06-10-3311
19:35:43
Inner Orion Spur | Traikeou QM-S B34-0

Entry 75 - Over half way there..

I’m within the Inner Orion Spur now, and I’m getting very close to the bubble, now. I have not had any more issues with binary stars being too close to each other, and any time I have seen a system with such stars in them, I have thankfully not exited hyperspace wedged in-between them.

The stars out here are few and far between, and it’s quite dark out here, which I didn’t really expect, to be honest. But I know I’ll be seeing many more stars soon enough.

03-10-3311
18:18:33
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Skaudai LP-B B2-2

Entry 74 - A perilous journey

On my way to this nebula, I had an experience that almost killed me. I posted about it the moment that it happened since I believed it to be necessary to warn other Commander’s about the system that I was in. I had essentially dropped out of hyperspace almost wedged between two stars that were orbiting very closely together. I’d needed to deploy a heatsink in order to avoid damage to my ship, and managed to point my ship away from both stars.

But that was not all. Because an entire hour later, I had another very similar experience, where there were two stars orbiting incredibly close to each other, and I had exited hyperspace almost wedged between them. I had to deploy another heatsink, but this time when I escaped, I panicked and pointed my ship the wrong way, and ended up fuel scooping from both stars at the same time, escaping the two stars by going in-between them.

I’d never needed to use my heatsink until today, and the fact that I’d needed to use it twice within an hour of each other is unnerving. I feel very on edge and hyper aware of my surroundings to the point of anxiety. I only have 2 heatsinks left. I do not want to have to use them again. I find it incredibly odd that I’ve gone to the centre of the galaxy, whizzed around neutron stars and made my way to Colonia, without ever requiring the use of my heatsinks or encountering stars that were too close to each other in such a way that it made the system dangerous to travel to…and then it all comes down on me at once.

I’m hoping I didn’t make a mistake going this route. I do hope I manage to find a fleet carrier at some point on the way to the Bubble- I would really like to re-stock my heatsinks. If this happens two more times I’ll be out of heatsinks, and if it happens another time after that…I may not make it out alive. The ASP doesn’t exactly have the best heat management, not like my Dolphin does. My ship would definitely end up getting heat damage, and I don’t know how much my girl would be able to take.

I do not want to die on the way to the Bubble.

At least this nebula is pretty.

02-10-3311
19:28:55
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Dr. Kay’s Heart

Entry 73 - Dr. Kay’s Soul Nebula

I’ve managed to make my way over to the Dr. Kay’s Soul nebula, which was on the route towards the Bubble. I guess I forgot to say what my actual route was going to be, so I guess I’ll tell you now. First stop is this very nebula which I’m at currently, and the next nebula I shall be visiting will be the Flyiedgai AA-A H50 nebula. After that will be the Traikeou AA-A H2 nebula, then the NGC 6820 nebula, and then finally a nebula I’ve actually been to before, the Veil Nebula West nebula, which happens to be one of my favourites. It will be wonderful to see it again! It will probably take me a week or more to make it back to inhabited space, but I’m making great progress!

01-10-3311
20:48:03
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Colonia

Entry 72 - Hell of a payday

I’ve finally made it back to Colonia, and holy hell have I just made bank. I'm…a billionaire, now. Overnight. Okay. Yeah. Sure. I can deal with that I guess. (Where the hell does Vista Genomics get its damn funding from anyways?)

I’m going to make my way back to the Bubble, now. I promised a friend I would be helping him get enough credits to buy his own ship, so I figured we would do exobiology together. But I’ve got to make it back to the Bubble, first. It might take me a while. I guess I’m on the last leg of my journey? To think I started it two years ago starting from inhabited space just to go to the centre of the galaxy, and then making my way to Colonia. And now…I’m going back home.

01-10-3311
18:11:44
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Eol Prou OF-E B16

Entry 71 - A restricted impact site…

I am on the planet Eol Prou OF-E B16 A 10 B, scanning some fonticulua as I head back to Colonia (I’m very close!) and have found an “impact site” on my radar. I went there, and found that it was guarded by drones, and I was warned that I was in a “restricted area”. I didn’t much like the idea of getting killed so I left quickly, but not before taking a picture. It’s very curious indeed, though given that I’m close to Colonia I don’t believe it’s that strange to see something like this out here, I guess I just wasn’t expecting it.

I have a few more pictures of my exobiology finds. Next update I give should be in Colonia.

