Scouting mission day 18
04 Jul 2020Excess Fire
Need coffee, need water, need aspirin, need to get up... all is quiet, what a night. Celebrating the final success of our mission, everyone is asleep still i think, the carrier is quiet. Mon Captitaan has jumped us to a system directly above the c-star. i am taking Destiny out to see what there is to see. jumps are log mostly, a couple of minor jumponiums required here and there. not to much here, white dwarfs and neutrons here, quitte a few, a couple of ammonias, a couple of water worlds, quite a few icy;s with fuel singles and the this system.First icy ring has fuel single, second icy ring has fuel single, these are around gas giants. Last icy ring around an ice planet... holy shit, its a fraken walmart. 28 spots, 3 of em fuels, 2 of em create a double. jack pot. Hell this rings got everything, opals, diamonds, platinum, painite, the lot. Time to fire up the wireless and let Mon Capitaan know..., all still asleep, message left.
A couple hours go by and the wireless fires up again, a couple of commanders want to get the miners there but lack the range to get there, new mission, find a way for them. I spend a few hours trying many different ways to see if they could make it but with a max range of 73 ly, it was never going to happen, the closest i could get was 80.2 ly. Gonna have to wait till capitaan drags imself outta bed, so now there are 3 of us tagging this area, shame really, mission failed, i hate failure but we are out on the edge, cant win em all.
Mon Capitaan eventually wakes, gets the message and jumps. now we are all set, mining for fuel can begin. not me tho apparently, i have new orders, expand my search to include doubles of fuel, opals and diamonds. Fine by me, i prefer this to mining anyway, gonna sleep on it. 38 new tags out of 43 jumps is a good day, made my minimum target, returning now, gonna sleep on it.