Tragedy in Dryman's Point
22 Nov 2020Pisodeuorrior
A great tragedy befell me.I upgraded to a new machine, and a good chunk of the files in my backup folder are corrupted.
That includes the pictures I took of the DSSA The Helix and the DSSA Nostromo.
All the pictures before the upgrade are gone, luckily I had uploaded most of them in my logs, but a big part of my journey through Dryman's Point is lost.
This sucks even harder as, when I hailed the Commander of The Helix, I found out that he's a pilot I'm in touch with every day in the Arena, CMDR The Shrike.
In fact, we've been blowing each other up with roughly equal fortunes for a few weeks now, and he happens to be one of the commanders I have most fun with in CQC.
Who would had thought, the galaxy can be small after all.
The Helix is deployed in the orbit of a beautiful A-class star, forever basking in its white light. It's a very scenic spot, and I was quite happy with the pictures I took.
Luckily, in my frantic attempts to right this wrong, I realized that Phase IV of my expedition will take me back to this area, overlapping with the current route for a little bit.
This means that with a little detour to retrace my steps I'll be able to document my docking at these last two DSSA Carriers.
Only, well, in a few months' time.
So, after I docked at the DSSA The Helix and DSSA Nostromo, it was the turn of the DSSA Dryman's Hope.
This carrier is set in a fairly dangerous system, where the landing point is between the jets of a Neutron Star and a fierce M-Class Star.
I mean, it's not hard to avoid their dangers. Nonetheless, despite the 1.3million light years experience under my belt, I was knocked out of supercruise like a noob, and I got stuck in the jets for an embarrassingly long time before I managed to escape.
In fact, it took 6 attempts at supercruise, with as many heat sinks ejected and 20% hull left.
The repair dock of the DSSA Dryman's Hope was a sweet sight after the ordeal.
Here's another point of view of those bad boys, setting behind one of the orbiting planets.
Commander Alistair Hope had quite a bit of tritium to sell, and with his help, according to my math, I should now be able to get as close as 3000 light years from the Bubble.
If no other DSSA carrier will be able to help me, the mining to gather this much should be painless enough.
Once I finished hauling the 4500 tons of fuel left for sale I set sail again, only to discover that the jump literally after the DSSA Dryman's Hope was yet again another heat trap. Fortunately this time I was less clumsy and I escaped without taking any damage.
Anyway, the next milestone of my route was the DSSA Kitty Corner.
Of all the pictures I took along the way only this one survived, taken in the rings of a High Metal Content World orbiting very closely to its star.
Not a rare find, but definitely pretty enough to become one of my current favourites.
The DSSA Kitty Corner is deployed among the rings of a huge gas giant, and she's the last DSSA Carrier in Dryman's Point, sitting very close to its southern border.
I am now crossing into Hawking's Gap. Another few thousands light years and I'll cross eastward into Lyra's Song and the Tenebrae region for the final stretch of this part of the journey.