Commander's Log: 33050617
We're trying a different tactic to get back in time, by trying more shorter stints at flying. Hopefully it should be more manageable, able to fit it around other stuff more easily. It does mean we'll probably cut down the logs unless something happens on one of the legs.
That being said, something did happen today.
We were heading through an area with a lot of brown dwarf stars. Sid was being particularly irritating in his cage, and in trying to deal with him, I failed to notice that we had run out of fuel. So, we jumped into a dwarf system and couldn't get out. The really annoying thing was that this had happened a couple of times this evening, but each time we still had enough fuel for a short jump to a nearby star to refuel. Not this time. Selecting a relatively close star of 4.8Ly away, couldn't manage that. The bar was empty, not even a sliver.
So, after a brief panic (pretty sure R'geli may have hit me, can't quite remember) we put out a call to the legendary Fuel Rats. After a brief kerfuffle with the system name (turns out I can’t spell, 0 and O look very similar on the galactic map and even then, the system wasnt in their database), Commander AlterNERDtive began the long journey out to us. and by long we were talking ETA tomorrow evening. So, we shut everything we could down to conserve fuel, took some pictures of the stranded ship and had a look at the map. The great thing was that we were 6 jumps away from reaching the milestone for the night. It was at that point that R'geli noticed a single star system that was a smidge closer (3.48Ly) than the one I tried. So, with some cheering on from the Fuel Rats' comm channel, we successfully booted up and engaged the FSD, and landed in the saviour system.
With hands in the air and a massive YES over the comms (didnt help that just before someone had asked if I was running low on air, brief moment of panic on their part), we were saved. AlterNERDtive stood down, and all was good. To make that jump and not the other one, we really must have been running on fumes. Next time need to be more aware of fuel situation, or to plot along scoopable stars.
A massive thank you to the Fuel Rats. This incident and the one involving the Hull Seals do make me want to join up to one or both. Maybe once we’ve gotten back and had a chance to recoup a bit.
Sol: 50,580.15Ly, 29 days to go.
We're trying a different tactic to get back in time, by trying more shorter stints at flying. Hopefully it should be more manageable, able to fit it around other stuff more easily. It does mean we'll probably cut down the logs unless something happens on one of the legs.
That being said, something did happen today.
We were heading through an area with a lot of brown dwarf stars. Sid was being particularly irritating in his cage, and in trying to deal with him, I failed to notice that we had run out of fuel. So, we jumped into a dwarf system and couldn't get out. The really annoying thing was that this had happened a couple of times this evening, but each time we still had enough fuel for a short jump to a nearby star to refuel. Not this time. Selecting a relatively close star of 4.8Ly away, couldn't manage that. The bar was empty, not even a sliver.
So, after a brief panic (pretty sure R'geli may have hit me, can't quite remember) we put out a call to the legendary Fuel Rats. After a brief kerfuffle with the system name (turns out I can’t spell, 0 and O look very similar on the galactic map and even then, the system wasnt in their database), Commander AlterNERDtive began the long journey out to us. and by long we were talking ETA tomorrow evening. So, we shut everything we could down to conserve fuel, took some pictures of the stranded ship and had a look at the map. The great thing was that we were 6 jumps away from reaching the milestone for the night. It was at that point that R'geli noticed a single star system that was a smidge closer (3.48Ly) than the one I tried. So, with some cheering on from the Fuel Rats' comm channel, we successfully booted up and engaged the FSD, and landed in the saviour system.
With hands in the air and a massive YES over the comms (didnt help that just before someone had asked if I was running low on air, brief moment of panic on their part), we were saved. AlterNERDtive stood down, and all was good. To make that jump and not the other one, we really must have been running on fumes. Next time need to be more aware of fuel situation, or to plot along scoopable stars.
A massive thank you to the Fuel Rats. This incident and the one involving the Hull Seals do make me want to join up to one or both. Maybe once we’ve gotten back and had a chance to recoup a bit.
Sol: 50,580.15Ly, 29 days to go.
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