For the second time, the system I jumped into has a ring with tritium hotspots; three of them to be precise.

Pheia Aewsy ZR-S b31-0 has 44 bodies total; 1 stellar and 43 planetary, including one water world.

Consider we are close to where I wish to set up a base of operations and begin in depth charting, I am not going to scan the usual 10 systems at this location. I will refuel Callbase Capricorn and we will move on.

We have safely jumped about 496 LY to Pheia Aewsy ZR-S b31-0.

At this point we are one, maybe one and a half jumps from the border of Kepler's Crest.

July 29, 3306: Supplemental

Tourist Photos!

Feast your eyes on this jewel hanging in the velvety black; planet 5, a water world. I received first to discover and map which netted me 2,775,374 CR.

Moved on to planet 7 and found it has a nearly transparent ring. You can clearly see the Milky Way through it!

So yesterday I was preparing to launch with the Nebula Asp when preflight diagnostics showed some bad readings on the FSD. Not wanting to jump with a potential problem in the drive, I had the mechanics run deep diagnostics on it. We spent most of the day chasing down the problem and fixing it; an injector that was getting clogged! Fffffttttttt

So I finally got her off the launch pad this morning to check out this Monkey Head Sector. As I suspected, the first two systems I jumped to have been previously explored. The second system, Monkey Head Sector KC-U b3-0, has a ringed gas giant for the first planet. Lo and behold, that ring has one hotspot and it is tritium!

Tritium Search Statistics: 7 systems in 32 or 21.9%.

Supplemental: Monkey Head Sector KC-u b3-4 2 and 4 one hotspot each.

Stats: 8 in 34 or 23.5%.

I deviated from my general direction of travel, slightly, as I noticed the nearby Monkey Head Nebula and decided to take a look. After refuelling the carrier, it was a short hop of about 290 LY to reach it. Not a lot of stars in the nebula, but there is a large cluster around it marked as Monkey Head Sector.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. I just didn't expect it to happen this soon!

Yesterday, we jumped Callbase Capricorn nearly 500 light years to Phoe Aec BC-N b48-2. This morning, I launced with Nebula Asp to begin searching for tritium. I honked the system we had arrived in and found 36 bodies; 6 giants and their satellites. I booted the FSS, aimed at planet #1 and found it had rings. Five of the six giants have rings. Starting with #1, I started surface scanning; #1 has two tritium hotspots! The system the carrier jumped to has fuel! Hurray!

Adding that to the search statistics, that gives us 26 systems scanned, with 5 having tritium; 19.2%. There is an almost 1 in 5 chance of finding tritium in any given system (thus far). To truly verify that, much more data is required. Twenty-six systems is far too small of a sample to establish this as a rule; it's a suggestion at this point.

Even though I found tritium in this system, I am still going to scan nine more systems. I want to do ten per day to build that data up.

Supplemental:

I have completed scanning a total of 10 systems for this location. I found one more system with tritium hotspots; Phoei Aec BC-N b48-3 5 with 2 hotspots. That brings us to 6 systems in 30, or 20%.

Today I found tritium hotspots in the second system I scanned; Cyoide ZT-q c21-0.

Planet 1 has 2 hotspots and planet 3 has 2 hotspots.

At this point, I am now 3 in 17 systems had hotspots, or 17.6%.

Supplemental:

A second system with tritium hotspots discovered: Cyoide CU-F b44-0, planet ABC 2 with 3 hotspots.

This puts us at 4 systems in 25 or 16%.

This time it took me two days and scanning 15 systems to find a tritium hotspot. Of course, if I had gone this way instead of that way on the first outing, I would have found it sooner! Such is the nature of picking a random direction to search in.

Since I started counting, we have found two systems with hotspots out of fifteen systems scanned. This gives us 13.33% of systems having tritium hotspots thus far.

Here is the system, the pointer shows the planet with the hotspot:

Next stop, Cyoide WU-D e6-7 (an oddly short name for a system) which brings me ever so closer to the border of Kepler's Crest.

Supplemental:

We have arrived!

Scheau Phio JC-S d5-49 9, icy body, 1 ring, 1 hotspot

I scanned 10 systems and found 1 with a hotspot. So far, this looks like 10% of systems have tritium hotspots. I will continue scanning 10 systems per jump to see if this percentage is accurate.

I have returned to Callbase Capricorn having collected 192 tons of tritium. Of that, 180 went into the tank and 12 went into storage.

I disembarked from Miner 49er and asked the hangar crew to stage Nebula Asp on the pad, so I can head out exploring "in the morning". Well, morning going by the UTC.

After that, I asked the captain to schedule our next jump, which she did. We are heading to Scheau Phio GD-W b2-2. Looking at the galaxy map, there's only a handful of stars within 10 ly of that one. So I may have to range further out looking for tritium hotspots. I'll find out once we get there!