+++Commander's Log - 11.June.3303 - Cmdr Axonteer - CSB Mission Day 221+++
Holy space turd...
When i woke up this morning to do a days worth in exploring, i didnt expect my butt to litteraly get kicked in so hard.
Since days, my steering behaved strangely, this constant positive throttle made landing difficult. Its probably a system offset default, probably some voltage splitting on a bloody shunt i cant reach unless i go EVA. But i digress.
Reporting in on todays Jump 45 i spotted a interesting system. Found a Terraformable Waterworld for the Geology geeks back home, as well as enough metal righ planets to let the federal shipyard double its navy. Then there that was.
A Rocky planet with beautifull rings close to the sun.
I thought (or said ? nobody knows if you sit in your ship for more than half a year alone), that might lead to some fun pictures for my Galbook once i get home. So as usual, since i didnt field the strongest trusters, i choose a shallow approach, basic safety protocolls. SOI entry happend without a issue and i started to glide in perfectly towards the northern pole of the planet.
I spotted a hilly region that would be perfect for some beauty shots with the drone. Then it happend, while i was getting out of the glide phase, something broke, i felt a sudden urge of acceleration downwards and blacked out for a second, just to find my trusty DBE tumbling nose down towards the ground 20km beneath me.
"FOR SAKE"
Yanked the stick so hard i feared to pull it out, old habits die hard and i forget at times that electronics take care of the movement... anyhow, my ship leveled out.. but my velocity vector didnt... when you tumble downwards at 380km/s it takes a lot of delta V to chance direction...
"WHY THE ARENT MY TRUSTERS FIRING" i yell'd
-short insert, they where-
i figured, that i wont be able to pull out of the dive and let my instincts guide my actions. Lowered my gear and put all power to the engines and systems.
"Dear whoever has the pleassure watch..."
...
Ever had to expirience a sudden 180° vector change? Go figure how that feels at ~300 km/s . I blacked out again for a second just to find my ship getting flung up.
"Shields offline"...
"Subsystems damaged"...
"Hull integrity compromised"...
"Cockpit integrity compromised"....
I didnt had much time, while i thought my ship was leveling out and coming to a stand still, i suddenly felt that it started to drop again, it couldnt retain its height with vector trusters only. At the time, i had still no clue and did the only thing i could do, run... Pulled in the landing gear and gave the trusters a jolly good slam to the trottle. Luckily, the main engines wherent damaged and flared up, slowly accelerating me away and back into space.
After the first threat was avoided, i started to realize the HUGE crack in my window... "cockpit integrity compromised"... i reverbed in my head.. aaa right... lucky me, it didnt break... Alright i had to calm down, it took me the good of two minutes to get out of the SOI and suprercruise away. After i reached a distance of about 50ls, i dropped to normal speed and assesed the situation. Hull integrity was at... 29%... yikes, that will use a bit more than just paintwork to fix. But first things first, my AFMu still had most of its nanites ready, so i told it to fix the cockpit first and life support systems with 7mins on ELS, that should be fine (and it was, else you wouldnt read this - "sight"). After that was done, i let it work on my engines, sensors, landing gear and all that got damaged. I was surprised to see that my landing gear survived with 60% the impact. They really build these DBE's to last (or i was just a lucky ), lets believe its the ship that is good, not me.
It was strange sitting there without trust, drifting in space watching at the thing that nearly pancaked you. Since the sensors came online first, i checked again... 0.7 Earth Mass, not so bad... 1.8G... holy... does that thing have a core out of mercury or what? I want to bloody know which "rock type" has that density to generate 1.8 times G...
So, good ol nanites from my AFMu worked their magic. Silly engineers as the programmers of the AMFu's they are, they tell the nanites to bring the module back to the state it was just pre dropping beneath 100% ... hence they didnt fix the scratches from my long journey ... ah well.
Thats the point where my started to hur like hell, guess the dampeners couldnt absorb all of it (but probably most, else i would look like Pizza ingredients sprayed all around the insides of my ship). That would hurt a while... On the plus side, the impact seemd to have solved my truster offset issue... guess you always have to look at the bright side!
So a note to myself and whoever reads this: If you skimp on your trusters to get better jump range. ALWAYS bloody ALWAYS double check the planet's gravity before you approach it for landing. Just because in Theory it will still work with a shallow approach does not mean life is out to your day up royal.
Anyhow,
+++this is Cmdr Axonteer, about 9000ly out from the bubble on my journey back from Colonia/Saggitarius A* . Mission Day 221.
Thought of the day: Once im back at the bubble, im going to buy those DBE/DBS Engineers at Lakon a beer!+++
--
Holy space turd...
When i woke up this morning to do a days worth in exploring, i didnt expect my butt to litteraly get kicked in so hard.
