Trapped by a white dwarf
20 Aug 2018Thunktone
3304 August 20, Monday18:31
How has this never happened before? I'm trapped in the jets of a white dwarf! I have jumped from hundreds of white dwarfs and neutron stars, discovered dozens unknown to GalMap. But now, for the first time ever, I am stuck.
I started scooping from the ejecta, got enough to boost my FSD, but then just as I was about to throttle up my ship was turned in towards the star. That too has happened before, normally I just smoothly throttle up as I ease back on the stick, and out I come. A little more damage to my FSD than usual, but nothing worse.
But today I just couldn't pull the nose away from the star. I hit the exclusion zone and fell out of supercruise, still inside the ejecta. I can't point my nose to the escape vector. My ship is doomed, I only hope my escape pod can get out somehow.
Otherwise, I guess these are my last words. Oh airlock, the hull is splitting!