My first time outside "The Bubble"...

Himilco

Himilco
I spent my early career trading...following in the footsteps of my ancient Earth ancestors the Phoenicians. I piloted a heavily modified Cobra, the ISS Tyre, around the Lave-Diso-Fujin-Altair-Lave trade route until I'd accumulated 17m in credits...enough to purchase an ASP, beautiful and custom built for deep space exploration. I was able to outfit it properly with all the best high end kit while still having sufficient funds remaining to cover the insurance replacement cost....as well as a 1.5M credit nest egg "just in case."

With that bit of business sorted, I left my beloved Cobra docked in Altair and set out from my homeworld of Lave in my shiny new ASP, the ISS Phoenicia. I'd heard of many explorers fixated on the Galactic Core...Sag A and all of that. My interests drew me in other directions..the exact OPPOSITE direction in fact...outward...towards the Galactic edge. I'm now outside the "bubble" of inhabited space...and headed steadily outward. My passion is to peer into the abyss of not just inter-stellar space...but to get as far outwards as I possibly can...and peer into the void of inter-GALACTIC space. Sit and let THAT sink in for while.

I've visited 27 systems, so far. I've not yet been credited with any "discoveries"...but assume that will happen in due time as I proceed further outward. I've seen no Earth like worlds. A terraformable water world, a giant water world, and 3 gas giants with life. 2 with ammonia based life in their atmospheres...1 with water based life.

I'll beam back pics and further reports as time allows...until then, safe explorations friends.

Commander Himilco, out.
 

Himilco

Himilco
~ 650 LY from Lave and still headed directly outward...I'm finding it difficult to avoid the temptation to divert to a nearby nebula....but there will be others. I am obsessed with peering into the abyss of inter-galactic space.

Nothing of much interest to report on at this point. I have been fastidiously scanning each system I visit. All systems still at 100%.

I did have a moment of who's looking at who last night, though.

Eerie.

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Commander Himilco, out.
 

Himilco

Himilco
I stumbled upon a water world with an ammonia atmosphere tonight....I took the appropriate scans. No signs of life...human, microbial, Thargoid or otherwise.

The journey continues outwards....ever outwards!

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Ripster

Ripster
Nice journey so far - thumbs up :)

You get credited with discovering a system when you get back and sell the info. Just getting there is only half the story - getting back and telling people about your finds is the other half of the story ;)

Fly safe and enjoy your journey :)
 

Himilco

Himilco
~750 LY from Lave now. All vital ship systems are still at 100%. I've reached an area of space not yet visited by other explorers and am racking up quite a few "virgin" scans. It feels good to finally be exploring systems not yet seen by the eyes of men (or women. :D ) The enormity of the task at hand is REALLY starting to sink in at this point. System after system of ice worlds...asteroid fields...gas giants. The galaxy is tremendously HUGE...and based on my admittedly small sample size thus far (50 fully explored systems), anything close to an Earth-like world...or even a terraformable world seems painfully rare. We truly ARE alone, it seems. Staggering.

I did find a water world with an argon-rich atmosphere that my DSS claimed was terraformable. It didn't look like the type of place to call home to me...and there were precious few other resources in that system to make the effort of colonizing it worthwhile...but I dutifully collected the data and will turn it in to UC if/when I get home again.

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Safe explorations, everyone.

Commander Himilco, out.
 
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Himilco

Himilco
~1k LY from Lave now. All vital systems still at 100% despite a VERY close call with a binary star system. I warped in on 0 throttle...and was able to pick a direction and get out of harms way while only heating my hull to 77% of it's capacity. I got the smoking dashboard but no damage....well, the Captain's chair will need some attention as will my trousers. But, it could have been much worse.

I encountered my first black hole tonight. I attempted to get close enough to take an interesting photograph but lost my nerve. Coming this far only to be instantly converted into a tiny flash of gamma radiation if I got too close did not appeal to me. I did get a full scan, though. I also found a system with 3 terraform-able water worlds...each with active carbon-water based life. UC will be thrilled to have that data if I make it home.

