Doing what I set out to do

[Traveller_GG]

Not sure if anyone noticed my thread about reasons to join DWE but one of my stated goals was to revisit the far rim. Specifically though I wanted to jump to systems out of any 'normal' jump range, even for a completely stripped down Anaconda.

Well - I'm now exploring a section of (just) 4 systems that you can only reach by means of a 50LY jump but are all reachable from each other via normal length ones. The best of it is that I've found enough j-juice mats to fully replenish my supplies and there's another small group of systems even further out that I can reach via a 47LY jump.

I know it's daft but I feel like I'm exploring off the edge of the Galaxy where I am at the moment.... well that and not seeing all the tagged systems from everyone else previously skimming the rim.

Going to complete these and then move further Eastwards in the hope of finding another few examples

 

[Pharoh]

Good luck CMDR.

It looks like your pushing the limits out there [up]

 

[Traveller_GG]

I've just been singing the Polonium song

Rock Rats remember this one

 

[Mengy]

Out of curiosity Traveller, are you still up in the vicinity of Beagle trying to push out? Close to the zero meridian? And what is your best distance from Sol so far?

I got a personal best of 65,427 lys from Sol during Beagle week. Others have gone farther out and I'm sure I might have been able to as well, but I was in a 33.3 ly Asp and was wishing for more range, so I'll return one day in a longer distance Anaconda to break my record.

 

[schizrade]

You know, you may get stuck and have to blow yourself up, but hell, you are pushing the limits. Make sure and record systems/routes.

 

[Cmdr Frawd Digger]

I've just been singing the Polonium song

Rock Rats remember this one

I can still here Cmdr Eisen's dulcet tones singing "Poloniummmm"...

Don't fall off the edge of the galaxy Cmdr...it's a long way down

Frawd

 

[Traveller_GG]

Out of curiosity Traveller, are you still up in the vicinity of Beagle trying to push out? Close to the zero meridian? And what is your best distance from Sol so far?

I got a personal best of 65,427 lys from Sol during Beagle week. Others have gone farther out and I'm sure I might have been able to as well, but I was in a 33.3 ly Asp and was wishing for more range, so I'll return one day in a longer distance Anaconda to break my record.

You know, I've not checked the distance from Sol as I kind of figured I'd be getting closer so didn't bother. I'll check when I sign on next... I'm at about the 1000 line east of the Meridian and I *think* about the 65K line out

.... and recording.... yeah... I never seem to get 'round to doing that. I just kind of wander vaguely in an area seeing what's there. Bit of an amateur really.

 

[Traveller_GG]

Not saying I like it here, but:

and the 1st of the 3 metallic meteorites produced Polonium

 

[Traveller_GG]

Presently parked up at MYIO THEIA PD-K D8-0, it's got a great view from planet A1

Spoiler

 

[Traveller_GG]

Dropped off the edge again - just after seeing my first potato world I find a couple of stars 40LY apart and a spur of a dozen or so systems 50LY beyond them. Decided to land on a HMC world just 'cos in the first system and found: vanadium, cadmium, niobium and polonium.... now back up to 22 double range jumps and looking at a host of systems no one has been able to reach before.

This is turning out to be great fun

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I've just been singing the Polonium song

Rock Rats remember this one

I don't. Does it go like this?

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Polonium
The Age of Polonium
Polonium! Polonium!

Scoop the sun shine in
Scoop the sun shine in

 

[CDR Michael Darkmoor]

I don't. Does it go like this?

When the moon is in the Seventh House....

--
Ah... No... But props for creative adaptation!
--

 

[Traveller_GG]

--
Ah... No... But props for creative adaptation!
--

Please... don't encourage him




Oh, yes and here's my 1st potato planet:

Spoiler

335km radius, not the smallest by far but it's amazing to land on! The horizon seems to be just a few km away and I swear I could achieve orbit with the SRV boosters

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

That is one funky looking planet. Lovely.

Pretty funky url as well

Please... don't encourage him

See, your problem is, you're not letting the sun shine in.

 

[SMcA]

I don't. Does it go like this?


Scoop the sun shine in

</Groan>

There goes a treasured memory. [down]

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Thanks!

I'm here all week.

 

[Whiterose]

If you have been to the far rim twice, does that male you a Double Rimmer??
I'll get my coat.

 

[Traveller_GG]

If you have been to the far rim twice, does that male you a Double Rimmer??
I'll get my coat.

Mr Flibble's very cross....

 

[Traveller_GG]

I think I went past Frawd last night. Got a little frustrated in that I found what appeared to be a remote system linked to others, only to find when I got to the far side that there was a bridge for a high range 'conda to make it across and a certain thick long haired individual had got there first.

So I decided to buckyball a few thousand LY to go somewhere completely away from BP as that bottleneck is proving to be highly explored. That didn't work out too well.... Earth-likes, innumerable water worlds and even the odd Ammonia world popped up (dammit). That and an even smaller potato planet (just over 200km across) with a 8km deep crater that I got 2/3rds of the way up in the SRV before bouncing down and SURVIVING! Went from 98% to 70% in one hit and then 32% in the next. Frantically repaired the SRV as it sailed out over the crater and landed with 79% from 100.... This meant I would've been down to 11% if I'd left it!

Screenshots to follow

 

[Traveller_GG]

From inside it was an imposing sight:

Spoiler

Didn't realise just how steep it was until I glanced at the terrain radar... I fell off a couple of seconds after getting this image:

Spoiler

but the view from the top was spectacular:

Spoiler