Captain's Log, A Retrospective.
It's been eight months since I took possession of the Endurance from CMDR Mad Max. One might expect that I took possession immediately out of the bubble, but circumstances necessitated that I take possession right before the third waypoint of the expedition. Below, I have posted a few pictures pre-Endurance.
This ... is an interesting photo. This is me taking possession of several Thargoid artifacts to perform some ...
experiments during the expedition. They didn't amount to much in the end, but we'll see more of those much later.
Pictures from the first waypoint. I don't have any pictures from the second waypoint, but that's fine.
Now, just because I didn't have the Endurance yet doesn't mean I didn't exhibit the traits of the Endurance. Every time I spotted a water world, ammonia world, or especially an Earth-like world, I went out of my way to scan it ... even if it was over 400,000 light-seconds away. It was actually an inconvenience for CMDR Mad Max, as he had to do most of the jumping to me when it came time to hand over the Endurance. Sorry Max! Some of these finds were worth it though.
A ringed volcanic world. I love these, they're so pretty!
A landable moon in close orbit to a terraformable water world. I actually spent a couple of nights here, as this location had a bunch of Jumponium materals, and I couldn't think of a more scenic place to mine them.
A series of ELWs I found on the way to the meetup. This last one was particularly gorgeous, and I wish that moon had been landable, it would have made such a beautiful place to do the transfer. Still, I found a nice enough place in that same system, and Max and I co-tagged the planet in memoriam of our encounter.
The planet where we did the transfer. We had ... a bit of a clipping issue. We should have chosen a planet without quicksand.
More shots of the planet where we did the transfer.
There were a few other interesting phenomena I discovered on the way up to the meetup, it wasn't all ELWs.
A ringed water world in a binary orbit with a ringed brown dwarf. Very cool.
This may be the most colorful gas giant I have ever seen.
I just really liked the canyons on this world.