Can't progress past NGC 7822

[who?]

Hey, I'm trying to head out to the Heart & Soul nebulae (& beyond!) but I've just passed the NGC 7822 nebula and run into a void that I can't get around. I think it's the Perseus Gap.. I've seen lots of people posting they've reached those systems (even one with a 24Ly jump range) but I don't know how. I can see some stars out in the void, but they're isolated and > 70Ly from the nearest system I can reach.

I have a 28-30 Ly Asp and am finding dead end after dead end. Up, down, left, right.... it's getting REALLY boring going back a couple of hundred Ly to try another route and getting no further (not even getting exploration data as I'm going back over old systems). Much more of this and I'm either going to turn for home or just self-destruct.

Any resident Perseus Gap experts around?

 

[Katejina]

Jump the fence to the back yard?

 

[Jackie Silver]

I've crossed that twice in my Cobra - I departed from Sothis and followed a line on the galactic plane (z=0) along y = -1.1x.
(Reading the map coordinates as x,z,y)
It may help if you use the route plotter but set the cargo value to maximum - e.g. I have a 16 ton cargo bay on my Cobra, I tell the route plotter to go "fast" but as if I was carrying the full 16 tons, even though the hold is empty. The route plotter thinks that the jump range is lower than it really is, so the jumps it plots have better fuel efficiency.

 

[Zenith]

If you've got a positive middle number in your galactic coordinates, head down towards 0. Then try again where the stars are more dense.

 

[who?]

Ah... that's it thanks. I didn't realise how much I'd "climbed", was up at 300 (Ly?), when I went down about 10 jumps I started finding routes again. Lesson learned.

Also, jumping the fence helped. But watch out for Orion's dog, it's a big 'un!

 

[iain666]

Ah... that's it thanks. I didn't realise how much I'd "climbed", was up at 300 (Ly?), when I went down about 10 jumps I started finding routes again. Lesson learned.

The direction I came in from to get there I had to run half tanks (on a 26kylie max Cobra) to get up to it which gave me the hint that it was a wee bit out of the way and I might need to finagle my way out the other side.

 

[Whiterose]

Its trange how quickly you climb and drop from the galactic plane. You think you are going in a straight line and then bam you are 200 Ly above or below.

 

[who?]

I didn't really realise how sparse the systems were getting on the way there, but as soon as I got to the other side, whoof. Like a magic trick, everything's gone. Several times I checked my navigation tab and just one system showing, the one I jumped from.

Exploration can actually make me a little jumpy at times, but it gets worse when you don't even have stars for company.