Journey to Colonia - Day 9 - Flyiedge GR-K b54-9
05 Nov 2019Smertkopf
I write this log entry while floating in normal space in orbit around the system's star, which is the only body in the system. I've got 45 jumps left to Skaudai CH-B d14-34 and Sacaqawea Space Port, and behind me are a slew of newly discovered systems that only await my docking before they will join the host of the Galaxy's known objects. I won't go into too much detail, as it would be unfortunate for me to go off bragging about discoveries that aren't yet official only to blunder into thargoids or something like that and get atomized without a soul ever knowing about my new discoveries. I've noticed that the quickest way to guarantee a grisly and unfortunate fate is to tempt it by boasting.At any rate, I scanned many new systems and should be turning in a nice bounty of exploration data when I get to the next port. It will truly be a pleasure to have some human company again, although now that I've joined up with the Freelancers Alliance, I suppose I'll never be truly alone out there. A heartfelt o7 to my new squad-mates, it'll be fun hearing from you all out in the black!
Landed on a couple of planets, the most interesting of which was a High Metal I mapped with a nice set of rings. I got pictures on the way out and from on the surface as well, though unfortunatedly the rings look too thin from this vantage if I'm being honest:
These are the same rings as seen from space:
In an earlier entry I mulled over stopping halfway through the trip to Colonia and striking out from Sacaqawea and back in a few different directions in order to find uncharted systems, but it would appear that that's not going to be a problem even along a well-traveled route like the one I'm taking, so I think I'll hang out in Skaudai CH-B d14-34 for just a bit before moving on. There's going to be another long haul to the next stop, so it might be a couple more days after I leave the next bastion of humanity before I see living, breathing humans again. Colonia is going to be an odd change of pace after all of this time spent seeing almost nothing in the way of intelligent life; I wonder what coming back to the bubble after many months away will be like.
That's getting way ahead of myself, however. For now, there is only Midnight, myself, and the lone star that fills the viewscreen almost sullenly, seeming to resent my intrusion upon its lonely corner of space. I take a moment before heading off to my quarters for lights-out to marvel at the fact that I, a lone speck of life in all of this inhospitable and radiation-drenched void, am about to take my ease within spitting distance of a maelstrom of fusion and gravity that would turn me into molecules given a single instant's chance. I look around at my ship, which floats defiantly in the face of the blazing giant and allows me the unbelievable luxury of laying down for six hours of unconsciousness without fear of disintegration. As I close my eyes to sleep, the immensity of the void around me does not feel cold and empty, but rather like a comforting shroud; a vastness within which I can hide and find safety.
With these odd thoughts I drifted away to a dreamless slumber.
Next entry should be from Skaudai CH-B d14-34.
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CMDR Smertkopf