Charlie the Beluga
Charlie the Beluga is a Beluga Liner, he spend most of his life in Okinura as a short range passenger liner. During that time he didn't see much of the Galaxy, he just saw the same planets the same asteroid belts and the same stations over and over again. One day he made the decision to explore the Galaxy first the Bubble and after that whatever comes next.
His first mission is to transport Marcus Valenzuela on a sightseeing adventure to multiple tourist loctions. The first one are the Ice Geysers on Buzhang Ku 3 b.
Charlie is excited and hopes that he is going to see a lot of new places on his journey.
It didn't take long until Charlie arrived at Buzhang Ku 3.
Altough he expected the Ice Geysers to be more exciting, he did like it and there was more to see than just some Ice Geysers.
While traveling between star systems there is always something beautiful to see.
After a short time Charlie arrived at CD-58 4027 6 b.
This time his passengers did want to see some Gas Vents.
Altough at first he did not understand why gas that is venting is such an attraction, once he was there he did unterstand that people are not just coming to see some gas vent into space.
After visiting the CD-58 4027 6 b Gas Vents there was only one location left that Marcus Valenzuela wanted to visit, the Moanza Visitor Beacon.
It was just a purple gas giant... but it was nice to look at.
After visiting the beacon, Charlie transported his passengers back to Fisher Terminal.
Today Charlie went out to meet an old friend in LP 131-66
Charlie is very excited to meet him again!
LP 131-66 is only a few jumps away, the closer Charlie gets to LP 131-66 the more excited he gets!
His friend told Charlie that LP 131-66 is a beautiful star system and well, he didn't lie. It's a very nice white dwarf.
Places like this remember Charlie that, a bit of light can make the emptiness of space even more beautiful.
After a short time in supercruise Charlie arrived at Vasilyev Vision.
Shortly after, he found his old friend, Tim the Taipan.
Just like Charlie, Tim want's to explore and experience the Galaxy instead of being stuck in the same solar system. Both started their life in Okinura, Tim was Charlie's first and only fighter to travel with him but after some time Tim was relocated to Vasilyev Vision. The day they have been seperated they promised each other that they will one day explore the Galaxy together.
After a short talk Tim docked in Charlie's fighter bay, he was surprised that it hasn't been removed within the last few month's but nonetheless he was happy to again be with his friend.
Charlie decided to land at Vasilyev Vision to refuel and make repairs. While doing so he noticed that on the entire station only one mission was available.
It was just a simple mission to transport 16 Business Persons to Crowley Barracks in the Brizo system. Charlie asked Tim if they should accept the mission. Tim said that this would be a great opportunity for them to start exploring and experiencing the Galaxy, so they accepted the mission and started the adventure they both wanted to have for a long time.
They did make the decision to just wander arround the Galaxy, to go where their actions carry them to.
After a short time both arrived in the Brizo system.
After bringing the passengers to Crowley Barracks they decided to stay there for now. While a whole Galaxy waits to be explored.
Today Charlie met a new friend as he did want to leave Crowley Barracks.
He met Jeff the SRV. Jeff the SRV did contact Charlie as he did charge his FSD. Jeff asked if he maybe could travel with Charlie, Charlie did abort the FSD Jump and asked Jeff, why he would like to travel with him.
Jeff told Charlie that he always wanted to travel among the stars and explore new worlds. But he couldn't because he was just a normal SRV and noone wanted to take him with them.
Jeff often tried to jump off the planet...
but gravity was alway's stronger.
Charlie did want to help Jeff and quickly landed near his position to pick him up.
Jeff asked Charlie and Tim why they would take him with them and they answered that they want to explore the galaxy just like Jeff want's to
Jeff was very happy about this and so were Tim and Charlie because they found another friend. To give Jeff the opportunity to say goodbye to his old home, Charlie did slowly fly over it, while Jeff realized that due to his wish he might never return home.
Shortly after that Charlie charged his FSD on a course towards Sol.
After a few jumps they arrived in Sol and Charlie did fly towards Ariel.
On their way to Ariel they flew by Uranus and they discovered some Encoded Emissions.
They did made the decision to look what's there.
But all they found were wrecks so they continued to fly towards Ariel.
Shortly after they arrived at Ariel.
Ariel's landscape is pretty impressive.
Tim was very excited to fly arround Ariel's landscape, he had much fun.
For a short time even a Adder showed up but as fast as he appeared he was gone again.
Tim even found what appears to be a small mining outpost.
Charlie asked Jeff if he wanted to explore it but Jeff didn't want to maybe he was scared but shortly after that Tim returned to Charlie and they continued to explore the Sol system.
Today was an eventful day for Charlie, Tim and Jeff.
