Today I made six jumps in the Mandalay and only a single modest hop with the carrier as I travel into an area of the galaxy I have never been before. We traveled four hundred forty-three light years to the system Synuefe TY-O b39-4 where I called the carrier to jump to the planet A 1 A into a parking orbit. I met the carrier here and it is here where we spent the night.

Of course, this system had been discovered long ago but no commander had ever mapped any of the sixteen bodies within this double star system, so I decided to at least map the nine bodies of the A star before we depart this place, probably forever, and move on. After my mapping project I made first footfall on the furthest coldest world just for the hell of it.

Afterward, I turned in my cartographic data at Universal Cartographics. It didn't amount to much and headed to the bar for a few drinks. I shot the bull with the bartender and then went to the bridge to look over tomorrow's itinerary and then headed for bed. That's it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

My explorations took me into the Coalsack Nebula today. I was surprised to find a lot of Xeno activity in the region. I had actually no idea that there was so much Thargoid activity happening at the top of the nebula in a system called Musca Dark Region BN-G a12-0. There were at least twenty non-human signal sources present ranging from threat four to threat eight within the system. I, having no weapons on my Mandalay, stayed well away from that hot mess, to be sure. There is one station withing this system called Garage A Claquette which I made my way toward carefully and docked with. It was a fairly run down station, not very remarkable in any way I'd say but a welcome retreat for anyone doing battle with a Thargoid I would imagine.

My original intentions for visiting this particular star system were to bring the fleet carrier here but with all this Thargoid activity present, that isn't going to happen. It's a shame too as this is such an interesting region of space. I will continue to explore around the area however as there are more star systems within the nebula.

Today's jumps numbered fifteen, twelve of which were into main sequence star systems. The remaining three were into Brown dwarf systems, Musca Dark Region BN-G a12-0 being one of them. I traveled eight hundred eighty light years in the Mandalay, and the carrier made one jump of roughly three hundred eighty lightyears. That should do it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today I decided to visit Hip 87621, find the crash site of Teri Tora, and then finally sample the Radicoida Unica for myself. Unfortunately, I missed out on the suit upgrade community goal as I was tens of thousands of light years away, but I have a good suit as it is so, no problems there. Locating the crash site was easy, but no sign of Teri. I scanned the ships data core for any clues and checked my ships nav computer once again when I noticed four signals I'd somehow missed before.. [BIOLOGICAL SITE], or something like that, and one only a few kilometers away just over a small mountain range.

After targeting the new destination in the nav computer I did a quick scan of the crash site once again to see I there was anything I may have missed and then proceeded to the new location. Once I cleared the small mountain range, I could actually see the rather large group of what looked like a small forest of trees. I then set the Mandalay down near the edge of the forest and began scanning the new species of exobiology. One thing of note here is the surface temperature is extremely hostile. Without an engineered suit, one wouldn't last long on this extremely hot planet.

After collecting nine samples in total, I returned to my Mandalay and then left this world to turn in my samples at Exogene Sciences located in a Ring base around Hip 87621 2. The data earned me just over a million credits and a new exobio under my belt. Not too bad and now this one is behind me. End of log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Trigger time in the T-11. I mined about one hundred fifty tons of Tritium for the carrier's main jump tank today and that's about all I did. Well, that and about a ton and a half of never ending 'paperwork'. It's all good. Having a day like today gave me time to plan my next few moves as far as what I want to do next and visiting the Radicoida is next, I think. I want to check that off my bucket list as quickly as possible. I think I will head over there in the Mandalay and then decide whether to call the carrier over or not. That sounds like a plan to me.

I couldn't believe I actually got attacked by a pirate heading back to the carrier with my load of Tritium today either, and right next to my carrier of all places. What an idiot! He was quickly dispatched by the local cops patrolling around the carrier. I swear, some people are dumber than a bag of hammers. I also managed to snag about twenty tons of low temperature Diamonds which were stored aboard the carrier as well. That's it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today I finished purchasing the Lavian Brandy from the Lave system. I now have four Rares in excess of one hundred tons each. I actually made one extra trip more than needed because when I returned to the carrier with what I thought was twenty tons of Lavian Brandy, it turned out to be twenty tons of animal meat. I don't quite understand how that happened, but it did. It must have been my mistake. What ever happened I put it up for sale on my carrier at a discount. We'll see if it gets sold or not. If it doesn't get sold in a few days, I suppose the crew and I can enjoy it.

Other things happening here and there throughout the day took up more time than I wanted and so I didn't get to add more Tritium to the carrier's tank like I wanted to either but there is always tomorrow I suppose. The next thing I need to do is go down the Rares list and determine what and where the next rare item I want to gather is going to be and come from and if there are more than one system in the vicinity with Rares available.

Another thing I'd like to do is check out the Radicoida Unica in the HIP 87621 system. That is another reason I returned to the now deformed looking bubble. I'm looking forward to that trip and may make that trip sooner than later. That will wrap up this log entry for now with more to come tomorrow.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today I continued to purchase Rares and store them on the Silbergeschoss. It is quite an opportunity to have three star systems so close together that have Rares for sale that it would be stupid not to take advantage of it. Leesti has two Rares to offer and Diso has one valuable Rare for sale, the third world so close in this historic area of space is the planet Lave in the Lave system. They offer the wonderful and uniquely flavored Lavian Brandy. Personally, I'm a Gin drinker but I'll enjoy a good Burbon on occasion and a nice Brandy with a smooth cigar is always a satisfying experience. I always pick up a couple bottles of personal and a box of nice cigars just for special occasion as they happen to occur.

