Excuse any grammatical errors there might be in this text, but as i'm writing this i am still shaking of pure adrenaline from what just happened.
As distant stars set out i always wanted to know if one could do the mission in a hauler. Why? Because haulers are cool of course, and it would be quite a challenge. So i set out to do so, and after extensive grinding i finally got a hauler with enough jumprange. So i set out, hoping for the best. As arrived at the system known by me as "calculator point" because you of course have to use Dr Kaii's calculator, i jumped with the amount of fuel reccomended by the calculator. I quickly realized however, on my first jump that this amount of fuel would be insufficent, and i therefore jumped back. I decided then to try to do the climb but this time with a jumprange of 49-ish instead of the ridicilous 53. I jumped, supercharged and supercharged, and i quickly saw my supercruise meter drain down. As i prepared the last jump to Ah cancri my supercruise meter was almost depleted, and i turned off all non essential systems, and with life support, sensors, fuel scoop, cargo scoop and AFMU turned off i jumped into hyperspace to ah cancri. And arrived, with around 1% of fuel left. To say it mildly, the next few seconds trying to scoop fuel were quite intense.
[video=youtube;RVcnnQj845E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcnnQj845E&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Thanks to everyone who inspired me to do this, to Dr. Kaii and erimus who originally laid out the plans to the cancri climb, and RNG who gave me a lot of good rolls! After traveling 700k lightyears and playing for over 2 years this is by far the most intense moment i've ever experienced in Elite, and something i will remember for quite some time.
Fly safe!
As distant stars set out i always wanted to know if one could do the mission in a hauler. Why? Because haulers are cool of course, and it would be quite a challenge. So i set out to do so, and after extensive grinding i finally got a hauler with enough jumprange. So i set out, hoping for the best. As arrived at the system known by me as "calculator point" because you of course have to use Dr Kaii's calculator, i jumped with the amount of fuel reccomended by the calculator. I quickly realized however, on my first jump that this amount of fuel would be insufficent, and i therefore jumped back. I decided then to try to do the climb but this time with a jumprange of 49-ish instead of the ridicilous 53. I jumped, supercharged and supercharged, and i quickly saw my supercruise meter drain down. As i prepared the last jump to Ah cancri my supercruise meter was almost depleted, and i turned off all non essential systems, and with life support, sensors, fuel scoop, cargo scoop and AFMU turned off i jumped into hyperspace to ah cancri. And arrived, with around 1% of fuel left. To say it mildly, the next few seconds trying to scoop fuel were quite intense.
[video=youtube;RVcnnQj845E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcnnQj845E&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Thanks to everyone who inspired me to do this, to Dr. Kaii and erimus who originally laid out the plans to the cancri climb, and RNG who gave me a lot of good rolls! After traveling 700k lightyears and playing for over 2 years this is by far the most intense moment i've ever experienced in Elite, and something i will remember for quite some time.
Fly safe!