Today Jeff did explore the surface of Sedna a bit as sudddenly a Viper appeared, Jeff did follow the Viper
He followed the Viper a bit and found a parked Eagle in the middle of nowhere, he tried to make contact but he didn't get a response.
A few hundred meters away from the Eagle was what appeared to be a crashed nav beacon guarded by a wanted skimmer.
Jeff shot the skimmer and proceeded to scan the beacon. He didn't get any data but a message informing him that defence systems have been activated.
Suddenly the Eagle that didn't respond to him now started shooting. Jeff drove away as fast as he could returning to Charlie, he took multiple hits from the Eagle's railguns, using all of the materials he had to repair his hull while fleeing, he made it back to Charlie with only 28% of his hull left
While under fire Charlie quickly took off and engaged the Eeagle and took out it's shields with his multi cannons. As he was high enough Charlie was able to launch Tim and let him help fighting off the Eagle.
Due to good teamwork and the combined firepower of Charlie's 5 multi cannons and Tim's pulse lasers they quickly deafeated the Eagle.
While Tim returned to Charlie they realised that they have just shot down a Federal Navy Ship and are now wanted.
Jeff was really sorry that he made this all happen, Charlie and Tim were a bit angry at first but did forgive him after he had to promise to never do something like this again.
Quickly after, the three made the decision to leave the Bubble for the duration of the time they are wanted, so they dont fall victim to a bounty hunter too easily.
This means for the next 6 days they will stay away from civilization in an effort to not get killed
The three had a dsicussion if they should have run away or not.
If fighting was the correct answer.
But one way or another, either if you choose to fight or to run away, both of these options have their negative consequences.
Today Charlie, Tim and Jeff did travel to VY Canis Majoris as their first destination in their 5 day exploration tour.
While they are wanted in the Bubble for shooting a Federal Navy Ship they decided to use the time and explore and return to the Bubble once their bounty is no longer active.
Charlie, Tim and Jeff wonder what they and other explorers are going to find in the future.
If exploring is becoming more and more dangerous once there will be contact with a hostile civilisation.
And if there is going to be war where is it going to be safe, if at all?
And who will run and who will fight?
But for them, they just want to explore and find out more about the Galaxy they live in.
Exploring and seeing new places is what they wanted to do all along.
And the Galaxy is big and there is much to see and to find.
Today Charlie, Tim and Jeff visited many places and met CMDR Bjorna.
First they travelled to Pomeche 2 C.
To visit it's Epic Mountain Range.
Those mountains are indeed quite epic.
Charlie was surprised how high these mountains were.
Tim had a lot of fun flying around them.
Charlie landed so Jeff could also have some fun exploring.
And he did there was much to explore.
After that they travelled to Drexler Terminal to refuel.
Afterwards they travelled to LFT 926 to visit the big Military Installation near the star but they were not alowed to get too close due to it's no fly zone.
Soon after that they travelled to HIP 60953 ABC 7 C to visit it's Ice Geysers.
There they met CMDR Bjorna.
Jeff was happy to meet another SRV.
First CMDR Bjorna and Jeff found some crystals.
A few hundred meters away they found more.
The geyser looked nice while active, CMDR Bjorna did suggest Jeff to jump over it while it was active and said it would be fun...
And it was!
Jeff did fly very high more than 340meters, it was almost like a dream come true.
Athough Jeff did fly very high he managed to land with just loosing 4% of his hull.
CMDR Bjorna also jumped and well... he jumped high.
A short time after the whole geyser field went acive.
Together Jeff and CMDR Bjorna explored the surface a bit but did not find anything relevant.
A short time later CMDR Bjorna did recall his ship and Charlie also came back to pick Jeff up.
The three enjoyed their time with CMDR Bjorna and hope to meet other CMDR's in the future.
Today Charlie, Tim and Jeff did a passenger mission and met CMDR Edelgard von Rhein.
First Charlie did travel to Rae Camp on HIP 60953 ABC 7 C.
He choose to do a passenger mission.
Just a short mission, 4 jumps to transport a Major Strickland to the Ross 467 Visitor Beacon.
Charlie is happy to fly arround again after the long pause.
After a short flight they arrived at the Ross 467 Visitor Beacon.
After bringing Major Strickland back to Rae Camp Charlie did fly arround for some time jumping from system to system and on his way he found a white dwarf.
Later he was happy to meet CMDR Edelgard von Rhein and his T-9.
Tim also was happy to meet him.
Shortly after that they traveled to ER 8 the white dwarf Charlie found on his way to Zeaex.
While in the ER 8 system they traveled to one of it's gas giants rings.
Tim and CMDR Edelgard wanted to fly arround the ice asteroids.
And so they did.
And they had a lot of fun.
Flying very fast around the ice asteroids.
After some time they prepared to leave the ice asteroid ring.
Then they did fly back to the Zeaex system.
