To Beagle by Orca

[Jackie Silver]

Hello everyone - there was some question as to whether an Orca had made it out to Beagle yet, so I thought I'd definitively settle it.

Four days of hard jonking later (ok, ok, hardly a racing pace, but not bad to cross the galaxy!) the good ship Hecate made it to Beagle Point with only minor dents and scratches.

[video=youtube_share;OHHhNR0pMdU]https://youtu.be/OHHhNR0pMdU[/video]

 

[Aura Lorell]

You're awesome as per usual!

 

[CMDR Ahab]

I hate you.

Nah man, congrats, I certainly wouldn't have the endurance to make it there that quickly!

 

[BaldEagle]

Well done Commander - four days sounds amazing to me
What is your jump range?
I am a bit puzzled by your layout of the solar system bobble-heads - is that how you would prefer it to be or do you just like that colour-scheme...?
Shame you lost your 100% record with your too eager landing
+1

 

[Jackie Silver]

My jump range is roughly 42 light years full, 44 light years empty - the ship is about as light as it can be while still keeping the big engines.
I was able to plot a route across the final gap between the spiral arms without too much difficulty - much easier than last time I was here, flying a pre-engineers 'Conda at the tail-end of Distant Worlds.

I laid the bobbleheads out in order of increasing mass and with a gap as it was the only way I could get the Saturn one not to clip the neighbours with its rings.

 

[Orvidius]

Well done, CMDR! o7

I'm itching to get out there sooner or later, just with my AspX. Thing is, I'm not quite sure when I feel like tackling the 2600+ (minimum) jumps, round trip.

 

[Red Anders]

My jump range is roughly 42 light years full, 44 light years empty - the ship is about as light as it can be while still keeping the big engines.
I was able to plot a route across the final gap between the spiral arms without too much difficulty - much easier than last time I was here, flying a pre-engineers 'Conda at the tail-end of Distant Worlds.

Funny coincidence, I was working on finishing off my engineering tweaks to my passenger Orca last night (which is built for range, should have it up to about 36.5 - 37 LY by the time I've finished) when I thought 'Oh wow hang on - 36LY range right now and I have 80 tons of passenger cabins in it!' Sure enough, checked on coriolis and if I strip those out and drop the shield down to one that will just stop me scratching it when I land, I'll be at roughly 45LY Considering how much I hate flying the Anaconda in supercruise I can definitely see myself taking the Orca out on my next long trip.

 

[BaldEagle]

I laid the bobbleheads out in order of increasing mass and with a gap as it was the only way I could get the Saturn one not to clip the neighbours with its rings.

I knew you would have a logical reason!

 

[CMDR Ahab]

My jump range is roughly 42 light years full, 44 light years empty - the ship is about as light as it can be while still keeping the big engines.

You don't really need full sized 6A thrusters on an explorer build unless you're packing passenger cabins and armor. Works just fine with 5A's and the difference in speed is just a few m/s (or none if they're not engineered).

I'll get there in mine sometime in the next week hopefully.

P.S. Awesome paintjob by the way!

 

[Straha Yeagar]

Damn you! I too was inspired by that speculation, but had to make it 30klys back to the bubble to start, and I just finished engineering my build last night and was going to depart tonight...

 

[Jackie Silver]

Damn you! I too was inspired by that speculation, but had to make it 30klys back to the bubble to start, and I just finished engineering my build last night and was going to depart tonight...

Sorry! These were my last few days before I'm back at work so it was my last opportunity to make a long distance run for a while.

@DelayedReality (and anyone else who may be arriving) - I probably won't go far from Beagle for a while, I'm going to survey some stars out here for another project, so we could have an Orca meet here if you fancy.

 

[CMDR Ahab]

Sorry! These were my last few days before I'm back at work so it was my last opportunity to make a long distance run for a while.

@DelayedReality (and anyone else who may be arriving) - I probably won't go far from Beagle for a while, I'm going to survey some stars out here for another project, so we could have an Orca meet here if you fancy.

Sure. RL commitments not withstanding should be able to make this time next week

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