IO to BP
- Thread starter Iron Orchid
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On the 51kly mark - I can almost smell it.
Just crossed the 48KLY line myself....but obviously over 10KLY east of your position.
Frawd
Frawd
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Wow, you're moving quick!
Frawd
Frawd
I was - reached the edge of the Abyss and couldn't find a route - now skirting along eastwards towards you to try to find a crossing point. Looks like there may be a better chance a couple of Kly . Fingers crossed anyway.
IO
IO
So I might make it across before you after all
Frawd
Probabl..
It's very tricky working a route through the gap.
Anyone got any good techniques?
I'm using shorter routes (and will use Jumponium as a last resort) but I'm afraid that I'll get halfway across and have to return.
IO
Slowly edging "east" - I'm going to go about 2.5 to 3kly then try again to cross - gone about 2kly tonight - otherwise it's further around the edge.
Had another "emergency stop" as too close to Sun - didn't understand why though as I didn't think I was . No hull damage - just a bit of module damage repaired with my supercharged AFMUs. All back at 100%. Power Plant still at 95%- Hull at 94%.
Had another "emergency stop" as too close to Sun - didn't understand why though as I didn't think I was . No hull damage - just a bit of module damage repaired with my supercharged AFMUs. All back at 100%. Power Plant still at 95%- Hull at 94%.
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My hull is at 94%...but since I am sans AFMU many of my modules are considerably worse that 100%
Frawd
Frawd
Well, this is going well. Currently still travelling "east" on the 5000ish mark. Will carry on to Roncevaux (my original target until I decided to chance the quick route -now known as the slow route!). Probably catch up with Frawd on the other side - plan to meet up with some other commanders as well.
Watch out for a large cloud of unscoopables riding on the galactic plane...pain in the <blanked out by FD>! Certainly a challenge to get over to Carina-Sagittarius arm.
Frawd
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That was more like - I turned "NE" around the 7000 mark and headed out. Easy plotting 1000kly routes possible ( although the number of jumps higher than normal per route). They seem to be dark patches of sparse stars that you can't plot across and you have to go around. I haven't hit any unscoopables ( not in any concentration) yet. Hopefully be over to the far arm tonight/tomorrow. The detour so far has been about 300 jumps ( or roughly what it would have taken to reach BP from my arrival point at the rim if I could've crossed there).
The dark patches may have been the trouble further "west" but are less visible against the lower star density. That's something to investigate on the way back.
On to BP. I'm not sure it's worth posting the distance to BP as I'm still moving slightly away and it's the route looks a bit of a dogleg. As soon as I reach the far arm proper I'm start giving distance.
IO
The dark patches may have been the trouble further "west" but are less visible against the lower star density. That's something to investigate on the way back.
On to BP. I'm not sure it's worth posting the distance to BP as I'm still moving slightly away and it's the route looks a bit of a dogleg. As soon as I reach the far arm proper I'm start giving distance.
IO
Yes, several times lately I have moved away from BP while trying to move towards it...kind of like a maze
Frawd
Frawd
View attachment 99869I've passed to the other side: 59223 ly from Sol and 11670ly from BP.
I am about 6KLY to your right in this picture...
Frawd
Frawd
I'm 4.5kly away, almost due north of you on the opposite side of the arm
(which puts me about 8kly from Frawd as the interstellar super-crow flies)
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I'm 4.5kly away, almost due north of you on the opposite side of the arm
(which puts me about 8kly from Frawd as the interstellar super-crow flies)
My 6KLY east of IO was a guesstimate. Maybe as much as 10KLY.
Frawd