Using the Caspian with its limited cargo capacity, I took me forty-nine jumps today to accomplish my designed and self-assigned mission. I traveled nineteen hundred and fifty-five light years to accomplish today's task. I should finish up tomorrow and then I will decide what rare commodity I will look for tomorrow. I think I will call this set of logbook entries the 'Rares Acquisition and Storage Recon' or RAStR logs. That should wrap up this RAStR log.

CMDR Bullet out..

Now if any world should strike a chord in any veteran commander, the name Leesti should do it. At some point in our careers, we all should have been to Leesti and Diso at least once. Being here brings back good and bad memories. I've had a lot of good times here and made a lot of credits here. I launched my career here. I've had a lot of fights here too, but I'm still here. Others are not, but that's not my problem. So, I have revised my plan a little. Because I do not currently have a ship with a great cargo capacity with me, I have decided to lower my required inventory of Rares to just one hundred of each.

At this point I have now bought and stored one hundred tons of Azure milk and one hundred and six tons of Leestian Evil Juice on the carrier. I have also purchased ten tons of Diso Ma Corn from Shifnalport in Diso. Tomorrow I will purchase another ninety tons of corn and then look for some new Rares to purchase elsewhere. I may need to mine some Tritium first, I'll have to check but it isn't really necessary yet, simply a precaution. That's it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today I started off in the 'Icy Mike', my T-11 and mined some low temperature Diamonds and some Tritium in the rings of planet Kakas ABC 4 A. I wanted that trigger time and relaxation. I haven't been here in such a long time, I missed this place, this area of space I used to call home for so long. I've made quite a fortune out here too not to mention.. But I have other plans to initiate. I can't just mine the day away. And there's another thing, I keep getting tasked with small missions by the local factions. They look and sound easy enough, but they too are distracting from my new set of goals. Perhaps another time.

What I did next was to outfit my Mandalay with a bigger cargo rack to bring the total space up to twelve and then race over to Leesti and buy some Rares to stockpile on the carrier. You see, my new goal is to stockpile as many different Rares as I can on this carrier now. Don't ask me why, I just want to do it. I think four to five hundred of each or at least as many as I can find will do, and I'll start in Leesti.

The space in the Mandalay being twelve tons is a bit small, so I thought I'd switch to the Caspian. I needed to add some cargo space, so I increased its cargo space to twenty tons. I then started to bring back Azure Milk and Leesti Evil Juice in ten-ton increments each. I can see that this is going to take several trips but that's ok. I don't have some boss breathing down my neck. I can take my time because I'm the boss and I'm holding two shotguns!

CMDR Bullet out..

My exploration journey has officially ended. I have made my arrival back to the system I originally left from which was the Frey system. I left in my Mandalay, and I have returned in my Mandalay however, I returned with much more than just the Mandalay. I returned after nearly a year in the black with a one-ton cargo container of experience, several rank ups, more credits than I need, several new ships, a carrier and a crew. But I think mostly I have returned with a new outlook on the game, at least for now. I still want to explore, it's my passion, but I want to experience some of the things I missed out on while I was away. I need to engineer a few things, I'd like to visit the Sol system, I'd like to make a few Rares trade runs, and I'd like to make sure things are ready for my next adventure.

Now that I'm back in the bubble, I want to get most of my ships onto my carrier. I might as well, I don't see me decommissioning this carrier any time soon. It's my mobile home if you will. I'll leave one ship here and one ship there but most of them will be with me on my carrier. I just need to decide what systems I want to leave a ship in. Two to three at the most will do, I think. My next log entry should have the details laid out for that.

To officially finish this log entry, I must report that I made seventeen mostly economical jumps over two hundred forty light years to get to Frey from my last reported position. I visited five main sequence star systems and twelve brown dwarf star systems. I forgot there are a lot of brown dwarf systems near Frey. I didn't stop for any exobiological signals I came across as they would not have been 'first footfall' and not worth the time or effort for me or the crew. After I arrived at Garratt Station in the Frey System, I sold my cartographic data and immediately purchased a Panther Clipper because it was available for purchase at the station. Now I need to find where to purchase an 8D MK II Cargo rack for the ship. I have plans for this thing..

That should do it for this log entry. It certainly has been an experience, and the future is looking bright as I sit and contemplate my next moves in this fast-paced galaxy we live in. I hope I can continue to keep up.

CMDR Bullet out..

For all intents and purposes, this remarkable crew, the carrier and I have in fact, reached the bubble. With just over three hundred light years to go to reach my home system of Frey, we all decided to take some time off and relax in the star system Col 359 Sector PJ-Q b6-1. The carrier is in a parking orbit around the planet B 5.

I will make this log entry as short and concise as I can. To arrive here I scouted out ahead of the carrier in the Mandalay and made twelve jumps into twelve main sequence star systems. The carrier made two jumps to reach this star system from its previous location yesterday. I found four exobiologicals in the very system we're in over two planets. There is still one planet with two exobio signatures that I may or may not try to locate. I'll decide tomorrow or the next day.

Other than that information, the next log entry should be from within Frey system space. I am looking forward to making that final log entry of this long and exciting, not to mention capitol creating and asset accumulating adventurous expedition of mine that has taken over a year to accomplish. Until then and my final expedition log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..