So, there I am, 1k Ly outside the bubble, exploring for the first time, having gotten Horizons working on a graphic card that I have absolutely no right to be playing this game on at all (top job FD... the scalability is an epic achievement. And I promise, a more worthy card is in the works. This game thoroughly deserves it.). I notice that my SRV is at 85% fuel, so I start thinking "better figure out how to craft some fuel".
Quick look at the forums and YouTube, and I think I have it figured out. Pass by a bunch of rocks as they don't look like they have the resources I need. 50% fuel... uh oh. Getting desperate, and not wanting to continue my journey without an SRV, I shoot my first rock.... hey look, there's other stuff in the rock other than its scanner description... sorted.... but still need phosphorus. I shoot a few more rocks, delighted that I'm getting the hang of the scanner. Taking in the sight of a spectacular ringed gas giant at sunset on a distant moon, well beyond the frontier, not at all worried about the isolation of being possibly the only person to ever have landed on this rock, and think it's fine that my ship just left me here. It's supposed to do that.... right?
Getting sketchy now though. 10% fuel. Lots of sulphur, but still no phosphorus, when I get a strong reading on my scanner. I go to investigate, only to discover a crashed ship. Look... there's some stuff on the ground... some fuel maybe? Nope... some weapons and some coffee. Now, I can understand this poor unfortunate soul, venturing into the deep black, not wanting to get caught short without coffee on his lonely journey, but you'd think he might at least have brought some cookies with him, but never mind. I have more pressing concerns.
Is it not a little strange however, that on a random moon, orbiting a random ringed gas giant, caught in the gravity of a run of the mill red dwarf, one thousand light years from civilization space, that I just happen to find a crashed ship, not 2 days into my journey? I wonder how many more I'll find on my travels.
I wonder who he was? What he was doing here? How did he crash? (I'm guessing he might have been too tight to buy Horizons, and didn't have a Planetary Landing Suite). =)
Maybe this should be in the suggestions area, but wouldn't it be cool if these sites were a lot rarer outside the bubble? And if I could get more logical items from them when I do find them? I would think answering the questions of what happened might be worth a lot of credits to someone. Maybe he was Imperial nobility, and his family would like some questions answered? Or he was on a military/research mission and his employers would pay for his data/hard drive/info? Maybe I could simply have the good karma from giving closure to the family of a young explorer whose ambition exceeded his ability?
Anyway, those concerns quickly subsided as I found a rock beside the wreck that had some phosphorus.... you beautiful little reactive element with an atomic number 15... I've been looking for you... You're a hard one to track down... follow my cargo scoop.
Quick look at the forums and YouTube, and I think I have it figured out. Pass by a bunch of rocks as they don't look like they have the resources I need. 50% fuel... uh oh. Getting desperate, and not wanting to continue my journey without an SRV, I shoot my first rock.... hey look, there's other stuff in the rock other than its scanner description... sorted.... but still need phosphorus. I shoot a few more rocks, delighted that I'm getting the hang of the scanner. Taking in the sight of a spectacular ringed gas giant at sunset on a distant moon, well beyond the frontier, not at all worried about the isolation of being possibly the only person to ever have landed on this rock, and think it's fine that my ship just left me here. It's supposed to do that.... right?
Getting sketchy now though. 10% fuel. Lots of sulphur, but still no phosphorus, when I get a strong reading on my scanner. I go to investigate, only to discover a crashed ship. Look... there's some stuff on the ground... some fuel maybe? Nope... some weapons and some coffee. Now, I can understand this poor unfortunate soul, venturing into the deep black, not wanting to get caught short without coffee on his lonely journey, but you'd think he might at least have brought some cookies with him, but never mind. I have more pressing concerns.
Is it not a little strange however, that on a random moon, orbiting a random ringed gas giant, caught in the gravity of a run of the mill red dwarf, one thousand light years from civilization space, that I just happen to find a crashed ship, not 2 days into my journey? I wonder how many more I'll find on my travels.
I wonder who he was? What he was doing here? How did he crash? (I'm guessing he might have been too tight to buy Horizons, and didn't have a Planetary Landing Suite). =)
Maybe this should be in the suggestions area, but wouldn't it be cool if these sites were a lot rarer outside the bubble? And if I could get more logical items from them when I do find them? I would think answering the questions of what happened might be worth a lot of credits to someone. Maybe he was Imperial nobility, and his family would like some questions answered? Or he was on a military/research mission and his employers would pay for his data/hard drive/info? Maybe I could simply have the good karma from giving closure to the family of a young explorer whose ambition exceeded his ability?
Anyway, those concerns quickly subsided as I found a rock beside the wreck that had some phosphorus.... you beautiful little reactive element with an atomic number 15... I've been looking for you... You're a hard one to track down... follow my cargo scoop.
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