The Adventures of a SpaceGoblin: in pictures!

[SpaceGoblin]

Try not to notice the ship name is a typo, it gets fixed eventually

Greetings CMDRs!

This is the image-log of CMDR Azulia Zulhoun, documenting her (mis-)adventures around 'The Bubble' and beyond.

Log entries will be presented in the form of series of images with IC captions, with occasional OC meta-thoughts (meta as in talking about the game in the full knowledge its a game) posted in comments between entries.

Comments welcome, as I don't intend this to be some deeply involved srs bsns RP thing, just me cruising the galaxy, selfie-stick in hand, documenting encounters, progress and musings. For fun!

I don't know how long I'll keep this up for, or if its of any interest to anyone but me, but for now at least - here it is!


Moderators: I hope this is in the right place, if not, my apologies for making work for you, please move it to where you think it best fits!

EDIT: Full disclosure - *some* of the posted images have been gently enhanced in terms of lighting/contrast/clarity. Only using the Win 10 photo viewer/editor so nothing overly fancy.

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Prologue:

Introducing CMDR Azulia Zulhoun, seen here in "the office" of the Cobra MKIII 'EURYALE'.

Looking unimpressed in the face of the latest calamity to befall her:

A member of the Pilots Federation since November 3299 (got in just before the end of beta!) CMDR Zulhoun has dabbled in most things - hauling, trading, combat for small factions, bounty hunting and even has her name on a couple of planets out towards the Coalsack Nebula.


Then, about a year ago, I got heavily into the search for Guardian ruins, and it was a crazy, crazy time, tin-foil theories flying through the ether faster than c-beams!


This is just a brief snipet from my offering, back in the day (canonn research thread #9, iirc!):

If there are similar threads on the go atm, I'd appreciate a pointer, my forum-fu seems weak in that regard.


And now, after nine months stuck in stasis aboard a stranded ship on Synuefe-somerandomstringofalphanumericsorother, CMDR Azulia Zulhoun is back, flailing around the galaxy trying to remember how all of this works, whilst not getting eaten by Thargoids!


Spoiler Alert!

Dat spoiler tho!


Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 1: The Return.

Ugh. Head full of fog and body full of aches after so long in the stasis pod. At least the rescuing ship brought me back to somewhere familiar, I have ships in the dock, and after a quick med-scan and all clear, I'm back in the pilot seat.

I see Lakon have endorsed a third party body kit for the Type-6, and I cant resist slapping some gaudy embelishments and, after a quick trip to the ship registration office, a new name on my T-6.

I've been out of it for a little while, but I'm back in business. And it seems I'm not the only one - Thargoids have trashed some nearby stations, and folks are clamouring for rescue!

Seating racks are bolted hastily into the cargo bays and away we go, time to save some bacon!

A few more souls saved. They're a little cooked, but they'll be ok. And my ship now smells delicious [yesnod]

Feels good to be back in the pilots seat, even if that docking bay was a terrifying furnace!

Also, nice photo-bombing by the BLoop!

*BLoop = Barnards Loop. Its just what I've taking to calling it, in my deranged obsession with that particular celestial 'object'.


Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 2: Out of the frying pan...

Having rescued people from one burning station, I move on to another.

Titans Daughter station, Taygeta system.

I wonder how many have perished. I wonder how many we'll save.

Prelaunch checks complete...

Coming about to clear the Rescue Ship:

On approach - they messed this place up good...

Brace yourselves, we're going in!

And I can't help wondering why the Thargoids have suddenly done this, after months of watching from witch-space.

Was it always going to turn out this way, or did someone make a terrible mistake?

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 3: ...into the fire!

Later that night I went back out (in Open), to nose around, see what was goin' on. Of course within 30sec of arriving in Taygeta I was being interdicted by a hollow red triangle, but I was out in this lil fella, so got away easily:

Arriving at Titans Daughter, it doesn't look near so bad in there now the repairs are underway:

A fellow CMDR (in a type 7) and I blast away from the rescue ship in Electra for another 'go around':

But I'm really not sure I want to be helping Aegis re-build. So I thought I'd snoop around, see if the rumours about them are true. I visited one of the "unregistered comms relays" that are nearby, and found this:

I didn't even notice the outpost was there until I 'launched the camera drone' for this pic


Less than a minute later I got a little too close to the outpost, and a pair of black Diamonbacks with Aegis markings vapourised my poor unarmed rescue taxi! No pictures, I was too busy trying, and failing, to escape!


