Journey to Colonia - Day 5 - Omega Mining Operation
01 Nov 2019Smertkopf
Sometimes, fortune smiles.A good part of the reason I'm out here in the black is to discover new stars and new worlds, and up until this leg of my journey everything I found had already been found by someone else who came before me. Today, that changed. I left Observation Post Epsilon and plotted in a course for Omega Sector OD-S b4-0, where a Detention Center named Rock of Isolation awaited. I pulled up a Galnet article about the prison station, and after reading a bit about what some of the current inmates there are capable of, I'm glad they're thousands of light years away from civilization. Naturally, I had to get a look at the place, even though I wouldn't be able to dock there, as they are unable to accommodate large ships.
It was twenty some-odd jumps to Omega Sector OD-S b4-0, and it was on the path there that I discovered my first virgin worlds. In four separate systems I discovered bodies that I was the first to have found. In each system someone else had already discovered the stars, but in two of them I was the sole discoverer of all other bodies in the system! My excitement to get to the next Universal Cartographics office was palpable, let me tell you. Midnight had to tell me in his trademark dry tone to act like I've done this before. I responded with a rude gesture whose meaning was lost on him, and we had a good laugh about it.
Rock of Isolation turned out to be a bit of a letdown, but I should have expected that. I love my Anaconda, but she's a big girl and some places don't appreciate that, so I am forced to look at one of the Galaxy's most notorious penitentiaries from 8km away like the dirty, Anaconda-loving boob that I am. Tipping my cap, I made the short jump to Omega Sector VE-Q b5-15 and docked with Omega Mining Operation, which has a shipyard and outfitting facilities, the first I've seen since I left the Bubble. Going to pick up a detailed surface scanner if they have one; I'd like to do some mapping. Turned in my cartographic data and got my name officially put on a number of newly discovered planetary bodies orbiting four different stars. They will not be the last, I assure you. For anyone looking for confirmation, head out to any of the following systems and you will see my name:
Bleia Dryiae NY-J b56-16: All planets
Bleia Dryiae RY-J b56-8: All planets
Bleia Dryiae PY-J b56-14: C1, C1a, C2, C3, C4
Bleia Dryiae LT-G c27-31: 5, 6, 7
I shared a a couple of mugs of a local bootleg mushroom beer called Toadstool Ale with the commander of a mining ship named the OMG BoltBucket. The name is very much facetious; I got a look at the ship and she's a beauty, though I'm a novice when it comes to mining. Still, I know a fine ship when I see one, and the BoltBucket was a fine ship, a Python engineered to the gills back in the Bubble and brought out here to Omega Sector to make its owner a fortune. If you see CMDR Dobchek out here mining the rings, send her my warmest regards. And if you've got designs on her precious cargo, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.
Next leg of the journey will be Eagle Sector IR-W d1-105 and the Eagle Sector Secure Facility. It's an asteroid base so I should be able to land there, though the name of the place sounds distinctly unfriendly. No matter, I've met some of my most interesting friends in places with such dour and uninviting names, and a few enemies as well, but those are stories for another day. See you in the black, Commanders.
CMDR Smertkopf