Around the galaxy in 80 days (with any luck)

Maia Posidana

Maia Posidana
Day T-minus 14


Has anybody seen my seat cushion?


The past few days as seen me and my SRV until my eyes are bloodshot looking at landscape. I've managed to collect most of the materials that I need for jump boosting. Sadly I was going stir crazy doing it. While I enjoy driving the SRV, it tends to get rather claustrophobic. The entire vehicle is smaller than the flight deck of Prometheus. I decided it was time for a break. Just for something new I decided to try something that I've been hearing about while out on the rim. Racing sounds like fun, and possibly something that I could get into if I ever chose to retire from exploration.

I made my way to Achenar, where I purchased and fitted myself out both an eagle and an imperial eagle. With the eagle I tried station racing, and after much bribing of the station ATC officials I finally managed to get clearance. I wish I could say that I did well... What I will say is that I did not die, which given how horrible my run was was an achievement in itself. Last night however I took the imperial eagle out to one of the moons in Achenar and searched out a good looking Canyon. This run was much better, and something I think I could actually conceivably do. That said however this run was absolutely terrifying. While the canyon appeared to be plenty wide from four or five kilometers high, once I was down below the deck, at speed and under boost, the pucker factor was so high that the station maintenance personnel couldn't find my seat cushion once I return to port.

This is been a much needed vacation. I think one or two more days of this and it will be back to the SRV for me. I'm not attaching a video of my station run because I don't want to embarrass myself that badly, however, the canyon run was immensely fun. Enjoy.

[video=youtube_share;ZyYpmrmDqxY]https://youtu.be/ZyYpmrmDqxY[/video]




 

SvennoJ

SvennoJ
Awesome thread. Great to see it's still going after coming back 8 months later. It took me a while to catch up on the whole story, enjoyed every minute of it!

I finally managed to complete my own journey, for now, after a slight mishap using the stasis pod for sleeping send my ship drifting aimlessly for 240 days.
It's great to be back, yet the more I read about Distant worlds...

Best of luck on your next adventure!
 

Maia Posidana

Maia Posidana
***OOC WARNING***

T-minus 3days

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
A minor disaster has struck. I woke up this morning to find that my internet at home has been shut off and that I will not be able to get it turned back on until Friday afternoon. Unfortunately this means that I will miss the launch of the distant worlds fleet from Pallaeni by almost 2 days. This sadly will be one of only three occasions where the entire fleet is together. The term disappointment does not quite begin to describe my feelings at the moment. Not only will I miss the launch of the fleet...AND the first waypoint... Two of the only three places that the entire fleet will be together... But I will likely end up spending at least the first week just playing catch up.
 

Maia Posidana

Maia Posidana
T-plus 1 day


A late start


Well, sadly I had a bit of an issue. Aaron was bringing me coffee a few days ago and tripped, spilling it all over the main nav console. Unfortunately this had the effect of shorting out and frying the entire system. The damage, sadly, could not be repaired; the entire nav computer had to be replaced. Most unfortunately, I was planet bound, and 3 km from the nearest outpost, and an outpost that wasn't particularly friendly to visitors. It took some doing, but I managed to convince them to allow me in, to place an order for a new computer (with delivery, THAT was expensive) to the nearest station. I spent the next 3 days ripping out the old computer and putting in the new one. Unfortunately this meant that I was unable to make the launch with the rest of the fleet, though I did watch them go from Prometheus's flight deck.

Prometheus is now fully repaired, and as of approximately 5 minutes ago, at 2023 on January 15, 3301, Prometheus lifted off from Pallaeni A1, turned her nose to COL 285 SECTOR WP-E C12-9 and made the first of her 27 planned jumps to waypoint 1 at SHAPELY 1. Wish us luck.

Maia
 

Maia Posidana

Maia Posidana
T-plus 3 days


Waypoint 1



Sorry about the lateness of this first report. Apparently some of the food packs I onloaded were not exactly quality controlled, as my first dinner of the voyage appears to have given me food poisoning. I'm feeling better now; fortunately Aaron makes a better nurse than a cook (though I hope he will improve in the latter or its going to be a LONG trip). As it is, it looks as though almost my entire stock of New Lave Firesteak is dodgy at best...downright funky at worst...and had to be jettisoned here on the planet. I just hope that some alien race doesn't find it and think it is some sort of biological weapon that we planted there.Sadly, the only noticeably spicy thing I have left i the pantry is Achenar Imperial Chilli, which is frankly mild and bland by comparison (what else would you expect from Ostentatia Galactica Imperiatus?).

The entire first leg of the journey was pretty much entirely a sprint. 838 LY / 27 jumps, with only 1 real stop along the way. About 18 jumps in, We landed in a system with a triplet T-tauri system with 2 of them being a near contact binary. A quick scan of the system showed a hot Jupiter orbiting a mere 31.4Ls away. We swung over to check it out and were greeted with these lovely views...

