Another day of travel. Another... 40-ish lightyears. I jumped through 12 systems. I know I am still so close to civilization but I feel like I can finally stretch my legs.

I landed on two planets in Col 359 Sector XV. Two separate worlds in different systems light years apart. Nothing so quite notable as the vista's of the Behemoth in the Pink or Crucible's Harvest. Just a couple of rocks, smattered with bacteria. Stepping onto the soil I startled by the sudden fanfare of the navigation system verifying first footfall of an alien world.

A note on preparedness. I would like to purchase an artemis to create more thorough records of my encounters and exploration. The universe teams with life uncatalogued.

My last stop today, Col 359 Sector DA-Z d59, had a navigation beacon. I know the bubble of civilization is still so close, but this did surprise me. I had expected to at least have escape the regularly traversed routes of cruise ships. All the more surprising then, as I reviewed my logs in preparation for this entry I discovered that navigation had credited two small systems as first discovered by me. Two world-less stars I barely noted in making my way to the next that history says no human has laid eyes on before now bare my name.

I am so close to civilization that someone may easily come across those stars... well on their way back home as I just begin my journey. Universal Cartographic will credit them with the discovery as the first to bring their data home to civilization, perhaps to be a regular and short stop in other pilot's journey to the same vista I fly towards myself.

Or.

Maybe, in this galaxy of countless stars, no human will ever fly into these systems again. A forgotten corner of mankind's back yard. Quietly logged empty systems categorized and filed away in our databases.

In this fleeting pointless moment of history, a lonesome pilot signs off.

Captain Wyrm Shine

I have a primary interest in exploring. I would like to see my name written on many worlds and stars for first exploration. Unfortunately going deep in a direction and just jumping around can be exhausting to my interests. I have decided to start a deep space tour of points of interest as making my way to the bubble is unfeasible, and yet when I return to the bubble, despite the glut of possible and profitable activities, I find it far less interesting than the isolation of space.

First POI shall be Sadr Logistics Depot. It has an interesting view and I may be able to land for a while to remind myself why I dislike to be among civilization. I have not confirmed, but an eyeball of the galactic map puts it about as far from the bubble as I have ever been. Though I have been en route for a day now-steadily moving towards Sadr Region- I expect that I will have plenty of opportunity to jump into systems not yet logged, moving off-route to make bubbles of exploration as the mood moves me.

I suspect and hope that one day I will die out here, alone and in the deep. If I am lucky I will have the time to indelibly salt my name among the records of Universal Cartographic. To ensure my name is as unavoidable in the history of galactic exploration as Kit Ausland and Straha Yeager, before my corpse is lost among this beautiful sea of fiery gems.