I moved the carrier over five hundred thirty light years today. Mostly because I didn't want to make all those jumps back to the carrier in the Mandalay. I figured, why not just jump the carrier to me? So, I did. Executive perks and all you see.. It's what I should be doing anyway as I explore my way around. I parked it next to a planet in orbit around a ringed gas giant that has a tritium hot spot so tomorrow I think I'll relax in the T-11 and do a little tritium mining to top off the main tank again. What the hell. It's so satisfying to do.

In the Cartographics and Exobiology departments I made some serious credits. Between yesterday and today I discovered twenty-two star systems. I also discovered thirty-two exobiologicals but only scanned twenty of them. I left the rest for some other commander to get first footfall and scan someday. The system is: DRYOOE PROU HM-U D3-484 and the two moons are A7E and A7F. Each moon has five exobiological signatures on it. The other two exos are in another system, not worth my time.

So, Thanksgiving was pretty nice to me out here in the black. I hope you all had a nice one as well.

CMDR Bullet out..

I took the day off yesterday and my body appreciates it. The SRV has been taking a toll on me over the last few weeks, so the rest did me some good. It also gave me a chance to catch up on some back logs and things I've been putting off for a while. Today, I found a system with a planet that has an icy ring with a nice tritium hotspot in it, so I moved the carrier to the A moon of the planet and went ahead and did some tritium mining for the carrier.

What a great change of pace mining is from exobiology, I have to say. I really wish I could do this more often rather than exobiology for two to three weeks straight before I think it's time to top off the tritium tank again. In reality I only used about one hundred and eighty tons of tritium since the last time I topped the tank, and I can't remember when that was it's been so long. I'll have to go back into my logbook to figure that out..

The T-11 or, Icy Mike as I call him, performed flawlessly today. I extracted about 200 tons of tritium using only sixty-five limpets. The extra twenty tons of tritium went into carrier storage. I now have about one hundred and fifty tons of tritium in carrier storage along with a few tons of Void Opals and Low temperature Diamonds, Bromlite and Titanium. I'll sell that stuff off when I reach a station somewhere in the future. It's not going anywhere anytime soon. That should do it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today I completed the task of sampling the remaining twenty-three exobiological signals I discovered yesterday after discovering this system. It took me basically all day to complete this half of the mission and I am definitely tired. I am glad I had the carrier move into this system as well so I could just shoot back quickly and turn in the data and then relax for a day or so. While collecting all the samples was time consuming, it was also a considerable amount of fun as well. I must say, I did enjoy myself quite a bit.

I have to touch upon the credit aspect of the system here as well. This system, including the cartographic data, yielded almost one billion credits. It actually earned me just over eight hundred million and some change. Not too bad, not too bad at all.

So for now, I will rest for the remainder of the day and tomorrow I will head out once again and explore ahead of the carrier to see what I can find. I am not necessarily looking for high value systems like this one, I just got lucky here. I'm just looking, hoping to find something unusual and different. I'd love to find something for the record books, that would be great. You just know there is something out there waiting to be found.

CMDR Bullet out..

I hopped into a system with eight worlds that have exobiology on them and not just one or two exo signatures either. Between the eight worlds there are forty-three exobio signatures. Of course, my plan is to locate and sample each and every one of them. I don't think I will be able to do it all in one day however, but I'll knock out as much of it as I can.

I went ahead and moved the carrier into this system, the system I am in is KYLOALL EC-U D3-424 and has fifty bodies in it and is a fairly rich system. The one thing I haven't found in this system though is tritium as there are very few if any icy rings available.

I am camping out on ABCD 6 E after finding twenty exobiological on four worlds. My plan is to finish up this system tomorrow and finding the remaining twenty-three exobios and then moving on. That is where I am at with this log entry so ending it here.

CMDR Bullet out..

I enjoyed yesterday's short little jaunt a great deal, so I decided to have another go at one today in a different direction. None of the jumps today were made using economical routing. I just wanted to cover a lot of distance and see what I could find. What I found was a bunch of exobiology, twenty-six in total. It would have been thirty, but I really got skunked on one world. I would actually like to go back and try again it aggravated me so much.. I may just do that tomorrow.

I did make some bank today however, I'm happy about that. Keeping this carrier afloat is going to be relatively easy at this rate as long as the exobio doesn't dry up, and I doubt that will ever happen. I am really enjoying exploration combined with exobiology. This is such a winning combination. I just wish I could share this experience with some CMDR friends aboard this vessel, but all my CMDR friends have their own carriers. Such is life.

I have also re-sparked my interest in mining again now that the carrier requires tritium to move. I almost wish it used more so I could mine more often but that is perfectly ok with me. The T-11 is a fantastic ship and is well suited to its mining task for the carrier. Hell, even if I were simply mining precious metals I could make a fortune with it. What an investment that ship is. More things to think about. Time to end this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

I had a short little jaunt today in the Mandalay. I made three and a half long jumps to a white dwarf system to check it out. I was wondering if I should move the carrier to this system for a few days but I decided against it. It just wasn't interesting enough for me. Up to this point I hadn't encountered any exobiology either so it's just been fly time. From this white dwarf I saw on the nav chart that there was a black hole near by so I made way to that. It turns out that it has previously been discovered by what I can only assume to be a 'black hole hunter'.

