Colonia - second try and I made it

Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
After announcing the big trip to Sig A:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412441-That-s-it-I-m-out

and failing to even reach Colonia the next day because running out of fuel like an idiot and killing the trip:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412883-Ehm-Colonia-fuel-rats

I slept well, I looked at Galaxy map and I decided to storm the Colonia once again and this time I made it.
It was a rush run, I did not scan anything, used neutorn stars for boost coz of the frustration. My trusty exploration Anaconda made it somehow - little damaged, no heat sinks left:

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Not sure when I will take off to Sig A, right now Vasea lives in Colonia going to a therapy after manually jumping this far. Twice. [cool]
 
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Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
Bryan K said:
Congratulations, CMDR!!!

The trip out there is definitely brutal (try doing it in a laden Cutter with 22.6 LY to work with). There’s a faster way, thankfully:

https://www.spansh.co.uk/plotter

This site is a lifesaver. It can cut hundreds of jumps off your trip. Much better than neutron-plotting in-game.
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Thanks for the link, will take a look for sure!

Mohrgan said:
Grats. I have yet to even try.
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Wait till you can have at least 40 - 50 LY jump range if you ask me. Unless you are very patient person.

Stealthie said:
Good effort.

Amazing how much brighter the stars are, innit?
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It does look bright and its the best payoff to be honest - I was getting bored of the same black sky-box around the boubble :) New one looks amazing.
 

Garand1987

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Congrats! It’s such a great trip. I know you wanted to take the hustle route but when/if you go bubblewards again, take the standard trip, so worth it. But the Colonia run is fun isn’t it? Such a feeling of accomplishment after. I made my first one right after the CG In the California Nebula, about 1K from sol. Was my first ‘long range’ trip and I got the bug. Took off for coloia two days after the end of the CG :p o7 and safe travels.
 

Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
You made it! Whooo!

Congratulations and well done for surviving the Neutron Highway. Thats not a bad run then if you made it in 2 days from the bubble. Nice going!
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Congratulations on the journey and repped for the persistence and not giving up attitude. [up]

Last time I did this was the first CG there to bring a T7 full of power generators there in a ship that only had 13 ly jump capabilities and (to make room for more generators) a small fuel scoop and small tank. This resulted in a three week trip (missed the end of the CG goal) of 1k ly per night. Jump/scoop/jump/scoop.... etc. Managed to find the neutron highway back home. Glad you didn't give up. :)

PS: Love your avatar.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Vasea Azure said:
After announcing the big trip to Sig A:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412441-That-s-it-I-m-out

and failing to even reach Colonia the next day because running out of fuel like an idiot and killing the trip:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412883-Ehm-Colonia-fuel-rats

I slept well, I looked at Galaxy map and I decided to storm the Colonia once again and this time I made it.
It was a rush run, I did not scan anything, used neutorn stars for boost coz of the frustration. My trusty exploration Anaconda made it somehow - little damaged, no heat sinks left:

https://i.imgur.com/JhdPBcR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/p9jCAXD.jpg

Not sure when I will take off to Sig A, right now Vasea lives in Colonia going to a therapy after manually jumping this far. Twice. [cool]
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Great little story .... +1 and o7 Commander [up]
 

Artistik

Artistik
Awesome! I actually went to Sag. A before Colonia, before realizing that the more popular route was Bubble -> Colonia -> Sag. A (at least, according to the heat map of the galaxy available online thru the wiki). There IS a set of stations along the path from the Bubble to Colonia, also available thru the wiki (it's how I am coming back). When I decide to go again, I am going to look into this neutron highway business. Two days to Colonia sounds WAY better than the three-plus weeks it took me. Congratulations, Commander!
 

Garand1987

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Artistik said:
Awesome! I actually went to Sag. A before Colonia, before realizing that the more popular route was Bubble -> Colonia -> Sag. A (at least, according to the heat map of the galaxy available online thru the wiki). There IS a set of stations along the path from the Bubble to Colonia, also available thru the wiki (it's how I am coming back). When I decide to go again, I am going to look into this neutron highway business. Two days to Colonia sounds WAY better than the three-plus weeks it took me. Congratulations, Commander!
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The neutron HWY does sound like a cool thing to do, and I’m impressed he did it. Personally I don’t trust myself to survive it lol. I’m afeared I’ll mess up and get sucked into the cone of death and cooked like a turkey half way there :p
 

Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
Thanks everyone - the neutron boost is not that hard/dangerous if you pay at least 50% of attention - I failed at approaching more than 10 stars and every time it did very little damage to my ship. Just ignore small ones (with short trails) - hard to pin point entry and it almost 90% of a time fails to boost your FSD.
Now I was about to transfer y Cutter to colonia but... 61 hours wait time... and over 1bil Cr - amazing great, thanks a lot immersion lol
 
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