Whew, that took a long time. But it looks like I made it back. No time to rest, though. I immediately got back to work.

I had my eye on some pre-engineered modules. Specifically, a V1 SCO FSD and V1 DSS. The DSS was simple enough to obtain, I already had high grade materials to trade down. The FSD, however... yeah, that took a bit.

Apart from the materials that I simply had to trade for, I had to get my hands on a titan drive component and some propulsion elements, both of which are only obtainable from Thargoids. So I made my way to a fallen titan.

Yikes. I had never seen Thargoids before, and I had some close encounters while I was scouring the wreck for components. They sure are spooky. Good thing there were others here that were looking to fight the xenos, so they left me alone and I could scavenge in peace.

A few hours later, I finally managed to snatch a titan drive component from the wreckage. Got about 4 ly increase to my jump range by switching to the pre-engineered FSD. Not astronomical, but still pretty good.

With that, I'm heading back into deep space. I'm getting closer to having the credits to buy a fleet carrier. Only 2 billion more... so close. So very close. Stratum Tectonicas will deliver me unto greater heights.

-CMDR Nupsu

In light of recent events (the whole HIP 87621 debacle), I decided to start heading back to the Bubble. I'll see if I can optimize my ship more via engineering, I've been told that getting a 90 ly jump range for the Mandalay should be easy. Seeing as mine is at 76, I still have plenty of room for improvement.

I believe I have about 30% of the credits required to get a fleet carrier. That would be my ultimate goal in all this, though from what I hear, the upkeep is also pretty high for such spacecrafts. A cargo hold of 25000 units, and one ton of tritium going for 50k credits... yikes.

It's recommended to top off fleet carriers with all the tritium it can carry for exploration purposes. So that would be... 1.25 million credits. Nevermind, it's actually not that bad at all. One Stratum Tectonicas can pay for that 80 times over.

In any case, it's 200 jumps back to the Bubble from where I currently am. It will be quite the trip, I'll still be scanning everything I come across and pick up rare exobio samples on the way (looking at you, Stratum Tectonicas). I love my job.

-CMDR Nupsu

I didn't find any rare white dwarfs, so I decided to move on to the center of the galaxy. It took a short bit, but I made it. That was quite the view. Terrifying, humbling.

I'll be spending some time in the center. Due to an anomaly, the center of the galaxy is mostly devoid of any rare systems, so I will be moving on soon, most likely northeast. I decided to up the challenge a bit and try to find a helium giant. I believe there's only 17 of them cataloged to date, so it will be quite the adventure.

Oh right, it's also my birthday today. Maybe I'll use some of my birthday money to buy a giant raccoon plushie. That would be a nice addition to my Mandalay.

-CMDR Nupsu

What a strange section of space I have come across. So many white dwarfs and Herbig Ae/Be stars. I went to one of the Herbig systems, and it was a binary star system of a T Tauri star orbiting a Herbig. Quite a sight.

I'll be here for a bit to search for rare white dwarfs. Need to be careful though, those exclusion zones are deadly.

-CMDR Nupsu

I have a diary? Neat. Anyway, I just made it to Colonia and sold all my exploration and exobiology data, netting me my first billion. Feels good.

I think I'm gonna go hunt for carbon and Wolf-Rayet stars. There are still some undiscovered types, so maybe I'll get lucky. If I get bored, I'll make my way to Sagittarius A*. All the black holes I've discovered so far have been absolutely tiny, so seeing a supermassive one would be cool.

-CMDR Nupsu