Since days, my steering behaved strangely, this constant positive throttle made landing difficult. Its probably a system offset default, probably some voltage splitting on a bloody shunt i cant reach unless i go EVA. But i digress.
Reporting in on todays Jump 45 i spotted a interesting system. Found a Terraformable Waterworld for the Geology geeks back home, as well as enough metal righ planets to let the federal shipyard double its navy. Then there that was.
A Rocky planet with beautifull rings close to the sun.
I thought (or said ? nobody knows if you sit in your ship for more than half a year alone), that might lead to some fun pictures for my Galbook once i get home. So as usual, since i didnt field the strongest trusters, i choose a shallow approach, basic safety protocolls. SOI entry happend without a issue and i started to glide in perfectly towards the northern pole of the planet.
I spotted a hilly region that would be perfect for some beauty shots with the drone. Then it happend, while i was getting out of the glide phase, something broke, i felt a sudden urge of acceleration downwards and blacked out for a second, just to find my trusty DBE tumbling nose down towards the ground 20km beneath me.
"FOR SAKE"
Yanked the stick so hard i feared to pull it out, old habits die hard and i forget at times that electronics take care of the movement... anyhow, my ship leveled out.. but my velocity vector didnt... when you tumble downwards at 380km/s it takes a lot of delta V to chance direction...
"WHY THE ARENT MY TRUSTERS FIRING" i yell'd
-short insert, they where-
i figured, that i wont be able to pull out of the dive and let my instincts guide my actions. Lowered my gear and put all power to the engines and systems.
"Dear whoever has the pleassure watch..."
...
Ever had to expirience a sudden 180° vector change? Go figure how that feels at ~300 km/s . I blacked out again for a second just to find my ship getting flung up.
"Shields offline"...
"Subsystems damaged"...
"Hull integrity compromised"...
"Cockpit integrity compromised"....
I didnt had much time, while i thought my ship was leveling out and coming to a stand still, i suddenly felt that it started to drop again, it couldnt retain its height with vector trusters only. At the time, i had still no clue and did the only thing i could do, run... Pulled in the landing gear and gave the trusters a jolly good slam to the trottle. Luckily, the main engines wherent damaged and flared up, slowly accelerating me away and back into space.
After the first threat was avoided, i started to realize the HUGE crack in my window... "cockpit integrity compromised"... i reverbed in my head.. aaa right... lucky me, it didnt break... Alright i had to calm down, it took me the good of two minutes to get out of the SOI and suprercruise away. After i reached a distance of about 50ls, i dropped to normal speed and assesed the situation. Hull integrity was at... 29%... yikes, that will use a bit more than just paintwork to fix. But first things first, my AFMu still had most of its nanites ready, so i told it to fix the cockpit first and life support systems with 7mins on ELS, that should be fine (and it was, else you wouldnt read this - "sight"). After that was done, i let it work on my engines, sensors, landing gear and all that got damaged. I was surprised to see that my landing gear survived with 60% the impact. They really build these DBE's to last (or i was just a lucky ), lets believe its the ship that is good, not me.
It was strange sitting there without trust, drifting in space watching at the thing that nearly pancaked you. Since the sensors came online first, i checked again... 0.7 Earth Mass, not so bad... 1.8G... holy... does that thing have a core out of mercury or what? I want to bloody know which "rock type" has that density to generate 1.8 times G...
So, good ol nanites from my AFMu worked their magic. Silly engineers as the programmers of the AMFu's they are, they tell the nanites to bring the module back to the state it was just pre dropping beneath 100% ... hence they didnt fix the scratches from my long journey ... ah well.
Thats the point where my started to hur like hell, guess the dampeners couldnt absorb all of it (but probably most, else i would look like Pizza ingredients sprayed all around the insides of my ship). That would hurt a while... On the plus side, the impact seemd to have solved my truster offset issue... guess you always have to look at the bright side!
So a note to myself and whoever reads this: If you skimp on your trusters to get better jump range. ALWAYS bloody ALWAYS double check the planet's gravity before you approach it for landing. Just because in Theory it will still work with a shallow approach does not mean life is out to your day up royal.
Anyhow,
+++this is Cmdr Axonteer, about 9000ly out from the bubble on my journey back from Colonia/Saggitarius A* . Mission Day 221.
Thought of the day: Once im back at the bubble, im going to buy those DBE/DBS Engineers at Lakon a beer!+++
--
Based on a true story that happend to me that weekend. For some reason my system had a hickup during re-entry/glide dropout, the rest that happend you can read above. Also, my Hotas indeed had a weird offset to that i could solve shortyl after that. Im no native english speaker, so if you find any grammar mistakes, please excuse!
Enjoy, and always check Gravity before entry ;-)
Enjoy, and always check Gravity before entry ;-)
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