My 14,000 System Journey

Allitnil

Allitnil
It was supposed to be a quickish jaunt out to Sagittarius A* and back. Turned out a little different!

Departing from the Tolini system in my Cobra Mk III Roncevaux on February 13th, I reached Sagittarius A* on the 18th. I had intended to then make a leisurely return taking in some nebulae, but I just couldn't help taking a peek at what lay on the other side of the core... Ten days later I found myself making the crossing to the outer galactic arm where I spent a couple of weeks exploring, eventually reaching 65,099 LY from Sol. Returning from the outer arm I then mapped the next one to see how far 'north' it's possible to get in a medium range ship without making the long detour to the outer arm. It took a few days, but I reached 60,002 LY north on March 17th and then set my sights for home.

On March 25th I reached the northern neutron star fields and explored them for the next ten days until one too many too-close encounters with a black hole resulted in a cracked canopy. That was the signal to go home and I reached colonised space on April 15th. Five (!) days later I had finally sold all the data.

Trip stats:
61 days (plus 5 to sell the data)
14,058 systems visited between dockings
379 million credits profit
82 Earth-like worlds (all previously undiscovered when I visited them)
6 planetary nebulae (4 previously undiscovered)

My approximate route:
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The Roncevaux safely home at Jameson Memorial where she will stay for now:
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She served me very well, seeing me safely home despite some rather tired & emotional flying at times ;). At the end of the trip, the hull and power plant were at 89% and the cockpit (canopy) at 88%. All other important modules were at 100% having fully repaired them with the AFMU before making the approach to home (loads of ammo left). I've left her unrepaired, but it would have only cost 31,000 credits to have her back in pristine state and ready for another long trip.


My holiday snaps (very pic heavy!):

Ringed earth-like world
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Checking the weather on an ELW
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Joint sun and ELW rise on a twin ELW in a barycentric orbit
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Super-heated gas giant in very close orbit of a neutron star
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A molten planet with a similarly coloured planetary nebula in the background
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Four suns rise within a planetary nebula
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A very rare example of 4 planets in a quad-barycentric orbit
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and how their orbit lines look
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Triple back hole system with a neutron star. 6 class M stars, a class K and a class L are orbiting two of the back holes.
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Colours within planetary nebulae:

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Flying away from one of the planetary nebula
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A selfie taken near the edge of the outer rim
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The most obloid gas giant I've seen
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JANS (just another nebula shot)
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Extreme black hole lensing
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A ringed ammonia world
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and two of them in barycentric orbit
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Soulkiller

S
Holy Molly. Amazing trip commander! I am considering as well going for a great exploration tour in my Anaconda as I have wrecked enough NPC pirates in my life. I think I need a change of scenery.
 

Cola_BH

C
wow this is just unbelivable the time spent...I think you are flying an anaconda now eh?how much money did you start with and what is cobra jump range?When exploring do you explore all or skip all icy/rocky planets and just go for black holes and neutron stars/earth like worlds and gas giants?
 

Pilot Mark

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Congratulations, sounds like a nice trip.

I had similar problems selling data too, ended up downloading one of these "automatic mouse" programs, set it up to do the necessary clicks at the right time and just left it running for two nights.

So, begs the question - where next?
 

R'awx Najjar

R'awx Najjar
Impressive. Just yesterday I departed populated space with my Clipper, I plan to circumvent the entire galaxy, possibly jumping to the core at some point along the way (probably at the last quarter of the circle). I expect I won't be around for longer than I've played this game (since early February or so).
 

YoBuck

YoBuck
Amazing work CMDR im just headed out there, about 150 systems scanned 4000ly from sol, trying to cross an arm with hardly any systems to route to.
 

TheThingIs

TheThingIs
jeeze, I knew you'd hit 10k but another 4k as well!!!! I was trying to do the highest paid single trip and am almost home after 6k systems but I bow my head to you for this, it's epic. Should I turn back around and do some more....no no, hell no says Marvin the pixel :)

Congratulations CMDR!
 

ColdFish

ColdFish
Congratulations CMDR and welcome back.*

61 days sounds long (and your trip certainly was) but can you estimate or know how long it actually took you in playtime hours? 61 days can be anything from 61h to 1200h, depending if you played for 1 or 20 hours a day, and isn't really a good measure of time...

Anyway, props again.

Cheers!


* rep only once I get back to a pc... somebody, please, give us the option to rep in the mobile version forum...
 
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