Hello Commanders.
Today, at approximately 15:00 hours CET, I dragged my weary, beaten up Asp Explorer through the mail slot of a un-remarkable space station trundling around a dull planet in some god forsaken system that nobody has ever heard of.
It was, however, remarkable to me. It was the station I safely docked at after some nine months winding my way around this swirling mass of glowing blobs that is our home.
It didn´t start as a circumnavigation event and as it turns out, still might not be. It started as a little breather after my trip to Sag A* to have a relaxing trip out to Barnards Loop and see the wonderful sights I had heard so much about. Well as I happily jumped through the Horsehead nebula, I turned left a bit an accidentally kept on going.
Distant Worlds had recently announced their departure and from somewhere along the Perseus arm, I watched their departure on video. Oh to be heading somewhere I thought. As I was now some considerable distance from Sol, I decided to continue up the outside of the galaxy and who knows, maybe I´d arrive at BP the same time they did. As it turned out, I arrived a few days after a thousand hairy explorers, having left their dirty foot prints all over the place, had upped and returned home. In the empty, gloomy echoes of a deserted Beagle Point I asked myself if I should head straight home or continue around.
I chose the latter.
Now to my point, the map below shows my approximate route. It is close enough I feel BUT you will notice that I skimped on the end of the Perseus arm. It wasn´t a circumnavigation at that point and I didn´t have the strength of character to go up there and back down to a reasonable crossing point at that time. I have been feeling guilty about it ever since.
So, is this voyage worthy of a circumnavigation badge?
Technical Details:
The James Caird is an un-engineered Asp Explorer ( there were no engineers when I left) with 32.9LY range, 35 on fumes. I had an SRV and collected enough mats for a few jumps. However, by the time I left Beagle Point, I had specifically decided not to use Jumponium just to see if I could survive witthout. It was tempting at times.
In a journey of 259,029LY I found 632WW, 79AW, 55ELW, 24 Neutron Stars, 1 Black hole, and 2 Orange Giants. Perhaps not as great a haul as I expected but the promotion to Elite and the 180M credits were welcome.
Below I provide some shots I took along the way though I have video footage I intend to edit into something that may be pleasant to watch which I will post soon.
Thank you for your time commanders.
A Nice planetary evening
A ringed ELW seen from its moon
This is the second system with six water worlds in I have found.
Another nice view
The James Caird and a ringed ELW
A ringed WW
A WW rise
A ringed Ammonia World
A gas giant not far from Beagle Point where I tagged all the moons by way of celebration for crossing 65KLY´s
Today, at approximately 15:00 hours CET, I dragged my weary, beaten up Asp Explorer through the mail slot of a un-remarkable space station trundling around a dull planet in some god forsaken system that nobody has ever heard of.
It was, however, remarkable to me. It was the station I safely docked at after some nine months winding my way around this swirling mass of glowing blobs that is our home.
It didn´t start as a circumnavigation event and as it turns out, still might not be. It started as a little breather after my trip to Sag A* to have a relaxing trip out to Barnards Loop and see the wonderful sights I had heard so much about. Well as I happily jumped through the Horsehead nebula, I turned left a bit an accidentally kept on going.
Distant Worlds had recently announced their departure and from somewhere along the Perseus arm, I watched their departure on video. Oh to be heading somewhere I thought. As I was now some considerable distance from Sol, I decided to continue up the outside of the galaxy and who knows, maybe I´d arrive at BP the same time they did. As it turned out, I arrived a few days after a thousand hairy explorers, having left their dirty foot prints all over the place, had upped and returned home. In the empty, gloomy echoes of a deserted Beagle Point I asked myself if I should head straight home or continue around.
I chose the latter.
Now to my point, the map below shows my approximate route. It is close enough I feel BUT you will notice that I skimped on the end of the Perseus arm. It wasn´t a circumnavigation at that point and I didn´t have the strength of character to go up there and back down to a reasonable crossing point at that time. I have been feeling guilty about it ever since.
So, is this voyage worthy of a circumnavigation badge?
Technical Details:
The James Caird is an un-engineered Asp Explorer ( there were no engineers when I left) with 32.9LY range, 35 on fumes. I had an SRV and collected enough mats for a few jumps. However, by the time I left Beagle Point, I had specifically decided not to use Jumponium just to see if I could survive witthout. It was tempting at times.
In a journey of 259,029LY I found 632WW, 79AW, 55ELW, 24 Neutron Stars, 1 Black hole, and 2 Orange Giants. Perhaps not as great a haul as I expected but the promotion to Elite and the 180M credits were welcome.
Below I provide some shots I took along the way though I have video footage I intend to edit into something that may be pleasant to watch which I will post soon.
Thank you for your time commanders.
A Nice planetary evening
A ringed ELW seen from its moon
This is the second system with six water worlds in I have found.
Another nice view
The James Caird and a ringed ELW
A ringed WW
A WW rise
A ringed Ammonia World
A gas giant not far from Beagle Point where I tagged all the moons by way of celebration for crossing 65KLY´s
