Exploration plans - is this wise?

[EnlightBystand]

Hi all

I'm planning to set out soon on a big exploration run, and circumnavigate the galaxy. The one limitation I'm putting on it is that i want to stay between 23,899.99 and 27,899.99 lightyears from Sag A* - ie +-2Kylies from Sol's distance out.

My question before I start out is - is this madness? Is there any obvious problems with this - for example, am I going to be setting myself up to be crossing the Abyss sideways or similar?

Planning to buy up my Annie with around a 30light year jump range if that's relevant.

 

[Cmdr Frawd Digger]

Hi all
I'm planning to set out soon on a big exploration run, and circumnavigate the galaxy. The one limitation I'm putting on it is that i want to stay between 23,899.99 and 27,899.99 lightyears from Sag A* - ie +-2Kylies from Sol's distance out.
My question before I start out is - is this madness? Is there any obvious problems with this - for example, am I going to be setting myself up to be crossing the Abyss sideways or similar?
Planning to buy up my Annie with around a 30light year jump range if that's relevant.

I say go for it Cmdr! See what happens...that's what exploration is all about.

Post your adventures so we can follow along.

Frawd

 

[Satsuma]

You should be fine! Stars are still pretty thick in between the galactic arms at that distance from the core. I'd imagine there'd be some badlands of unscoopable stars, but if they're anything like Aucock's Pocket, they should be fairly easy to get through.

 

[dognosh]

Hi all

I'm planning to set out soon on a big exploration run, and circumnavigate the galaxy. The one limitation I'm putting on it is that i want to stay between 23,899.99 and 27,899.99 lightyears from Sag A* - ie +-2Kylies from Sol's distance out.

My question before I start out is - is this madness? Is there any obvious problems with this - for example, am I going to be setting myself up to be crossing the Abyss sideways or similar?

Planning to buy up my Annie with around a 30light year jump range if that's relevant.

I say go for it !!!!!

Currently I am doing just that, and all 6 cardinal points, and a visit to sag A*, and Beagle point, god knows when I'll be back !
A very rough map is as follows :

 

[Cmdr Frawd Digger]

I say go for it !!!!!
Currently I am doing just that, and all 6 cardinal points, and a visit to sag A*, and Beagle point, god knows when I'll be back !
A very rough map is as follows :
http://i.imgur.com/i6xY5d2.jpg

who knew? you're very secretive Cmdr...


Or I am just blind (also a possibility)?

where are you in this great adventure?

Edit: I see you gave a little hint here:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=220552

Frawd

 

[EnlightBystand]

Thanks guys. I'm going for it.

I've spent a couple of days doing bulk shipping to get a nice cash barrier, and then I've picked up this beauty:



Fully speced out here:

http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/...4482i2f.Iw18ZlA=.IwBhrSunco==?bn=Exploraconda

I've speced her for Fuel ratting as well - I'm going to volunteer for them tomorrow night and get trained up, so that if I happen to be in the right part of space I can help out.

 

[EnlightBystand]

Here's my pre-departure exploration data - this trip will definately push me to Pioneer, posibly even touch on Elite. The max distance from the start is just plain wrong - I've been to Sag A* but no further...

 

[Traveller_GG]

In answer to your original question:

Who gives a flying fart if it's wise!?!

Just do it

We'll see you in about 8 months.

 

[-VR- pipestein]

I say go for it !!!!!

Currently I am doing just that, and all 6 cardinal points, and a visit to sag A*, and Beagle point, god knows when I'll be back !
A very rough map is as follows :

Right on Dognosh. that looks like an almost exact reverse of the route I am taking. Maybe we will meet up along the way somewhere.

 

[dognosh]

Right on Dognosh. that looks like an almost exact reverse of the route I am taking. Maybe we will meet up along the way somewhere.

Not happening pip !!! I have a job contract that came sooner than I thought, so my thinking that I have another 3 months of leisure was wrong !
That's why I came back 6500 LY last night at max speed to start prospecting for DW(which I will do now)
have some rep back !

 

[EnlightBystand]

I'm on my way!

spent a couple of days moving out of the bubble, first stop was the Veil West Nebula:



From there I started further West, where i ran into a bit of suprise - my first Earth like of the trip:



I'm not telling where this is, as the big suprise was that it was an unexplored Earhlike, less than 2 kylies from Sol. I'm hoping that by the time I'm back to sell, it still will be....

 

[EnlightBystand]

Still going, slowly but surely. I'm now almost 6.5kylies from Sol, but there is still the odd sign of humanity - for example, this poor soul, who wreck I've just found. I mark his passing, at Blau Thua QD-K d8-30, coordinates -5965.625 / 54.125 / 2278.0625.

 

[bkrownd]

I'm not telling where this is, as the big suprise was that it was an unexplored Earhlike, less than 2 kylies from Sol. I'm hoping that by the time I'm back to sell, it still will be....

Yeah, there's a LOT left to discover, even on the very edges of the Bubble.