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Sir Ranulph fiennes [PA-13D]
(Diamondback Explorer)
 
Członek od:
9 lis 2017
 
Zgłoszone odległości:
3
 
Odwiedzone układy:
4 609
Pierwsze odkrycia układów:
914
 
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7 890 815 029 Cr
What a monumental twat

Gone. It's all gone. ~30mil Cr worth of data. My joy in exploration. My will to explore. All gone. I only wanted to check the nav beacon, seemed a luxury after weeks of exploration. Blasted to dust seconds later. I had intended to stick it out at Base Camp, Soul Nebula, see the Doom Geysers maybe, but it can all do one now. Headed back to the bubble as fast as I can. I feel physically sick. Not even sure I have the patience to stick it out long enough to get home :(

System Memory Full!

Hegeia NI-T d3-63. 13 planets, 28 moons! More than 60 celestial objects detected once the asteroid belt is included. I may be some time! The wreckage of an unfortunate traveller pulled me out of supercruise to investigate, only poorly preserved survey data remains, and I have no space for such a low profit item. No sign of escape pods, poor sod. Unusual Class III gas giant, a brown/green colour variant, rather than the standard blue colouration. One of the other gas giants has actually turned out to be a Class-Y brown dwarf - another ringed star for the log! Two terraformable high metal content worlds have certainly boosted the potential bank balance as a bonus in the system.

Wayfarers Graveyard indeed!

Hegeia YY-L b22-5. A system full of beautiful gas giants, and unremarkable moons... and the wreckage of 2 previous explorers! What is it about this region that has lead so many to their doom? I have seen very little sign that there is anything here to cause concern, certainly no signs of known non human sapient life. And precious little of man's influence either. Is there a spacial anomaly that I should be aware of perhaps? But over such astronomical distances that seems unlikely. It remains a mystery, a tragic, and occasionally profitable, mystery.

Only 2K off an all time record!

Coldest Class 2 gas giant ever discovered was 150K, and the, somewhat more gas large I just found in Hegeia ZY-L b22-1 was 152K! So close, but no record set this time!

A new personal record

6 stars in the same system! Hegeia TZ-P d5-44. Nothing else here mind, but still, not something you see every day out here! I have been keeping a weather eye on the upcoming forced update to the exploration mechanics, and so far all the signs are positive. Will be nice to be able to actually have a hope of finding the geological and biological phenomenon that have been passing me by on my journey. Even on a tiny planet it could take weeks of searching to find these things with the current system, I have tried and failed on occasion mystery, but the new probe system of mapping planetary surfaces will allow me to pinpoint and observe these things first hand. But to mention the extra credits and kudos available.

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Hegeia BQ-Z b28-2. For the first time in a long time, I considered leaving a system without surveying it. A sea of featureless white rocks, some more than 400,000ls out, doesn't exactly inspire me! Still, I have chosen to stick with my chosen path, survey the system, endure the monotony. As consolation, they will all bare my name from this day forth, and for ever more.

Graveyard Shift

Hegeia JC-W b30-1. M-class star, with 6 terrestrial planets. I have now come across my third wrecked ship in this system! What happened here? Was there a battle? A disaster? A mystery assailant? Unfortunately for the poor souls lost here, my cargo hold is already full of lucrative survey data, and none of these caches are profitable enough for me to abandon anything I am already carrying.

And then there were 5!

I intended to take a break from logging, but then I arrived in Hegeia CT-Z b42-0. My first quintenary system, with 17 terrestrial planets to go along with the 5 stars! I may be some time!

Sod Tesla, this is a supercharger!

