The DBX-class long-range survey ship Polite Defiance has been entered as a contestant in the Pilot Trade Network's Furyan Time Trial Series, an interstellar race running in the first week of November 2023.

The race will begin at P.T.N. Fury of Galaxia (G3Y-5TL) in the Gali system.

The unnamed Imperial Courier hull was outfitted for light PVE combat and racing, and named Perpetual Devotion.

A new Krait Mk2 ship was outfitted for light AX combat and named Pegasus Device.

The Python Polar Domain was refitted as a civilian freighter in order to participate in the June 2023 Booze Cruise event, riding the 8kly ladder to the extragalactic outpost of Rackham's Peak and making a total profit of approximately 5 billion credits.

The T-9 freighter Prandial Delivery has helped the Pilot Trade Network deliver many kilotons of Agronomical Treatment to Ballard Survey in Suhte, earning a profit of 800 million credits.

After finishing the biological survey, I have decided to finish outfitting the yet unused PvP Fer-de-Lance Poignant Denouement.

The target loadout is a 3PA/2RG shield tank outlined here: https://s.orbis.zone/mkkm

After traveling back almost ten thousand lightyears, Polite Defiance reached inhabited space in Crescent Sector GW-W c1-8, a remote system with a single asteroid starbase, Medusa's Rock, still more than five thousand lightyears from Sol.

This pitstop was becoming urgent due to Polite Defiance having sustained moderate damage to its FSD by neutron-boosting, and light internal and hull damage from reckless fuel-scooping.

After making repairs, we sold off all cartographic and genetic data gathered so far, with a net profit of almost three billion credits, pushing us into Elite I and Geneticist ranks, respectively.

Polite Defiance will now continue its return trip to the bubble.

Polite Defiance has arrived at the outward destination of its exobiology survey, the system Bya Eup GS-K d8-9.

Before returning to the bubble, it will be making several short trips within the Bya Eup sector, traveling to various supermassive (h-class) systems. The first of these is Bya Eup AA-A h0; a blue hypergiant approximately 700ly from GS-K d8-9.

After about a week of travel covering about 10000 lightyears in about 150 jumps, Polite Defiance has arrived in the Temple sector, in Eussoths DH-T b18-1. The preliminary target is in reach and should be reached within a few days at most.

After this, a decision will have to be made: Polite Defiance can either return to civilization by the way it came (with minor deviation to avoid revisiting the same systems)... or it can head out further into the black, possibly in the direction of Colonia, which will be not much further than Sol.

The DBX-class exploration vessel Polite Defiance has embarked on a short 14kly expedition into the galactic west, heading towards the Temple sector with a preliminary destination of Bya Eup GS-K d8-9, sampling all exobiology encountered on the way.