Today I'm participating in the FLC Rags to Riches tour of high value exploration systems.

• First off HIP 14976.
• HIP 16709
• Arietis Sector CQ-Y D63
• HIP 25166
• Lyncis Sector JR-W C1-15 Took a screenshot at B 4.
• Lyncis Sector IR-W C1-11
• Yin Sector XJ-A c21
• HIP 25414
• Gliese 9213
• Lyncis Sector BQ-Y c8
• HIP 29873
• HIP 29113
• Lyncis Sector FG-Y d54
• Lyncis Sector EL-Y c11

Hit a 3 or so systems along the way jumping to those too. I'll net a little over 16M in exploration data from these systems.

Logging for the night at Bloch Penal Colony in Cerritics.

Starting the day in HIP 44560 at Lawson Landing. Going to continue searching for wakes and doing some exploring.

• First off, jumping to Deciat to collect a bounty on CMDR Kalray from Discord.
• Jumping to Xinca to collect part of bounty. (1M cred)
• Jumping to CD-49 3617 to collect part of bounty. (385,600 cred) Decided to stop and scan Er Tche system on the way.
• Jumping to LTT 2667 to collect part of bounty. (367,760 cred)
• Jumping to Graba to collect last part of bounty. (231,600 cred) Scanning Graba system while there.

Need to get 300 Ly away from starting point for an engineer. Jumping towards Wregoe GT-X B28-4 to try and up my distance. Stopped to scan 3 stars in Hyades Sector KM-V C2-5. Jumping to Hyades Sector WJ-P B6-1 to see if populated systems make a difference. Docked at Plucker Landing. Distance updated from 261 to 279 Ly, so I'm headed in the right direction. Jumping to HIP 27986. Docked at Stevens Dock. Distance didn't appear to update. Logging out and back in didn't update it either. Not sure what's going on with that. Either way, I read that I'll need 3x Soontil Relics and that the place to buy them is Cheranovsky City in Ngurii 256.15 Ly from here. Maybe jumping out there will help. Jumping to Ngurii. I picked up my items, but I'm still only ~210 Ly from LHS 3447. Going to jump towards Synuefe 10-B A109-2 and see if that improves things. FINALLY got an invite while in that system. 16 jumps to Khun now... Jumping to Khun. Docked at Long Sight Base and got up to G4 access. Unfortunately I can't afford any of the G4 mods. I've got some G1 shields and G3 FSD mods now though. I need to go find a few Manganese and some Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories to get the G4 FSD mods.

Jumping to LHS 2429 to turn in exploration data. Dropped 798,869 Cr. Jumping to Rhea. Logging for the night.

I'm starting the day at Allen Ring in Sanos. I'm going to jump out to Wolf 406 to buy an DBX to try my hand at exploration. After jumping out to Wolf 406, I've decided that I'd really rather have an AspX, so I'm now going to jump to V538 Aurigae to buy one of those instead. I docked at the (very far away) Wells Ring, and purchased my new ship! I then jumped to LP 128-9 to buy a few modules that weren't available in V538 Aurigae.

Going to head to Deciat next to see if I can upgrade this FSD any further. There was very little in the way of FSD (or anything else) upgrades available.

Decided to transfer my Vulture and Suicidewinder to Garay Terminal in Deciat. Zebranky is going to jump in and clear this bounty for me. After that I'm going to jump out to Pola (currently in Famine) to try and get some scans of "Strange Wake Solutions" to help with upgrading my FSD.

Decided to take a break from figuring this all out and took two delivery missions to Azaladshu. Bought a Wake Scanner to collect the wake solutions while I was there. Jumped back to Pola. Still no wakes to scan. Jumped out to HIP 44560. Got a few scans at the Nav Beacon. Need to try that in a busier system. Maybe in open if I've got friends with big guns.

Logged out for the night at Lawhead Landing.

I'm starting the day in Deciat. I need to collect bounty vouchers to turn in to Tod 'The Blaster' McQuinn (engineer) in order to upgrade weapons. I've got about 58k/100k already, so one more bounty should do it.

Nothing in Deciat, so I jumped to Xinca to look for wanted ships. I got 2 bounties in Xinca, jumped back to Deciat to respec for long range travel. Docked at Garay Terminal.

Jumped to Wolf 397 to work on reputation with the engineer. Got my to G3 access, but I don't currently use cannons so it's not much use now. Next engineer I want to work with requires me to deal with 5 black markets. I'll work on that later.

Jumping to LTT 2667 to UM. I need a little over 1000 Merits to maintain my Rating 4 with Winters. Arrived and docked at Stephenson Hub, bought 5A shields, A rated hull, and swapped everything out to combat spec. I don't see any Security Sweeps, so I'm going to go fly around the system and take a look before giving up and resigning myself to the nav beacon method.

No sweeps, tried the nav beacon trick once, had to chase one ship away from a wing of three, but successfully killed it. Second pass through the beacon, some bounty hunter in a FAS jumped in on top of me and mess me up. I got out by high-waking. Lost 11% hull. Jumped to Ipet and docked at Meitner City to repair.

Jumped back in and winged up with some other FLC folks (JimENerdtron, Zebranky, dvdmuckle briefly) and UM'ed up to just over 1500 Merits. Successfully got the system past 100% UM.

Logged for the night.