Out of the Void, into the Frying Pan
12 Oct 2019Pisodeuorrior
After careful consideration I can confirm that the Void has been, so far, the hardest part of Space to navigate for me.Even coming back from Beagle Point I was able to set up my route on the Galaxy Map and cross the Abyss without a thought. Sparse as the stars are in that infamous region, as it turns out that was not something that my 67.5 light-years-range Asp couldn't handle.
On the other hand, getting away from Erikson's start required another 30 or so FSD boosts, and a lot of attention.
Even more than 3000 light years from the outer edge of the Void I had to boost here and there if I wanted to avoid backtracking a dozen jumps to find a better route.
When I finally managed to get out of the Void, literally after the jump that crossed the border into the Outer Arm, I landed between these two guys.
The temperature in my cockpit spiked to 90 degrees almost instantly. Luckily this time I didn't panic and I was fast enough to drop a heat sink and get out of there before the double furnace finished cooking me.
Just the Void's way to bid farewell.
On the bright side, the Outer Arm I'm in now and the Scutum-Centaurum Arm I just left are not as far away from each other as the other gaps I've crossed. That means I could avoid the 10000 light years backtrack and detour I had to do back from the Abyss and Hawking's Gap.
Anyway, I am now travelling South towards the last of the landmarks I had planned to visit, Lyed YJ-I d9-0, better known as Amundsen's star, the most Southerly system of the Galaxy.
It's weird that I feel almost on the way home, despite it being almost 68000 light years from my position, more than the distance between Sol and Samotus Beacon.