Come on little guy, show me the way to your home systems...

I am already back at 3 Geminorum. Made around 300 jumps yesterday.

Since I now have my galactic record safe, I thought of getting down to the first DECE basecamp. Therefore I tried a new piece of software, and it worked very well. A compass for nailing down specific coordinates on a planetary surface. With that it was just a matter of a minute or two to get exactly to the old basecamp. Nice!

The view was quite different than what Freddy experienced. The planet now looks very reddish. And look what has grown there:

Some sort of crystals.

I will take a short rest here, hoping that the planet receives a bit more light later. Then I will surely grab some of the materials there.

Now I need to think of a route back to the bubble. I could go the same way from which I came, i.e. the crab nebula. Even though this is a bit boring, it will most likely be what I will do. You will see why ;-)

I made it!

Thanks to the help of CMDR Blockadefan I pushed the limit for the furthest M red dwarf star from Sagittarius A*. We found Angosk IG-Y d0 C at 45,371.11 ly from SagA.

Seeing that the record for the furthest T brown dwarf was quite low I had another look around. And found one. The record is now Angosk TY-S d3-0 E at 45,108.57 ly.

I am really, really happy :-)

Now back to the bubble!

Whilst traveling further towards the end of the Outer Arm Vacuus I decided to try something new. I picked a system relatively nearby and tried to trilaterate its coordinates. At least four reference distances are needed, so I submitted them. But the result was not precise enough, so I submitted a fifth one. Still multiple possible resolutions.

Of course all five measurements were taken from very similar positions, and thatfore not too useful. So I submitted another distance from the bubble. Still not precise enough :(

My guess was, that the y-coordinate could not be calculated because all distances to the target system were taken from y ~= 0. So I took two more distances, one from y = -350 and one from y = +430. But still no result :( :( :(

My last hope was to take an additional measurement after I jumped some 1000 lightyears. So I jonked to Ooscs Aescs RY-S e3-0, a system with a known blue-white super giant and submitted yet another distance. But wait, my system has already been trilaterated in the meantime! It's a bit unfortunate, but it seems that my previous submissions have put the system higher on the wishlist, and therefore CMDR Gombari Noah added the final piece to successfully trilaterate the coordinates. Anyway, it still was a quite fun activity.

Here is the result of the trilateration: Dryeae Aescs LX-L d7-0

And this is what it looks like on the galaxy map:

The precision of the trilateration is really impressive in my opinion!

As I said, I left the guardian ruins early. I am on the hunt for a galactic record, in a region that I very well know.

It is the Angosk sector that I am heading for. And I know it from the circumnavition of the galaxy. So I took off from the ruin to VY Canis Majoris. No photo of that because I have already been there. Next stop, the Crab Nebula. Or Pulsar. And here I took a photo because with this particular account I have never been there, although I always wanted to be. So here it is:

Very very beautiful!

But no time to loose, I went straight on to 3 Geminorum. Wasn't that a star that is quite hard to reach? Not any more! Yes, I have needed an injection into my FSD, but only for the jump to the star. Without fuel scooping I got back from the star without any injection at all.

I then headed towards the Southern Meridian. Maybe I'd find my luck there. But that is very unlikely, so I changed my course and am now heading towards my original target, the Angosk sector. In total I have jumped over 30 kLy today, without a single neutron star. Quite impressive as I find.

Hopefully I will find the time to reach my destination tomorrow. See you then ;-)

Unfortunately I was very busy this saturday, so I was much too late to join the excursion to the new Guardian sites lead by CMDR Blockadefan. When I was back in the hangar and fired up the cockpit of my ship, the others were already scouting around at the structure. After I figured out at which site exactly they were (not too easy between all this excited radio chatter) I wanted to head directly there. But then Blockadefan asked me to grab some Thargoid Sensors before.

So at first I made a little side step into the Pleiades and grabbed three of them at a known alien crash site. Whilst being there they told me to also make a visit in Meene in order to get a Guardian mission. Turns out you need to dock at one of the outposts in Meene, not at the Coriolis station. Mission impossible with the large Anaconda. It least I didn't get scanned and fined for carrying the UAs with me.

Because time was not on my side I finally jumped over to the other commanders at the Guardian Structure. A mere 10 jumps for over 650 lightyears from Meene! I love it!

This looks fantastic!

I drove a bit around with my SRV, tried to scan the obelisks as they told me how to do it, but I got no lore messages :( Very likely this has to do with the wrong mission I picked up at Meene. I already dropped two of the Thargoid Sensors for them, so I could head back to the bubble and take a smaller ship. Then dock at an outpost in Meene, and come back. But taking into consideration how tired I was, and also that my current main objective is to find the furthest whatnot star or body from Sol, that made me decide to take a rest here. And take off into the black tomorrow.

Thanks to all for having me there. It was quite funny to see you all swirling around.

Now that our beloved engineers learned how to actually engineer I took my long range Anaconda back to them, and hooray, they improved the ship quite a lot:

And that is boost-capable, with a shield, SRV, surface scanner and heatsink.

Four big ships, 50+ active limpets, power mining at its best!

Thank you again for all the painite, CMDR Flash o7

And now back to the material trader. I have a job to finish ;-)

Hm, two Pythons with very well known paint jobs and a Clipper. What are they about?

All I can say is that we came back with more than 150 tons of low temperature diamonds ;-)

I have an ongoing race. A race with CMDR Beamsucker. We are trying to overload ourselves with badges and even more badges.

No doubt, I will always have at least one badge more than him. But there is (or was at least) this one badge that he had, and I didn't. The Wolf Hunter badge!

It made me really angry, and Beamsucker knew that. Every day we met he insisted on having that particular badge, so today I decided to go hunting!

It took me quite a while, but then I was pretty sure that I have I found what might be a Wolf-Rayet star not known to the public yet. 1500 ly above the galactic plane, so the question was which ship I should take. It might be hard to get there. The Dolphin or similar ships at around 40 ly were definitively out of the race. What was left was an AspX with 52 ly, my DBX with 56 ly, and of course my long range Anaconda with 66 ly. Which is a massive 10 ly plus over the DBX. So - as much as I like my DBX - I opted for the Conda.

Travelling the 6000 ly to my chosen destination was a question of well under 2 hours. It's a race after all, isn't it? Also, I just needed one injection into my FSD for the final jump. Not too hard to get there. At least with the Conda.

And here he is, hiding behind a massive blue B super giant:

Little bastard, got you!

Actually I think he is indeed quite small. 5.9 times the size of our sun. And, what astonishes me even more, only ~6000 K surface temperature. That's the level of our sun, not, what a Wolf-Rayet is supposed to be at. But I have to check that against the other known W stars.

On my way back I found another interesting system. A neutron star with only five very spread out bodies. Or three bodies, with two of them having a moon. And one moon being a terraformable water world. Would be an interesting view if it really was terraformed one day. On the one hand the really large planet the water world is orbiting around, on the other hand the neutron star with its radiation. Which, thinking of it, might be an error in the Universal Cartographics algorithm. I honestly don't think that would ever be a good place to live at.

Anyway, now that I am already back home I need to check that neutron star system. My computer saved it with a filename of Gludgoea FC-B d1-2, but that's another system. The data stored in the file says something about Gludgoea UU-V d3-5, but that again doesn't seem to exist. Really confusing. Shoudn't be too difficult to just record some stellar data?!?