Kremmen's Exploration Holiday Snaps (Departure Date: June 12, 3301)

[CaptainKremmen]

Hi folks.

Here are some pretty pictures from my ongoing travels.

...and I'll try not to ramble (for once). Will let the images speak for themselves. Note: I don't use any post-processing like SweetFX (perhaps I should), but I have bumped up a few detail-level items in the game XML files.

Enjoy!


Departure for Barnard's Loop

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Towards Eta Carina

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Eta Carina Nebula

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Coreward Bound (Slightly Below the Galactic Plane)

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Crossing the Inner Spiral Arms

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Navigating the Neutron (and Black Hole) Fields

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** Caution - Black Hole Visual Spoilers Inside **

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Rest Stop

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Onward and Inward

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More to come! The journey continues...

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Spectacular screenies! Would watch again.

 

[hoppryngil]

Really beautiful shots from your travels. Hopefully we'll get to see many more.

 

[Cmdr Raz]

Nice pics, Commander - looking forward to the updates!

 

[Lupin]

Nice shots, more reasons to keep exploring.

 

[Ziljan]

Excellent photographic work!! Your camera skills are definitely on par with your writing and wit. Btw I really enjoyed your newsflash addition to my power play bedtime story .

 

[Engadine]

Wow.... Those are some truly awesome shots you've taken!

 

[antonygoldrick]

Really really great pics.

Some of these are stunning

 

[Stressfest]

Lovely work

 

[Macros Black]

Great shots

Great shots, I can see you spent time aligning for the pictures, Cmdr.

Fly dangerous

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

Fantastic and also great to see some solid DBE explorer shots too

 

[CaptainKremmen]

Galactic Holiday Snaps - Part II

Some more weird and wonderful sights from my ongoing trip...


Oddities



First off, something the Stellar Forge came up with when it was very drunk...

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Join the Stellar Objects to make a _______________

With apologies to the late Douglas Adams, proof that the whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent...

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A gas giant that was left out in the sun too long...

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Miscellaneous Pretty Things from 2000 LY directly "under" the Galactic Core

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Amazing Sights Way Down Deep Below the Core

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Rock Bottom

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Heading for Sagittarius A*

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I'm not posting images from Sagittarius A* itself. Don't want to spoil it for anyone!

Close Encounter with Rings

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Random Sightseeing, Leaving the Core

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Nebulae (Various)

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Getting Toasty

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Sightseeing, Homeward Bound

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A Thing for Rings

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Diamondback Explorer - Still Running Like New

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[Cmdr Raz]

Another batch of beautiful pics - thanks for sharing Commander

 

[Philip Coutts]

Some beautiful images there Commander. Safe travels.

 

[CaptainKremmen]

Bringing this nine-week trip to a close...



Baked Enamel Paint

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Nebula Backdrop

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Down and Safe

The Diamondback Explorer returns to civilisation, with 91% hull, canopy glass intact, and all equipment in fine working order. Paint and Integrity were both at rock-bottom.

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Uploading Cartographic Data

A big shout out to my corporate sponsor, Universal Cartographics! Their contribution towards my trip totalled 49.6MCR.

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New Explorer Rank

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My rank went from "Pathfinder" to "Ranger" to "Pioneer"...




...but only just! Pathfinder is on 0%...

All in all, that was a great trip!

I had one uncomfortable moment 800 LY out from human-populated space, where I came across a lone CMDR... who went all hollow triangle. I jumped away safely. Apart from that potentially unpleasant situation, the trip back to dock was trouble-free.


Big shout out to CMDR DaMorgs from Angeli Imperial, who accompanied me in a Wing from the edge of the bubble through to Wangal, where I wished to sell my scan data. The security protection detail was very much appreciated - thanks!

 

[Cmdr Raz]

Welcome back, Commander - and thanks for some great pics of your fantastic journey

EDIT: Sorry, I can only give imaginary rep

 

[Danger Mouse]

I had one uncomfortable moment 800 LY out from human-populated space, where I came across a lone CMDR... who went all hollow triangle. I jumped away safely. Apart from that potentially unpleasant situation, the trip back to dock was trouble-free.

Deep-space griefing, a nightmare situation. He was probably just scanning and was more afraid of you than you were of him but it's better to be safe than sorry. I kept seeing you on the galaxy map and wondered if you would ever return. Welcome home, cmdr. Nice photos btw.

 

[CaptainKremmen]

Yes, probably innocently scanning the star while refuelling.

But who the hell wants to see a hollow triangle directly behind you... with fifty million credits' worth of scan data on board... and in a ship with shields so low spec they are running off a 9-volt battery?