I made it.

Morbad

Morbad
My 55,000 light-year journey, as part of the Buckyball A*, in a combat FDL, came to a successful close yesterday.

It's good to be back. Now if only selling exploration data was faster than collecting it...

Went from a total of ~1,800 systems visited to over 6,200. Most of it was just pinging and jumping, but I did stop to scan several sites that caught my eye. Expecting somewhere in the ballpark of 40 million profit.

Original Buckyball A* entry: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=138772&p=2372309&viewfull=1#post2372309

Video of the last leg of the trip (available in 1080p60 now, 1440p60 whenever Youtube gets around to it):
[video=youtube;1i-YSqoVNCE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i-YSqoVNCE[/video]

I'll get around to posting some highlights eventually. My documentation methods are atrocious and I reinstalled Windows twice on the trip so much of my stuff buried in backups.

Sold the SS Minnow, and am cutting a swath through CZs in an Imperial Courier as I hop around the civilized bubble selling data for optimal reppage.
 

Raiko

Raiko
Welcome back Morbad, an epic journey indeed - anyone who undertakes that kind of journey in a non-exploration ship has my complete respect, I couldn't do it.

If you're not done with exploration-racing, perhaps you'll join us in The Buckyball Racing Club Galactic Rally 3301 in November?
 

Cmdr Raz

Cmdr Raz
Well done, Commander - congrats on the succesful run. Impressive on its own, even more so in a combat-specced FDL :)!
 

Morbad

Morbad
Thanks guys.

Finally sold all my data (used it to get several ranks and permits in various locales) and the haul was just under 50 mill. I went from the middle of Trailblazer to 90% on Ranger. All-in-all, not too bad for what was originally supposed to be a race. I only did about 500-600 detailed scans, but well over half were things no one else had seen before.
 
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