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 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..

I moved the carrier into a white dwarf system today. I will always choose a white dwarf or neutron star system to move the carrier to over a main sequence star if I can simply for their view, the incredible power they hold and the bridge they represent. There is also the danger, but it is not so much a threat to the carrier as it is to me in my ship when I initially investigate the system. On occasion there is even exobiology to be discovered and located within these systems which makes them even more interesting for me.

Today I made six jumps in the Mandalay out ahead of the carrier as usual covering approximately four hundred forty light years distance to arrive at this white dwarf star system and of course mapped out the system and planets. After that I chose a ringless un-landable planet to park the carrier around and called it forward. I then went ahead and scanned the rings of the ringed gas giants in system and discovered their secrets, several tritium hotspots. I have plenty of tritium onboard the carrier, but I would sure like to relax and do a little more mining just for S&G. We'll see tomorrow.

Well, I'm getting hungry and I have a backlog of reports to go over here on my desk tablet. I'd also like to have a drink in the lounge and socialize before I get some rest tonight. The crew is doing a great job of running the carrier while I'm out exploring. I want that officially recorded in this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out.

Over the last two days, 29th and 30th, I have made what I consider to be rather a rather conservative thirty-two jumps, not exceeding fifty lightyears in length in the Asp Explorer. Fifty lightyears per jump is actually a pretty reasonably distance for exploration as you don't pass up too many worlds during your journey yet still make reasonable headway along your path. Of course, you can always re-route to economical if the journey becomes interesting for one reason or another.

Another reason my pace slowed I believe was being stuffed after Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Some of the crew really put out a table for Thanksgiving. It was amazing. That meal made me want to do nothing but relax and watch videos.

I am also considering moving the carrier back toward the bubble. I haven't decided if I should move it blindly or after some reconnaissance ahead of each jump. Moving it blindly would certainly save a lot of time, but reconnaissance has its advantages too. Perhaps trying both and seeing which works best is the answer so after a little consideration I've decided I'll do both and that's where I'll end this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

I moved the carrier over five hundred thirty light years today. Mostly because I didn't want to make all those jumps back to the carrier in the Mandalay. I figured, why not just jump the carrier to me? So, I did. Executive perks and all you see.. It's what I should be doing anyway as I explore my way around. I parked it next to a planet in orbit around a ringed gas giant that has a tritium hot spot so tomorrow I think I'll relax in the T-11 and do a little tritium mining to top off the main tank again. What the hell. It's so satisfying to do.

In the Cartographics and Exobiology departments I made some serious credits. Between yesterday and today I discovered twenty-two star systems. I also discovered thirty-two exobiologicals but only scanned twenty of them. I left the rest for some other commander to get first footfall and scan someday. The system is: DRYOOE PROU HM-U D3-484 and the two moons are A7E and A7F. Each moon has five exobiological signatures on it. The other two exos are in another system, not worth my time.

So, Thanksgiving was pretty nice to me out here in the black. I hope you all had a nice one as well.

CMDR Bullet out..

I took the day off yesterday and my body appreciates it. The SRV has been taking a toll on me over the last few weeks, so the rest did me some good. It also gave me a chance to catch up on some back logs and things I've been putting off for a while. Today, I found a system with a planet that has an icy ring with a nice tritium hotspot in it, so I moved the carrier to the A moon of the planet and went ahead and did some tritium mining for the carrier.

What a great change of pace mining is from exobiology, I have to say. I really wish I could do this more often rather than exobiology for two to three weeks straight before I think it's time to top off the tritium tank again. In reality I only used about one hundred and eighty tons of tritium since the last time I topped the tank, and I can't remember when that was it's been so long. I'll have to go back into my logbook to figure that out..

The T-11 or, Icy Mike as I call him, performed flawlessly today. I extracted about 200 tons of tritium using only sixty-five limpets. The extra twenty tons of tritium went into carrier storage. I now have about one hundred and fifty tons of tritium in carrier storage along with a few tons of Void Opals and Low temperature Diamonds, Bromlite and Titanium. I'll sell that stuff off when I reach a station somewhere in the future. It's not going anywhere anytime soon. That should do it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today I completed the task of sampling the remaining twenty-three exobiological signals I discovered yesterday after discovering this system. It took me basically all day to complete this half of the mission and I am definitely tired. I am glad I had the carrier move into this system as well so I could just shoot back quickly and turn in the data and then relax for a day or so. While collecting all the samples was time consuming, it was also a considerable amount of fun as well. I must say, I did enjoy myself quite a bit.

I have to touch upon the credit aspect of the system here as well. This system, including the cartographic data, yielded almost one billion credits. It actually earned me just over eight hundred million and some change. Not too bad, not too bad at all.

So for now, I will rest for the remainder of the day and tomorrow I will head out once again and explore ahead of the carrier to see what I can find. I am not necessarily looking for high value systems like this one, I just got lucky here. I'm just looking, hoping to find something unusual and different. I'd love to find something for the record books, that would be great. You just know there is something out there waiting to be found.

CMDR Bullet out..