Well this thread seemed to have died a bit ago, but I finally made it back from my Sag A* run. I think all said and done I was out a little over six months. Visited a little over 2000 systems, and stopped turning in data after 20 mil (I was getting very sleepy from turning in one page at a time, so I stopped for the night. Will continue turning in data tonight).
Most interesting thing on my trip was a system with 4 earth likes (which I believe ties the record for most earth likes in a single system) except mine has a ringed earth like in it!
I'll find the system name when I get home (took a screenshot on my xbox in front of the ringed earth like so I have the system name).
The last 1,000 light years were nerve-racking, as I have been gone so long I forgot how to deal with interdictions and was sure I was going to get pulled out by an NPC. Luckily, I made it to the station I planned on without a single interdiction. I remembered how to dock with no issue, as I had been doing the docking training tutorial mission every other week to at least keep that skill sharp.
The last few jumps before my inhabited system were all brown dwarfs, and that got a bit scary, too!
Anyway, Old Yeller, my trusty DBX is home safe and sound, with 81% hull remaining. I think that is pretty good all things considered.
I do have a question, though. I am selling my exploration data to a federation aligned station. Will this improve my standing with the Feds? I'd like to visit Sol at some point, and don't really know what I need to do to get the Sol system permit. Should I be selling all this data somewhere else?
