LA GRANDE EXPÉDITION 3305 - DAY 37
23 Dec 2019Marcus1701
There is a moment when you drop out of FDS and see that sight. The station. Any station. After 37 days travelling on this expedition, I finally docked at a station in Gateway.
Dam that was a comforting sight indeed. To see other ships, admittedly I wanted to avoid most due to lack of firepower now, was very gratifying indeed. However, I needed to land given the amount of data I was carrying. Plus the Excelsior had a few issues none of which would cause me any real problems but I did not want to get into a fight.
Exchanges with the docking crew, set the ship on automatic and let dock control take charge. Smooth perfect landing.
Repairs were completed including the paintwork and now of to log my data. Boy that was some trip, the number of newly discovered worlds including a few Earth like ones made me feel proud. Then there were the credits. That made pretty good reading and a hell of a difference to the bank balance.
So al in all very successful. I learnt more about the ship, outfitting, exploration data and a few credits. Time for a break and a think.