28-09-3311
05:29:34
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Eol Flyou CR-T B7-17

Entry 70 - Going back to Colonia

I’ve spent perhaps a few days too many taking photos of this place, and I’m itching to get back to Colonia. I’ve scanned a hell of a lot of systems and taken a hell of a lot of samples of biological species, and I want to see just how much money that can make me.

Also, I’m thinking of going back to the Bubble after this, because I want to improve both my Artemis suit’s capabilities as well as get a ship that is both good for exploration and that has an extra pilot seat. I wish to do some exploration and exobiology with a friend and hope to get a decent ship for it. The dolphin is lovely but it only has 1 pilot seat. Perhaps I will go back to the dolphin at a later date, but for now, I think I just need to get in my ASP so I can go back home.

26-09-3311
09:33:22
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Eephaills WY-A E1

Entry 69 - A surprise planetary nebula

I have arrived at the large nebula that I’d intended on going to, which you saw a glimpse of in the previous entry, but as I was looking about the area in the galaxy map, I saw a beautiful blue planetary nebula close by! I just had to go check it out first before I started taking pictures of the much larger (and pink-er) nebula. It of course has a neutron star as the main star, and has just a few planets inside of it. I didn’t take many pictures but the ones I did take are marvelous.

24-09-3311
16:25:20
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Eephaills JF-V C4-603

Entry 68 - A startling discovery

As I sit here in my ship, on the dark side of the planet Eephaills JF-V C4-603 1 F, I am staring at what I believe to be some type of Thargoid artifact. I’ve heard much about Thargoids in my travels across the galaxy, but never truly encountered anything Thargoid related until right now.

It’s a bad time and place for it. I’m almost at the nebula I intended on visiting, as you can clearly see from the pictures, but I’m also well over 100 jumps away from Colonia, and if an actual Thargoid comes after me, I’m screwed. This is an exploration ship, not a battle-ready one, and I have no fighting skills to speak of. I’m a sitting duck.

Thankfully, I’ve heard that things only really get dicey for Commanders if they pick up and store these types of artifacts on their ship. I have no way of dragging this thing into my ship as it’s too heavy and I have no real space in my ship for it regardless, so there’s no risk of anything bad happening to me (not that I’d even think of putting it in my cargo in the first place). But this artifact showed up on my navigation system as a “nonhuman signature” and there are two of them on this planet. Which means Thargoids are nearby this nebula, and I need to prepare myself mentally for the possibility of coming across a few.

I have two other planets in this system to visit as I’ve hit the jackpot for biological signatures (plantlife, not Thargoids), but I’m on edge now. I hope things will go well for me. Crossing my fingers (and my toes).

planets also had a non-human signal on it. It seems that this system has had a significant amount of Thargoid activity in it at one point. I’ve scanned all the biology I can in this system, so I’m going to move on now…but I hope I will be okay.

22-09-3311
04:17:31
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Dryooe Flyou NP-K C23-76

Entry 67 - My foray into exobiology

As I write this, I am landed on a planet with 7 entire biological species. I have scanned 6 of them (I’m going to skip over the Bacterium which is rather hard to find at times) and I have to say that I’m getting rather good at taking samples and also attempting to find said plants in the first place. It takes some time and patience, but it’s worth it. I’ll say that I’ve never seen a planet with this many biological signatures before, so I’m rather proud of myself for getting the majority of those species sampled. It’s gonna be one hell of a payday, that’s for damn sure!

I should say that I’m making my way to a nebula at the moment, but in my dolphin it’s going to take a while. Which is honestly kind of the point: I intend on scanning everything there and back to Colonia, and see what type of payday I end up getting at the end. Besides, I do want to go back to Colonia since my ASP is there and I don’t want to leave my baby behind.

Enjoy some cheeky plant pictures.

20-09-3311
05:31:47
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Colonia

Entry 66 - A new ship, a new plan, a new frontier…

I have finally made it to Colonia!!! Hip hip, hurray!

I’m very excited to talk about this new plan that I’ve been alluding to over the past few entries. As you can tell by the title’s entry, I have a new ship! Say hello to my dolphin, Herby Fully Planted! (Thanks again to my friend L for helping me name the ship. Let’s just say it’s an inside joke of ours).

It’s a smaller and cheaper one than my ASP Explorer, and it’s jump range is certainly not quite as good…but I’ve chosen this smaller ship for a reason. I intend on gaining as many credits as humanly possible by diving head first into exobiology. I’d done a few tests in my ASP Explorer while I was on my way to Colonia, and recognised that my ship was quite slow in the atmosphere…so I’ve decided that electing to switch it out for a smaller and faster ship (even if it’s jump range isn’t the best) would make going from point A to point B while I’m planet-side would help me significantly, especially if the planet has multiple biological signatures.

