The Kepler Trail...

Thanks for the updates - I'm enjoying following your progress.

AU and parsecs are things I first learned when I first looked through a telescope about 50 years ago. I've always wondered when Han Solo says (in the first Star Wars movie), "You've never heard of the Falcon? She's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs", whether it was a joke at Han's expense, or whether the scriptwriters didn't know what a parsec is.

Supposedly, the original script made it sound like Obi-Wan viewed the statement as and thought Han was a bragging idiot.
 
Kepler-110

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This one again seems pretty bang on the money... Two small Giants, in close orbits, that we know of so far...
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Ok, so I know now that there are at least as many theories around the Kesser run in less than 12 Parsecs than there are theories surrounding 9/11...
...One other thing I know today, is that this puppy:
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... floats around with a 2.6% Arsenic content! And a hint of Polonium too!

So no next destination right now, I think I'll be sticking around for a moment...



CMDR SP3CK
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Postcard

Hi Ho, from someplace around Kepler-110...
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I've been cruising on this dust ball for a few hours, having a blast, I might add, from the terrain alone...
And this is what the riding around came to, in the end...
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I can't help but thinking about my previous failed attempt towards Kepler-101, now.
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I've got about nine jumpo-jumps in me, and back :)
I was hoping for a tad' more before making the trip back to 101, but I simply can't help it.
See you guys back there... (or near enough)...



CMDR SP3CK
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While getting closer to my goal (Kepler-101), after each and every jump climbing ever higher above the galactic plane and watching the amount of stars on my navigation panel melting like snow under the sun, I slowly realized that I had already got as close as I could back when I had reached Kepler-164.
So...?
I headed back there again, of course, after many failed attempts in reaching a better and closer position to Kepler-101.
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I was greeted by this gigantic solar flare remnant (this shot is also reminding me I haven't shaved in a while now :))

I also found an old friend there, one of those funky Class IV... One of those I could never figure out where this green back light was coming from...
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Funny enough, the information I was lacking from the Surface Scan was already there in the description blurb:
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So Hydrogen and Helium, mmh... Doesn't tell me much more.
I looked up Alkalis and Silicates spectrum colours, and although you do tend to see ranges of green and yellow, nothing conclusive, really.
Later, I stumble upon this article and remembered that Sodium was an Alkali metal, and that maybe... just maybe... Hydrogen along sodium might just make for a plausible explanation.
I would love to hear someone shedding a bit of light over this one, to be honest.



CMDR SP3CK
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Good luck Commander, hopefully this should be enough but if not you can always gather more. I'm roughly in that area also.
I wasn't very hopeful to begin with, Cmdr, so I gathered a wee-bit more... Enough for 30 enhanced jumps altogether, in fact... and now I am here, seems it might not be enough (not even close in fact).
While looking for the best approach I figured out two things:
1) The very next star is about 50Ly away, and a 100% "Jumpo-Soup-Boost" will only grant me a 44Ly jump. Which is not to say I cannot make it, but I will have to go around finding a decent route towards that first next star on the way (let alone getting to K101).
2) There are two Kepler stars sitting right there, just out of normal range (but not unreachable).
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Seems to me the sensible thing to do would be to try and visit those two puppies and forget about 101, at least for now...
 
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Seems to me the sensible thing to do would be to try and visit those two puppies and forget about 101, at least for now...

My suggestion is this: don't forget about it. Just postpone it. Until you can go there with a different ship that has a better jump range.
 
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