Still in the Outer Arm
17 Oct 2019Pisodeuorrior
For one reason or another I'm taking my good time exploring the Outer Arm.This stretch of Space has lost that feeling of remoteness I had experienced in the Void and in the vast expanse leading up to it. I've started finding several interesting planets again, and a few biological signals have appeared on my scanner.
I've even come across a Gas Giant orbiting its star at a very close distance, less than 6.5 light seconds.
I thought it would have been a galactic record, but the closest actually orbits at 4.5ls, so it's just a close seconds. I'll never get that badge.
In the meantime, it would appear that all the biological signals I discover turn up being crystalline shards. I'm almost getting tired of them.
Usually I scan them from my ship and move on, without even landing, then a thought occurred to me and I wondered how frequent they are near the bubble.
I double checked, and the answer is: they don't exist within at least 10k light years from Sol.
Now, since their main characteristic is that they all release one rare material when shot at, and that thanks to them you can fill up your cargo in half an hour instead of a week worth of prospecting, I decided I'm now stopping to mine crystalline shards sites when I see them.
That will probably make me miss my self-imposed deadline of being back home by mid-November, but I guess this will save me some time in the long run.
