Single class F system explored today (Phleedgoe MY-G d11-173). Some terraformables and some more Bark Mounds but little else of note. Didn't bother breaking out the SRV after yestrdays more extensive excusions and mat collections - just scanned from the ship.

Perhaps a few more systems tomorrow.

Another brief exploration loop.

Explored a bit further out from the nebula (but still nearby) and ended up at one bio signal site (Phleedgoe MY-G d11-220 B 2, bio 3, more Bark Mounds) take several nice pitures of the nebula for the surface. All very pictureque and alos hand for the mat stores.

Another short exploration loop today, this time taking in class M stars near the Smilers Observatory. Nothing of note to report and I can see this title and the related entry being something of a recurring theme..

Meanwhile the Bubble is looking all very exciting and a 'ghost ship' turning up certainly has piqued my curiosity and has me a little sad to be out of the action on the other side of the galaxy. Still, worlds to explore and you never know what might show up.

Today I did a short tour around the 'bottom' of the nebula, taking in a mix of stars from proto-stars to some large class Os. Nothing to much to report, though a few previously undiscovered water worlds and a fair number of terraformables.

Back at the Smilers Observatory now, for a bit of a tune up befor heading out again.

A relatively short exloration loop today, out from the Smilers Observatory and back. This was mostly taking in Class O and A type stars along with anything else to fill the gaps. Many of these systems had already been explored by other commanders alas so I wasn't to add to the sum of our knowledge over much this trip.

Apart from a few enlifed gas giants and water worlds and even more bark mounds, the most interesting thing was a system (Phleedgoe UJ-Q e5-68) sporting several helium rich gas giants along with some water giants. This systems history must be all rather interesting. I haven't seen any helium-rich gas giants for... Well, been a while. So so many all at once is a novelty. I've been finding more water giants but, again, several in one place is unusual. So an interesting find. Unfortunately this entire system has, it turns out, been well documented by previous visitors despite the more interesting bodies being over 400kls out from the main star. Perhaps I'll bump in to something as novel and less documented.

Meanwhile tensions back in the bubble have me worried. Between the politcial problems within and between the Empire and Federation and the Alliance holding the line (with help) from increased Thargoid activity I have to wonder how much they'll be to go back to - whenever it is I decide to turn in that direction.

Got back to the Smilers Observatory today after my brief White Dwarf patch tour.

The Frameshift Drive had taken a bit of damage from my neutron boosting experimentation and I took the opportunity to test out one of the AFMUs to get it back up to its proper condition. Did this just prior to docking, nice to have the techs on hand if that didn't work for some reason. Certainly be happy to have the AFMU for the return journey in a month or so.

Having cashed in my exploration data and had other things tweaked and topped up on the Destinys Edge 2 I took the ship back out for a brief exploratory tour of local systems, mostly hitting T-Tauri stars and some class Os. Nothing hugely of note but a few water worlds (non-terraformable) and some ammonia based life on some gas giants.

Hoping to find some Earth likes or something more exotic like a black hole. The former I reckon I have a good chance to find, the latter not so much. Anyway, well see, back to exploring the nebular and wider area tomorrow.

After my brief trip to scout out the White Dwarfs I am now returning to the Smilers Observatory to register my scans and make minor repairs.

Notably tried to push the jump distance through neutron boosting which has shaved some time off the return journey but I've found various things to scan along the ay so am not back yet.

Should be back tomorrow.

My field trip to the White Dwarf cluster got underway in ernest today, scanned a number of systems and found a few things of interest.

One thing of interest was the number of White Dwarfs in the area, more than I originally thought. Along with these a fair number of neutron stars. Even bumped into a super massive giant star. So all in all an interesting time of it. One system of note had a terraformable water world (Phleedgoe HR-D d12-19 1) orbiting a neutron star along with one other HMC companion. Not sure I'd want to set up home there but interesting views perhaps.

I've set down for the day on a distant high metal context world (Phleedgoe HR-D d12-28 B 2, Geo 4), terraformable but also landable. This is a fair way out from the primary neutron star, itself orbiting a class M. This gave me the opportunity to refuel, something I'd been missing with all those White Dwarfs and Neutrons. The spot is bleak but pretty, the magma fountains providing an interesting backdrop - I just hope I haven't landed on one.

Obviously the whole of the primary mission at the moment is one of exploration but in this case I've broken off from exploration of the Nebula for a short trip down to the cluser of White Dwarfs that I noted when we first arrived.

I'm not at the the cluster having made worse time than expected. Nothing hugely exicting but I did encounter a larger number of terraformables, water worlds, inhabited gas giants and simply large systems than anticpated.

This initial DC White Dwarf system has a single companion class L dwarf. All being well I'll get to continue investigating the area tomorrow - wonder if anything mroe exotic will turn up.

Ongoing exploration of the nebula and surrounding area yields further terraformables, a water world a two, several gas giants harbouring life and plenty of Bark Mound sites. I'm certainly glad to be finding these sites but some variety would be nice. At somepoint, when I have the appropriate tooling and certifications, I look forward to taking more specimens to allow further analysis.. My shooting bits off these things with the SRV cannon while a start, somewhat satisfying and rather useful for materials, is perhaps not the best approach to rigourous xenological research.