Well, I know that this is far from any records or truly unusual voyages, but the expedition still was adventurous and interesting for me and I want to tell others about it.
Recently my first serious long deep space journey through and around the galaxy has finally concluded: 8-month out of the bubble, half of which are without any docking, about a million light years traveled, and more than 5 billion of income for data. On top of that: first-discovered planter nebula, name in the codex, my own “Reflected Cradle” project completion, a bunch of new POIs for EDSM and lots of rechecked and updated POIs. Actually, I can tell you a lot about the expedition, remembering all funny and bizarre moments, mentioning quirky situations and minor interesting places, but in this case the post will hardly be fully read by anyone, so I will try to be more or less short, skipping non-crucial and monotonous moments of this voyage. Also, if you are interested in my POIs or Reflected Cradle, the former ones are in GMP thread and the latter one has a separate post, not to overload this already big post with more text. There will be just minor mentions of these two when they are needed. Well, enough with the introductions, let’s get to the point!
Prologue
I had an idea of going to Sagittarius A* (Sag), Colonia (Col), other side of the galaxy, Beagle Point (BP) and etc, I think since my 300-400 hours of playing, when I finally decided to dive deep into the game (yeah, my first 200-300 hours I just flew sidewinder and cobra just for fun without getting into details). But I didn’t want it to be just a straight line trip from A to B, I wanted to make it a real voyage and adventure, so I planned an approximate route and started to build the appropriate ship. Though I love DBX and kinda hate flying big ships, because of duration and difficulty of such a long voyage, which I likely would have to perform all alone (and I had to), the only really suitable ship left was Anaconda (conda). All in all, after material grinding and rest of engineers unlocking I finally created my Explorer’s Dream conda. Why was it named like that? Well, cause it’s really an explorer’s dream: the ship has all facilities for long voyages and plus some support function like refueling (yeah, it’s useless in solo voyage, but just as a fact). I’ve also installed 4 SRVs hoping that we would have SRV multicrew by the time this thing flies (but we all know the rest). And yeah… this building happened back in 2017, I’m not really a person who releases the ideas quickly and promptly, but nevermind. I made a test 15k ly 2-week flight to test the ship and it performed greatly, but because of 3.3 and exploration changes news I left it and the idea for nearly a year.
Ship Build (and yes, I’ve maxed the upgrades of the conda when 3.1 engineer update came out)
Initially planned route (different colors – different stages, forget about white stage it was optional)
The Expedition
Objectives Of The Expedition:
Well, in reality, there were none on the start, except Reflected Cradle Project and getting to BP and back more or less alive – most of them were coming to my mind as the expedition unfolded. So, consider this as a list of post factum accomplished goals rather than a preliminarily made sheet of objectives.
Green Stage
I set off from Jackson’s Lighthouse on January 26 into the unknown not really knowing what intermediate points to visit and not really knowing how much I was going to spend in the black. So I flew to the in the direction of Sagittarius through dark regions. My first solid waypoint was the Cat’s Paw, plus some minor nebulas on the way and landing on 9.7G planet in HD 148937. At that time, though having a EDSM account I was kinda reluctant to use it as a catalog of interesting places because of large amount of points on the map. But later, after reaching Morgan’s Rock in NGC 6188, when their density lowered I started to think, “well why not” and discovered the real codex of galaxy gems, not the mediocre one which FD implemented.
After getting to Cat’s Paw I went in Col direction to Rohini, checking all major nebulas on the way. Not much to tell about things there except big cluster near Omega nebula, station flying above the rings in Lagoon and some occasional anomalies and fine places.
Recently my first serious long deep space journey through and around the galaxy has finally concluded: 8-month out of the bubble, half of which are without any docking, about a million light years traveled, and more than 5 billion of income for data. On top of that: first-discovered planter nebula, name in the codex, my own “Reflected Cradle” project completion, a bunch of new POIs for EDSM and lots of rechecked and updated POIs. Actually, I can tell you a lot about the expedition, remembering all funny and bizarre moments, mentioning quirky situations and minor interesting places, but in this case the post will hardly be fully read by anyone, so I will try to be more or less short, skipping non-crucial and monotonous moments of this voyage. Also, if you are interested in my POIs or Reflected Cradle, the former ones are in GMP thread and the latter one has a separate post, not to overload this already big post with more text. There will be just minor mentions of these two when they are needed. Well, enough with the introductions, let’s get to the point!
