Commander’s log, Stardate 3305.104

Today is the 91st day of my travel. It’s been a while.

As expected, the journey is long and wearisome. I already dangerously dozed off a dozen times, but I must keep on going.

Since I left the waypoint 9 as one of the stragglers in the wake of the main fleet, I decided to stray off the main route looking for unique scientific findings. For some time I was thinking it was a mistake, as I didn’t find anything extraordinary. But then, all of a sudden, I stumbled upon one of the most charming phenomena in the galaxy – an orange colored lagrange cloud, where I was able to make some astounding discoveries.

One of them was the metallic crystals, that I already studied once. But the cloud was a kind of a gold chest. There were also some chunks of solid mineral spheres surrounded by a kind of organic dust. And there was more. I was able to study an E02-Type Anomaly, which was a dense concentration of high voltage energy slowly circling around the cloud. And finally, there were lightnings all around me with deep-tones of thunders emulated by my cockpit sound blaster. All of this made me fell like… heaven? No it wasn’t like heaven, but it was something I have never experienced before. So I indulged myself basking in its splendour.

Then, when I finally woke up from dreaming and left it, I realized time passed considerably slower in the cloud, so as soon as my onboard computer synchronized with standard galactic time, I was one week later. So I had to skip the waypoint 10 and go directly to 11, being as many, as 15 thousand light years away. And so I went on with my exploration and on the way discovered a system with five terraformable planets, including a water world. And on top of them, an earth-like one, untouched by human presence. Truly magnificent.

Then, a few dozen jumps later, I found another life forms. Some kind of organic structures called Rubeum Bioluminescent Anemones, shining with blue orbs like diamonds, that absorb energy from the stars. Is there a way we could somehow use them in the future? Maybe as a kind of battery? It remains to be seen.

I’m still en-route to waypoint 11 and I’m already 45 thousand light years away from home. Far away, isn’t it?

But I still remember what my father once told me: you may end up far away from home, you may not be sure of where you belong anymore. But home is always there, because home is not a place. It’s wherever your passions take you. And you know what? Now I know he was right. I’m home.

Ojakco out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAF5FU_nBgs&list=PLNmeEcvrli_PhZNfCcCysV5fbM1ONo5z2&index=5

Commander’s log, Stardate 3505.90

Today is the seventy seventh day of my galactic exploration. After leaving the last space station I’m moving forth to the end of the accessible universe. It’s approximately one hundred thousand light years of travel to get there are back again. It’s going to be a long and gruelling journey before I will be able to repair any damage I am bound to suffer on my way, so I need to be extremely cautious.

In the last two weeks the route went high up above the galactic center to the farthest reachable star above the disc. They call it Goliath’s Rest. I was able to watch the whole galaxy from a lonely rocky planet orbiting a huge red giant carbon star. A magnificent view.

Then, the waypoint nine took us five thousand light years down to the Cerulean Tranquility Valley. A peaceful and quite place, where you can stop, relax and ponder upon the existential conondrums.

On my way I continued with my exploration, visited many strange worlds and points of interest. But what was most invigorating, was the increased occurrence of earth-like worlds. I was able to visit as many as seven gorgeous planets reminding me of our home planet, which we in our pride and greed exploited to the point of utter devastation and only because humanity expanded to other worlds, the Earth started a long process of healing. On one of them I was able to observe scarce evidence of primitive intelligent life. What will happen in the future, when we finally are able to land on these planets? How will we impact natural development of these “baby civilizations?” Who can tell?

I also surveyed surfaces of many interesting landable planets, I have seen enormous mountainpeaks, deep canyons and gloomy moons orbiting their master planets in a very close proximity.

And now, I’m setting on the next stage of our journey. The waypoint ten, located on the outskirts of mysterious Bleia zone, which for unknown reasons cannot be targeted by hyperdrive computer. Rumour has it that it’s a Thargoid Wall. Maybe we can find out something more about this area?

And I’m all alone again, as my curiosity and drive for thorough exploring, caused me to be left behind by the fleet. I barely missed the mass jump and beautiful rainbow of their departure. But I don’t mind. Who knows? I might even go a different route than others seeking new mysteries of the void.

Ojakco out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQtfIUfBwTY&list=PLNmeEcvrli_PhZNfCcCysV5fbM1ONo5z2&index=4

Commander’s log, Stardate 3505.76

Today is the sixty-third day of my voyage to the final frontier. This is it. I’m there. The Core. I’ve reached Saggittarius A and from now on, with each step I will be farther from home, than I’ve ever been. What does it feel like? Strange, chilly, philosophical, afraid? There are so many words that are coming to my mind, yet I can’t decide. I have so many mixed feelings, that I just can’t put into the right words. But what I do know is that like it.

Over the last 3 weeks I’ve been trying to catch up with the bulk of the fleet, that had already reached the waypoint 7. If it wasn’t for the fact that they started constructing the Explorer’s Anchorage space station, I would’ve probably not made it before they left. Luckily, this kind of project takes some time, so I made it just before the final assembly and even managed to participate in delivery of a fraction of construction materials.

