Hey there Just checking on all legacies and all holders of them. How are things? and do you still have the legacies?
Miepit, Grnbrg, Aggie, Serinea are you all still alive?
Have you heard that Wanderlust was sadly lost with the destruction of Tom the Keelback? https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...e-Keelback-Memorial-run-to-Beagle-Point/page6
This was over a month ago but this thread has not seen much activity so it might have been missed. If it is any consolation, both Tom the Keelback and his predecessor Bob the Keelback ( https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...e-Keelback-without-shields-but-with-a-mission ) embodied the spirit of Wanderlust throughout their lives, saw some great sights and made friends. Tom crashed at HATCHOI DS-Y B29-O 2 15.2872° -109.4058°, 22KLY away from Beagle Point. o7
I must have forgotten to say it but this looks beautiful. where are you now?
Btw folks have you all heard of The Galactic Travel Agency?
It might be something you long term explorer's might like to get involved in.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/326547-The-Galactic-Travel-Agency-Expand-your-horizons!
Did CMDR Tom the Keelback get Wanderlust from CMDR Miepit?
During a meeting about 2000 LY north this afternoon, the Camaraderie legacy was passed from CMDR Cometborne to CMDR Lydia of the Void:
http://i.imgur.com/q1fCVbx.pngCarrier of Burdens (left) and The Thrusted Whale during the hand-over ceremony
After passing some urgently needed supplies, Camaraderie was transferred to its new steward:
CMDR Lydia of the Void announced that she planned to visit some of the closer exploration targets in the southern part of the galaxy, and was happy to take over this burden.
During a small ceremony the Endurance was carefully handed over from Cmdr Silence Leigh to Cmdr Mad-Max. This is the story behind it:
It all started with a Buckyball race, the one to Sagittarius A which took place in the spring of 2015. I fitted my Asp as good as I could back then, she did 34LY/jump on a full tank. My run to Sag A was not the best; I caught the flu on the first night forcing me to bed instead of racing, which led to a rather late finishing time: a bit over 5 days. But my appetite for the Black was lit.
Later that year I learned of the Distant Worlds Expedition which started early 2016, I joined immediately. That trip was a true eye opener to the fantastic diversity of the exploration community; rock rats, fuel rats, prospectors, thrill seekers, speed jumpers, astronomy lovers, photographers, event-thinkers and keepers of the peace, all with the same goal: to travel via manageable lengths of space from waypoint to waypoint towards the End of the Galaxy AKA Beagle Point. It made me feel like a small but significant part of something big, something very special.
At the end of the trip, when we were soon pouring in at Beagle Point, Olivia Vespera came up with the idea of the Legacies on the forum. I read about it and thought it would be grand to be one of those explorers, to carry one of the crates of brandy and honour it’s individual spirit in in-game actions.. But I was one of thousand pilots out there, I didn’t think much of my chances in getting one right away, but promised myself to be on the lookout for an opportunity.
That opportunity came March this year, in a fleeting moment on Discord I caught Olivia searching for a new commander to carry one of two legacies, asking for a friend – the very Silence Leigh I met just a few days ago on a rocky moon with a great view! There she floated down effortlessly in her big red 'Conda named "Clifford" to land on that bumpy field I'd chosen for the ceremony. We drove to meet in our SRVs and she told me about the previous carriers before turning about, pointing her cargo racks at me to carefully drop the Endurance. And then she realised she'd forgot to transfer it from her ship... We continued the ceremony with me offering a tonne of Jade and a tonne of Platinum as tribute (we can say that the Solitude got an upgrade to the crate with elaborate patterns in green and polished grey) followed by some SRV shenanigans and photographs. I tagged the entire system, save the pretty ELW/WW that floated so nice over the horizon, I offered it to Silence Leigh as a small sign of friendship and good spirits.
The high point of the ceremony:
http://imgur.com/Wjf8O5f.png
And the Endurance, safely in my cargo rack:
http://imgur.com/OlD24s5.png
And finally, a small postcard from the other side of the Core:
http://imgur.com/umb1AJ8.jpg
It's an honor to carry the Achievement legacy once more, and in the spirit of the name, I felt it was fitting to take it somewhere few have ever been - in this case Angosk OM-W d1-0 - also known as Sepositus Beacon. At 45,374 LYs from Sagittarius A* at the extreme eastern end of the Outer Arm it's likely the farthest you can reach from SagA* with current drive tech (although i'm going to test this with some J3!)
Now that I've flown 35k and reached the easternmost point of my current expedition, i'll be traveling back along the outer arm towards the galmap west - very soon I shall update you with a post from the southernmost point in the galaxy!
Here's a couple postcard pics from The Edge of Forever - my nickname for planet 4a, the only landable in the system.
http://i.imgur.com/T6ZiyZY.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/I1ZEYlH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CHFv7tA.jpg