Scouting mission Day 42
29 Jul 2020Excess Fire
They call themselves explorers, cracks me up, explorers in a hurry to get somewhere, find something new, something worth selling and making creds, getting their name on it, o come on, hurry up and scan, hurry up and map, why is it so slow, they complain before starting their fsd for the next 70 light year jump, skipping 30 odd undiscovered systems on the way, These aint explorers, what's the hurry? going nowhere in particular in such a hurry, suckers I call them, so you discovered a system huh, what's it got? dunno. Anything worth while in it? dunno. any biologicals or valuable minerals? dunno Ha!, that's not exploring, that's ignoring. There are a lot of ignorers out there, and with the carriers now available, its a lot worse.Missy manager and I got our mission completed in half the allotted time so had the rest of the day off... relaxing? yeah, that works, relaxing. Now its time to do the return trip, basically cause we're exhausted, we figure we will take our time EXPLORING our way back, going direct, which means a well known path. Once out side the known bubble we discover that out of every 25 jumps 20 of them are never visited systems, our jump distance averages 2.5 light years at the moment. so far we have pulled in 86 million, from 2 earth like worlds, 6 ammonia worlds, 16 water worlds and over 30 high metal terraformable's, a lot of cool sights, a couple of biologicals, resources and valuable mineral deposits in just over 200 light years. THATS exploring. We get along well, missy and I, she's quiet, like her father, barely speaks at all, says "uhuh" a lot, like her father, smart, that cunning clever kind of smart and has figured out there is something different about Destiny and I suspect, me. Trust however, is earned over time, for me, a great deal of time, so Destiny and I have decided not enough time has passed, Destiny informs me she has a plan, uh oh. Destiny's last plan got me married, look how that turned, car wrecked, house burned down, and then there's the daughter thing...s. hold ya horses Destiny old girl, hold ya horses. Oh yeah, one other thing about missy the manager... She has figured out that she likes exploring now as well, which is great, cept she wants to land on every single landable rock out there... which the damned cat loves, but me... not so much.
Hmm... that's interesting, a a high metal terraformable orbiting a decent class b giant, quite rare that missy... "uhuh" That means "yes, lets go look at it and map it and land on it and the cat for a walk" Frak... I'm learning missy language. On the brighter side... I really don't know how i survived all these hundreds of years without her, she knows me better than... me! has figured out when I'm hungry, even when I think I'm not, She's good in the galley, seriously, who knew you had to eat 3 times an earth day, I'm going to reset Destiny's mass settings I'm thinking, gonna need person covers as well, I'm gonna feel this on high g planets that's for sure. same with drink, "I'm not thirsty" I say "uhuh" she replies as she hands me a drink anyway. hell... I didn't know I wanted to go there, but apparently I did. Oh... and then there's the blimp, Lilo D Blimp... used to be the cat, thought it was great... at first... now missy gives im food and he pushes it over to me, like, you have it mate... please. jumped up on the dash earlier, blocked it out completely, then looks at me as if to say, "you shrunk it... why?" Gonna have to talk to her... need the food to last aye... "uhuh" is what I get back, I think it means "ok", I hope it means "ok", ahh frak... I know it means "we can get more" or "we've got enough", or "frak off", hell, I dunno. Ahh look, more biologicals, 2.7 g planet, landing an Anaconda risky... "uhuh" she says. Yep, were landing anyways I know... feel familiar, can I stop the divorce? now we have more food. see
Destiny, are you hunting for food on purpose or what?... quit it and while you at it, quit belly flopping. I know you can handle 3 g's easily. So... cats had a big run, I've had a big run, missy's restocked the galley, Cats going for another big run,... no... damn cats running away, ah for fraks sake Lilo... Its not that bad mate, come on, we're takin her home... I'm goin for another run... Got the cat, got the missy manager, got the food, got Destiny's belly repaired... again... This is the last stop on this set of plots, what ya say we plot up this time... head to the top? "uhuh" I hear whispered in my ear.Time for...
sleep.
"Uhuh... heh heh heh"