Finally back, still wanting to make up for not writing a full report for the last part of 3306. I might add a year-by-year history summary into post#2 of the thread, including end-of-year boards for each year (not sure how much work this would be for the early years).
SUMMARY REPORT 04-APR-3307
The first quarter of 3307 has seen things shaken up in the A* Challenge with Sirius Industries beginning limited production of their previously experimental double-engineered class 5A Frame Shift drive.
As all Pilots Federation commanders can now obtain these long-range drives from Tech Brokers, they became legal for the A* Challenge, which as expected resulted in several class records falling for medium sized ships.
Unsurprisingly the very first A* Challenge run with the new drive was made by
Cmdr Crotalus, making a run of
02:18:59 in his Krait mk.II
Katla.
Since the start of the year
@crotalus has also snatched unlimited records for the Alliance Chieftain, Asp Scout, Dolphin and Imperial Clipper, and used the new Sirius FSD to take away the Diamondback Explorer record from
Cmdr @Darplata94, making a great personal best run of
2:08:44 in
Adamanteus.
As well as Crotalus' run 3307 has seen first entries by
Cmdr K. Z. Kawasaki (
@TheCountersteerer),
Cmdr MrQuark,
Cmdr Miklagardr (
@DarthArcanus) and
Cmdr MF1VE.
Cmdr K. Z. Kawasaki, fresh from enjoying the BRC Sidewinder Fuel Challenge made a great first A* Challenge run, taking away the Orca record from
Crotalus with a time of
02:27:04 in
The Sounds of Science.
@MrQuark made an excellent first run in his Anaconda
CSS Far From Dawn in a time of
02:08:39 and then returned to set a class record for the Cobra Mk.III of
05:11:43 in
Depth of Light.
Cmdr Miklagardr meanwhile made a first A* appearance by smashing the 2 hour barrier in his Anaconda
Fjarlaegur, with a run of
01:57:44, then beat that with a class record double engineered run of
01:56:56 in the Krait Phantom
Könnuthur.
And
@mf1ve made a nice first run of
03:21:09 in his Anaconda
Dallas.
Welcome to the A* Challenge all of you! o7
And last, but definitely not least.
Cmdr Ravenov returned to the course making use of the new Sirius drive to break the non-Conda record, not once, but twice in the Asp Explorer
Resonance Cascade. The second of
@Ravenov's runs - an amazing
01:33:51 - put the Asp-X back onto the A* Challenge podium for the first time since the end of the Buckyball Run A*. Other than Ravenov's own Anaconda run, only
Cmdr @goosefraba19 has ever gotten to Sadge faster!
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That's all for now folks - if I've missed anyone's run out, please let me know and I'll fix the boards ASAP. A couple of the runs above are missing from the OP, but I'm fixing that right now.
I'll details to the OP history tonight, including a note that Cmdr Crotalus made the first double-engineered run.
@crotalus, please could you confirm whether your Clipper run used the new drive?