Orbiting my first Earth Like - Just 150 jumps from Colonia now ( ~5250 ly )
My Journey
- Thread starter Peppermint Barnstorm
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Sunrise on my second earthlike discovery of the journey!
Having managed to largely suppress the attraction of the varied delights offered by vents and fumaroles. I have finally made it to my new home.
COLONIAAA
In my head I hear this being sung to Vivaldi's Gloria.
I'm kind of disappointed there's not Earth Like planet here. Odd choice for a colony but there we go I suppose. It's been quite a journey here. Now I will spend some time getting access to Ettiene Dorn so I can engineer my life support. I've also decided to make another change to my ship. I'm going to restore the reactor to it's un-overcharged state and run it with 3 layers of armour instead. I'm still stripping down it's main structure as much as possible as that will offset the weight of the armour while still providing more integrity than overcharged / stripped. Double the life span really.
COLONIAAA
In my head I hear this being sung to Vivaldi's Gloria.
I'm kind of disappointed there's not Earth Like planet here. Odd choice for a colony but there we go I suppose. It's been quite a journey here. Now I will spend some time getting access to Ettiene Dorn so I can engineer my life support. I've also decided to make another change to my ship. I'm going to restore the reactor to it's un-overcharged state and run it with 3 layers of armour instead. I'm still stripping down it's main structure as much as possible as that will offset the weight of the armour while still providing more integrity than overcharged / stripped. Double the life span really.
From here I will make the above changes to my ship and then I will once more venture out into the black. Sagittarius A* is next on my visit list.
So I'm at Jaques Station. Poor old Star Step. She is looking decidedly battered. The pixies have peeled off much of her paint despite my best efforts. I will have her repainted now.
I'm collecting pods for Etienne Dorn. But don't worry my friends. I won't actually let you be part of his experiments. I'll rig the pods to register as occupied and change their ident tags after they've been put in storage. That way none of us can be traced.
Etienne ripped off.
Life Support Engineered.
Reactor re-worked.
Cartography data claimed.
Paintwork de-pixied.
Next stop - the super massive black hole known as Sagittarius A*
Life Support Engineered.
Reactor re-worked.
Cartography data claimed.
Paintwork de-pixied.
Next stop - the super massive black hole known as Sagittarius A*
I've finally made it. I never thought I would actually go here but I have indeed made it. Looking into the absolute nothing that is the engine that drives our galaxy.
I've done the sightseeing bit now. I've decided against Beagle Point. I'm sure it's exciting and full of wow but instead I'm doing off grid for at least a month of exploring. I will make the occasional post to keep my story ticking along.
Nice pictures, well done!
Good plan, you can only do so much of the same thing. Colonia is pretty close and a nice place to have a break. Rumor is Beagle Point will be where it is now next year as well.
Good plan, you can only do so much of the same thing. Colonia is pretty close and a nice place to have a break. Rumor is Beagle Point will be where it is now next year as well.
Don't forget to just stop sometimes and just listen to the stars. Also have found a sprig of sage helps with the Spacepixies I think they don't like the smell.
They really did eat all the paint off poor old Star Step this time.
I specifically don't repaint my ship for this reason, I am NOT feeding them it will only encourage them to follow you around.
o7 and welcome CMDR.
May I suggest a small detour first to Hutton Orbital station in Alpha Centauri so you can get your free Anaconda?
Edit: Darn it, must remember to read full thread first
Better luck next time Traveler.Funny you should mention that as I came across this YouTube content creator. Seems thematically suitable when out in the black.
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A quick postlet. I'll try and pop something in here once a week or so. Todays post is some prospecting that I recorded.
Answers to questions that might crop up:
I fitted a pulse laser at Explorer's Anchorage just in case I find a guardian site and need to take down drones. It cost me 2 LY jump range but where I am this is of no consequence. I will remove it before I begin the journey back to Colonia when I'm done exploring.
Yes I was clumsy and dented the hull in this video.
No, this is not good for your cargo scoop. I was just having a bit of fun and demonstrating what I meant when I said surface prospecting was possible without an SRV.
For base materials Asteroids are by far the safest option though you can certainly get rares from them too. I'm slowly building a spreadsheet of what drops from what type of asteroid with frequencies.
Apologies for the low quality. I'm playing on a very old machine, in Linux with the overhead of Wine ( though it's more than playable ) and running OBS and Discord at the same time ( Discord is a resource hog ).
Answers to questions that might crop up:
I fitted a pulse laser at Explorer's Anchorage just in case I find a guardian site and need to take down drones. It cost me 2 LY jump range but where I am this is of no consequence. I will remove it before I begin the journey back to Colonia when I'm done exploring.
Yes I was clumsy and dented the hull in this video.
No, this is not good for your cargo scoop. I was just having a bit of fun and demonstrating what I meant when I said surface prospecting was possible without an SRV.
For base materials Asteroids are by far the safest option though you can certainly get rares from them too. I'm slowly building a spreadsheet of what drops from what type of asteroid with frequencies.
Apologies for the low quality. I'm playing on a very old machine, in Linux with the overhead of Wine ( though it's more than playable ) and running OBS and Discord at the same time ( Discord is a resource hog ).
Nice job ! Just shows, you don't need the SRV !
Core i5 3570k ( overlcocked to 4ghz ) Z77 Mainboard, GTX660, 16gb Ram. Running Mint 19.2 XFCE on a Samsung 500gb SSD I built it about 7 years ago and the tech was a year or two old then.
Without OBS and Discord Running I get 30-60 fps normally and about 25 in stations in Medium Quality. I can play in ultra for screenshots but the framerate drops to 15-20fps which while playable is not ideal. It's the DX11 conversion to Vulkan that produces the overhead and my card is the earliest one that can use Vulkan.
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