Ok so I'm an idiot, but in my defence I am on vacation and smoked a little too much onion Head this afternoon over on Kappa F!
Decided to take a break from CG and called over Dora my Asp explorer to run a famous explorer 1k + LY away to take a look at a giant carbon star. Obviously she wanted to keep the mission low key and asked me not to get scanned.
No problem. I said.
We head out into the black, notching one particularly impressive 205 LY jump thanks to a neutron star and the newly upgraded FSD engineering shenanigans.
When we arrive, the star is huge and she gets her data and tells me to head back. I'm pretty mellow by this point and stick on some Firefly in the oculus dash window to watch on my way back... not very professional I know but hey!
I selected only scoopable stars and white dwarves on the way back and so wasn't paying much attention to the fuel gauge. Unluckily I hit empty one jump away from drop off and emerged at a white dwarf!
Turns out that there was an M class star in the system but it was nearly 200k ls away and my fuel was pretty much at nil. I searched the system map and found a small settlement on a planet 25k ls away and decided to try my luck.
I made it all the way, running on fumes by the end, before being scanned twice seconds away from the pad! Mission failed!
I sat back in my seat, surveying the scene, as my passenger disembarks in an embarrassed huff at being discovered paying for someone to fly her into the black!
I chuckled, then winced at the 2.8 million creeds she took with her and headed on back over to the CG.
Anyone who says this game lacks depth isn't playing properly.
Decided to take a break from CG and called over Dora my Asp explorer to run a famous explorer 1k + LY away to take a look at a giant carbon star. Obviously she wanted to keep the mission low key and asked me not to get scanned.
No problem. I said.
We head out into the black, notching one particularly impressive 205 LY jump thanks to a neutron star and the newly upgraded FSD engineering shenanigans.
When we arrive, the star is huge and she gets her data and tells me to head back. I'm pretty mellow by this point and stick on some Firefly in the oculus dash window to watch on my way back... not very professional I know but hey!
I selected only scoopable stars and white dwarves on the way back and so wasn't paying much attention to the fuel gauge. Unluckily I hit empty one jump away from drop off and emerged at a white dwarf!
Turns out that there was an M class star in the system but it was nearly 200k ls away and my fuel was pretty much at nil. I searched the system map and found a small settlement on a planet 25k ls away and decided to try my luck.
I made it all the way, running on fumes by the end, before being scanned twice seconds away from the pad! Mission failed!
I sat back in my seat, surveying the scene, as my passenger disembarks in an embarrassed huff at being discovered paying for someone to fly her into the black!
I chuckled, then winced at the 2.8 million creeds she took with her and headed on back over to the CG.
Anyone who says this game lacks depth isn't playing properly.
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