Today's exploration venture was cut short due to a very painful back ache I've been suffering with all day. I thank my lucky stars I only discovered only one exobiological today. Climbing in and out of the SRV all day would have killed me. I actually thought the exo was going to be Stratum, but it turned out to be Bacterium. Fortunately for me it turned out to be Bacterium Cerbrus. On a first footfall world at five times value that turned out to bring in 8,449,000cr which was worth landing for.

Well, I traveled almost three hundred seventy-seven lightyears today before I just couldn't take the pain any longer. I called the carrier forward and waited for it to arrive. After it arrived, I made way to her safety zone and then docked. Once docked, I headed to the lounge for my favorite drink and then off to bed without even eating something.

The star report is as follows, I made thirteen jumps, eight were main sequence systems, three were neutron star systems and two were white dwarf systems. All but one white dwarf system were first discoveries by me, and all done in the Mandalay.

In the morning, I hope I'll be feeling better. I don't usually suffer from back aches in fact it's rare I get them. I'm sure I'll be alright tomorrow.

CMDR Bullet out..

There is a discrepancy in my flight log today and while it says I made twenty-one jumps, I am going to say I only made twenty today. The first jump is recorded as being a little over eighty-nine lightyears, my Mandalay is not capable of eighty without running at half tank of fuel or using jumponium. So that first jump was impossible for my ship without jumponium, and I didn't use any jumponium and I never run at half a tank, ever unless circumstances force me to..

I did discover fifteen main sequence star systems, two neutron star systems and three white dwarf systems today. I moved the carrier forward to a nice main sequence star system with a pretty blue gas giant that has a big ring with a large tritium hotspot in it too. I parked the carrier around the planet's A moon and then mined two hundred tons of tritium to bring the carrier's reserve up to 98%.

On top of all that I managed to discover eight exobiologicals that I turned in the data to Vista Genomics as well. It was a pretty busy day all in all. Time to get cleaned up and some food in me. That's it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today was an average day of exploration with a minimal amount of exobiology done. That being said, I still made a couple hundred million credits at Vista Genomics when I returned with the data. I made twenty-five jumps in all today. Quite a few jumps if you ask me and I only found exobiology on two worlds out of all those jumps.

Today's jumps consisted of seventeen main sequence star systems, three brown dwarf star systems, two neutron star systems and three white dwarf systems. Once again, I called the carrier forward into a white dwarf system, Dryooe Prooe LM-C d62, and parked around the first planet, A 1. This is the last system I surveyed today. I used the Mandalay also. She is such a nimble and reliable ship.

My thoughts are moving toward the bubble lately though. I am seriously considering a run to the bubble to visit some engineers and possibly move the carrier closer to the bubble as well. I haven't worked out the logistics of the plan yet but, I will share them as they formulate here in my logbook. Enough for now, time to get cleaned up and eat, relax and have a drink.

CMDR Bullet out.

My skilled crew aboard the Silbergeschoss brought the carrier into a nice parking orbit around the planet AB 3 c within the star system Dryooe Prooe AL-V d3-171. This is a white dwarf system and was the last system I found during my day of exploration before I decided to throw in the towel on working for the day.

I used the Asp explorer today to mix things up a bit, as I like to do. She performed quite well although she doesn't turn quite as quickly as I'd like. It's not a problem, just a quirk. She really does a decent job of surface cruising and locating a suitable place to land as well although, I did have to touch down a bit further away from my exo-bio target a few times due to her footprint. Again, it's not a problem, just a quirk.

The trip report reads as follows, I made a total of eighteen jumps today visiting three white dwarf systems, one brown dwarf system and fourteen main sequence systems. All of the systems were recorded by Universal Cartographics as first discoveries by me as well as several high metal content worlds and a water world which sweetened the pot considerably. All in all, another good day, I'd say.

CMDR Bullet out..

It was an out of the ordinary day today. I decided to take the plunge and use the stockpiled ARX I've been hoarding for months and finally use them on a new ship. Yes, you can probably guess which one.. I decided to get the Caspian Explorer stellar. My first impressions are, damn, she's an awfully big ship. I've never owned an Anaconda so, I've never really experienced landfall with such a large ship before. Sure, I own a couple large ships but, I haven't ever used them for exploration, so I've never experienced running around beneath them in an SRV or on foot before as crazy as that sounds.

The first thing I wanted to do with the new Caspian was go to Colonia and fit it with a Guardian FSD booster so, that's what I did. I removed a few things I didn't need to lighten her up first and gave her a name and off I went. The X S I V X P L R and I were on our way to Colonia.

The round trip took thirty-two jumps. I visited eleven neutron stars, twenty main sequence stars and one brown dwarf star system. The trip to Colonia took twenty-seven jumps and I surveyed and scanned exo-bio all the way there. The trip back to the carrier took five jumps utilizing neutron star jumps at nearly three hundred lightyears per jump. This, incidentally, is the first time I have ever used a neutron star to increase my jump range ever before! What a thrill. Because I am an explorer, I never use neutron jumps as it passes too many worlds to explore defeating the purpose of exploration altogether in my opinion.