I’m doing all of this because I want to be able to afford a fleet carrier. I have 500 million credits at the moment (still an insane amount) but my goal is 7 billion. Scanning biological signatures and selling that data is incredibly valuable, and just the 3 biological specimens that I scanned way back near Sagittarius A* got me significantly more credits than I’d expected. If I made that my full focus, I’ll get to 7 billion in no time. Though I do suspect it will take me some time. I’ll still be writing logs and taking pictures, but you’ll notice that there will be more pictures of me on planets and such!

I embark on my new journey…well…right now! I cannot wait! Sorry I didn’t take pictures of the nebula that Colonia resides in..I hope the pictures of some more awesome space molluscs I found within Colonia will suffice!

19-09-3311
10:08:10
Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | Dryooe Prou FF-A D81

Entry 65 - Next stop: Colonia!

I’m at the next nebula, and it’s been just as beautiful as the last nebulae. My next stop is Colonia, which resides within the next nebula I’m going to. It’s only 20 jumps away. I could probably go there right now if I wasn’t so hungry and tired. I’ll do it tomorrow, I think. I’m so excited for Colonia. I can’t wait to be around people again.

PSA to Commanders near the Dr. Kay’s Soul nebula

To any Commanders travelling from Colonia to the Bubble, or vice versa, if you are in-between the nebulae “Dr. Kay’s Soul” and “Flyiedgai AA-A H50”, be warned of the “Eidaih JY-E C13-81” system. I exited hyperspace in that system, on my way back to the Bubble, DIRECTLY next to the smaller Class M star, causing my ship to immediately overheat and thus requiring me to deploy one of my heatsinks. I was practically dropped in between the two stars, with the larger K class star in front of me, and the smaller Class M star directly to my right. I am lucky that my reflexes were fast enough and that I had enough quick thinking to deploy my heat sink immediately and pilot my ship away from both the stars, but if I had’ve been slower or I had panicked too much, I may not have made it out alive.

This is a PSA to ensure that you watch out for this system and any other star systems that are similar, and to ensure you are always aware of your surroundings when you are travelling in space, and that you always have some heatsinks on your ship- even if you think you won’t need it. Stay safe, Commanders.

17-09-3311
09:44:06
Odin’s Hold | Dumboe EW-E C11-800

Entry 64 - Getting closer…

I went past a dark nebula similar to the one I visited recently, but I’ll be honest and say it wasn’t really worth writing home about, so I moved onto the next nebula. I’m really close to Colonia now. I only need to visit the next nebula, and then after that…my next stop will be Colonia. And that will be when I can finally reveal what it is I’ve been planning to do.

For now, enjoy these beautiful pictures I took.

13-09-3311
00:33:12
Inner Orion-Perseus Conflux | Stuemiae GE-E C26-175

Entry 63 - Many shades of pink

I’ve finally made it to the next nebula. It took me a few days to get here, actually. It would’ve taken me a lot less time had I not gotten distracted by chores I had to do on my ship and whatnot, but I made it here in the end. This is a rather beautiful nebula, I must say. I took a lot of photos. I might stay here for just a bit before I move on.

11-09-3311
15:01:46
Odin’s Hold | Dryio Bloo RU-W D2-781

Entry 62 - My weird space molluscs

This has got to be the coolest place I’ve been to in a long while! Although my main objective coming here was mostly to take pictures of this large nebula that is rather dark (similar to the Coalsack Nebula), I’ve become completely sidetracked by this system’s two interesting little space clouds. One of them had purple and green space pinecones in them (I don’t really remember what they’re called) and the other one had strange minerals in them alongside alien life! They were weird looking molluscs that had tentacles with electrical abilities. They zapped my ship and I lost some shielding (about 20%) but otherwise they did no damage. It was quite interesting! I also watched them touch their tentacles together and zap each other…space mollusc mating rituals? I’m not sure, but it was rather cool to experience. I had an absolute blast here! I still need to take pictures of the actual nebula itself but I think I’m going to hang around here for a while.

10-09-3311
12:21:49
Odin’s Hold | Eorld Grie PZ-O E6-549

Entry 61 - Subtle colours

My log updates have been rather delayed due to the fact that I’ve been exploring around a few black hole clusters for the exploration data. I’ve just made it to the closest nebula which is a subtle green and rusty-orange colour, and I’m going to rest here before I continue on to the next large celestial object. It will take me some time to get there, but hopefully not too long. It’s about 69 jumps (hehe). I hope to get to Colonia soon.