WP6 is the furthest ATEG waypoint from the Bubble.

New information has recently come to light narrowing down the location of the Green Gas Giant (GGG) sighted by Kelly Eldridge that the expedition is searching for. She saw it shortly before encountering the Hyponia Restricted Sector while heading home to the Bubble, perhaps by only a day or two.

Hyponia is another 8,000Ly beyond WP6. I really wanted to take my fleet carrier out there as it makes long distance travel much easier. After checking fuel reserves and estimating fuel required to travel to Hyponia and back, then return to the Bubble, I found I would still have about 3,500t of Tritium in the tanks.

It's also known that at the time Kelly Eldridge was out there, boosted jumps were not possible. That may help to find the "breadcrumb" trail of her travels and hence find the lost GGG.

Close to WP4 for the ATEG expedition the Canonn EDMC plugin advised me that the nearby system Dehe PP-V d3-57 had an interesting trinary group of shepherd moons orbiting a gas giant.

For notable systems like this one, or the expedition waypoints, I've been noting the missing system data in the plugin and surveying to fill the gaps.

Just after midnight local time I arrived at WP2, Thraikoo PS-U e2-4. The black hole is almost directly above my fleet carrier.

Round figures for this first leg are 20,000Ly using 5,000t of Tritium or 4Ly/t. With 18,000t left in storage I should be good for another 72,000Ly! There is roughly 53,000Ly for the rest of the expedition. I had considered flying the expedition loop the traditional way in a ship, but after running the numbers I'm comfortable that I'll by able to fly my fleet carrier for the entirety of the expedition.

Those numbers mean my fleet carrier has approximately a 96,000Ly one-way range, or 48,000Ly round-trip range. That's a long way, but not enough to do a return trip to Beagle Point, which is about 65,000Ly from the Bubble, or 130,000Ly return.

My fleet carrier has made long distance travel quite the hands-off affair. In a ship you have to be jumping every minute to travel long distances. A fleet carrier jumps once every 20 minutes. With a Spansh Fleet Carrier Route saved to a document, I can copy-paste to queue the next jump then spend 20 minutes doing something that I wouldn't have been able to if I had to actively fly.

Alternatively, I'm able to fly ahead of my carrier and have it catch up to me while I explore, or the other way around - I let it jump ahead and I explore while I catch up.

I arrived at WP1 for the At the Eldritch Gate Expedition - LAWD 26.

The scheduled mass jump is at 3AM my local time, so I couldn't make that. Instead I decided to leave early and make my first stop HIP 86908, where a commander found Quarantine Site UC-001.

The logs to be found here are quite spooky!

Then I set off for WP2...

When I recently signed up for the At the Eldritch Gate expedition I didn't think I'd be able to take my fleet carrier. However, when I ran the numbers and found that I only needed to mine about 3700t of Platinum to be able to fill my carrier with Tritium by simply buying the stuff I changed my mind.

I ended up mining nearly 7,000t of Platinum. That netted me about 2BCr. I spent just over 1BCr buying Tritium from Avdeyev City.

At this time the Kalb system had Tritium at both a good price (~48,000C/t) and in huge quantities (~150,000t in three stations). That meant I could fill my hauling Cutter with 696t a trip and barely move the economy. It was still a lot of hauling.

Having just purchased my fleet carrier, I thought I would try using it at the platinum triple hotspot in the rings of Parrot's Head Sector EL-Y d83 1.

Before I even got here, the system I jumped to on the way had a planet with icy rings, so I checked it for a tritium hotspot and found a double! I've forgotten now where that was, but I quickly realized that being this close to the bubble and the platinum triple hotspot that mining platinum was a much faster way to obtain tritium than mining tritium directly.

A good selling price for Platinum is about 294,000Cr/t. I was able to get a little more than that. A good buying price for Tritium is about 48,000Cr/t. Roughly, that means 1t of Platinum is worth 6t of Tritium. Combine that with a triple hotspot and mining Platinum is much faster.

I don't bother with mapped mining, I just drop near a hotspot and start laser mining. It takes about an hour to fill a 256t cargo rack and 10t refinery. An hour is a good amount of time and the switch to supercruise to fly back to the carrier to unload is a nice regular break.

It would have been rude to leave the Golconda after having refueled it and not pay a visit.

Here, I'm flying my new Imperial Cutter "Imperial Miner", just before I head out to the Platinum triple hotspot and fill my fleet carrier!

The credit fountain from re-fueling The Golconda with Tritium has no doubt funded a great many fleet carriers, including mine!

I already had 5BCr in cash, but with all the credits flowing I've been able to buy a fleet carrier, put 5BCr into its bank and still have 1BCr in cash.

This is "Cosmic Forge", purchased after one day of hauling, with one day still to go. It is above the rings of Arabh 9 loading Tritium from Doctorow Orbital.

There was a good supply of Tritium here, so I tried to judge how much, in the time remaining, I could load and then unload by jumping the fleet carrier to a system one jump from Upaniklis. I knew that if I spent a bit too much time loading, I could at least make use of the leftover Tritium. As it turned out, I had just under 2,000t of Tritium left when the CG completed, with a total of 22,376t delivered.

Iraxon Lane is the most recently discovered INRA base. Located in DG Canum Venaticorum on "A 4 a", the base contains several voice logs.

This week signals were detected around Wregoe TC-X b29-0 AB 2.

On going there, six Degraded Signals could be found in the rings of the gas giant. From the outer-most to the inner-most were six debris fields, the remains of The Alexandria:

Each one had an audio log.