Today's log entry should be a quick one. I finally found a system with a metallic ring, and it contains a few Platinum hotspots. I set out in the Sidewinder today and found this system on my third jump. The system is Brambe WO-V c4-19. I called the carrier forward and parked it around planet A7 A. Planet A7 is the ringed gas giant with the metallic ring that has the Platinum hotspots as well as others such as Gold and Painite. Once the carrier arrived, I exchanged the Sidewinder for the T-11 and I went mining for an hour and loaded up with close to one hundred tons of Platinum and fifty or more of Painite. I am sure enjoying getting back into mining again..

Of the three jumps I made today, they were all main sequence star systems with no exobiological signatures found. One system had a water world which I dutifully mapped but that was it for Universal Cartographics and Vista Genomics. I'm not sure if I will spend any time in space tomorrow or not being that it is Christmas Eve, a long held Earth tradition that I celebrate, but I may, we'll see. Until then, that should do it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

I am still looking for Platinum, but I'll be darned if I can find any. I'm pretty sure I know the reason. Even though I am finding Platinum hotspots in 'metal rich' rings, I'm reasonably certain I need to be looking in 'metallic' rings, but I can't seem to find any of those. Let's just say they are few and far between at least where I am currently looking. I am a patient man, and eventually I will find a metallic ring with a Platinum hotspot, and that is when I will mine the hell out of it.

My trip report consists of fifteen jumps today. Of those jumps, three were into white dwarf systems, two were into neutron star systems and the remaining ten were into main sequence star systems. Tomorrow I will concentrate on trying to locate metallic rings where I am sure I will find Platinum hotspots.

As far as exobiology goes, I only located two specimens today, a bacterium and a fonticula, each of low value but on a first footfall world. That will do it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

I took out Patty today, my little Sidewinder. I wasn't looking to do any serious star hopping today, just have a little fun is all after yesterday's mining. I made only seven hops in the day, visited six main sequence star systems and one white dwarf system. The last system I visited was Brambe EB-V d3-205. This system has forty-three bodies in it. I called the carrier forward to planet A 3 A and waited for its arrival. Once it arrived, I quickly got aboard and sold my cartographic data and headed to my office.

Several of the planets have metallic rings so I checked them all out and only one of them had a large platinum hot spot in it. My plan is to go and mine it tomorrow and see how much platinum I can extract from it in a few hours. If it's a lot and its fun I may stick around for a few more hours. We'll see how that goes.

Anyway, the Sidey performed really well today like always. I didn't touch down on any planets today so no SRV mishaps or anything, strictly flying today, and that's where I'll end this log entry. Now it's time for a drink in the pilot's lounge.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today I decided to devote the day strictly to mining. Yesterday, I didn't quite finish topping off the carrier's Tritium fuel tank so today I finished that task and, in the process, I managed to refine a few tons of Low Temperature Diamonds as well. So rather than purge them into space I thought, why not mine some more? So, that's what I did. After I managed to refine about forty or so tons of LTD's, and almost out of limpets, I headed back to the carrier to transfer my cargo, restock my limpets and have another go.

I came back to the Low Temperature Diamond hotspot of the icy ring and started looking for more LTD's but there were really not many rich asteroids worth mining but I noticed that many rocks had very rich Osmium deposits, so I started to mine the Osmium instead. After about fifty or so tons of Osmium collected, and another fifty tons of Bromellite I decided to mine for metals, so I headed to the first planet in system which is a gas giant with two pristine metal rich rings. After surveying the rings and locating their hotspots, I headed for one of the several Platinum hotspots that showed up. Of course, I couldn't find any Platinum in the hotspot anywhere, but I did load up my cargo bay with Gold.

All in all, it was a good time behind the controls of the T-11. I'm quickly falling in love with this ship! I even tried a little sub surface mining just for the hell of it. That is a skill I really need to work on, I can tell you that! And it is time consuming as well. I'm going to end this log entry here, just one more thing to say, I think I'll be doing some more mining tomorrow. I'll see how I feel about it in the morning.

CMDR Bullet out..

I finally was able to make a 'donation' to the carrier's fuel tank today. I located a planet with a ring that had plenty of tritium hotspots after a while of searching. The ringed planet, Brambe UU-K C10-17, has no moons so I parked the carrier around the planet itself and it's one and only icy A ring. I shouldn't need tritium for a few days now which is a shame because I really like relaxing in the T-11 and mining. I still need to try out some different ways to mine besides laser and mining volley repeater fire too. Now that I'm here, I should try that tomorrow, what the hell?

I visited six main sequence star systems today with Brambe UU-K c10-17 being the final system I visited. The reason for so few star systems today is because I have actively been looking for tritium for the last two days and I just lucked out. When I finally found a system with a planet with a planet that had an icy ring that had tritium hotspots, I spent the remainder of the day taking my time mining tritium.

I am also debating on whether or not to mine for other commodities such as void opals and the like. When I reach inhabited space, I plan to purchase a Panther Clipper and outfit her for trade/hauling. I could sure make a ton of credits with a hold full of valuable minerals like void opals, platinum and others. That should do it for this log entry.

CMDR Bullet out..

I made thirty-five jumps today in hopes of finding a system with a planet with an icy ring that contained tritium. I had no such luck. I am not by any means running out of tritium, but I like to stay topped up. I'm sure tomorrow I will have better luck. I used the Cobra MK 5 again today. Tomorrow I will probably use the Mandalay.