Back on the rescue pad after a rebuy:

So, no longer inclined to help Aegis, I went to investigate other rumours - that the Thargoids had attacked Aegis ships in these systems and where 'abducting' escape pods from the wreckage.


This is what I found in one such USS:

I'm not sure, but I think the message it transmitted was "It puts the escape pods in the tractor beam, or it gets the probe again!". Luckily, I had no escape pods aboard at the time!


So the Thargoid went back to scanning the wrecks:

So I thought 'I wonder what happens if I get all 'Close Encounters' with them?' and moved closer, flashing my headlights at the Thargoid:

'Thargoid becomes ANGRY, deploys ALL THE THARGONS!' is what happens!


I reversed out of there pretty sharpish! Turns out Thargoids are more forgiving than Aegis, and let me go about my business once I admitted my mistake and retreated. So yeah, no helping Aegis rebuild for me!


This last shot shows this CMDR parked on the hull of a wrecked Corvette, recovering her nerves after the Thargoid jumped out, under the guise of looking for survivors. Phew, that was close:

So yeah, I'll keep rescuing folks from the burning stations, and helping refugees relocate, but I think Aegis can whistle when it comes to helping them rebuild!


Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 4: Something rotten in the Pleiades Cluster.

Another day, another job to be done - Cavalieri, picking up occupied pods inside the station, since I couldn't (due to insufficient bravery) get to them in the USS before the Thargoids hoovered them up.

Rescue Boat AZU-88 is away:

Cavalieri burns:

The damage doesn't look so bad from out here - to my ship! This is me exiting the station, at about 467% heat, with a melted cargo hatch and the thrusters having just gone off-line, Joele has become very unstable to handle by this point!

No pictures of inside the station - I was trying not to crash into stuff, or burst into flames, and focus on scooping the occupied pods from amongst the other 'mission detritus' floating around in there.

The best part? Aegis fined me for littering when the hatch melted and the 2 pods I'd scooped floated back into the inferno! Srsly, screw you Aegis!

Limping back to Rescue Ship Cavalieri for emergency repairs. Coming in too fast and too low CMDR! Go around! Abort! Abort!

I can't, she's barely giving me maneuvering thrust as it is!

Almost there, keep it together now!

Phew! Touch-down was kinda heavy on the landing shocks, but we made it!

I know there's not really an 'up' or a 'down' out here, but it sure felt like I ended up upside down and back to front after such a hairy landing

So, I repaired lil Joele (my space taxi, got good jump legs - 30+ ly. Joe le... I'll see myself out!), paid my fine to Aegis - it was only something piffling like 140cr, but it was the pettiness that stuck in my craw - its not littering when your ship is literaly melting whilst you are trying to rescue *their* people from *their* burning station.
Which was probably attacked because they're a bunch of shady baddies up to no good!

Maybe I did those guys a favour by failing to rescue them.

Picture the scene: Interior, escape pod triage bay, Rescue Ship Cavalieri. A badly seared escape pod opens with a metallic groan and a hiss of escaping gas. A half suffocated, somewhat scorched person falls out, medics begin life saving proceedures. A man in a suit and bearing a clipboard comes over. "Jenkins, is it? IT section Gamma, deck 12? Glad you made it out alive. I trust you'll be back at your desk on Monday, 9am sharp?".

Yeah. Aegis can burn.

Supercruising prior to jumping to the Atlas system, to transfer to an exploration vessel. Prof Palin made me a lucrative (17 McR!) offer to get him some Thargoid bio-samples, and it expires in 9 hours:

The BLoop watches over me, reassuring as ever. I don't know why it should be so. I've just always found something comforting about Barnards Loop.

Coming in for a (much smoother!) landing, pad One-Niner, Cyllene Orbital, Atlas system:

Here she is, refited for exploration, Euryale:

Ahem. Don't mind that enormous typo on her name plate. She's the Euryale. It was late, I was tired, should've gone to bed not started a 5 hour exploration odessey, but its too late now. I'll get the stenciling re-done when I return!

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Meta thoughts on Episode 4:

Yeah, I know, that business with the fines is just a conflict with the special event and business as usual for the game - either by oversight or unresolved error. Its not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and it amused me to no end

I've worked it into my personal narrative because it amused me, and also because Aegis kinda stinks (google 'em up or go poking around for yourself!), my run ins with them have lead me to think maybe the Thargoids aren't the real, or at least only, bad guys here.

