I'm still slowing heading West.

Arbitrary West obviously.

I've stopped quite a few days exploring the edges of the locked zone in the Formorian Frontier.

Unfortunately, my investigation didn't reveal any new information. The area is still unaccessible, and nothing in its surroundings is worthy of note.

The only remarkable find was a strip, just on the northern edge of the locked zone , where planets seemed to have unusual numbers of geological signals. The average was above 30 per body, where the average elsewhere is something from 5 to 15.

I've even found three bodies with 49 signals each, which is just 1 short of the galactic record.

I have no reason to believe, however, that this is related to the locked zone, probably just a weird coincidence.

I've now crossed the border to the Hieronymus Delta, heading to the third - and second to last - Point of Interest of my journey.

I've landed on a random planet for a change of scenery and to scan some biological signal. And once again my clumsiness made me land with the grace of a pregnant hyppo, almost crashing on this 1.6G little rock.

Luckily I had remembered to activate my shields before attempting the landing, but I lost another 3% of my hull, now at 68%.

And all this for super common Shard Crystals.

Note to self: dude, take it easy.

I've finally arrived to Semotus Beacon, currently sitting at 65,647.34 ly from Sol.

I've been around here about a year ago, with my old Asp set up, no engineered modules, no SRV, jump boost or Guardian module.

I got lost in the Abyss multiple times, it took forever only to reach Beagle Point and I could not go any further than that, having a jump range of only 35 light years.

So, I've been looking forward to this for a while.

Here I am, the Galaxy far away in the distance.

I'm halfway into my journey now. Now I'll turn South, cross into the Scutum-Centaurus Arm and proceed counterclockwise to finish the last part of my circumnavigation.

It will be nice seeing some stars ahead.

I've finally crossed the arbitrary border between Acheron and the Abyss.

I can't deny this last stretch has felt quite long. Might be because the Galaxy core is already so far away. I remember the first time in the Abyss was painfully slow, full of dead ends and blind jumps into the black, one jump at a time.

With 30 more light years worth of range this time is actually flowing like a breeze.

Anyway, I did remember the AByss being more uneventful than, say, the Core regions, and this time isn't different.

However, I logged out in the orbit of a Water World I discovered. When I logged back in the sun had disappeared behind it, so I basically woke up to this.

I'm less than 10k light years from Beagle Point, so almost halfway into my journey.

I haven't found any stellar anomalies in the last 20k light years, nor any Earth-Like world. At least I'm still discovering Water Worlds aplenty, and several Ammonia planets.

Despite the relatively long distance still to travel before I get to this edge of the Galaxy, I've started coming across already explored planets.

It's funny that I haven't seen any sign of human presence in the past 300000 light years, and the first one is in the most remote part of space.

Anyway, almost close.

I very recently, very happily joined Canonn Research Group, and as part of a patrol I landed on a small planet in the systrem PLAE BRIAE NR-W to scan a biological site.

As it happens often when you've done something a couple of thousand times, I became too confident and I didn't pay attention when landing. This means that when I realised it was a 2G planet I was already going down like a rock, and no boost or no attempt to climb again could avoid me crashing onto the surface.

I touched down with the same grace my dad collapsed on the sofa after a shift at the factory.

Luckily I had remembered to activate my shields beforehand, so I just damaged my hull instead of blowing to piece and losing 200k light years worth of data in the process.

Still, I have about 400k light years to go in my journey, and flying with a hull at 70% when you're not even halfway is not great.

Anyway, at least I found Space Pumpkins.

I'm not even a quarter of the way into my trip, but I've noticed a trend that seems to be common all along this part of the galaxy: there aren't many Earth-like planets at all.

It's been 118k light years since my last dock, during which I've found 245 Water Worlds, 35 Ammonia Worlds and just 20 Earth-like Worlds.

I know it's supposed to be like that in the outer arms, but still. Let's say I'm confirming a well known fact of life.

On the other hand, when you find them, at least they're pretty.

I've been travelling North along the Sagittarius-Carina Arm for a while now, and on a straight line I'm still about 40000 light years from Beagle Point.

I haven't made any particular discovery during the last stretch.

In fact, I've set up my route to show all stars. That decreased dramatically the number of jumps and, sadly, the number of interesting things to see.

Notable Stellar Phenomena have been the same old same old for the past 15000 light years.

Even when they're pretty, these wonky trees tends to lose their shine after a while.

Anyway, I've set my route back to showing just F systems. Luckily I'll be coming across some interesting planets soon. Just 10 jumps more added to the 70 of my next arbitrary nav point in Mare Somnia.

Totally worth it.

This part of the Sagittarius-Carina arm is still full of Water World and AMmonia planets, not to mention the dozens of Notbale STellar Phenomena I've scanned.

This Water World World was just about 150 light years from the last nebula I visited. I decided to take a picture because I loved the lighting from its main star.

I made my way to the In EOCK PRAU IB-0 D6-7 nebula.

I explored most of the surroundings, and while I was there I made a new friend, CMDR Lorien I.

We were supposed to meet up but I guess he wasn't at his cockpit at that moment, so I decided to fly on.

Before I left to go on on my journey I landed on the peack at the center of a big crater of a random rocky planet, just to sort of plant my flag there.

The blurry star against the galaxy is the neutron star at the center of the system.

Anyway, I'm now flying towards the end of the Sagittarius-Carina Arm, with still about 40000 ly to go for this leg.

I found some pretty spots today.