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Commander name:
Current ship:
Nebula Asp [RC-A]
(Asp Explorer)
 
Member since:
Jan 1, 2020
 
Distances submitted:
8
 
Systems visited:
10,302
Systems discovered first:
4,502
 
Balance:
55,023,978 Cr
July 28, 3306 Jump Successful

We have safely jumped about 496 LY to Pheia Aewsy ZR-S b31-0.

At this point we are one, maybe one and a half jumps from the border of Kepler's Crest.

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July 29, 3306: Supplemental

Tourist Photos!

Feast your eyes on this jewel hanging in the velvety black; planet 5, a water world. I received first to discover and map which netted me 2,775,374 CR.

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Moved on to planet 7 and found it has a nearly transparent ring. You can clearly see the Milky Way through it!

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July 28, 3306 Tritium Report

So yesterday I was preparing to launch with the Nebula Asp when preflight diagnostics showed some bad readings on the FSD. Not wanting to jump with a potential problem in the drive, I had the mechanics run deep diagnostics on it. We spent most of the day chasing down the problem and fixing it; an injector that was getting clogged! Fffffttttttt

So I finally got her off the launch pad this morning to check out this Monkey Head Sector. As I suspected, the first two systems I jumped to have been previously explored. The second system, Monkey Head Sector KC-U b3-0, has a ringed gas giant for the first planet. Lo and behold, that ring has one hotspot and it is tritium!

Tritium Search Statistics: 7 systems in 32 or 21.9%.

Supplemental: Monkey Head Sector KC-u b3-4 2 and 4 one hotspot each.

Stats: 8 in 34 or 23.5%.

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July 26 3306 Monkey Head Nebula

I deviated from my general direction of travel, slightly, as I noticed the nearby Monkey Head Nebula and decided to take a look. After refuelling the carrier, it was a short hop of about 290 LY to reach it. Not a lot of stars in the nebula, but there is a large cluster around it marked as Monkey Head Sector.

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July 26, 3306 Tritium Report

It was bound to happen sooner or later. I just didn't expect it to happen this soon!

Yesterday, we jumped Callbase Capricorn nearly 500 light years to Phoe Aec BC-N b48-2. This morning, I launced with Nebula Asp to begin searching for tritium. I honked the system we had arrived in and found 36 bodies; 6 giants and their satellites. I booted the FSS, aimed at planet #1 and found it had rings. Five of the six giants have rings. Starting with #1, I started surface scanning; #1 has two tritium hotspots! The system the carrier jumped to has fuel! Hurray!

Adding that to the search statistics, that gives us 26 systems scanned, with 5 having tritium; 19.2%. There is an almost 1 in 5 chance of finding tritium in any given system (thus far). To truly verify that, much more data is required. Twenty-six systems is far too small of a sample to establish this as a rule; it's a suggestion at this point.

Even though I found tritium in this system, I am still going to scan nine more systems. I want to do ten per day to build that data up.

Supplemental:

I have completed scanning a total of 10 systems for this location. I found one more system with tritium hotspots; Phoei Aec BC-N b48-3 5 with 2 hotspots. That brings us to 6 systems in 30, or 20%.

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July 25 3306 Tritium Report

Today I found tritium hotspots in the second system I scanned; Cyoide ZT-q c21-0.

Planet 1 has 2 hotspots and planet 3 has 2 hotspots.

At this point, I am now 3 in 17 systems had hotspots, or 17.6%.

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Supplemental:

A second system with tritium hotspots discovered: Cyoide CU-F b44-0, planet ABC 2 with 3 hotspots.

This puts us at 4 systems in 25 or 16%.

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July 24, 3306 Tritium Report

This time it took me two days and scanning 15 systems to find a tritium hotspot. Of course, if I had gone this way instead of that way on the first outing, I would have found it sooner! Such is the nature of picking a random direction to search in.

Since I started counting, we have found two systems with hotspots out of fifteen systems scanned. This gives us 13.33% of systems having tritium hotspots thus far.

Here is the system, the pointer shows the planet with the hotspot:

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July 22 3306

Next stop, Cyoide WU-D e6-7 (an oddly short name for a system) which brings me ever so closer to the border of Kepler's Crest.

Supplemental:

We have arrived!

Cyoide WU-D e6-7 A

Cyoide WU-D e6-7 system chart

July 22, 3306 Tritium Report

Scheau Phio JC-S d5-49 9, icy body, 1 ring, 1 hotspot

I scanned 10 systems and found 1 with a hotspot. So far, this looks like 10% of systems have tritium hotspots. I will continue scanning 10 systems per jump to see if this percentage is accurate.

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July 21 3306

I have returned to Callbase Capricorn having collected 192 tons of tritium. Of that, 180 went into the tank and 12 went into storage.

I disembarked from Miner 49er and asked the hangar crew to stage Nebula Asp on the pad, so I can head out exploring "in the morning". Well, morning going by the UTC.

After that, I asked the captain to schedule our next jump, which she did. We are heading to Scheau Phio GD-W b2-2. Looking at the galaxy map, there's only a handful of stars within 10 ly of that one. So I may have to range further out looking for tritium hotspots. I'll find out once we get there!

July 21, 2020

This is an out-of-character entry (in other words, I'm not pretending to be a starship commander, just posting as a player).

There have been several videos on Youtube this past week, pushing the narrative that due to a bug in the most recent patch, mining is DEAD! There's nothing left!!! There's no tritium in the galaxy! Thousands of carriers are stranded all over the black!!

It's just hype (for views?), scare mongering, trolling or out and out whining. Whatever their reasons, it's bull. Yes, the tritium supply in the galaxy was inadvertantly reduced; it was a bug and mistake. Frontier will fix it soon.

I am currently 5720 LY from Sol and I am having no difficulties finding tritium. I jump my carrier pretty much once per day and rarely let the tank drop below 90% full.

Just today, I took my mining ship to the system I reported yesterday, targeted the 1 single hotspot on the first of the three planets with hotspots and got busy. In 50 to 55 minutes, I had fired off all 96 missiles in my SSDM launcher and had 117 tons of tritium in the cargo hold. But I need 180 to bring it back to full, so I synthesized a fresh load of missiles and I will contine mining. Once I get back and fill the tank, it'll be time for my next jump.

I have been finding many rocks with 1 to 4 surface deposits, 1 to 4 sub-surface deposits or a mix of the two. Despite their claims that low temperature diamonds are busted as well, I keep passing over LTD sdd's because... they aren't fuel so why bother? I've also been finding core deposits of anything and everything (but tritium; I don't care as I didn't bring a core mining tool).

So ignore the hype, it just isn't true. Yes, the tritium supply has been reduced but it exists. I have noticed there's almost no tritium available as laser mining, but then, who cares? Laser mining is a silly way to refuel a 1,000 ton tank!

If there are carriers stranded with no fuel, then I would chalk it up to the bad luck of jumping into an area with no hotspots.

I think most of this hype on Youtube really amounts to "waaaah! I can't mine 'the egg' using the fighter reset glitch no more, waaaah! Mining is dead!" One video claiming mining was dead was posted by a guy who created a video on how find and exploit "the egg", so to hear him call "mining dead" is clearly suspect.

Carry on commanders! The tritium is out there. It might take you 10 minutes longer to find it and maybe an extra hour to fill your tank, but you will.