The Sagittarius-Carina Nightmare
01 May 2023BigBadShow80
Captain's log.Stardate May 1st, 3309.
Nebula NX-602
I've been finally able to cross the border leading me and the Nebula in the Mare Somnia region. If I'd say that the Sagittarius-Carina Arm region was a piece of cake to cross, I'd be the biggest liar in the whole damn galaxy. I hated this region from the very beginning and, after crossing the Dryman's Point border, I've been welcomed by a T9-sized load of close binaries. Hell, I thought that M-Class stars were the most infamous for being "heart attack donors". But I was completely wrong because, maybe, M-class stars might be the most common but nothing compares when you see, as next jump system, an orgy of stars composed by F-G-F-K-add whatever kind of substellar object. Dropping in a system with your nose just a few light seconds away from a G star while the primary F star lies directly behind that, it's something that really drains up your energy and makes your blood run cold, despite the extreme heat generated by those celestial bodies. And many, many times II thanked Azathoth that I'm on board the Nebula and not the Enterprise. Of course the Enterprise is the Queen of Queens of exploration vessels but the agility of the Nebula is unmatched and surely helped me to get away from the various "stellar gang bangs" that I met. To be back on topic, the Sagittarius-Carina Arm was a hard test both for me and for the Nebula. The wear and tear from the voyage is taking the toll on the ship. Even if all the system are at 100% integrity and the hull is at 100%, the various travels in supercruise to deep scan interesting planets surely put the ship's integrity down to 1%. Of course she's meant for that but, right now, we already surfed for more than 50.000ly and we still got a long way to go in front of us. I hope I will find somewhere a friendly fleet carrier to repair the Nebula and get some rest, else she will need to hold tight and clench the teeth until we're back home.. yeah, home. Which home? I'm still asking myself where I will land in the bubble. Even if tensions via subspace communications with my former squadron are almost vanished, I'm still asking myself if I really want to be back or not. One thing is sure, I love those people. They are the finest humans in the whole galaxy.
Anyway, the voyage will go on and I will not be back until I circled this galaxy and touched the real freedom of the darkness.
As a final note, never trust an F-Class star surrounded by three or more M-Class stars: at least two of those suckers will be in radius of less than 20 light seconds. Been there, done that.
Captain BigBadShow80, out