Commander Adrella//SJCS Magellan//3308-02-13 - Off the beaten track
12 Feb 2022Adrella
It seems looking for xeno sites might be a little bit of a stretch, and scanning each and every body in a system is extremely time-consuming. So, after looking at EDSM, I decided to head out a bit further into the void, away from my original location in the massive permit locked section of space 'south' of the bubble. It was already too mapped, with a lot of commanders over the last several hundred years obviously doing the same. Instead, I picked a patch of space and, after finding no information on the system on EDSM, decided to head that way, while making a few mapping and scanning stops along the way.
I swung by the Ford Research Lab in the California Sector to drop off the escape pods I'd found - didn't want them to potentially be lost in the black again - and headed back out.
On my way, I found a small water world in Oochost ZM-H D11-2. It had already been scanned, but bringing more info to the cartographic folks never hurts. And they pay.
There was also an HMC world that would bring in some decent money, so I stopped there too. Even made first footfall on the world, which is fun. I'd headed down to investigate the bacterium I'd picked up when I scanned the planet. Emerald bacterium cerbrus. I had to fly to several different locations to ensure I had the best genetic sampling possible, and while it doesn't pay well, I figured 'what the hell, I'm already here.'
After a few more jumps, I ended up in Oochost EQ-X C17-0, and scanned the first planet, an HMC. I picked up a distress beacon, so went down to the surface to check it out. I discovered some wreckage and several sentry drones. After dispatching the drones, I inspected the escape pods to find the occupants had perished. I collected what data I could and moved on, arriving in Outopps CB-O D6-7.
I decided to call it a day in the system, ready to make my next neutron jump later on. I settled into a controlled spin to simulate gravity and went around conducting maintenance on the Magellan.