I've finally made it to Beagle Point! Officially over 65k ly from Sol :-)

As any commander would do, I've saluted Zy at his memorial while reflecting...

It has taken me a long time to reach this point, as I've taken the long way round from Sol all along the Sagittarius-Carina Arm, but it was a great voyage. And it isn't the end!

With over a billion credits in exploration data in my ship, it's time to head to the nearest station.

That would be Explorer's Anchorage in the Stuemeae FG-Y d7561 system, 39k ly from here.

It will take me a while :-) The things I will see before I get there...

I've just come across a system with one neutron star and one M class star. That's nothing special, but the M class has 6 terraformable planets (!), of which 5 are water worlds! That's 6.3M credits in exploration payout :-)

Also, three high metal content worlds... I guess at 43.4k ly from Sol, it's a nice place for an outpost. If I could build my own, I would!

After much deliberation and a nice vacation, I've decided to just head along the arm I'm in already, as that will eventually lead me to Beagle Point!

Always wanted to go there ;-)

See you in "a bit" :-)

Well, after trying to get to Void's Brink by manually finding a cross over between the Sagittarius-Carina Arm and Perseus Arm, I've decided it is not the way. I should have started out in a southerly direction from Sol and then follow the Perseus Arm... So, here I am, 40k ly from Sol on the Sagittarius-Carina Arm, looking for a better destination.

I have come across a type of planet I hadn't seen before! A water world with rings :-)

And I nearly whetted myself when I jumped in to this system with a fast spinning neutron star and another star very close to the entry point:

That's it for now. Lets think about where I'm heading now...

OK, I'm used to systems having none to 40-something bodies, but I just left a system with 65 astronomical bodies... A record for me anyway!

Well, I am still on my way to Voids Brink. Loosely, that is.

I could not find a direct path over the gap between the Sagittarius-Carina arm and the Perseus arm, not even with 75ly potential jumps, so I'm taking a long way around and visiting a lot of stuff that is "on the way".

A black hole at 480ly? That's close by! Well, it shows that even distance is relative ;-)

I'm still on my way to Void's Brink and have a little over 12k ly to go.

The thing is, it is getting harder and harder to find a route. I am in between the Sagittarius-Carina Arm and Perseus Arm and it's a lot of empty space out here. There aren't many systems and they are far apart.

So, it's a lot of manual route plotting and probing, but I'm sure I'll get there. Others did!

I'm now officially over 25k ly from Sol. 26k ly to be exact. It is a long way.

So, onward we go to Void's Brink. 17.8k ly to go and I'm hoping for some more exiting systems and planets. Most systems I come through are dull places, but there is the occasional gem, although it has been a while.

Fly save, commanders!

Yep. Almost half way on my voyage :-)

I'm now 21k ly from Sol and 22k ly from Void's Brink. The nearest inhabited system is now NGC 6188 Sector LC-V c2-28 at 18k ly.

Won't be meeting humans anytime soon, I guess.

So, about 28k ly left in my voyage to Brink's Void and a little over 15k ly from Sol. The numbers are mind boggling.

I've just come through a very interesting system. A neutron star and an M-class star with 6 bodies around it, of which 5 are terraformable. That's the most I've seen in a single system yet :-)

Can you imagine living near a neutron star? I'd be feeling blue all day ;-)