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 5: Strange new worlds

So, with my sympathy for Aegis running rather low, and my curiosity regarding the Thargoids piqued, its time to head out to HIP 17694.

Station scuttlebut at Obsidian Orbital has it that's where I'll find what Prof Palin is paying for. A quick trip out to Cyllene Orbital to gear up for exploration and we're away.

Pre-launch complete, clearance granted - detach:

Super-cruise in 4...3...2...

Quick stop-over at an outpost - those huge ID-tags looked...ugly, they had to go:

Yeah, I failed to spot the naming typo again. It was 2am, I should have been going to bed, not on a Thargoid hunt!

Another reason I should've rested first. took me ages to find the planetoid I was looking for with just the basic discovery scanner, it being outside its 500ls range when you drop in-system near the star.

I found it eventually, after the best part of an hour of widening orbits in super-cruise, 'honking' until I found the one I was looking for.

The planetary needle in this solar system haystack:

Time to head down to the surface:

The old wild-caters back on Obsidian Orbital had hit me up with a set of planetary co-ords.

All I had to do was get 'close enough' on the trip down from orbit. After all that time in stasis, I'm apparently still a little rusty. I'm out a good 20 degrees on each axis.

Time for a MKI eyeball surface scan as I make my way to the proper co-ords:

I hope the geezers back at the station are not pulling my leg...

Still, I feel the Bloop watching over me as I search is a good omen.

Setting off low over the surface:

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 6: All the world is beige.

Searching for 'Thargoid Biological Samples' for Prof Palin, I'm skimming low over the surface of HIP 17694 B 7 F, looking for...something.

Scouring the surface for signs of...what?

Keep looking CMDR, there is something out there amid all that beige:

Yup, thats a lot of beige alright:

Eyes front CMDR, don't want to miss anything whilst posing for the camera!

So. Much. Beige...

Fogging up the camera drone with engine back-wash:

Course correction, getting closer to the target co-ords:

That typo though...

Its really more brown than beige. Wait. Is that... green?

I think we're on the right track...


Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Meta thoughts on Episode 6:

I'm not really raging on the beige - its never really bothered me, the planets surfaces look good, nice and detailed. But its a thing, and I'm all for having a little chuckle.

Besides, new planetary shaders and colours are coming with ED:Beyond, so soon (tm), sooooon!

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 7: Second thoughts?

Scouring the surface of HIP 17694 B 7 F for... something, for Prof Palin.


And it seems I have found 'something':

Oh. Thats a 'something' alright.

I have a bad feeling about this...

A very bad feeling...

...about this:

I need a place to set down before my second thoughts get the better of me. That flat-ish spot on the 'top' edge (top, just-right of middle of picture) looks landable, and close enough to the centre that it shouldn't be too far a drive.


I don't think I want to linger in this place too long:

Time to deploy the SRV:

Did I mention having bad feelings about this place?


Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 8: Into the Thargoids den.

So, I found a Thargoid 'structure' on HIP 17694 B 7 F, right where the old salts at Obsidian Orbital said it would be.


SRV deployed, roving in progress:

Are those some kind of sub-structures over there?

Yes. Yes they are:

I wonder if I shot them with the SRV weapons, will they provide the samples I need?

And/or, will I provoke some manner of Thargoid response?

Lets keep shooting at them in reserve. For now.

Afterall, my ship seems so far away...

...and I'm not the smoothest SRV driver in the galaxy!

The BLoop glowers down on me - in this place, it does not seem so comforting:

So this is what insignificance feels like.

Time to press on, whilst my nerve holds:

Further in, a strange encounter...

'Scavenger'? Are they scavenging the Thargoid structure? Or for it?

I'll leave them be, unless they become agressive. Just in case.

Just beyond the scavengers, is that an entrance?

Nope. Just nope! It seems collapsed or damaged, anyway.

All this way, and I still haven't found what the Prof is looking for (sounds like a song, can't quite place it...).

Must persevere.

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Meta thoughts on episode 8:

I've seen the video's of what can happen inside these structures (google it up if you don't want to wait and see for yourself), but I think this one is collapsed and inacessible.

Besides, I'd rather go inside when I'm not half zonked because I'm up waaaaaay past my bedtime

Also, I warned you I was obsessed with the bloop!

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 9: I gotta get outta this place!