Prologue
I had an idea of going to Sagittarius A* (Sag), Colonia (Col), other side of the galaxy, Beagle Point (BP) and etc, I think since my 300-400 hours of playing, when I finally decided to dive deep into the game (yeah, my first 200-300 hours I just flew sidewinder and cobra just for fun without getting into details). But I didn’t want it to be just a straight line trip from A to B, I wanted to make it a real voyage and adventure, so I planned an approximate route and started to build the appropriate ship. Though I love DBX and kinda hate flying big ships, because of duration and difficulty of such a long voyage, which I likely would have to perform all alone (and I had to), the only really suitable ship left was Anaconda (conda). All in all, after material grinding and rest of engineers unlocking I finally created my Explorer’s Dream conda. Why was it named like that? Well, cause it’s really an explorer’s dream: the ship has all facilities for long voyages and plus some support function like refueling (yeah, it’s useless in solo voyage, but just as a fact). I’ve also installed 4 SRVs hoping that we would have SRV multicrew by the time this thing flies (but we all know the rest). And yeah… this building happened back in 2017, I’m not really a person who releases the ideas quickly and promptly, but nevermind. I made a test 15k ly 2-week flight to test the ship and it performed greatly, but because of 3.3 and exploration changes news I left it and the idea for nearly a year.
Ship Build (and yes, I’ve maxed the upgrades of the conda when 3.1 engineer update came out)
Initially planned route (different colors – different stages, forget about white stage it was optional)
The Expedition
Objectives Of The Expedition:
Well, in reality, there were none on the start, except Reflected Cradle Project and getting to BP and back more or less alive – most of them were coming to my mind as the expedition unfolded. So, consider this as a list of post factum accomplished goals rather than a preliminarily made sheet of objectives.
- Visit Colonia, Sagittarius A*, Beagle Point
- Reach The Void Sector and galaxy edge in it
- Check and examine all locations for Reflected Cradle Project
- Visit as many beautiful places on the way as I can
- Visit as many undefined\unfinished POIs as possible: verify presence (or absence) of old POIs, provide new data on old POIs, provide lacked data on some POIs, provide screenshots on some POIs, check the relevance of the POIs (all in all, help EDSM and GMP as much as I can).
- Find and submit new POIs for GMP
- Find and submit POIs in sectors with lack of them
- Make photos of the best visited spots
- Land on the highest G planet
- First-discover each type of stellar body in the galaxy (except Helium Gas Giants and bubble-only classes of White Dwarves)
- Get 10 000 first-discovered and 20 000 visited systems on EDSM
- Get Deadly combat rank while being in the black
- Visit and scan all populated systems around Colonia
- Unlock Colonia engineers
- Get into 1 000 000 light years club and 65 000 light years club
- Go over 4 billion credits on the balance after selling the data
Green Stage
I set off from Jackson’s Lighthouse on January 26 into the unknown not really knowing what intermediate points to visit and not really knowing how much I was going to spend in the black. So I flew to the in the direction of Sagittarius through dark regions. My first solid waypoint was the Cat’s Paw, plus some minor nebulas on the way and landing on 9.7G planet in HD 148937. At that time, though having a EDSM account I was kinda reluctant to use it as a catalog of interesting places because of large amount of points on the map. But later, after reaching Morgan’s Rock in NGC 6188, when their density lowered I started to think, “well why not” and discovered the real codex of galaxy gems, not the mediocre one which FD implemented.
After getting to Cat’s Paw I went in Col direction to Rohini, checking all major nebulas on the way. Not much to tell about things there except big cluster near Omega nebula, station flying above the rings in Lagoon and some occasional anomalies and fine places.
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