From the black hole I turned to head back to the carrier only three jumps away. When I reached the carrier I stayed in the Mandalay and punched up Universal Cartographics and proceeded to sell the data. To my surprise, the data fetched nearly twelve million with added bonuses. I'll never quite understand just what they're looking for but sometimes they sure pay the big bucks. I should take short jaunts more often!

I guess it's time to start thinking about moving this carrier to a new location. I'm torn about the direction though. Should I start moving toward the bubble or the center of the galaxy or, Beagle point? I need to weigh my options but before I do, I'll definetly want to do at least one more short jaunt around here.

CMDR Bullet out..

I had a long day of jumping today. I had this bright idea of traveling to HIP 87621 to see what all the hype is over this new organism I've been reading about and watching on the vidlog.. This whole Teri Tora thing. Then I got to thinking after about two thousand lightyears into the trip, all those people are getting covered with unknown alien spoors and tracking it all over everywhere and everything. Soon, that stuff will be growing everywhere. I don't want any part of this crap. I just don't have a good feeling about this whole thing.

Needless to say, I turned the ship around and headed back to the carrier. But it wasn't a wasted trip. I made well over eleven million in Universal Cartographics data and tomorrow I will visit Vista Genomics to hand in the exobiology data. There were a significant number of planetary visits with exobio scan, so I am looking forward to the visit to Vista. Even though I didn't quite make it to HIP 87621, (ha-ha), I am quite happy with the rewards of this little trip.

Now it's time to get the paperwork out of the way and get my desk back in order. After that, I think I'll head over to the pilot's lounge and get a drink.

CMDR Bullet out..

The system I spent the night in last night turned out to be a complete bust as far as seeking exobiology goes. First of all, it was extremely repetitive across the entire system, everything was the same. But the worst part was I could not find the Tussock anywhere on half of the planets, and I spent several hours looking. All I could find everywhere I turned was Frutexa. Needless to say, the most enjoyment I found in today was breakfast and that's about it. On the upside though, I still did find several exobiologicals and got many samples so, it wasn't a complete waste, I mean, credits were made and I moved on. Just a few jumps left to go.

I had only two or three jumps left on my route before I realized I needed to either call the carrier forward or I need to long jump back to her. After I reached the end of my route at a white dwarf, I considered parking the carrier in the white dwarf system, but I decided to hop over to a main sequence K class star a few light years away instead and find a nice planet or moon to place the carrier for a day or two before moving her again. I found a planet six light seconds away from the star and called in for the jump then waited for the carrier to arrive. Once she arrived, I docked and sold off my cartographic data and then disembarked and headed into Vista Genomics to sell off the exo data and then get cleaned up and eat.

After dinner, I went to my office on the command deck where there were reports spread out on my desk needing approvals and signatures plus a few duty rosters that needed looking over.. Those damn reports and rosters are just going to have to sit there a while longer, I can't wait to hit that comfortable bed once again. I'm tired and that 'management work' isn't going anywhere..

CMDR Bullet out..

I am still scouting ahead of the carrier in economical jump mode and wow, I am encountering a lot of exobiology along the way so far. I really haven't made much progress as far as distance goes but I am sure racking up the exobio from first discovery/footfall worlds. I'm certainly NOT complaining about that!. I'm looking forward to my visit back to the carrier when I can turn in all this data to Vista Genomics and see just how many credits I actually made. Like yesterday, I have made only nine jumps today using economical jumps but have found 14 exobiologicals today.

I am currently camped out on Dryooe Prou ZN-T D3-1738 planet 4 D. This world has 5 exobiologicals on it which I located and scanned before I called it a day. Tomorrow I will visit the remaining five planets that have exobiology on them before I leave this system and continue exploring on ahead of the carrier. Hopefully more exobio awaits ahead to be found and cataloged, in fact I'm sure of it. There is a little part of me tugging away, trying to convince me to make that long and arduous trip back to the bubble to visit the newly permit unlocked HIP 87621 to sample and catalogue the newly discovered exobiology on one of the four planets in the system but that would be very time consuming.. The only redeeming factor that trip would have would be is all the new universal Cartographic data and Vista Genomic data I could potentially pick up along the way and back. I still have just less than two weeks to think it over. I could potentially be there in a day or two.

So, tomorrow I'm going to have my entire morning full with this system and its exobiology to sample so I need to get a good night of rest tonight. A simple dinner is in order after getting cleaned up. Time to end this log entry here.

CMDR Bullet out..

It got just too late to return to the carrier and so I decided to just camp out again for the night tonight. This system had three worlds each with three exobiological signatures on each so, I made it my mission to find them all today. And find them I did. On each of the three planets, remarkably enough, were the identical same three species of exobiology too, only the colors were different, more than likely due to the different atmospheres, pressures and temperatures. The odds of that happening seem to be rather high when you think about it but when you take into consideration the fact that it occurred within the same system, the odds probably even out quite a bit. I just don't know but it's very interesting.

I'll try to get an early start tomorrow and get a move on. My plan is still to use economical jumps to maximize my chances at finding exobio. It seems to be working quite well so far, I just don't want to get burnt out on the constant brain rattling of the SRV whilst looking for elusive species in rocky mountainous terrain. It does get old after a while. You just can't beat the cash flow though, at least that's what I keep telling myself. Okay, time to end this log entry, get cleaned up, some food in me and relax a bit.

CMDR Bullet out..