OK so the first real update of the Big Board of the race...
Got a few new pilots to introduce. CMDRs Cavenaugh and Unread, welcome aboard! We have our first Lakon-6 entry, as well as another Hauler. Moonshadow, looks like you've already got yourself some competition. Also welcome back a couple of Buckyball vets, including CMDR Reload, champion of Buckyball 5, and the Buckyball's only completionist, Peter "FoxTwo" Aldric, who has been a part of each and every race from the start. FoxTwo is the first competitor to chase after Anuranium, and whe completes his run, he'll have more Buckyballs under his belt than even yours truly - at least until I get out there and tie. Good luck, FoxTwo! See you at Sag A*!
Me, personally, I'm trying to figure out how to scrape up about 28 million credits to pick up a 6A fuel scoop. 28 million credits for an electromagnetic funnel! I could roll down my window and pluck hydrogen molecules by hand and it'd be faster than me earning 28 mil by Saturday. Say, any of you guys owe me money...?
Well, I've had this as my next major exploration milestone, and though this moves my timetable up a bit as I had been planning on waiting on a decked out Asp, why the heck not? D*** the torpedoes, I say!
"Darn" those torpedoes indeed! Just don't shoot them at me, please. By the way, there's a 28 million credit torpedo fee in the Buckyball. It's an obscure rule, but one that's vigorously enforced.
I'm not sure I've packed enough Lavian Brandy for this...
One question: EZ, given the rather... daunting... nature of this trip, will multiple runs per CMDR in different ships be allowed on the board? i.e. One run per CMDR per ship type.
I mostly ask because I'd love to challenge Anuranium at the top of the by-time board, but I'm a couple of
(hundred million) credits short of being able to afford such a ship at the moment... And I'm not sure I want to spend the time, effort and brandy required to do it sooner if that time will just get wiped later on!
... and yes, of all the questions it would be me that asks this one.
Alot, you had a little obsessive compulsive thing going on the past couple of races and I was really thinking this one might break you. But if you really, seriously want to make the trip more than once, I will gladly record each and every one of your times.
And on the day when you sit in the #1 slot for each and every type from Anaconda down to Sidewinder, Bucky will personally pay for your therapy.
So officially, pilots, feel free to re-run the race, and if you do so in a different ship class, your time will be recorded.
By the way, Alot, you don't happen to owe me 28 million credits, do you?
Well for whatever it's worth, I've taken off and now at 3,000 LY from Sol, in flight for 2 hours 31 mins 51 sec.
Taking a break for the day, so the run continues tomorrow
Yeah I know, my official time for BBRA* will be stretched into days but I'm keeping tabs on my flight time just for interest's sake.
Welp if nothing else you will be the first Cobra jock to make the run, and who knows, maybe the first Cobra out there period. Either way, until another one takes the challenge, the
Improbability Drive will hold the top slot for Cobras. On that topic, do you have that 28 million credits I loaned you? You might not remember it but I assure you it happened...
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Oh, very well, I'm in.
Love Your Collider was destroyed after faceplanting a security 'Conda in Leesti but its replacement is the
Fhir a' Bhàta.
The
FaB is another Fer-de-Lance and being fully kitted (according to the "Zion Ravescene Special Paranoia Doctrine of First Contact") should be able to trounce any Thargoid sightseers at the Core
if it ever gets there.
I set off from Sol earlier and took roughly an hour to travel the 300 light years to Pratchett's Disc. This will be a slow yet stylish ride.
Well shoot Jackie you snuck in just as I was posting. Couldn't say no to the bumper sticker, could ya?
I already put the board up, but just for
you, I can go back an include you for a very minor, one-time update fee of 28 million credits.
