On the Road Again!
01 Apr 2022Pisodeuorrior
The Wandering Star is flying again, after long months of being parked in the Bubble.I always considered the expedition as being "on pause" for refitting, even if that took well over a year.
Basically, after the first phase, I decided to wait for space legs being released.
Then I spent a few months engineering all my suits to level 5.
Then I decided I wanted to get to Elite Mercenary before I continued the journey.
Then I realized I needed a bit more cash if I wanted to buy thousands of tons of Tritium along the way.
Then I waited for Vista Genomic to be available for Carriers.
Long story short, the "refitting" took forever, but everything is now ready. All ships are on board, there's a shiny new bar, a nice Vista Genomic Office, and most of all, a Command Deck with an amazing view.
There are two passengers on board. One I haven't met yet, the other one is CMDR Vynn Tornqvist, whom I've been meeting quite often now during our explorations.
Anyway, this is the road so far, roughly from June 2020 to January 2021.
And this is the route for our next leg:
It's slightly shorter than the first part, at 326k light years vs 338k.
Still, I'm fairly concerned about fuel. There's an awesome initiative within the DSSA Network, called STAR, which supports exploring carriers with Tritium.,
I'll be taking advantage of them all along Kepler's Crest and the Formidine Rift. Unfortunately there are no STAR Carriers on my route between there and at least the Veils, which will leave us stranded somewhere in the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm, according to my calculations.
I haven't found any Tritium hotspot mapped for that region yet, which is adding to my concerns.
Anyway, I hope I'll sort it out somehow along the way.
In the meantime, we're happily flying South along the Galactic meridian, and we're already on the Western Border of Kepler's Crest.
Despite having gone this exact same route a bunch of times, I still managed to find some interesting things. A few Earth-Like Worlds, for a start, and my very first Exobiological discoveries.
We've also docked at the DSSA Leo's Vision, which is also part of STAR. CMDR MalForTheWin was very nice and helpful, and we did try to organize our first refuel. Unfortunately we couldn't manage to have our schedules meet, so after a couple of days nosing around I veered clockwise and carried on along our route.
Luckily the DSSA Minbari Melva is loaded with Tritium and is next on our path.