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Now, my travels thus far have taken me out to the rim, in the opposite direction than we are now heading. Off in that direction nebulas are somewhat of a rarity. On this trip we will be passing near and through quite a few of them, and nebulas never fail to take my breath away. THE FINE RING NEBULA is no eception. The Fine Ring Nebula is a Planetary Nebula blown out from the massive Wolf-Rayet / K Class binary, SHAPLEY 1. Shapley 1 A glows in the most hypnotic shade of blue, the light turning into an almost neon purple as it passes through the nebula. All in all it an inspiring sight from within and without.

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After spending a while admiring the beauty of this system, it was time to continue of to the first basecamp, LIAKAS REST, located in FIne RIng Sector JH-V C2-4 A 1, just a short jump away. I was most heartening to find several pilots still there at the basecamp, with others coming and leaving. To kill a little time, we tried to see how many of us we could land at the crater splash peak (5 Asps at one point). While geting some images from there, I heard a loud clunk and looked out the window to find an SRV on my hull. He stayed there for a minute until a third Asp (I was parked next to one to my starboard) parked next to me and this ballsy driver used us for a bridge. Pretty sure I had video feed of that, and will load it to the galactic net soon.

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In all we spent about 6 hours at Liakas Rest, exploring, prospecting, and generally screwing around with the other pilots (SRV race up and down the central peak of the crater) an opportunity that we are not often afforded in our solitary profession. The general mood of the fleet was extremely positive and optimistic; we were beginning one of the most historic voyages in history, how could it not be? The mood even affected Aaron, who was actually willing to join me in the cramped confines of the SRV as we went out prospecting. Sadly, the time came for us to dust off and begin our trek to try and chatch up to the rest of the fleet by basecamp 2.

I took Prometheus another dozen jumps before finding a spot for the night. Along the way we landed for some fruitless prospecting at this gem of a ringed moon. Completely worthless as far as I could tell, but gorgeous nonetheless.

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We finally decided to set down for the night on this rocky world PRAEA EUQ QD-K D8-60 1. Again, not much to say for the value of the world, and she looks prettier from orbit than from the ground. It was just before turning in here for the night that I began to feel the first rumblings of the dinner coming back to haunt me, and it is here that I've spent the last 2 days recovering.

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Fortunately, as I said, I'm feeling quite a bit more like myself now. Prometheus has been preflighted with help from Aaron (who is slowly beginning to take to his role aboard ship) and we are almost ready for upthrust. I still have about 3700 LY to basecamp 2 at the LAGOON NEBULA and most of the fleet is likely already past that.


Fly Safe, Fly Smart
Maia
 
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Maia Posidana

Maia Posidana
T-plus 3 days (A)


An enigmatic discovery



Prometheus has brought us 18 jumps of our 21 jump first leg of the days voyage, to the NGC 6281 SECTOR GB-X B1-2 system. I set her down on an icy moon around a spectacular ammonia based life bearing gas giant after running some of this moons beautiful canyons. Prometheus is no racing ship, but she took to the canyons with a fierce joy. Aaron on the other hand sat in the observation chair the whole time and screamed like a little girl.

After a half hour or so of semi-productive prospecting in SRV 2 I began to pick up an EXTREMELY faint mid-high range signal. It took quite a while to track it down, but when I finally brought the object into view I was stunned into silence. A small circular field of wreckage, almost laid out like a henge. There were no markings or paint of any kind on any of the wreckage, and not a single piece of it could be identified as having come from any craft currently on record. What was more startling, if you look at these images, whatever this thing was, it has been down here long enough to begin interacting with the water-ice and CORRODE!! Seriously; every single piece of this debris was completely corroded. Clearly, whatever this craft was, it has been down here for thousands, if not MILLIONS of years!

For posterity (in case I don't survive this voyage), and so that this site can be documented, the wreckage is at NGC 6281 SECTOR GB-X B1-2 A 5 A at coordinates 60.6707 X 74.3210.

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The wreckage is on the very edge of a rather deep canyon, so take care if you go to check it out.

Maia
 

Graham65

Graham65
Good luck out in the black Cmdr, been following your story from day one, loved how you got over the galmap plotting upgrade I think it got mentioned in one of the Canonn Threadnoughts
 

Maia Posidana

Maia Posidana
GREETINGS from the far side of the sky!!!

I know it's been a while, and I will be correcting that soon. The Distant Worlds Expedition has been the expedition of a lifetime, and I've been so busy that I literally have had not time in the last 3 months to put in an update. We have made it to Beagle Point, and it has been an experience that will require several posts to tell the tale (and I will get to that). However, today we took a field trip from Beagle Point to the jewel of the galaxy. The ringed Earth-like world known as Podar, at the far side of the galaxy. When I arrived, it took my breath away. This was one of the most beautiful things Ive ever seen. Flying through the rings was indescribably beautiful and the lighting was well...see for yourself....


[video=youtube;Npf2hb4Uv-w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npf2hb4Uv-w[/video]


I know it has been a while, but I PROMISE that I will catch you all up on the story of this amazing journey.
Until then
Fly smart, fly safe
Maia
 
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