The ISS Phoenicia and I are currently in a standard orbit around one of the water worlds I discovered tonight. I'll attend to the uh...mess...in the Captain's chair and resume my journey outward tomorrow. I leave you with a blindingly luminescent star along with an unfortunate planet being cooked to a solid black charcoal brick with only the slightest evidence of molten rock oozing through the crust.

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Safe travels, fellow explorers.

Commander Himilco, out.
 

Himilco

Himilco
~1.5k LY from Lave now. All vital systems still at 100%.

I discovered my first Earth-Like World tonight...a VERY welcome sight after such a long stretch of virtually NOTHING "home-like"...space is a VERY lonely and hostile place. It's staggering.

The ISS Phoenecia and I are currently in a standard orbit around yet another lonely ice planet on the edge of a M class star system. I'll finish the potta tea I brewed to celebrate the discovery of an ELW and carry on with my outward explorations tomorrow.

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Safe explorations, Commanders.

Commander Himilco, out.
 

Murishani

Murishani
Himilco said:
~1.5k LY from Lave now..... space is a VERY lonely and hostile place. It's staggering.
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at 1500 LY I start getting excited because I'm almost home! This is the first time a game has ever successfully made me feel homesick, or genuinely lonely. When you are several days or more away from home, you know you cant get back any faster, and you just stare at the gulf between you and the nearest station. You know there's close binaries lurking on the way back, the window is on its second crack, your hull is at 75%~, the closest commander on your friends list is 6,500+ LY away and they just logged out for the night so no more idle chatter, just you and an infinite infinite black...
That's exploring in Elite Dangerous.


Ben Ryder said:
How big is the bubble?
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500 LY around the nearest inhabited system, give or take. Sounds big, it's not.
 

Himilco

Himilco
~2.7k LY from Lave now. All vital systems still at 100% due to extremely diligent piloting. (And probably a helping of good luck.)

The enormity of the task I've set for myself has fully sunk in now. System after system after system of literally NOTHING worth discussing. Frozen balls of ice and rock...and high metal content "planets" .000038 the mass of Earth. Utterly useless. Just stepping stones on my journey to the Rim. I'm afraid the witch space has begun speaking to me...occasionally I SWEAR I hear voices...muttering indistinct words...."beware"...."warning"...."danger"....are the ones I think I hear most consistently. I'm sure it's nothing....so I press on. But memories of readings on early Frame Ship Drive pioneers mental problems are starting to grow on my mind.

I DID get a small break from the monotony tonight. I stumbled upon a class Y brown dwarf star....it's so cool that it's barely a star at all...only ~700K. It was surrounded by two pristine metallic rings. I actually dropped out of super cruise and sat and watched the light of that tiny "sun" illuminate those rings...it was...BEAUTIFUL.

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I plan to press on...outward. I'll send reports back as time and circumstance allow.

Safe explorations, Commanders.

Commander Himilco, out
 

insanephoton

insanephoton
Good luck with your journey. Earthlikes and terraformable candidates are out there, it's just that there are many more icy , rocky or high metal planets to be found. The key to staying safe is not to fly when you feel tired. Tiredness leads to mistakes and that's when your most likely to suffer damage.
 

b0rg9

b0rg9
Great thread -- your OP story is very similar to mine. Started off trading my way up to my dream Asp (that sorta sounds funny, "dream asp?"). Anyway, I set out about on my first voyage to the fringe ends of the rim as well. Did not take any tourist stops to nebulae (saved those for the way back).

Didn't find any earthlike's on the edge this time, but found several waterworlds and ammonia worlds -- as well as a host of CFT. Once on the trip back touring nebulae like Heart & Soul and 7822 I longed for the blanker areas of space where finding nuggets of uniqueness felt much more satisfying.

Stay safe and continue to keep us all up-to-date.
 
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