But before I did that, I went on with my exploration and scientific study of the galactic centre. It seems that the earth-like worlds have been very elusive in the past weeks, as I managed to find only one, but one good one. Still, there are other types of planets that have been more than plentiful. Of course, the standard waterworlds and colourful terraformable high metal content planets were a daily routine, but there have been others very interesting both visually and scientifically. High stellar proximity gas giants with abundant rings full of minable minerals, vivid planetary nebulas, even strange tourist installations, but above all else new lifeforms. I stumbled upon fungal forms called sinuous tubers. Very interesting entities, that can have different colouration, but they do emit the same sounds as if something was trying to play a tune by blowing them. Strange, as there was no air present. Then I found another stellar phenomenon. Metallic crystals, that consist of huge amounts of primordial microorganisms, hiding between asteroids in a planetary ring. I also inspected several black holes from a very close proximity, including the great annihilator and the huge Saggittarius A.

And now, I am on a brink of going forward to the edge of the Galaxy. The Final Frontier. Humans have always been trying to go farther, to explore, to expand their perception. Together with my fellow commanders we are setting on a new chapter of our journey. It might be, that we won’t see each other in a long time. But that’s our call. As Lord Alfred Tennyson said long time ago – we have to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Ojakco out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caz-zd19I7Q&list=PLNmeEcvrli_PhZNfCcCysV5fbM1ONo5z2&index=3

Commander’s log. Stardate 3505.57

Today is the forty-third day of my journey in the black.

The fleet continues to travel to the center of the galaxy and is currently on the way to Waypoint seven, which is Saggittarius A. But I’m way behind, as I haven’t even reached the waypoint six yet.

Despite the fact that I still haven’t met any other human being, my spirits have improved in the last weeks. And it wasn’t only due to mind-blowing effects of Lavian Brandy. She’s been a tremendous help, that’s true, but my voyage has brought me a lot of thrills and awe-inspiring sights.

It turns out that the Neutron Highway makes the travel much faster than I anticipated. However, there is always the cost, which I also wasn’t fully aware of. The strain on frameshift drive caused it to malfunction, which left me stranded in space for a few days before I managed to do makeshift repairs. Luckily, I wasn’t that far from the waypoint five, the Polo Harbor, where they repaired all the damage.

Coming back to the sights, as a twentieth century actor said, I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Yes, I saw a true artist’s touch. Star clusters, nebulas, clockwork ringed planets, strange geological forms and countless other phenomena. The topmost one was the collection of Wonders. A system containing a white dwarf, a neutron star and an M class red dwarf, all of them having very rare rings around them. A breath-taking sight, I must say.

Then I went to see the Death Spiral, where a gas giant is on it’s final course of its demise in the arms of a white dwarf. I’ve charted even more waterworlds and earth-likes, that are waiting for human feet to step on them. How I wish my ship was equipped with atmospheric landing modules. Imagine, going down there and breathing the alien air.

And finally, I found those primitive life forms and made a kind of first contact. I was so ecstatic about it. After a detailed study, it seems that these so-called bark mounds, are resembling sounds that can be heard at the guardian sites. A suspicious connection for further analysis.

Now I’m in a marvellous system in the very center of a blue planetary nebula cushioning a neutron star and just finished studying a ringed waterworld. I hope I’ll be hitting the Saggittarius black hole soon. Can’t wait to see it again and feel the vibrant pull of its gravity.

I’m coming, baby!

Ojakco out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdMhs1OnnA0&list=PLNmeEcvrli_PhZNfCcCysV5fbM1ONo5z2&index=2

Captain’s log. Stardate 3505.27

Today is the fourteenth day in deep space.

It’s just the beginning of the three hundred day mission, the Distant Worlds 2 Expedition. Our main goal is to go beyond the final frontier and reach the farthest point of Milky Way. Imagine, standing there, looking into the empty blackness of space. On our way, we’re supposed to build a space station in the very center of the galaxy. But me, I’m just an ordinary explorer. My goal is to seek for unknown life forms hiding somewhere in the vastness of space. To see magical wonders and mysteries of the unknown. And to chart new places for colonization and expansion of the human race.

Back at home, I was standing on the line of battle defending it from alien invasion. Why am I here? Because she called me. The abyss. Because deep inside my soul there is the primal need for exploring the unknown. And here I am, all alone in the dark. Traveling from star to star. The multitude of stars, brightly shining in front of my cockpit.

We’ve all set out from Palleani Tourist Beacon, to arrive at the second waypoint, the Omega Mining Operations, where all the miners were collecting stuff for the construction of the Saggittarius space station. A lofty goal.

In the last two weeks I visited wondrous sights like the View, an ominous, quiet place, where breathless sights can be very deceiving, which cost dozens of commanders to lose their lives. I peeked into Thor’s eye, charted several earth-like worlds and found the first life forms, which seem to be extremely scarce. The loneliness is getting into my bones. The journey seems very repetitious, but the reward is worth it. Unraveling the mysteries of the void.

Ojakco out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz2H7pOwtl8&t=1s