Still exploring the Thargoid Structure, looking for biological samples for Prof Palin.

Turning away from the entrance, I am captivated by the iridescence of the... carapace?

These Thargoids, whilst terrifying, are also so very beguiling.


This place is clearly getting to me, must press on:

'Thargoid uplink device'. I scanned it, I hope that wasnt a mistake:

Spoiler - its not, it provides a lock-on signal for return trips to the site. Or so the info-nets tell me.


Back near the centre, I find what I came for:

This stuff is corrosive, no time to hang about - the SRV has no protection against this stuff, and since I haven't gained access to Prof Palin's engineering perks yet, neither does my ship!


Scoop and run, scoop and run!

Ok, I got the three units the Prof wants, time to get out of here:

The BLoop seems its warm old self from here. Perhaps it was the green haze over the Thargoid Structure, or the alien presence of that strange place.


Its good to be back amongst the stars:

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 10: Its all a bit of a blur...

So I've found what the Prof wants on HIP 17694 B 7 F, and its time to get back to the drop point in the Maia system before the corrosive Thargoid materials eat through my ship and leave me in all sorts of trouble!

Thing is I started this jaunt at 2am, already tired, and its gone on for the best party of 5 hours, so the rest is rather patchy...

A couple of NPC's try to get their hands on the samples, but I'm able to escape them, even half asleep:

Make it back to Maia, land on the relevant planet, hand in the artefacts, collect my 17 million and head back up to Obsidian Orbital, to get my ship name-plate re-sprayed before I clock off.

Only whilst I've been having an existential crisis in the midst of a weird alien presence, Aegis appears to have gone into lockdown, and I can't access livery services here.

Oh well, I've been wanting to check out an asteroid base for a while, and there's one not too far away.

On approach, Sisters' Refuge, HIP 16813:

Give-way to oncoming whales!

Touchdown on the pad:

Onwards to the next advenutre - eat my dust, Ferdy!

I've re-sprayed the ship name-plate, 'Euryale' is now correct, though of course you can't see due to the shadows, and my deciding to put the ship ID on the other name-plate slot. Typical!

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Meta thoughts on episode 10:

Sorry about the paucity of pictures for the last leg of the journey - did I mention how late, er, early it was? And how tired I was?

I'm surprised I didn't end up with a rebuy in there somewhere, tbh!

I have sevral more "episodes" to post, before I'm up to date with my current in-game activities, but they'll keep for now. Its past 4am again...

Further installments may not be as drawn out as the 'Thargoid Structure' multi-episode marathon. We shall see.

I don't know how long I'll keep this up, or if its of any interest or entertainment value to anyone but me - if you've read this far, thank you for taking the time, I hope it wasn't all wasted!

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 11: An unexpected find.

Having rested, and re-sparayed my ship name at Sisters' Refuge, its time to head back to Maia, see if Prof Palin has any more of those balance boosting missions to offer me!

Follow the greens on your way out:

Refuelling at Asterope:

Turns out he does - now he wants 4 units of 'Thargoid technology samples' for 20McR! The Thargoid structure gave me the creeps though. Could there be another way? I hit up the rumour-mongers again, and it seems there could be. A crashed 'Thargoid Scout' on HIP 17125 A 3 might have what I'm looking for.

Departing Obsidian Orbital on a new 'relic' hunt:

Star gazing en-route:

Crusing through the target system, I see a familiar sight:

I'd seen the reports coming in from all across the Pleiades region - Thargoids, everywhere! So I move in to check it out.

Its Thargoids alright:

Just gotta sit tight. I know how this goes. I hope...

I survived. Those sounds they make. So... organic. It sounds almost as if they could be afraid. In pain.

No. I'm anthropomorphising. Wait.

What if they're not Thargoid ships?

What if the ships ARE the Thargoids?!?

Gah - they're getting inside my head again!

They certainly inflicted pain, whatever they are:

Amongst the wreckage, I find a damaged escape pod:

I scoop it up. If its not a rescue, then perhaps it'll give someone closure. I also collect some 'encrypted logs' or similar. Perhaps these can help someone figure out whats going on out here.

Perhaps decipher why the Thargoids are doing this.

And why now? So many questions.

But I'm not here for questions. Or answers. Well, not my own, anyway. Prof Palin wants Thargoid tech samples if I'm to collect 20McR from him.

I still don't have an Advanced Discovery Scanner, so it takes a while to scan and find the planet I'm looking for.

