Well, I made it.
I was ahead of the fleet until WP10, when the new ship modules were announced. Having travelled about 5,000 out of WP10, I decided that two more modules in a Sidewinder were just too good an opportunity to miss. Especially when you have no shield, no limpets, no AFMU and a desire to Neutron jump.
So at that point, I turned around, and headed back to Explorer's Anchorage. I know I could have suicided but, you know, Roleplay. Over the next few days coming up to the update, I flew back to Sag-A and parked there awaiting my shiny new AFMU to add to the module slot that would have lain empty otherwise.
I went into outfitting in Explorer's Anchorage, before the update, to check their stores. No size 1 AFMU in stock. Damn. I'd travelled 10,000 backwards to get something that didn't exist. So What to do ? I overheard someone mention 1A AFMU's for sale in Ratraii, near Colonia. Heck its only a few thousand more, so leaving Anchorage behind, I swept backwards again, this time to Ratraii system. The update landed my with two new modules, and a nice 1A AFMU was fitted. I also dropped off my Mining equipment that had dropped my range down to 31 lightyears.
With this upgrade, and a chaff launcher for fireworks, I set out neutron jumping back to WP10, WP11 and Beagle. My previous journey to BP in my Hauler, back in 3302 came in handy for mapping the route through the Abyss, especially since the two craft separated by 3 years of development were only .2 light years of range apart - 34 for the Hauler back then 33.8 now in my "Chromed Alone" Sidewinder.
I jumped and scooped through the abyss and onto BP, getting planetside on May 6th, couple of days later than planned but with a nice AFMU truly a very healthy ship once I got there.
I kept detailed logs of this second "Space madness" reverse detour from Anchorage, back to Colonia, and back up through WP 10 and 11, here are some numbers just for this portion from detour to Beagle Point:
Total Distance | 68128.975 |
Number Jumps | 1852 |
Number Jumps ( Boosted ) | 166 |
Average Jump Distance | 36.8065775257 |
Max Boosted Jump Distance | 133.37 |
Max Non-Boosted Distance | 34.057 |
Max Fuel Used | 0.989844 |
# Times fuel tank drained | 3 |
# FSD Repairs | 15 |
# AFMU Refils ( Basic ) | 5 |
# AFMU Refils ( Standard ) | 2 |
Min seconds between jumps | 43 |
Arrival with a few "big guys" in the background ( that guardian fighter's bigger than me! )
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