Orbiting Irvins Wreck they both waved each other goodbye and did fly their ways.
After that Charlie did land on Irvins Wreck to rest.
Today Charlie, Jeff and Tim did visit HIP 15279 A 4 and after that 2XI Tauri 3 A A.
After a short time jumping from system to system they arrived at HIP 15279 A 4.
Right after the landing Jeff did go out to explore the big crater near the landing site.
After some time he found some skimmers appearently guarding some cargo containers.
Nearby he found some Yttrium.
A few minutes later he came accross some automated mining stations.
Later he saw a cargo container rolling down the crater.
It rolled down very fast.
It was difficult for Jeff to keep up with it.
But after some time the container slowed down, Jeff was able to catch up and because he had so much fun catching it he named the container Jimmy and put it in his small cargo hold
After that Charlie arrived to pick Jeff up.
And together they did jump to 2 XI Tauri.
They arrived at 2 XI Tauri 3 A A.
Tim did fly arround for some time.
Through the canyons.
Past Charlie.
And just flying arround in general.
After flying arround for a very long time Tim wanted to return to Charlie but Tim was flying so fast and for so long that Charlie needed some time to get to Tim. In the meantime Tim landed to wait for Charlie to arrive.
Sometime later Charlie arrived and Tim returned to the fighter bay.
Charlie, Tim and Jeff are thinking about to travel to Colonia but before they do that they want to visit one of the alien ruins but they are not sure when they do want to do that.
Charlie, Tim and Jeff are now landed on 2 XI Tauri 3 A A.
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This time Charlie, Jeff and Tim did visit all the alien ruins in COL 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47, Tim did fly around some asteroids and Jeff got stuck in Orbit of a moon.(This is going to be about 100 pictures long.)
It took Charlie some time to travel to COL Sector 173 KY-Q D5-47.
On their way to COL Sector 173 KY-Q D5-47 Charlie wondered if there are more ruins out there or even some derelict ships.
After some time Charlie, Jeff and Tim did arrive at one of the sites in COL 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47.
Right after the landing Jeff did go out to explore the site.
He found an alien tower that had risen out of the ground.
A short time later he did go back to Charlie.
On his way he did take a look at one of the Obelisks and wondered what purpose they might serve other than storing data.
After getting back to Charlie they left to visit the second site in COL 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47.
A short time later they arrived at the second site.
This time one of the small towers appeared right behind Charlie he was a litte scared as it happend but since it didn't do anything he was relieved.
A few meters behind Charlie, Jeff found some kind of ancient urn he wanted to take it with him but since Tim is scared about the alien artifacts could harm them he left it where he found it.
It was wierd for Jeff to see those ancient obelisks light up one after another as he slowly drove past them.
Some time later Jeff found another ancient artifact.
After that Jeff returned to Charlie and they did proceed to the third alien site in the COL 173 Sector KY-Q D5-46 system.
After the landing Jeff did go to explore the third site but soon after he left he had to return to Charlie because Tim became too scared and Jeff asked why and Tim replied that he heard some scary rumours about those ancient alien ruins back at Vasilyev Vision.
Afterwards the three did plot a route back to the Bubble and went their way.
Unfortunately Charlie did run out of fuel in the SYNUEFE NZ-Y A82-3 system, shortly after powering down all his non vital systems he send out a rat signal waiting to be rescued by a Fuel Rat.
Sometime later CMDR Termite Altair arrived in his Anaconda named Blackbeard's Wake to rescue Charlie and his friends.
About two dozen Limpets later Charlie had enough fuel to jump to a nearby star to refuel.
Charlie did thank Termite Altair and told him about his journey and asked him to fly with him for a short time, Termite Altair agreed and did fly with Charlie to a nearby star to refuel.
While refueling they did talk a bit about each others adventures Charlie, Tim and Jeff told Termite Altair about their journey and the places they have been and Termite Altair did talk about his over 820 rescues as a Fuel Rat.
Tim also wanted to thank Termite Altair directly for the rescue and after he did they both had fun flying arround together.
Termite Altair also wanted to meet Jeff. So Charlie and Termite Altair did go out to look for a planet to meet on.
After a short time they found WREGOE CG-N C20-40 A 1 A. A very small moon with a radius of 179km and a gravitational pull of 0.04g
Jeff was happy that he could drive around together with another SRV.
Both tried to jump onto Termite Altair's Anaconda.
It took some attempts but they managed both to jump onto the Anaconda.
Once they were on the Anaconda they wanted to see what happens if the ship leaves on auto pilot and if the can stay on it.
They couldn't stay on it for long and fell down shortly after takeoff at a height 104 meters.
It was fun for them to fly so high and due to the low gravity of the moon they had a rather smooth landing and decided to try to fly arround with their thrusters only.