So, I have missed a few systems out of the logs, but I reached my arbitrarily selected route end point, Hegeia WQ-D d12-9 at 15:13:56, 16 Oct 3304. 1,247,617cr! What a choice to end that 1000ly leg on! Although not the first visitor to the system, I am the first to survey in it's entirety, and the first to log that survey data with EDSM - so it'll have my name attached for eternity now. I chose to take a detour to the nearest Neutron star, a mere 82ly from me. Whilst even the lowest grade of jumponium additional would bring that within single jump range thanks to the Guardian tech boosting my FSD, 6 jumps surveying the systems enroute have brought me to Hegeia XQ-D d12-4. The system turns out to be a binary, with a K-class at 125,000ls distance. Despite my eagerness to learn what my maximum jump range can truly be, I have chosen to survey the system first, starting with the distant star and it's attendant 4 terrestrial planets, before giving the 3 terrestrial planets orbiting the Neutron star a look over. Only then will I attempt to supercharger my FSD and see just how far I can go! As I return to the Neutron star, I now see they have a noticeable gravitational lensing effect, something I haven't noticed before, possibly because I have always been fairly close to them. I thought this phenomenon was unique to black holes, but evidently not. I have found a nearby black hole which I intend to visit, something that will be a first for me. I know I could probably have worked this out ahead of time, but my overcharged jump range is 270ly! Closer to 300 if I wasn't so full of fuel and cargo! Incredible! Cost is fairly high, at around 2% of my FSD health, but it's still nice to know what I can achieve if needed. Brings my black hole to just a single 230ly jump, here goes... Wow! An amazing stellar phenomenon. Very picturesque indeed, and nowhere near as deadly as I expected. I'm sure that the monumentally stupid could still end their lives here, but the merely careless and ignorant should be fairly safe! I probably won't be making detours to every BH on my route anymore, but I will still visit the one in either the Heart or Soul nebulae, as the lensing effect on the colourful nubula gasses will make for some beautiful photography for sure. I am not in any rush to get to the nebulae, but I am undecided as to what to do once I have visited them. The DBX is a wonderful ship, I do truly love it, but I am left wishing for additional space, especially for an AFMU, and some shielding really. The Asp Explorer is the most popular deep space exploration vessel, almost certainly for these very reasons. I just don't fancy being a sheep. Sometimes you really need the right tool for the job though. Also with the upcoming changes to exploration and mining mechanics I feel that the bubble might be the right place to be for experimenting with these setups. I have never bothered with mining, too much reliance on wing flying, and I'm more of a lone wolf. Also it's extremely labour intensive for minimal profit. Still, there are some unique materials available only via mining, and I'm affluent enough to be happy to waste some money outfitting a mining vessel. I also ought to give passenger missions another shot, I do have a Dolphin liner collecting dust after all. First I need my next destination though... another arbitrarily picked system, 900ly out from my current, and set for 88 jumps surveying every system.

Lazy Afternoon

Hegeia BW-N e6-0. Binary system, or possibly Quaternary as I suspect 2 of the 4 gas giants are actually brown dwarves. 9 terrestrial planets, and 20 terrestrial moons to chart, so a nice leisurely stroll through the system with the radio on it is. Hegeia CE-G b53-0. Binary system, 11 terrestrial planets, two with a single moon, and a single gas giant. One world potentially looks interesting, the rest are rocky balls. We will see them all though. Picked up a small survey data cache from the extremely degraded remains of an unfortunate fellow explorer. Too far gone to identify what the ship might once have been, must have been quite the detonation. Hegeia BE-G b53-0. Trinary system with 4 terrestrial planets and a single moon -never before seen by human eyes! Not going to be a massively profitable exercise, but unfathomably satisfying! Hegeia XX-H b52-0. Quaternary system with an asteroid belt, 7 uninteresting rocky planets, and one massive super-terrestrial planet. All previously uncharted and waiting for me to slap my name on them! The uninteresting rocky planets turned out to all be high metal content, so a fair bit more lucrative than expected. Hegeia YY-D c26-1. Single M-class star, 3 gas giants and a single super-terrestrial, and a total of 12 moons. Flagging a bit already today - may take a coffee break soon!