And before I can locate it, this pops up:

I've heard of the Victoria's Song. heard some of the log recordings others have found. Never paid enough attention to realise she was here, near the Thargoid Scout. Is that what she found?

I have to investigate.

There she is:

I can't help but notice the BLoop, veiled by the gas giants rings.

And that Victoria's song seems in good condition, considering. I wonder why they left her here?

I have to assume hubris on Aegis' part. Something tells me they are responsible for this.

Fortunately, for me at least, Victoria's Song is trapped in orbit around the giant I was looking for.

This is the moon I am looking for:

Time to head down to the surface and find the crashed Thargoid ship:

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 12: Regarding the Alien.

Having found my destination, its time to find the right spot on the surface.

Cruising low over HIP 17125 A 3:

Taking in the view:

That is one...turbulent...looking gas giant!

Still scanning the beige, uh, brown:

This time my initial orbital cruise put me much closer to the target co-ordinates, so it was only a fairly short flight across the surface before I arrived at the crash site.

The CMDR that first found this must have good eyes:

Regarding the Alien:

I wonder, does it see me, too?

In short order I have the needed 4 units of Thargoid tech in the hold, and I'm away - no time to hang about, this stuff is corrosive!

Back to the stars:

I quickly return to Obsidian Orbital and claim my reward. Due to ongoing lockdown or some such, I can't access the Search & Rescue contact to hand over the recovered escape pod and encrypted data I pullled from the wreckage left by Thargoids. So I shuttle down down to the surface, see if they can help. Nope. back up to Obsidian Orbital, where Palin offers another 15 McR for 3x Thargoid Resin.

Well, ok, here we go again:

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

CMDRs log Episode 13: The perils of greed...

So, whilst I have a lucrative new mission for Prof Palin, I still have a damaged escape pod and 'encrypted correspondence' in my hold from investigating the ships the Thargoids destroyed.

And no one seems interested in them around Maia.

So I decide to return to the Thargoid 'scout ship' via Sisters' Refuge, in the hope I can pass these over to the proper authorities before continuing my mission.

CMDR Zulhoun, looking pensive whilst refuelling on the way:

The authorities at Sisters Refuge took in the escape pod and encrypted data, for a nominal reward.

Its not the reward, more the trying to help:

Departing the Refuge, again:

The view forward:

Refuelling on the way back to HIP 17125:

I am gratified to learn that the effort expended in targeting and scanning the 'scout' on my first visit has paid off, and there is now a marker in Euryale's nav system for me to follow back to the site.

The nav beacon at work:

This time I took some time to survey the scene before scooping the loot and boosting for orbit.

The crashed Thargoid 'scout ship':

Close-up, underside:

Are those...? I assume they're sensor clusters. But. Eyes:

SRV for scale:

Its un-mistakably Thargoid. But something isn't right. It just looks so... different to the Thargoid 'ships' I've seen recently.

Its colour. Its surface texture. Its shape. All similar. All different. Also. A detail I failed to note on my previous visit - the scan results say 'traces of Mycoid particles present".

Oh. No. I hope the enviro scrubbers on the Euryale are able to clean that up. i'll have to try and get a full de-contamination sweep done next time she's in dock. preferably without ending up in quarantine followed by prison. Or worse, some Aegis vivisection lab.

Well, I aten't dead, yet. That has to be a good sign, right?

It certainly looks like a match for the archival scans of Thargoids, if you can find one. If they are not some black ops propaganda/disinformation, that is, as some have taken to claiming of late.

An 'old-school' Thargoid?

Have the Thargoids undergone a rapid period of technological change? Advancement? If the Thargoids are the ships, rapid evolution?

None of that seems likely, at face value. To me, at least. Yeah, yeah, who gave me a Nobel prize for knowing it all?

Are the two apparent types of Thargoids different? I am suddenly reminded of my atempts to resolve the mysteries of the 'Guardian' ruins that ultimately left me stranded in stasis for almost a year. Their society split into two branches. Those who embraced grafting technology and AI to their bodies and those who did not.

At the time I was harbouring thoughts that the Guardians might *be* the Thargoids.

Could this be the case? In which case which Thargoid is which?

I can feel the dark tendrils of obsession clutching at my mind again. Snap out of it. Job to do here.

Also, I've noticed that the Thargoid resin/bio/tech samples carry a 'sell price' of several hundred thousand credits, Even if I'm only getting 20% of that, I could make decent pocket change filling the rest of Euryale's 16t hold over and above the 3 units I need for the mission...