To sum it up, today was completely out of the ordinary for me. I think I'm going to enjoy using this new ship once in a while but What I really wanted to buy it for was to use it to commute to the bubble as quickly as I can. That is what I see the greatest value this ship holds. I'd like to get to Farseer and engineer this a bit for some better jump range and that should do it. Now time to end this log and get some much needed rest.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today's log entry is a fun little log entry for me. I visited a total of nine star systems which included two white dwarf systems and seven main sequence star systems. Within two of the systems, I discovered a total of eight exobiological specimens. One specimen in one system and seven in another. The system I discovered seven exobiologicals in actually has two more worlds each with two more exobiological signatures on them, but I am not going to go after those four exo-bios. I'm done with this system and wish to move on. If anyone wants them, the system is, Dryooe Prooe IX-A d1-633.

After locating the seven exo-bios on Dryooe Prooe IX-A d1-633 planet 5C, I called my carrier forward to this planet and waited for it to arrive. Once it arrived, I left the planet and docked with the carrier to hand in my data and get cleaned up, have some dinner and a couple drinks in the lounge. I used my Cobra MK3 today and enjoyed every minute using that tight little ship. I tricked her out for exploration, and she does pretty well.

This Cobra is one of the first ships I ever owned. We've got some history together. That will wrap up this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today was a leisurely day of exploration with only fifteen jumps in total. All of the jumps were done in economical mode except for the first jump. I discovered a water world and three exobiological specimens. For only fifteen jumps, I'd say that was pretty good. On my last jump, I found a nice planet to wait on while I called the carrier forward.

Of the fifteen jumps, two of them were brown dwarf stars and the remaining thirteen were main sequence stars. Nothing to write home about and not much more to add to this report. I am safe abord the carrier now, finished with dinner and ready for a drink in the lounge.

CMDR Bullet out..

I experienced a navigational anomaly while trying to jump the carrier to the system I was in today. I'm not quite sure what happened or why it happened. I was only about three hundred fifty light years away from the carrier in a white dwarf system. I had just finished the system survey and decided to park the carrier around a planet that had a nice view of the white dwarf star. The problem arose when I placed the request to move the carrier to my location around the planet within the system I was in. I received the error message 'No slots available'. Clearly this was an error as I was the first to discover this system and I was the only ship in system. Needless to say, it was very distressing, and I was very disappointed.

At this point I decided to return to the carrier since I had made several jumps at this point, and I was several hundred light years away. After a few economical jumps, I ended up in a neutron star system and after a discovery scan and full spectrum scan, I thought I would try to call the carrier forward again just to see if there is truly a problem with the carrier navigational system. I chose a little world to park the carrier and this time the request went through without a hitch, go figure.

So at this point I had made thirty-three jumps and visited three neutron stars, four White Dwarf systems, two brown dwarf systems, and twenty-four main sequence star systems. Within all those systems I only discovered eight exobiological signatures with Tubus Cavas being the most valuable species of exo found. This will end my log entry for today.

CMDR Bullet out..

Until recently, if you asked most anyone the question, 'How big is the galaxy?', a typical response might be, 'It's pretty damn big!'. Well, it just got a whole lot smaller a couple days ago.. Zorgon Peterson just introduced a new ship called the Caspian and it can do some absolutely remarkable things including neutron boosting almost the distance of a maximum fleet carrier jump. Now consider if the Caspian is jumping from neutron star to neutron star, it can travel vast distances in the same amount of time that the fleet carrier takes to make just one single jump. I personally wouldn't call this exploration rather, I'd call it high speed travel like being shot out of a cannon.

Touching on one more thing about the Caspian and then I'll move on to my report. The Caspian is going to, in my opinion, make some ships obsolete with its internal layout as well having so many internal slots available. It is a large ship which is unusual for exploration in my opinion making the need for carrier assist redundant, which is good, but landing a large ship on planets is much more difficult than its smaller counterparts all the way around. Will I get one, yep. But not for what you might think.

Today's exploration saw nine main sequence stars, two white dwarfs and four brown dwarf stars. I moved the carrier forward to a white dwarf system and parked it around the only planet in system at eight hundred eighty-six light seconds away. The system is Dryooe Prooe TU-V d3-118 and the planet is C1. From here I visited a neighboring star system and mined almost two hundred tons of tritium to top off the fuel tank of the carrier. I enjoyed the trigger time in the T-11, it was relaxing. That's it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

When you set your trip router to include non-sequence stars and white dwarf stars, I suppose you shouldn't be surprised when you encounter a few when they show up in front of you unexpectedly. That's just what happened today and it caught me off guard just a bit. When you aren't expecting to hop into a black hole system, and you suddenly do, it's a bit of a shock but, nothing to worry about really, at least for a seasoned pilot.

Neutron star systems are not even a problem to jump into, but white dwarf systems can be a real pain if you don't know what you are doing. They are dangerous and they are hot. They can provide a substantial boost to your jump but generally it isn't worth the trouble when a neutron star can give you triple the boost with far less danger than a white dwarf. It's my personal opinion that white dwarfs should just be avoided for boosting unless absolutely necessary otherwise, just take some time to look at them as they are quite beautiful.

Today I made twenty jumps that included three white dwarf stars, one black hole and sixteen main sequence stars. I parked the carrier around a planet orbiting just twenty-six light seconds from a white dwarf star and the view is amazing. The system is Dryooe Prou XY-S d3-28. We will stay here for the duration and make way for destinations unknown on the morrow. I'll end the log here for now.

CMDR Bullet out..