Currently 7600 ly from Sol.

Did a small detour to the top of the galactic plane. Managed to scan some white dwarfs for the codex. Then proceeded along the route to Colonia but unfortunately had a habitable world drought of 750 ly. Broke the loosing streak on a WW system with 2 anomalies - first ones I have seen since NGC 6820.

Currently 6500 ly from Sol.

Arrived at NGC 6820. The region around the nebula is 97% unexplored. Lots of notable discoveries. On my way here I discovered my first system with an earth-like world (making my record of finding earth-like planets a miserable 1/305 systems). The same system also had 2 WW orbiting around a barycenter which is a nice bonus. A couple more water giants, a 3 WW system, multiple anomalies (lag-clouds, mineral spheres, finished my metallic crystal codex) and a few more scattered single WW or ammonia world systems.

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Currently 6400 ly from Sol.

Good news and bad news.

Discovered quite a stunning system with a ringed WW orbiting around an F-class star. This system contains 3 anomalies centered around the WW. There are two metallic crystal fields 50-60 Ls away from the planet. And there is cluster of pear molluscs living in the rings of the WW.

With molluscs

And now for the bad news. In my attempt to quickly parse through the crystals I may have slightly bumped one of them... at full speed... So now my hull is severely damaged and I am proceeding to NGC 6820 for repairs. Because of the rather in depth nature of my survey this might delay my arrival at Colonia by 1-2 days.

Currently 6300 ly from Sol.

Discovered approximately 50 new stars, 3 WW and one of those elusive water giants. One of the WWs was in a very compact system (100 Ls) which also had an anomaly within 60Ls of the star. So upon arrival I immediately discovered a new star, a new WW and a Lagrange cloud. A much nicer surprise than arriving in between two F-class stars with rapid overheating.

With metallic crystals ofc!

Currently 5600 ly from Sol.

Discovered my 200th star. Some of the highlights were 4 new water worlds, a B-class star, a neutron star and a system with 2 proto-lagrange fields that both contained some metallic crystals.

Proto-lagrange field with metallic crystals

My first jump today...

Think fast

Currently 4600 ly from Sol.

Discovered 40 more stars. Came upon an already explored pocket of space which had 2 earth-like worlds and a water world within 50 ly of each other.

Discovered my first B-class star and another class IV giant but besides that and the near death experience this was a pretty uneventful day of exploration. Made some good progress in terms of distance traveled though.

Currently 3750 ly from Sol.

Discovered my 100th star and it's my best one yet. G-class star with both a water world and an ammonia world.

The 7 earth mass water world is in a binary system with a 2500 earth mass gas giant. The mass difference is so great that the barycenter is almost touching the gas giants surface. Too far for a cool shot with the rings in the background but still pretty nice.

WW was big but the ammonia world is even more massive at 25 earth masses. In fact it is so big that it can support a beautiful ring system with at least 16 well defined rings. Probably my favorite planet yet.

Big ammonia world with a beautiful ring system

Currently 3300 ly away from Sol.

This is pretty much untouched territory, so it's no wonder that I discovered 43 new stars (including a run of 19 consecutive discoveries in a row).

This time I was looking for G-class stars. Despite that I only managed to find one water world. But it was in a very water-rich system - it also had 2 gas giants with water-based life. Oh and the water world also had a small rocky moon, which didn't show up very well in the screenshot.

In a very watery system

Other than that lot's of gas giants and their icy, rocky moons. I mean, one system had 48 bodies - all gas giants and low value moons. Geez!

Also spotted my first class IV giant. Kinda surprised it took this long.

There was also another system with 2 water life gas giants. I guess this part of the run was water-themed.

Still no earth-like!

Currently 2700 ly away from Sol.

Discovered 23 new stars. About half of them ar M-class, the rest are mostly K and G.

Discovered too many planets to count (300 - 400 maybe). With the highlights being an ammonia world in a close orbit around a ringed giant. A very neat quaternary (FKKK) system consisting only of 6 gas giants and their moons (2 of them with water-based life). And an F-class system with 14 metal-rich worlds.

Ammonia world in a close orbit around a ringed giant

Still haven't found an earth-like world.

Currently ~1700 ly away from Sol.

Discovered 5 new M-class stars. No K-class or hotter.

~100 lesser planetary discoveries (gas giants and their rocky moons, ~10 metal-rich worlds). No new earth-like, water, ammonia worlds (EWA) discovered.

~4 FMs of note (2-3 water worlds, ammonia-life gas giant). No earth-like or ammonia FMd.