I finally got back over to Jaques today. The old explorer was very happy to serve me a cold drink. Lavian Ale, ice cold. I could have gotten it from Lave, but I am still avoiding the bubble for now - Jaques reinforced that need when he told me about the newly discovered Medusa variant. My god! I think I should just stay here until this whole thing shakes itself out. But, Beagle Point beckons.

I plan to go around the back of the galaxy to the Sagittarius - Carina arm, then follow it around the abyss. Jaques gave the plan the thumbs up. My 41LY jump range should be sufficient for this route. I would still have to go into the Solitude Void, but that seems to be the lesser of the two evils, it doesn't have the reputation of the Abyss.

Now that I know about the Medusa variant, I'll take the long way with a detour around Sag A* to stay as far away from the bubble as possible. Don't want to chance getting on the bad side of one of those things.

I'm following in the steps of the federation and getting the hell out of the Pilades sector. I picked up an AspX, tricked it out for exploration including those fancy new repair limpets (You never know when you'll need one!) and am currently typing this from Bleia Eohn IO-F d12-39 2 f - at least, that's the name my computer reports.

Apparantly I'm the first to discover this system, and thus, this planet. I'll receive official confirmation if society still exists when I'm finished with my galactic grand tour but in the meantime I hereby dub this planet ... umm... [PAUSE COMMAND RECIEVED]

[RESUME COMMAND RECIEVED] You know what, the computer name is fine for now - I'll get back to you on that.

I've been slack about updating this log, so, here's a quick recap.

I made it to Colonia, turned in my stellar cartographics data, had a drink at the famous Jaques Bar (Honestly, it was alarmingly cheap and bland, but what more should you expect from a bar 22,000.47 LY away from Sol? But the atmosphere was amazing), picked up a long overdue AFMU, then made the long commute back to the bubble. I initially wanted to go back via Sag A*, but then about halfway there I decided "screw it" it made a beeline for the "Sol bubble".

Once back at the bubble around mid june, I left my ship at Maia and took some hard earned time off for a few months. Staying at various stations using passenger shuttle services between them. It's refreshing to fly as a passenger for a change! Not having to worry if that next star is scoopable or not, whether that pirate will be the one that does you in, whether you have enough range to make that next jump and so on.

I decided to end my holiday in mid September, checked out of my hotel at Kerr Hub and caught a shuttle back to Maia. I spent a few days getting used to the cockpit again and stocking up on supplies. I have to give credit where it's due to Obsidian Orbital - They keep ships in their hangars very clean, indeed.

On September 21, I left the station for my first jump in a few months. From the cabin, you don't get a sense of just how turbulant hyperspace is.

And now, I've caught up with the whole Aegis project and even had my own close encounters, sticking to scanning and observing.

That's about everything. I'll try to update this log more often in the future.

Today was relatively uneventful at first. Liftoff from Sacaqawea Space Port at about 0150 UTC, set out on the 70 or so jumps to Gigarin Gate via neutron star boosting. With yesterday's 3.3LY misjump still fresh in my mind, I made sure to double check that every destination was set correctly. About 15 jumps in I started noticing that I was developing a migrane.

I eventually had to stop at Blua Hypue SJ-R e4-4, where I am writing this, and have the ship powered down enough to give me plenty of fuel for at least a week, then I retired for the day early and spent most of it lying down in the bare bones accommodation my Asp Explorer provides. I had gotten so used to the cabin in the Python, I forgot what really roughing it felt like. Still, the artificial gravity works well enough. Hopefully I'll be more able to continue my journey tomorrow. But for now, I just want to sleep.