the planetary scanner came back with the result "Earth-like world". I immediately rechecked the scanner results and the feedback noise. The scanner feedback sounds had actually changed. I think I need to have my scanners looked at. I spent several hours at this world, orbiting it and doing every scan I could. It appears to be an older earth-like, and scanners detected large groups of complex life forms indicating most likely large herd animals. Sadly no signs were detected of advanced life or any form of civilization.
A mere 4 jumps later turned up a beautiful ringed giant water world. Weighing in at 4 Earth masses, this beautiful ball of Bluewater showed no signs whatsoever of any land mass larger than a square meter. I attempted to do an asteroid landing in its metal-rich rings. Sadly I was not able to find a rock that was moving slow enough to allow an extended EVA. I did manage to set down on one just long enough to do a quick once around of the ship. Sadly by that time the rock was moving enough to endanger prometheus and I had to reboard and pull away from it before I could even set up equipment to take samples. Oh well, at least I managed to get a couple of decent pictures.
I managed about another 10 jumps after that, and have power down for the night in the rings of a beautiful class 3 gas giant. Directly over this giant I can see NGC 319 9, which is the next base camp for the FGE Sagittarius mission. She sits a mere 3000 LY coreward of my current position. this leaves me feeling rather conflicted. It looks like the space between me and there is readily navigable. If I chose, I could head that way and clear that distance in two days, three tops. The problem with this course being that I would arrive at the base camp nearly 3 weeks ahead of schedule, leaving me sitting there twiddling my thumbs. however, if however, if I stay in my current course, and head back to inhabited space for repairing we supply, the total distance I will have to travel from my current position back to the nebula is on the order of 35000 light years. Counting travel time and time spent in station I would in all likelihood missed the rendezvous at that base camp and have to press on to the next one, likely arriving there ahead of time. It seems almost a case if I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.
