Packing for a long trip
13 Jul 2020Korzhakov
"Captain Shelton, meet me in my private conference room" I say into my terminal. "Right away sir" she replies and I pour a fresh cup of coffee and head to my conference room with Bella my cat following close behind. "Good morning Korz" she says as she enters the conference room "Good morning Bailey" I reply back. "I asked you here to discuss our first real mission. And there are stipulations with this mission" I inform her that we will be undertaking an exploration mission, and will be scouting around a known spot for resources and additional habitable planets. I let her in on my fall back location in the system I named "Rylie's Grace". She does not sound surprised as she knows me quite well from our time together on the carrier. I let her know that this planet is not mine, I do not own it, I just discovered it and have made a full self sustaining bug out location that I built in case I need it for any reason.
The planet's location and galactic coordinates will be kept from most of the crew. Only those with a need to know, will know. However, we will run R&R excursions to tropical areas not too far from my compound, but far enough that they can't wander over to it. But I invite you to start your own compound if it is something you are interested in. The carrier has more than enough capacity to do it all in one trip, unlike my project that took more than 20 trips with my anaconda to complete.
Just follow the same parameters I did and keep the compound as safe from being detected as possible.
Once we station the Archangel around the planet, I will take my Krait Phantom and will begin systematic exploration of surrounding systems. We will need enough fuel for a 20k ly round trip but put some extra on board as it never hurts. Inform the crew that we will well outside of the bubble for several months perhaps. So if crew need to rotate, they get the chance. I want extra luxury items for the crew in storage, they will eat well, drink well and be taken care of while we are out.
When we get back, we will dock in Diaguandri for a while for extended crew leave and carrier refit before we take on our next tasks, learning how to battle thargoids..but that's for another time..