Hello commanders and safe journeys to all.
This would be the report of a five month and something long expedition of the Raspberries and Rum Exploration Team (CMDR Hooten and CMDR Alexander Ventrue) to the Perseus Arm and back, started June, ended November, posted January.
We really were supposed to post this in November, but then real life caught up and it was postponed to December, then December came and we decided to post it as an era of explorers afterbirth, right before we depart for the Distant Worlds expedition, which we also managed to sign up for the last minute.
So I guess this is a Hello and a CV, or more like a pedigree certificate for a mutt.
Background: After our pilgrimage and first long exploration trip to SAG*A around March, we decided to farm for a proper exploring Anaconda, replace our otherwise lovely ASPs and head out again as the now confident and battle hardened Raspberries and Rum Exploration Team. The end of May found us switching on the spot one day, from endless soul crushing trading to exploration outfitting and planning. We decided to head out for some locations we had missed on earlier journeys, specifically certain nebulas rimward of Sol. We ended up trailing the entire Perseus Arm, and returning via Sag*A.
Conditions: Considering that before us the Daedalus Wing had mapped the arm and other explorers had undertaken much larger and perilous journeys, thus breaking records and making us feel inferior and pathetic, especially when we ended up at our first presumably unexplored planetary nebula and it was already explored (it was IC 5217, Cmdr Allitnil, we still remember the ruinous day we saw that name), we decided that certain measures had to come in effect.
So, since none of us had any AFMUs, partly because we shun them as an easy solution to moronic alt-tabbing and partly because we forgot like the complete morons we are, we declared the expedition a free climbing one, also known as alpinist style exploring. No AFMUs, no fixed ropes, just a slightly larger tank and two fuel drones for emergency situations (which in retrospect was absolutely useless).
In the spirit of alpinist exploring, we decided to visit as many AA-A systems and Nebulas that were in our general vicinity, especially if they were high or low in altitude on the galactic plane. System body scanning was kept to a reasonable level, with ELWs, WWs, AWs, being the priority, along with any rare star that was available (a lot of high metal content planets got the shaft as an unfortunate result).
Complications: CMDR Hooten had several idiotic close encounters with stars, especially when youtube was involved, and ended up lowering his hull integrity progressively throughout the expedition, reaching a comfy 68% at the end of the trip. That was irrelevant though, compared to his failing FSD, which started acting up around 7000LY after the Bubble Nebula and kept refusing to function according to its whims till the end. His canopy also had a slight boo boo after our descent from PHOI PHYLOEA AA-A H167, which made his return exciting and I suppose, he refused to crack a joke about it.
CMDR Alexander Ventrue decided to position his ship in the middle of a binary star just before Bubble Nebula in order to take some pictures, alt tabbed, and came back to find his ship cooking in its own liquid silicon. Understandably, he rushed back to the bubble for repairs, mostly due to the huge pillows of smoke that a large gaping hole in the side of his ship was spewing, making space slightly hard to see. After that, he was a bit more careful with astral bumper cars and ended up reaching 82% hull integrity at the end. His canopy though started caving in, right after Sag*A on the way home, with thankfully minimal consequences.
Route:
Started from the general vicinity of the bubble, went straight to Canis Majoris, refueled, went to the Jellyfish Nebula and then off to the Crab Nebula (not pictured).
From there we visited Heart and Soul and the Bubble Nebula, one of my personal favorites due to its whimsical nature. Next stop was IC 5217, aptly named the dissapointment stop.
We continued an erratic course through the arm, visitng AA-A systems and trying to map different altitudes and switch vectors every so often.
At some point we ended up at the already explored nebulas of the arm.
After that we started visiting most of the nearby nebulas, horribly pictured here, with the ultimate goal of climbing to PHOI PHYLOEA AA-A H167, at an altitude of 2.522 LY and with a rather thin star spread.
We climbed, we conquered not much since there were no stars in the nebula, but we did get over and around it and we started descending and consequently returning home, via SAG*A.
Aftermath:
Systems Discovered:
Cmdr Hooten - 4728
Cmdr Alexander Ventrue - 4267
Cartographical Data value: ~100 million
Rank Attained: Elite for the both of us, from Pioneer
Various POIs found, such as Orange Giants in orbit with BHs, binary earth worlds and such, wich eventually will be posted in the Cartography thread, with this rate possibly in the summer.
Two Planetary Nebuals found, one lost in the data, we managed to salvage this one.
LYAISOI AA-Z E7275
Plenty of pictures which won't be posted here for bandwith's sake, here:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/onomatepwnymos/screenshots/
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048028598/screenshots/
We had fun, got valuable experience and we look forward to joining you to Beagle Point for our third major expedition.