Wait. Is this thing interfering with my systems? Still active?

Time to get out of here! Scoop the three units of Thargoid resin. And since I've always been able to make it back to Maia before any sub-system has taken more than about 10% damage, I scoop up whatever else I can find, Thargoid samples wise, until I have 12 units in the hold, all told.

Blast off:

If you see the, uh, deliberate mistake there, just hold that thought a moment. Becasue I didn't. So Imagine my confusion when...

'Engage Supercruise'.

*BLARP* 'Unable to comply!'
*BLARP* 'Unable to comply!'
*BLARP* 'Unable to comply!'
*BLARP* 'Unable to comply!'

What? How? Why? Thargoids?

All the while sub-system damage alerts are slowly ticking by.

Hard points are stowed. Check. Cargo hatch closed. Check. Landing gear retracted. Check.

'Engage Supercruise'.

*BLARP* 'Unable to comply!'

NO!

Open right panel. Cycle to sub-systems. Oh. 'SRV Bay 0%'.


*Sharp intake of breathe* - Well, there's your problem:

A hasty landing is made. Fortunately I have an automated repair unit installed for just this eventuality (I don't have access to Prof Palins Engineer services yet, it seemed a good idea). If only I was half as clever as I thought I was.

SRV bay repaired, cargo hatch repaired, thrusters repaired.


Blast off, again. Looks good, even at this angle:

You probably noticed the second 'deliberate mistake' back there. You guessed it. It wasn't until I got back to Obsidian Orbital that I realised my hold was empty.

Cargo hatch repaired.

Razzin' frazzin' sassin' frassin...

So yeah, I repair poor abused Euryale at the yard, get her decontaminated, just in case, with a story about radiation warning lights on the panel, yadda, yadda, etc. It seemed to work.

Then I fly back, scoop just the three units I need, return and collect the 15 McR. Lesson learned. Greed will be your downfall if you let it get the better of you.

Yeah, listen to me, pillar of moral fortitude.

Shhhhyeahhhhhh, riiiiiiight.

All of these thoughts about Thargoids, abou Aegis, my misgivings about who they are, what they might be. Be 'they' Thargoids or Aegis.

Maybe I need to get away from this for a while. But what is a CMDR in a moral quandry to do?

Well, having learned that greed is bad, m'kay, I decide I should go help out with the Core Dynamics situation. It'll be a few easy millions in the bank, and might get me a discount on Federal combat ships.

Yeah. Pillar of moral fortitude my...

Returning to Cyllene Orbital, Atlas system, before heading back into the bubble:

Fly safe CMDRs o7

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Meta thoughts on episode 13:

Apologies, its another long one, despite my wantint to shorten these down to 8-10 pictures max. I just wanted it all to fit into "Episode 13". It seemed fitting

I wasn't kidding about the effort needed to scan the Thargoid wrck, either. It seems impossible to target, so I had to resort to opening the left UI panel, going to the sub-target (iirc) panel, and selecting the scout from there. then, because its target marker is 400m below the surface, I had to flip my SRV on its side so my turret could track to it and then activate the SRV scanner

The thing with the scrambled image? I know what that was. I was in solo mode to get High-Res screenies (which I then reduce to 25% original size so they fit on the screen, go figure ).

When I take a high-res screenie, I get a % count in the top left. If I ctrl+alt+space to close camera suite before that finishes, this happens. this was the first time it happened, and I thought it would make for an amusing inclusion.

Normally all this "IC:RP" stuff is just my stream-of-conciousness-thoughts-as-I'm-playing translated into IC speak. Obviously I added the idea about the scout interfering with the camera drone/SRV after the fact, but for the vast majority, what you get is what I'm thinking at the time the pic was taken.

Yeah, I try to give myself 'in universe' justifications for what I'm doing. I play a lot of table-top RPG's, its a hard habit to break [rolleyes]

And yes, I really did faff it all up because greed got the better of me, I didn't need to make that stuff up. I know, right! :x

I guess the remarks about doing a CG to get discount on Fed ships dates this one - it was about 3-4 days into the CG, iirc.

As for that last image, it seems I forgot to hide the HUD. Dagnabit!

Hopefully I'll be able to trim the episode bloat a little going forwards.

Feel free to comment or PM if you have thoughts or questions.

Fly safe CMDRs o7