Recent weeks have seen a few commanders making multiple trips along the highway to the core...
We start in Unlimited class, with the big news of the week: we have a new record! Cmdr Alot has returned to the course with upgraded engineering on
Rhonda. At the conclusion of three attempts with the same day, Alot has succeeded in breaking through the two-hour mark, setting a new record time of
one hour, fifty-five minutes and eleven seconds. Very well done, Commander!
Only a little further back, Cmdr Darplata94 continues to show that he's obviously been taking tips from Cmdr Crotalus on run frequency, with four runs in four days, only three weeks after his previous attempts. This time he switched routes to the neutron superhighway, with both ships (the Asp Explorer
Incognito and Diamondback Explorer
Dark Runner) setting times close to three and half hours, in the process setting two ship type records.
Just outside the ten-hour mark we welcome Cmdr nouspiro, whose Diamondback Explorer
Kuroitsubasa was actually making a run to Beagle Point. The 15-minute penalty for starting in the wrong system leaves nouspiro's recorded time at just over 10 hours.
I mentioned Crotalus' run frequency above, and he's keeping up the tradition. First of his entries this time round becomes the second entry in Neutron class, taking an un-engineered ship down the neutron star superhighway. Cmdr Crotalus obviously wasn't entirely happy with his time in the Asp Explorer
Cleo, with the time of nearly eight and three-quarter hours being reported as "a very slow run"!
And finally to Classic class, where Cmdr Crotalus has kindly saved me from putting up an empty line on the "top times by ship type" board. Less than a week after its release, the Alliance Chieftain has complete its first A* Challenge run in Crotalus' experienced hands, with
Libertas setting a benchmark time of just over 14 and a quarter hours.
Well done to all!
This month's updates leave a few questions, of course: Who will be first to take advantage of the upgraded jump capability of the Type-7 and Type-9? Can that Chieftain time be beaten? And how long will it be before Allitnil takes a shot at reclaiming the overall crown?