In today's discoveries, I stumbled upon a nice water world and a beautiful earth-like world, two really nice systems. Both systems brought in a substantial bonus at Universal Cartographics. I also discovered two worlds each with Stratum Cucumisis growing on them. That particular genus of Stratum pays slightly less than Tectonicas. I also sampled and collected two examples of Bacterium Cerbrus for Vista Genomics to get into. All in all, the combined credit takes for the day came to just under two hundred million credits. It was a long day but not a bad one by any means.

That's about it for this log entry. I returned safe and sound and now I am hungry and dirty and would like to clean up and then relax with a drink.

CMDR Bullet out..

I continued my exploration in the Cobra MK 5 today. Such a wonderful ship to head out into the black with. With just over forty light years jump range, she can cover distances in good time if need be and utilizing neutron jumps, can cover vast distances quite handily. And have I mentioned she is quite nimble and can land damn near anywhere? All the traits of a darn decent exploration vessel, if you ask me. I could even take this ship out comfortably on an expedition if I really wanted to, and I may just do that.

For the business end of this log entry, I made twenty-six jumps today with my last jump ending in the system Brambe OT-P d6-62. This is an S-type star system. S-Type stars are giant stars with a roughly equal amount of Carbon and Oxygen in their atmosphere. I also discovered fourteen other main sequence star systems along with eight neutron star systems two white dwarf star systems and one black hole system. All star systems found were first discoveries by me. I moved the carrier forward to Brambe OT-P d6-62 and docked to upload all my data once it arrived.

Along with the cartographic data, I sampled and collected exobiological data from seven sources on three planets including a Stratum Cucumisis which brought in a remarkable 81,014,000cr. Not too shabby I'd say.

Now it's time to get cleaned up and eat and get some much needed rest. I'll end the log entry here.

CMDR Bullet out..

I didn't go blowing up asteroids today like I thought I was going to. I wanted to but, I don't know the first thing about it, so I figured I'd need to study up before I try tackling that adventure. I'm really looking forward to it though. What I ended up doing today is more of the same thing I'm good at which is exploration. I kept it to a minimum though, discovering only eleven main sequence star systems and less than a dozen exobiological life forms. All total, about four hundred million credits combined total between the two.

The last system I ended up in was one that was discovered by a CMDR Hardy. It is a black hole system. Only one planet indicated there was exobio in this black hole system and that was planet B2B So, I called the carrier forward to this planet and while I waited for it to get here, I located the exobio on the planet. Well, one of the exobios anyway.. I could not locate any bacterium anywhere. This planet is very dark, and I had absolutely no luck locating the bacterium. I'll try again tomorrow but it may get the best of me.

One nice thing about this situation is that CMDR Hardy didn't even bother to look for the exobio on this planet, so I got first footfall. Go figure. I will follow up in the next log entry, until then I'm ready for dinner and then a couple of drinks.

CMDR Bullet out..

Today indeed I used the Cobra MK5 to do a bit of exploration and what a great time I had. I am going to use it again tomorrow and probably the next day as well. In keeping with the DeLacey/Cobra tradition, the MK5 version of this ship is a good all arounder at everything you throw at it, but it doesn't quite excel at any one thing, yet it is an outstanding explorer. I'm afraid to say though, it would need the support of a station or a carrier after too long without an AFMU and repair limpet controller.

I visited eleven star systems in the Cobra MK5 today, ten main sequence star systems and one white dwarf star system. I am currently aboard the carrier which is parked in orbit around the second planet of the white dwarf system, that system and planet is Eoch Proo IY-Y d1-257 2A.

I also did some mining in the T-11 today too as the carrier was down to eight hundred tons of tritium and I felt like doing a little mining rather than so much jumping and exploration today. There is one tritium hot spot in the ring of planet two, so I made my way there. As I mentioned in a previous log entry, getting a little trigger time is needed once in a while and is also a nice stress reliever I've found. Asteroid go boom is the next thing I'd like to tackle and is the one thing I've never done yet. I still can't believe that. Perhaps I'll try doing that tomorrow rather than more exploration just to change things up a bit. Now that sounds like a plan, but I'll decide tomorrow.

CMDR Bullet out..

I went exploring for another day in the Sidey just because it was quite a bit of fun yesterday. She really can land damn near anywhere, I just wish she got a bit better fuel economy. Oh well, it's give and take, after all, she is a really small ship, and compromises have to be made somewhere. Actually, having a smaller fuel tank isn't really so bad, I can still jump over two hundred light years on one tank of fuel with this baby as it is! I'm not complaining! Couple that with a neutron boost and who knows how far I could go? I just don't have An AFMU on board, so I'll be staying away from neutron boosts unless I really need to use them.

My trip report is as follows, I made eight jumps total today into all previously undiscovered star systems. Six were main sequence star systems, one was a neutron star system, and one was a white dwarf star system, all chosen by the nav computer. The final system for the day was a white dwarf system, Spoihaae BF-X d2-623. This system has 41 bodies in it but only one body had two exobiological signatures present. I scanned the body and called my carrier forward to orbit while I tracked down the exobio. After my carrier arrived, I headed back to upload my data, get cleaned up and eat and then relax in the lounge for a bit.

I really enjoyed using the Sidewinder these last two days and I'm glad I brought her along. I'll be using her a lot more often I think but I want to use my other ships I brought along as well. I think I'll use the Cobra MK 5 next.

CMDR Bullet out..