This is weird. I was on a moon, to gather materials. I stopped to go out for some grocery shopping; I was on flat ground, no one in sight since I departed on this long range trip, and my hand break was set.

When I returned about two hours later, I found myself in my ship above the moon, and my SRV was just gone! What the hell happened here?

Okay.. so no more planetary SRV'ing till I can replace it - hopefully I will find one somewhere in the Colonia system.

Well that sucks! Two weeks to gather data on a long-distance passenger mission has failed while on the return leg of the mission, after hitting a planet's surface (1.04g) a little too hard. The passenger bailed out on the planet's surface after I did not drop them off at the nearest station. They gave me 20 minutes to get them off the ship - which was impossible, 'given that we were over 12,000 LY from the nearest port. And that really sucks!

Oh well.. I still have over 50,000,000 credits from scan data, and have so far discovered over 500 new systems - so far. I decided to change routes 'as I am no longer obligated to get my passengers back to the bubble now. I'm now heading to Jaques Station, and will gather more data on the way. Now, at least, I can relax and take more time to explore.

Once at Jauqes, I plan to heads back to the bubble in time for DW2 - I figure I have about 8 months to explore before that happens.