Scouting mission day 19
04 Jul 2020Excess Fire
A new hunt begins. Scouting will be slower now, with the added search for double diamond and opal spots i will be expanding my scanning to full rings until i can see a pattern. and we're walking... this way, nope, that way.Carriers quiet as usual when i leave, didn't take me long to find paying planets, a couple of ww's, an ammonia, and a few hm-tf's so far as well as dwarfs and neutrons. minimum daily target met already. no complains here. Progressing is certainly much slower but the undiscovered tag rate is climbing steadily. The mighty Greybeards own this area, HA! Damn, i've run out of targets below the carrier to investigate, there's nothing left but to go high, crap, i hate wasted jumps, nothing worse than jumping to a system already explored, o well, here we go old girl. and we're jumping... straight up, 300 light year vertical jump, gotta be more here closer to the galaxy, smack in to a white dc dwarf, 33 bodies here, a few rings to check, otherwise not much except the ability to auto plot a small trip in to an express ride to the carrier. Lets check these rings huh. First ring, a twin fuel spot here, almost a double... almost don't cut it tho, next ring, an icy world, toes crossed here now. OI... LIE LOW ya damn furball... just a pair of diamond spots is all... and we're jumping
Another frakin white dwarf... but this ones got 84 damned planets, ten of em with rings, frak, gonna be here a while huh, yep, as i said earlier, slow goin. Ring 1, 2 nothin. the wireless is making noises again, it the daughter, the other one this time, her mothers finally home and packing her stuff, shes leaving, apparently shes pissed at me for not telling daughter where she was when she wanted to be picked up, never wants to see me again, aww hell... righto, where were we. first 5... 4 and 5 have diamonds and opals, nothing joined, a few spots but, not worth jumping here with the carrier, 170000 ls to the next set. this is not looking so good either. and even though im never wrong... yea, wrong again, a nice fat juicy double diamond shows up on the scanner with 14 other targets, na, don't believe it, getting up close and personal just to be sure. damn.
Mission accomplished, transmission sent, carrier soon to be on route
On to the next system. got a hm-tf here and 2 icy rings, worth a mapping, both empty, next jump, another dc white dwarf, all by itself, next jump crosses a system i visited already then on to a neutron to make the jump home, this neutron just happens to have a tf=ww and a std ww for good measure, i'll take those thank you very much. Now the 280 light year jump back to the carrier.
time for a drink at the bar, then the bunk.