A new day, a good day to gather some more materials or so i thought... Well, never riding a geysir in a mountains-site, i fell in a deep narrow canyon and had to call an emergency extration to orbit.

CMDR Thalion Solarstorm and Rho Reguli were up early and left already, Rho headed to Colonia and Thalion to WP2.

After this little adventure, i'm heading out to explore... like the day before, i'm heading 1500ly away from the main routes.

It was a great day for discoveries, i found my first undiscovered amonia-world, i deceided to scan the systems nearby and found another amonia-world along with two water-worlds and an earth-like.

Time to head for my next target, the Lagoon nebula. There is the next station (Amundsen Terminal, which i visited before last year) in this region of space, where i will dock for the first time since the start of the journey.

On the way i made some more nice discoveries on the way, like another stellar phenomenon with a different kind of crystal clouds (another amonia-world).

CMDR Thalion decided to come along and help scanning and mapping.

Time to speed up, since it's late, no more mapping, the last 20 jumps i'm only scanning.

Arrived at Amundsen Terminal, time to repair and restock ans sell the exploration data (50+MC).

I have 3680ly covered today and discovered 45 new systems.

I plotted a route (to avoid the main-routes to WP2) beyond the coalsack nebula, i was there before, but missed the stellar phenomenons, a good time to catch up.

My first route part takes me about 500ly to coalsack nebula, but since it's parallel to WP2, i maintain about the same distance to WP2.

In the coalsack nebula, i've found crystal-clouds and had my first encounter with space mollusks.

I fly another 1000ly in the same direction before i will heading to Cycladia. I've discovered severals water-worlds, a earth-like and more interesting stuff on the way.

No big accidents happened so far (one time i was surfing to near to a sun, another time i had a heating problem while sandwiched between two suns, but still got 2 of 6 heatsinks left).

I met up with CMDR Thalion Solarstorm and CMDR Rho Reguli in Cycladia. I'm happy they could catch up (thanks to neutron-highways).

The view of the ring-world in Cycladia was magnificent, after a little bit mining for materials in the rings, we flew together to a geo-site not far away.

After gathering some materials, i'm getting ready to sleep...

I have covered 3800ly today and discovered 51 new systems.

We started nice with mass jump of thousands of Commanders simultaneously.

But this event disturbed the Hyperspace to the extend, that FSDs failed for hours and no further jump was possible!

After over a year since our last attempt (our private deep space tour, which was cut short), i'm getting ready for the DW2 Expedition.

Over the last week, i tested my new Explorer Anaconda, getting materials and stuff needed for the expedition. I worked on my jump range, now i got 56LY (full cargo), 60LY (half cargo) and 65LY (empty cargo), which seems a quite good amount to work with. Thanks to the extra fuel tank, i have a good range for badlands too.

I'm attenting primarily as an Explorer, secondarily as Fleet Mechanic, tertiary i'll try to make some nice photos and videos.

Only a day left to the start... the tension is raising!

CMDR Thalion Solarstorm seems caught up in politics, i hope he'll join up soon.

We received bad news from our home-system at Eagle's Landing. War is imminent! We deceite to return home to help out...

Sadly this ends our Deep Space Tour after only 7000LY.

The direct path wasn't ideal, very few unexplored systems. CMDR Thalion Solarstrom seems to had more luck, he took a route 200-300 ly away in rel-direction 9/10. I tried to reach a more unexplored ground in rel-dir 3/1 but it didn't help much.

Amundsen Terminal lies on a small garsty moon... this won't be a quiet night, but i'm exhausted so it doesn't matter...

Target for the second stage is: Lagoon Sector NI-S b4-10 (Amundsen Terminal)

There's no effective Neutron-highway in this direction, so i take the direct path...

Some nice unexplored systems found on the way.

The Neutron-highway is a fast and comfortable way to travel, except you get stuck in a Jetcone...

Sleeping nice at Hillary Depot... G-N8

Flying with CMDR Thalion Solarstrom in general direction of the galaxy's center. Except for Neutron-Highways we're fly slightly different routes to cover more ground, but we're never too far apart for a case of emergency (max. 5 jumps away from each other).

Target for the first stage is: Blu Thua AI-A c14-10 (Hillary Depot)

Preparing for my first real deep space adventure.

First target System is Quince where the tour is starting....