07 jan 3306 - Entry 02 - Back in the bubble
13 Jan 2020Sakut
CMDR SAKUT - Entry 02 - 07 Jan 3306TLDR;
- A bit of surface prospecting in the hills surrounding Palin's base
- Fiddling with the Galaxy Map filters to find a neutron star with no luck
- Fast run back to Deciat Farseer Inc to increase the Aspic (Asp Explorer) FSD range
- Drop of the Escape Pod at the Matteucci Dock
- Back to Frey to use the new pinned blueprint on other ships. Pin not saved...
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Damn corrupted data... That's what I'm thinking right now while writing this logbook...
It has been an heavy week and I can't provide the mandatory images. A problem in the main computer have overwritten all my photos by older ones. I will try to replace them with more detailed written information.
As stated in my latest entry, I was in Maia system to get meta-alloy to be able to mod my Frame Shift Drive. I woke up this morning in Maia A3a on the light side of the planet. The sunrise on the main Red Body Maia A3 was beautiful and a good way to start the day. I went surface prospecting in the big crater of Palin's Research planetary Landing. The planet, with his 8.7% Chromium and 7.9% Manganese, was a good way to stock up the raw materials I was looking for. I destroyed some outcrops and had good results. Navigating in the plains was fast and didn't damaged much my buggy. I was wondering if going to the Mountains /Side of the crater would provide better yields of material. I drove in my buggy full pin but those mountains looked way farther than I thought. Called my ship to pick me up and few minutes of flight later I was in those mountains. I had a difficult time finding a place to land. Back in the buggy, driving carefully in this bad terrain, I encountered mostly Bronzite Chondrites. Unfortunately the materials found were the same as in the outcrops and it was really difficult to move around in those mountains. Probably not worth it. I've found today a CMDR who wrote about it. Probably need to study a bit for next time.
Time was passing by a big grin on my face, back in the plains, speeding in the buggy, when I remembered this CMDR in his rescue pod in my ship's cargo. Maybe he had a family waiting for him somewhere. It was time to get off and get back to my system. I went to plot my return path in the Galaxy Map.
Mmmm... Direct to Garratt or a little hook to check on Farseer's base for my FSD?
Farseer it is. It's only a 200LY hook and I still have some time. I tried to find a jet cone boost but didn't found a neutron or white dwarf around. Half way, a pirate tried to interdict me. I was bad at handling it but somehow evaded it. Was it for the meta-alloy, was it for the unlucky CMDR in my cargo. I will never know.
On the way back, I must admit that I didn't took much time scanning bodies around. Hyperspace, side scoop full speed to extend my range, and back to hyperspace etc...
Finally, here I am in this engineer base. I don't know if it's always like this but I was received by a metallic generated voice. Exactly like in Palin's research center. At least, once docked, Felicity Farseer came to see me on her own. She explained me a bit of his background, and once I gave her the meta-alloy, she agreed to share his knowledge and tweak my FSDs. I sold her some planetary data too that I gathered around for 3MCredits and, in exchange, she accepted to work up to grade 3. I spent all my hard earned mineral in those tweaks, needing to try them multiple times to be able to get them to next rank. It roughly gave me 10LY more of jump range. YAY!!!
Finally, A few (less than before) jumps and I'm in my home station Garratt. Good to be back, baby was already deep in his night sleep hanging tight to his "mouton-poulet" cuddy toy. She's so cuuuuuuute.... Hummm.... Sorry....
Ow, on my data loss... I found some old photos I took 3 years ago.
Sleep tight yall...
Signing off
o7
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Notes:
I had a hard time finding what pluggin I had to install to my ship to contribute to the Human community and provide informations about systems and stations I'm visiting. I'm a big user of those informations on GalNet and giving back is my duty as CMDR.
The following is what I will install to start:
ED:Market Connector
Photo Format Converter : Pluggin to ED:MC