Lost Souls 3 Expedition Log - 33080521
21 May 2022XpressioN
The Tall Mountain
It is a daunting and laborious job that one of an explorer. You get into solitude having no one to speak and share your adventures with. Doing the same thing over and over again. Honking systems, using the Discovery Scanner, perform a full system scan using the Full Spectrum System Scanner and if there are those interesting planets, you travel to and use the Detailed Surface Scanner to spot those hidden features. Explorer is one of the three archetypal pilot roles recognized by the Pilots Federation. Explorers have the opportunity to earn income and gain reputation by making pioneering jumps into unexplored systems and gathering data on planets, stars, points of interest and signal sources within star systems. Many explorers enjoy locating and observing the beautiful views that can be found in deep space, as well as gaining credit for being the first to discover unique systems and worlds. Some explorers have been known to spend years delving into uncharted space without once returning to inhabited systems.
This is the eight week since when I left my everyday routine back in the Bubble, where I used to do all sort of high level and demanding tasks. I needed a brake after all, and that's the reason why I'm out here in the void. I've made a lot of good friends in this expedition. I've made for myself certain objectives that elevate my mind from solitude. I was heading to my next waypoint, to meet with the others and arrived in a system with a ringed gas giant. The scanner marked a ring proximity orbiting planet and decided to scan and have a short break.
Departed from there I headed to several other systems before I made it to Waypoint 7. Landed in a lot of planets having biological samples too. Some of these planets offered their own sceneries with their specific atmosphere type that differed from other planets.
After a couple of jumps I made it to the next POI which was the system of Thraikai XL-A c15-0 (Gryphon Nebula) - A medium-sized, reddish-orange nebula which from certain angles is reminiscent of the mythical beast the Gryphon, which was a winged lion. The nebula is sparsely populated with few stars on the interior.
I made it in time as there were other fleet carriers in this system, however departed on their way to the next waypoint. I landed and on the TFCS MoDean's carrier and stocked with the necessary consumables. I also handed in cartographic data and visited the carrier's Vista Genomics outlet to hand in the many biological samples I had accumulated. I checked the departure time of this carrier for the next waypoint and decided to have a rest before I go ahead with the voyage and meet with my friends.
I just woke up with the announcement of the carrier's departure. That was just in ten minutes, so I rushed myself out of my room and headed to my ship. Luckily enough all repairs were ready and ship was also stocked up with goods. I made it in time, just a minute before the carrier closed its hangers and boosted away, setting up the jump sequence to the next system. I got to a system with a Gas Giant with Ammonia-based Life. The views were quite astonishing, so I decided to snap a couple of pictures to show to my friends once I reach them.
After a couple of snaps I proceeded with the jumps towards the waypoint. A couple more planets with bios and opportunities to take more interesting photos.
A couple of interesting systems as well while I was scanning them to check for any rare features. In fact I found a planet with a lot of red canyons filled with gas vents. Took the opportunity to land and rest a bit before I head to my destination.
Waypoint 6 - Bloo Dryue ND-I d10-19 (Circulum) was my next jump. I've made it at last. I'll meet with a couple of my fellow friends, CMDRs of some of the majestic exploration ships out there. These couple of friends give me the courage to finish this expedition I have started a couple of weeks ago. This system contains an unusually high content of mass for a D-mass system, most evident in the amount of rings in the system. Orbital body 5 A features a 10km tall towering mountain that frames all three of these ringed planets through a valley. Adding to the systems mosaic, the system also features a ringed water world moon whose parent planet is a very large ringed hmc with a dense atmosphere. The mass of this system, and it’s complexity of planetary bodies is further enforced by it’s diversity of material composition.
After spending some time admiring this tall mountain I headed to one of the carriers stationed in the system. This time it was the TFC Candle in the Void. I met with most of my friends in one of the bars. We discussed and planed the route we will be taking for the nest POI.
I had paid a visit to the carrier's Vista Genomics outlet and to my surprise I got a Comms message from the Pilot's Federation that I was ranked up to Exobiology III. Two more ranks to achieve something only a couple of CMDRs had ever achieved.