This would be the report of a five month and something long expedition of the Raspberries and Rum Exploration Team (CMDR Hooten and CMDR Alexander Ventrue) to the Perseus Arm and back, started June, ended November, posted January.
We really were supposed to post this in November, but then real life caught up and it was postponed to December, then December came and we decided to post it as an era of explorers afterbirth, right before we depart for the Distant Worlds expedition, which we also managed to sign up for the last minute.
So I guess this is a Hello and a CV, or more like a pedigree certificate for a mutt.
Background: After our pilgrimage and first long exploration trip to SAG*A around March, we decided to farm for a proper exploring Anaconda, replace our otherwise lovely ASPs and head out again as the now confident and battle hardened Raspberries and Rum Exploration Team. The end of May found us switching on the spot one day, from endless soul crushing trading to exploration outfitting and planning. We decided to head out for some locations we had missed on earlier journeys, specifically certain nebulas rimward of Sol. We ended up trailing the entire Perseus Arm, and returning via Sag*A.
Conditions: Considering that before us the Daedalus Wing had mapped the arm and other explorers had undertaken much larger and perilous journeys, thus breaking records and making us feel inferior and pathetic, especially when we ended up at our first presumably unexplored planetary nebula and it was already explored (it was IC 5217, Cmdr Allitnil, we still remember the ruinous day we saw that name), we decided that certain measures had to come in effect.
So, since none of us had any AFMUs, partly because we shun them as an easy solution to moronic alt-tabbing and partly because we forgot like the complete morons we are, we declared the expedition a free climbing one, also known as alpinist style exploring. No AFMUs, no fixed ropes, just a slightly larger tank and two fuel drones for emergency situations (which in retrospect was absolutely useless).
In the spirit of alpinist exploring, we decided to visit as many AA-A systems and Nebulas that were in our general vicinity, especially if they were high or low in altitude on the galactic plane. System body scanning was kept to a reasonable level, with ELWs, WWs, AWs, being the priority, along with any rare star that was available (a lot of high metal content planets got the shaft as an unfortunate result).
Complications: CMDR Hooten had several idiotic close encounters with stars, especially when youtube was involved, and ended up lowering his hull integrity progressively throughout the expedition, reaching a comfy 68% at the end of the trip. That was irrelevant though, compared to his failing FSD, which started acting up around 7000LY after the Bubble Nebula and kept refusing to function according to its whims till the end. His canopy also had a slight boo boo after our descent from PHOI PHYLOEA AA-A H167, which made his return exciting and I suppose, he refused to crack a joke about it.
CMDR Alexander Ventrue decided to position his ship in the middle of a binary star just before Bubble Nebula in order to take some pictures, alt tabbed, and came back to find his ship cooking in its own liquid silicon. Understandably, he rushed back to the bubble for repairs, mostly due to the huge pillows of smoke that a large gaping hole in the side of his ship was spewing, making space slightly hard to see. After that, he was a bit more careful with astral bumper cars and ended up reaching 82% hull integrity at the end. His canopy though started caving in, right after Sag*A on the way home, with thankfully minimal consequences.
Route:
Started from the general vicinity of the bubble, went straight to Canis Majoris, refueled, went to the Jellyfish Nebula and then off to the Crab Nebula (not pictured).
From there we visited Heart and Soul and the Bubble Nebula, one of my personal favorites due to its whimsical nature. Next stop was IC 5217, aptly named the dissapointment stop.
We continued an erratic course through the arm, visitng AA-A systems and trying to map different altitudes and switch vectors every so often.
At some point we ended up at the already explored nebulas of the arm.
After that we started visiting most of the nearby nebulas, horribly pictured here, with the ultimate goal of climbing to PHOI PHYLOEA AA-A H167, at an altitude of 2.522 LY and with a rather thin star spread.
We climbed, we conquered not much since there were no stars in the nebula, but we did get over and around it and we started descending and consequently returning home, via SAG*A.
Aftermath:
Systems Discovered:
Cmdr Hooten - 4728
Cmdr Alexander Ventrue - 4267
Cartographical Data value: ~100 million
Rank Attained: Elite for the both of us, from Pioneer
Various POIs found, such as Orange Giants in orbit with BHs, binary earth worlds and such, wich eventually will be posted in the Cartography thread, with this rate possibly in the summer.
Two Planetary Nebuals found, one lost in the data, we managed to salvage this one.
LYAISOI AA-Z E7275
Plenty of pictures which won't be posted here for bandwith's sake, here:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/onomatepwnymos/screenshots/
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198048028598/screenshots/
We had fun, got valuable experience and we look forward to joining you to Beagle Point for our third major expedition.