It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.... (Leg 1 of Initial Exploratory Mission)
03 May 2018Darth Tasty
Log Entry 1 - I have been flying now for about two weeks and have finally gotten a hold of a decent ship, the Keelback, I have outfitted it to the max, best stuff I could get here in Scott Station in HIP 93685 Including a 6 person, 1st class passenger cabin. I was browsing the passenger board and came across a decent paying job, 13.5 million credits to take this guy and his team of explorers into no mans land and study 2 earth like planets. needless to say I took the job.Log Entry 2 - Ameerah and is team suggested I scan every system I jump into( He wanted to study my sensor scans, I found out later). We left the bubble over 8 hours ago and it is still 848 jumps to reach the destination, once done there its another 1000+ jumps back to civilized space. the journey continues ...
Log Entry 3 - ending for the night, all is well. so far I have have jumped through 158 systems, 102 of those have never been seen by a person. the prospect of making a ton a credits was my original motivation for taking these explorers out here, I just never new home much data I was gonna gather on the way. I talk with the leader on occasion, mainly during fuel scoop operations, He seems very excited about the prospects of terraforming the new planets. we have 694 more jumps to go...
Log Entry 4 - I started the day sore as hell and I could hardly fall asleep, the Explorer, Ameerah Ray and his expedition were up all night poring over my last batch of sensor data. I have been jumping for hours now, 90 jumps in fact, when the explorer contacted me and asked me to stop and scan the most recent system we had jumped into Traikoa IK-Q c5-12, I have decided to give Ameerah a bit more data than just my base scans (it should keep him busy for awhile so I can focus on getting us to Preae Ain LO-N C8-15, alive and in one piece.
Log Entry 5 - I have been jumping for the past 7 hours, (Approximately 150 jumps) and i am starting to tire, I swear some times when I scan these stars I can hear a faint scream, like from seeing some unfathomable horror. I shake off these thoughts and take a stimulant and continue to jump, only 559 more jumps to go....
Log Entry 6 - Just finished a total off 200 jumps in 8 1/2 hours, we are now officially at the half way point to the target system, the stimulant I took a few hours ago is not working as well as I had hoped( it help me get the last 50 jumps completed though). It is time to take a break and continue the journey in a few hours, I am way ahead of schedule.....
Log Entry 7 - It's a new day. I begin flight operations again at 9:00 Pm California time of old earth (i was brought up to believe I had descendants there) so I keep my ships time to that. at this time we had reached the halfway mark of 500 jumps to go. ran across a few interesting systems and scanned a few astronomical bodies for fun. I end flight operations for the day at 6:00 am(pst), It has taken 9 hours to get 200 jumps closer to my clients target system only 300 more jumps to go...
Log Entry 8 - Today started out strange. When I recalculated my jump route, the ships computer added another jump. It must have caught some damage when I got too close to my last star during refueling. I must remember to get her checked out when we get back to civilized space...
Log Entry 9 - Had a random system shutdown at 12 am ships time, tried resetting and rebooting all systems to get my FSD back online. Oddly after exactly 40 minutes my FSD just came back to life on its own, really weird things happen out here in the black.
Log Entry 10 - The 1st leg of this journey is now complete. All astronomical bodies and especially the twin pair of planets (the main reason I am out here).