Beautiful...

And beautifully lonely...

So, still on my way to Void's Brink and I've just past the 12k ly mark from Sol. And just when I thought this part of the galaxy was really boring, I found a system with two earth like worlds that hadn't been discovered yet! And, within a few light years, two neutron stars :-) So, overcharging my FSD and jumping 200ly+ in a few minutes. If you don't hear from me again, I'm probably part of one of the stars ;-)

Well, that was my first serious booboo... Didn't pay attention after scooping fuel and flew right at the star :-( Ended up with all my modules and hull down one or two percent of health. Been able to repair everything but the power plant. Even reboot/repair doesn't fix that, apparently. Very happy I took AFMUs and repair limpets with me on the journey :-)

8100 ly into my trip to Void's Brink. And I must say, I haven't encountered much exiting yet. Some Stellar Phenomena. That was cool. Never seen metal crystals the size of a town before! But for the rest, the most exiting were some water worlds, some even terraformable. The strange thing is, I jump into a lot of uninteresting systems where I am the first human to go there. But for almost all interesting systems (i.e. high exploration payout), someone has beaten me to it. It happens so often, that I can't help but thinking that something fishy is going on. Do they have some technology that allows them to scan for planets in nearby systems? I'll keep exploring... a little under 1800 ly to go to the 10k-ly-from-home-mark!

I've left the Inner Orion Spur and just entered the Outer Orion Spur :-) 4200ly into my trip to Void's Brink, about 41k ly to go... Not too may shocking things along the way, but I do see changes in the galaxy around me. The systems have more and more distance between them, so the shortest jumps are now around 15-17ly. And I'm finding less and less systems that have been discovered by others. Maybe one in 8-10 systems now. So, I'm the first human to visit a lot of systems. The thought humbles me. Hoping to find some interresting new stuff in this next region of space. I'll let you all know!

After a lot of exploration in and around the Orion Spur, I finally decided to go for the long haul. Bought myself an Anaconda, fitted it for exploration purposes, tuned it to 60ly jumps and picked a destination. It's Void's Brink or Chanoa QK-C d14-0, at the most northern point of the Perseus Arm tip. Distance? A little over 43k ly. Travel time? Well, let's just say I won't be there tomorrow. The fastest route costs me around 850 jumps; I guess there will be a lot more in the end. So: gone for a while!

O, I've brought FT limpets, so if you run out and I'm "around", let me know ;-)