[Distant Worlds] Guide for the journey back
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Can't be bothered jumping back? No problem! Make the bubble come to you, in a few, easy steps instead!
1. Park your ship in space.
2. Wait approximately 125 million years for the galaxy to spin half a cycle.
3. Say hello to whatever progeny humanity may or may not have left behind.
Good luck!
1. Park your ship in space.
2. Wait approximately 125 million years for the galaxy to spin half a cycle.
3. Say hello to whatever progeny humanity may or may not have left behind.
Good luck!
No one tell him he's moving at the same pace. It'll take a long time... but ooooooh his face [alien]
I am following the Sagittarius-Carinae route west, currently giving the Abyss the finger big style. I am buckeyballing the Abyss but after that I am going to be doing a lot more scanning, see what I can find.
I am in no rush.
I have no pants never mind on my head: nekkid exploring for the win!!!
I am in no rush.
I have no pants never mind on my head: nekkid exploring for the win!!!
A strange thing happened last night as I finished crossing the Abyss. I actually missed it. Jonking/buckeyballing/blindly jumping is great and all for speed but it's just boring. Navigating through the Abyss was interesting and a little scary. It was interesting finding how many extra crumb-trail jumps I could add to the route plotter after it only plotted 125ly. It was interesting seeing the star formation "highways" that the Stellar Forge created about +50 and -75ly of the galactic plane with nothing in between. The unknown was scary. I had this vision of the Abyss as a space completely void of stars with no chance of crossing. In reality, there were many routes across even without jumponium. I ended up using 2 J1's in my 33.4ly Anaconda but one was out of impatience. The careful planning was interesting and that point where you could get a solid 1000ly plot with the star density increasing 10x was a great feeling.
Now it's just jonk away at a leisurely pace until...OOH SHINY! Is that a duck?
Now it's just jonk away at a leisurely pace until...OOH SHINY! Is that a duck?
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I set my own waypoints every 5000Ly or so just to keep me sane on the way back. Since last Thursday ive covered 45000Ly, and will probably cover the remaining 20000 by the end of today 
Oddly though I'm only rushing back so I can head off on another expedition with some friends to explore beyond the formadine rift
Oddly though I'm only rushing back so I can head off on another expedition with some friends to explore beyond the formadine rift
Read about a bubble around the bubble, where already npc interdictions can happen... if thats true, saving some jumponium for the last plot into the bubble could make sense!?
Ha! Thanks for this.
. Not until I read this did I ever consider that jumping through the core violates the conservation of angular momentum and energy. As we jump to a lower orbit our orbital velocity in normal space changes to whatever system we are currently in! So in tearing a hole through the fabric of space time some rotational and gravitational potential energy is destroyed? Where does it go I wonder? Maybe we are slowly unstitching the fabric of the cosmos one jump at a time? Maybe that's also why leaving witch space sounds so much more violent than entering it?I'm travelling back the same route as we left and nearly at WP23, 9000ly from Beagle.
A word of caution.
5000 ly from Beagle I almost stranded myself without ANY routes to ANYWHERE!
I ran into an area where I could not proceed and used some 100% Jumponium to extricate myself,
only to find the system I jumped to had me stranded. Now with no jump fuel I could not back track!!!
Fortunately and after two days of trial and error I managed to back track 500 ly and circumvent the void.
Phew!
A word of caution.
5000 ly from Beagle I almost stranded myself without ANY routes to ANYWHERE!
I ran into an area where I could not proceed and used some 100% Jumponium to extricate myself,
only to find the system I jumped to had me stranded. Now with no jump fuel I could not back track!!!
Fortunately and after two days of trial and error I managed to back track 500 ly and circumvent the void.
Phew!
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