Finished my scan-bases-route, actually got 264 materials from it, including 36 Modified Embedded Firmware / Started High-RES bounty hunting for scan data and to pick up materials there / Decided to just grind on for the moment: you can't have too much materials

Had to look twice before discovering it was a moon:

Spent another two hours at the Distribution Center / Visited and scanned 21 bases of my 28-base-scanning-route / Just found out I could get myself an Anaconda, but the new-ship-grind is too much of an obstacle. I just want to do something different.

Didn't want to grind the 2 hours I had today, so I decided to get some food to the Famine system my Distribution Center was in: makes a quick buck.

Grind has started / Got about 50 Raw materials, from four different types, first (takes three hours or so, but I'm fine fine with that) / Started on the Encoded materials at a Distribution Center and got 12 Datamined Wake Exceptions in two hours (this would be okay if that was it) / Already dread the fact that I still need about 50 more Encoded materials which are going to take me days to collect! (not to mention the 200 Manufactured materials I have to grind after that)

Engineering ONLY the Core and Optional internals for two ships: 1344 needed materials! That's insane! (calculated for guaranteed enough materials: 2 of lvl 1 mats; 4 of lvl 2 mats; 6 of lvl 3 mats; 8 of lvl 4 mats; 10 of lvl 5 mats; exact mats for EXP)

It does not do justice to the amount of work, but put simply: objective complete / Next objective: engineer all the modules of my new ships and four power plants on my other ships / Let the grind begin... again...

Bought my last round of cigars for Hera Tani / Bought an Orca with a discount / Did grind some more Empire reputation / Got promoted by the Imperial Navy to Baron / Bought the most desired Imperial Clipper (I'm officially member of the advanced ED-ers club) / Unlocked Hera Tani, but pros pone using her services for now / Next objective: unlocking three Guardian Modules and get my new ships specialized

Proud to have bought the ship for the coming fase of my journey: Tourism:

Proudly bought the Imperial Clipper. Just to look at, really...:

Decided against doing the two Ram Tah missions again and sold the Thargoid and Guardian stuff / Next objective: unlocking Hera Tani / Spend the day traveling to the other side of the bubble and buying cigars... for goodness sake.

No more pictures for now, interesting stuff over.

Mapped and scanned two Turtles and a Hammerbot / completed "Decrypting the Guardian Logs" / Turned in both missions / 169M credits richer / Thinking about doing the whole thing again to map the Guardian Structure sites in more detail.

Scanned my first Turtle Database at HD 63154; site Turtle; blueprint Guardian Module:

I think it's hard to get a nice looking picture of the Sentinels. I killed about a 100 of them and this is only the second time I made a picture of one good enough for this Logbook (and it's still not great):

Unlocked the database at COL 173 SECTOR RU-O D6-16; site Hammerbot; blueprint Guardian Weapons:

And the last database in this run: SYNUEFE GT-H B43-1; site Turtle; blueprint Guardian Module (love this picture!):

I was treated to a freaky sight after I lost connection (again) at SYNUEFE GT-H B43-1 C 4:

Finished scanning all the Ancient Ruins / I now know what combinations for the Decrypting the Guardian Logs are in the same systems as these Ruins / Seven more Systems with Guardian Structures needed / Finished five, added one more to the list, so only three to go.

Can't stop posting these yet... My third database at COL 173 SECTOR ME-P D6-92; site Bowl; blueprint Guardian Weapons:

And my fourth database at COL 173 SECTOR ZL-L B24-2; site Bowl; blueprint Guardian Weapons:

I accidentally recreated the situation that gave me the fog reported on 3304-07-01, meaning re-logging while landed at the Guardian Structure - with the same result. This picture was taken, ruffly, from the same position as the previous picture:

This was the view from the ground. I could swear that the music is different as the default too:

The darkest Guardian Structure I visited VELA DARK REGION EG-X B1-1; site Bear; blueprint Guardian Weapons:

Happy to have some light again VELA DARK REGION EL-Y D55; site Bear; blueprint Guardian Weapons:

I scanned some more Ancient Ruins / Unlocked my first two Guardian databases / Got surprised by the Sentinels twice / Second site I was prepaired

First database at SYNUEFE CE-R C21-6; site Hammerbot; blueprint Guardian Weapons:

Got to under 75% hull by Sentinels after the taking of this picture:

Second database at SYNUEFE ZL-J D10-109; site Hammerbot; blueprint Guardian Weapons:

Was prepared for the Sentinels this time around: