Star One reached at last

Frankymole

Frankymole
At 04:09 on 4th August 3302, CMDR Cral Travis of the Terran Federation became the first human being to ever reach the closest point in the Galaxy to the huge Andromeda Spiral, our nearest galactic neighbour apart from
satellites like the Magellanic Clouds.

BYAA THOI GC-D D12-0, known in some old Earth legends as Star One, the first and last star beyond which there are no other stars for over 2 million light years. It lies 41,753.2 light years from Sagittarius A*, as remote again from the Formidine Rift as that is from the Galactic Hub, and thus Travis may be the Commander who has existed further from galactic centre than any other human being.

Travis gazed into the void with his one good eye, and found it pleasing. No human being had ever set foot in the remote reaches of the Rim, here. He decided to survey the heck out of every part of every system on the way
home. Unless the Andromedans got in contact first.

(Accessible only by nearly thirty 100-light year jumps beyond the galaxy rim, this was the hardest thing I've ever done in a game. Log events and pics to follow. I took a short movie of my arrival in this most remote spot.)

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Frankymole

Frankymole
Caramel Clown said:
All that jumponium...I'm concerned about your mental health mate ;)
Another great exploration feat though. Great job!
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Thank you greatly! Took me a week to get jumponium (I should have enough to get back), and about 6 months to plan the expedition! Earning enough for an AspX was step one...


I should have remembered:
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Started an album of a few photos near the end of the expedition. Not much yet as I'm knackered:
http://s715.photobucket.com/user/Frankymole/library/Elite Exploration
 
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Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
I'll follow the album as you fill it. I just want to see...the void :) It just happens that every time I leave a bubble I move towards higher star density regions or nebulae, so I can't appreciate infinite darkness of the universe in all it's glory.
 
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Steve_T

Steve_T
Frankymole said:
At 04:09 on 4th August 3302, CMDR Cral Travis of the Terran Federation became the first human being to ever reach the closest point in the Galaxy to the huge Andromeda Spiral, our nearest galactic neighbour apart from
satellites like the Magellanic Clouds...
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Have some rep, just for being a Blakes 7 fan.
 

Allitnil

Allitnil
Frankymole said:
At 04:09 on 4th August 3302, CMDR Cral Travis of the Terran Federation became the first human being to ever reach the closest point in the Galaxy to the huge Andromeda Spiral, our nearest galactic neighbour apart from satellites like the Magellanic Clouds.

BYAA THOI GC-D D12-0, known in some old Earth legends as Star One, the first and last star beyond which there are no other stars for over 2 million light years. It lies 41,753.2 light years from Sagittarius A*, as remote again from the Formidine Rift as that is from the Galactic Hub, and thus Travis may be the Commander who has existed further from galactic centre than any other human being.
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Grats CMDR, always good to see others pushing the Galactic limits. And full marks for choosing a B7 theme!

A few of us have got to over 45k LY from Sag A* which can only be achieved if you fly to the very end of the Outer Arm Vacuus in the SE corner of the galaxy.
 

Mengy

Mengy
That's awesome! I did something similar when I was over at the edge of the Abyssal Plain, I jumped out as far as I could get from Sag A just to say I did it. Space gets awfully empty when there are no more stars out in front of you! You also need to be very careful with your jumponium management, it's easy to get yourself stranded if you aren't.
 

MatYNWA

MatYNWA
Good job Cmdr

couldn't resist to post this song :)

[video=youtube;KD0JuJr0a4I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD0JuJr0a4I[/video]

anyway +1 rep
 
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