Sometimes you have to ignore the noise from the bubble, there's no rush for ranks or credits.
O7
---I've noticed people don't post pics of their journey to Sag-A except for the 'proof' pic... So I hope I'm not breaking any rules here---
(this is my little discovery story, probably not gonna be interesting to anyone other than me, lol)
I was MAD... not real world mad, but 'Game-Mad!' (well I was actually a little real-world mad for a couple hours, lol)
I want to give a little context to my 'Ice balls for peanuts' comment, I feel like most explorers have had 'these days'...
While everybody is back in the bubble doing 'Ammonia CG'... (a thousand cmdr's scanning the same exact same ammonia world), I was like 'hey yall... I'm out here doing some 'real' exploring (I'm saying that jokingly, as soon as I finish this post I'm gonna grab some Burger King and go scan those same bubble ammonia worlds for the CG too)
So there I am on my journey to Sag-A, starting to really understand the feeling of being an 'Explorer'... Getting that Deep Pride in stepping off my ship for 'first foot fall in completely undiscovered Systems... No crashed ships, no distress beacons, no skimmers... COMPLETELY undiscovered!
And as a typical American, I'm ready to protect what's mine with violence!...
And finally getting to that place that was over my shoulder in the far distance.... So many stars, I can't even see my HUD... Awesome!
Going to places so intense that I had to switch into VR to really get a feel for what I was experiencing... Amazing!
And then it happened! I came across the most Amazing Ammonia world in the Galaxy! While all the fools in the bubble were falling over each other to take the same scan (again jokingly)... I found the mother of all ammonia's in an undiscovered system!....
Well, let me back up...
We as explorers are used to jumping into a system, honking and seeing '35 bodies' on the top right... but seeing only one star and one planet and claiming the system as ours, cause it's very common to have that 1 'close proximity' planet right next to the star that happened to get scanned by a cmdr just passing through.... not a problem, he/she probably didn't even notice... I'm still gonna count this as 'My System' (and yes I'm the weirdo that screenshots all of my discovered systems... still)
So I jump right into the FSS to take hold of all my goodies and get ready to fly out to all of them and look for Canyons and crazy sunsets... As I pull up on MY ammonia world, I am completely blown away at it's richness in tone, texture of the land and the density of the rings..... I have to get into those rings RIGHT NOW!!!
Oh my, this has to be the most densely packed rings I've been to in a long time.... In MY Ammonia world.... It's all Mine's!!!
As I said, I always take a screenshot of the system map of my discoveries... but this time I wanted to zoom in and take a focused map-view shot of my most amazing discovery...... WHO THE HELL IS THIS???!!! Why is this guys name on my planet?!.... Only one discovered planet in this entire region of space and it had to be this one!!! ....it's not even close to the sun, he had to jump over like 5 other planets to get here!!!
So, the Greatest Ammonia world, in an 'almost' completely undiscovered system, after having every single jump for the last 10 jumps being 'undiscovered' systems......... And I still ended up with just... the Ice Balls!