Later Termite Altair did recall his ship but its autopilot somehow overlooked Charlie and tried to land at the same place as Charlie did but the system realized that the landing site was blocked before the Anaconda could inflict any damage trying to land on Charlie.
Jeff wanted to try to land on Charlie, it took him some time and effort but he made it.
The same goes for Termite Altair.
Some time later they both had an idea. It was always one of Jeff's dreams to fly like a spaceship and if he jumped onto Termite Altairs Anaconda and he would carry him into orbit he could fufill his dream.
So Jeff jumped onto Termite Altairs Anaconda and he tried to carefully cary Jeff into orbit.
Jeff was very excited that he might be finally able to fulfill his live long dream of being in space without the need of being inside a spaceship.
And at a height of 33 kilometers the speed combined with the low gravity made Jeff finally able to fly on his own at this moment he was more excited than ever before in his live.
Yet he wasn't capable of supercruise or FTL he didn't care about that all he cared about was the moment and that his live long dream has been fulfilled.
As he takes a look back he realizes that after a certain point in his live all this happening was just a question of time.
If he hadn't taken this important step in his live, he could be somewhere and even someone else at this point in time.
Even something simple as a question can lead to something great in one's live because every choice, every movement, every thought is connected to something else in the universe and it is up to every being itself where it might lead to, after all every live does serve a purpose.
After some time Jeff did realize that he depleted almost all the fuel for his thrusters and he did need every last drop for the landing, therefore being now adrift in space at about 480km away from the moons surface with no way of getting back without any help.
But fortunately Termite Altair was still arround helping him to get back to the moon.
Pushing Jeff towards the moon, but it was difficlult sometimes after one push Jeff didn't float into the right direction and after another to correct his trajectory he loses some of his momentum and this happend over and over again. After some time CMDR Edelgard von Rhein arrived to help.
Together they helped Jeff to get closer and closer and faster towards the moon.
One push after push.
They managed to bring Jeff to a speed of 220ms but this was not fast enough.
The moon was outrunning them even at a speed of 220ms the moon was still a little bit faster and with Charlie being on his way to the closest outpost to repair some critical damage caused to his power plant due to a micro meteor strike while departing the moon Jeff was left alone as Edelgard von Rhein and Termite Altair left to get supplies. He was now adrift waiting for the moon to complete its orbit around the planet so he can have a better chance attempting to land once it is closer again.
About a day later the moon was again closer to Jeff.
While waiting for Termite Altair Jeff met CMDR Guy de Lombard.
They did talk for a bit, Guy de Lombard even offered to help but Jeff wanted to wait for Termite Altair as Guy de Lombard was about to continue his journey Termite Altair arrived.
Termite Altair gave Jeff a strong and well aimed push giving Jeff the right trajectory and a velocity so fast Termite Altair could only keep up with him while boosting.
Now Jeff was getting closer and closer to the moon again.
Now Jeff started to think about something he did not think to much about while attempting his trip into orbit... the landing.
While getting closer and closer to the surface Edelgard von Rhein arrived.
Termite Altair managed to catch Jeff after that Jeff jumped over to Edelgard von Rheins Asp preparing to make the final jump.
Jeff counted down and jumped.
He fell going faster and faster as gravity starts to kick in.
Not sure when to fire up his thrusters to slow down he still build up speed getting closer to the surface of the moon.
During the last 200 meters he put all his energy into the thrusters hoping to slow down but it only helped little...
And at a speed of about 100ms he did impact on the surface on the moon... his shields were down and his hull reduced to 6% integrity but he survived and was immensely happy to be back on the surface of the moon.
While Edelgard von Rhein and Termite Altair landed near Jeff, Charlie also finally returned.
Charlie and Tim were really glad to see Jeff made it back to the surface alive and also that he seemingly found two new friends.
After a short conversation they waved each other goodbye did fly their ways.
Charlie set a course to Fisher Terminal he wanted to do take a passenger mission and go out exploring.
Jeff and Tim agreed on that.
Some time later the three arrived at Fisher Terminal.
Charlie accepted three missions.
For one he needs to travel over 30.000ly.
The first one is to bring Joie Garcia to CHOOMUIA UI-K D8-4692.
The second to bring Dolores Suarez to PHROEA PLOE SO-Z E5374.
The third one to bring Isiah Sloan to EEMBAISK NS-R D5-2857.
Charlie has to travel a lot of lightyears but he thinks he will make it.
After all he just needs to jump over and over again.
And since there are currently no real threats to a explorer except for his own stupidity.
He thinks that he will do fine and have a good time with his friends.
And maybe they will discover some nice places along the way.
Charlie, Tim and Jeff are now in the TRAIKEE AY-A B42-3 system.
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Charlie, Tim and Jeff are now in the PRO AEC CP-A D6 system.
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