27-02-3312
00:06:59
Inner Orion Spur | HR 1385

Entry 80 - Getting bored

I’ve just noticed this entire time that I’ve been posting my log entries an entire hour earlier than what I said I was posting them. This is my mistake. I apologise. They are now being posted at the proper time. Except for this entry, as I’m basically writing it a little bit before I post it.

It’s been rather hard to find things to really write about. It’s the same thing over and over again: sample a bunch of alien biology within the planets of a system, go to the next system on my list, rinse and repeat. It’s very tedious work. I’d say I’m about 76% to my goal. It feels very good to be so close to what I want…but also aggravating. I’m so close, yet so far. The itching to do something else other than exobiology is now un-ignorable. I just want it to be over with, you know? I want to go on another adventure into the deep. But I just can’t, yet. Not until I get my fleet carrier. Then, and only then, shall I be free of this monotonous job.

14-02-3312
06:13:24
Inner Orion Spur | Samontia

Entry 79 - A weird floating rock

A week ago I was on a planet in the HIP 105439 system, doing my routine exobiological sampling when I came across a...floating rock. It was rather strange, because of the fact that the planet had high enough gravity that I was not floating off and most every other loose rock was also solidly on the ground. Except for this one. I don’t know exactly what strange magnetic or other processes that could cause such a thing, but I was able to stand on the rock and it didn’t seem to wobble or move much. It..actually seemed rather stable, surprisingly. I got a lot of pictures, just to prove that it was in fact really floating.

If you wish to go there yourself and see the floating rock, the planet is HIP 105439 AB 4 E, and the coordinates on said planet are approximately 57.4553° latitude, 95.7531° longitude.

06-02-3312
03:33:48
Inner Orion Spur | HIP 105439

Entry 78 - Plants, plants and more plants

We have now transitioned into the “boring” part of my plan, in which we simply have to go from system to system within the Bubble, and simply acquire as many alien biological samples as humanly possible. I’ve been doing it in tens, where I travel to ten different systems, get all of the samples, then head back home and sell the data I got from the samples I acquired. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes it takes forever since one system can have well over six planets with alien biology on them (incredibly rare but it does happen sometimes), and I can spend almost half a week trying to get all the samples from just that one system. It can be grueling work sometimes, but I have to be incredibly thorough, since the objective here isn’t to go from point A to point B, the objective is to make a hell of a lot of credits, and the only way to do that is to not skip over a planet just because there are only three biological signatures instead of six. Slow and steady wins the race, and all that.

I will say I did learn something new that I didn’t before. I was unaware that Concha Renibus glowed in the dark until I had to go to a planet which had very few places where Fungoida or Concha could be found, except for a few places on the dark side of the planet. I went there since I had to, and landed with the help of my ship’s lights and night vision mode, and when I hopped out, I could see weird glowing in the distance. I went up to the weird glowing and found that it was just Concha. It just goes to show that studying these biologies in different situations is necessary to getting a full picture. It certainly made finding them in the dark a lot easier, that’s for sure!

20-01-3312
07:37:53
Inner Orion Spur | Hollatja

Entry 77 - A new year comes with new shenanigans

It’s the new year, and I’ve obviously made it to the Bubble once more. I took some time off to be with friends for the holidays, and think about my game-plan for acquiring enough credits for a fleet carrier. The exobiology gig is mad for credits. It feels like a money cheat code. My friends are quite a bit shocked just how much pay you really get by doing it. A dangerous job when doing it in deep space all by your lonesome, and takes quite a bit of know-how, but all of the work so worth the money you make from it.

Though, I have discovered a new “risk”, as it were. I spoke to my friend L about the whole exobiology thing, and he showed some interest in potentially getting a bunch of credits for a better (and larger) ship. I’d already gotten the Cobra MK V and kitted it out for exobiology, and I showed him the ropes. We were having a great time. And then, the shenanigans started.

Usually I’m incredibly careful when flying, or when I’m on-foot on a planet. I think a lot of the caution I have is because I usuallly do everything by myself in deep space- if I get hurt, I’m totally screwed. I cannot rely upon anyone else to help me in deep space, I can only rely on myself. So I’m very careful and take precautions and don’t usually do stupid shit (usually being the key word, here). But because we were in the Bubble and on an inhabited planet, and we were together…we got a little rowdy. A bit too rowdy, actually.

Almost landing on each other’s heads while jetpacking to and from different biological signatures type of rowdy. Standing right on top of the engines as the ship takes off kind of rowdy.

L getting severely injured as a result and needing to go to the hospital immediately type of rowdy.

Yeah, I know. It’s stupid reckless deadly insane shit, but when I’m with L it’s like all of my caution is thrown to the wind. Our ability to get into the funniest, silliest and craziest of situations is limitless. It’s like I forget the universe is a dangerous place, and that my ship is a deadly metal projectile. I feel awful for what happened, but so does he, since he was the one that brought up the idea in the first place (but who is the worse fool, the fool who leads or the fool who follows him?). We’ve both agreed that we are both to blame, and we’ve both decided to not get rowdy anymore and to take our outings seriously. Live and learn, and all that.

Anyways, do as I say, not as I do. My next entry will likely just be me talking about plants and such. I’m scanning a lot of plants, alright? It’s kinda the whole point of being an exobiologist. (Lets not talk about how most of the stuff isn’t really plants and is more akin to mushrooms or coral, or even some types of animals. It’s still alive and worth studying).

06-10-3311
16:01:34
Inner Orion Spur | NGC 6820 Sector GB-X C1-32

Entry 76 - 100 more jumps to inhabited space

I’m very close to getting into inhabited space, now. I’ve heard from one of my friends on the Galnet that there have been more colonisation initiatives, so when I get to the Veil West Nebula, I should technically be in inhabited space. The Bubble apparently grows larger each week. It’s something of a relief, as it means my trips are a lot less perilous (presuming I don’t crash my stupid arse into a star). I’m going to speed my way to inhabited space and see how I fare in these newly colonised systems.