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..

I hopped into a system with eight worlds that have exobiology on them and not just one or two exo signatures either. Between the eight worlds there are forty-three exobio signatures. Of course, my plan is to locate and sample each and every one of them. I don't think I will be able to do it all in one day however, but I'll knock out as much of it as I can.

I went ahead and moved the carrier into this system, the system I am in is KYLOALL EC-U D3-424 and has fifty bodies in it and is a fairly rich system. The one thing I haven't found in this system though is tritium as there are very few if any icy rings available.

I am camping out on ABCD 6 E after finding twenty exobiological on four worlds. My plan is to finish up this system tomorrow and finding the remaining twenty-three exobios and then moving on. That is where I am at with this log entry so ending it here.

CMDR Bullet out..

I enjoyed yesterday's short little jaunt a great deal, so I decided to have another go at one today in a different direction. None of the jumps today were made using economical routing. I just wanted to cover a lot of distance and see what I could find. What I found was a bunch of exobiology, twenty-six in total. It would have been thirty, but I really got skunked on one world. I would actually like to go back and try again it aggravated me so much.. I may just do that tomorrow.

I did make some bank today however, I'm happy about that. Keeping this carrier afloat is going to be relatively easy at this rate as long as the exobio doesn't dry up, and I doubt that will ever happen. I am really enjoying exploration combined with exobiology. This is such a winning combination. I just wish I could share this experience with some CMDR friends aboard this vessel, but all my CMDR friends have their own carriers. Such is life.

I have also re-sparked my interest in mining again now that the carrier requires tritium to move. I almost wish it used more so I could mine more often but that is perfectly ok with me. The T-11 is a fantastic ship and is well suited to its mining task for the carrier. Hell, even if I were simply mining precious metals I could make a fortune with it. What an investment that ship is. More things to think about. Time to end this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

I had a short little jaunt today in the Mandalay. I made three and a half long jumps to a white dwarf system to check it out. I was wondering if I should move the carrier to this system for a few days but I decided against it. It just wasn't interesting enough for me. Up to this point I hadn't encountered any exobiology either so it's just been fly time. From this white dwarf I saw on the nav chart that there was a black hole near by so I made way to that. It turns out that it has previously been discovered by what I can only assume to be a 'black hole hunter'.

From the black hole I turned to head back to the carrier only three jumps away. When I reached the carrier I stayed in the Mandalay and punched up Universal Cartographics and proceeded to sell the data. To my surprise, the data fetched nearly twelve million with added bonuses. I'll never quite understand just what they're looking for but sometimes they sure pay the big bucks. I should take short jaunts more often!

I guess it's time to start thinking about moving this carrier to a new location. I'm torn about the direction though. Should I start moving toward the bubble or the center of the galaxy or, Beagle point? I need to weigh my options but before I do, I'll definetly want to do at least one more short jaunt around here.

CMDR Bullet out..

I had a long day of jumping today. I had this bright idea of traveling to HIP 87621 to see what all the hype is over this new organism I've been reading about and watching on the vidlog.. This whole Teri Tora thing. Then I got to thinking after about two thousand lightyears into the trip, all those people are getting covered with unknown alien spoors and tracking it all over everywhere and everything. Soon, that stuff will be growing everywhere. I don't want any part of this crap. I just don't have a good feeling about this whole thing.

Needless to say, I turned the ship around and headed back to the carrier. But it wasn't a wasted trip. I made well over eleven million in Universal Cartographics data and tomorrow I will visit Vista Genomics to hand in the exobiology data. There were a significant number of planetary visits with exobio scan, so I am looking forward to the visit to Vista. Even though I didn't quite make it to HIP 87621, (ha-ha), I am quite happy with the rewards of this little trip.

Now it's time to get the paperwork out of the way and get my desk back in order. After that, I think I'll head over to the pilot's lounge and get a drink.

CMDR Bullet out..