CMDR's log, stardate 10123306
09 Dec 2020Erik of Los
[START OF CMDR's log, stardate 10123306]2nd journey to Colonia, Sightseeing with SWS, Neutron Highway
So a while back I, by accident btw ;-), signed up for the The Enthusiastic Christmas Colonia Trip hosted by the Sidewinder Syndicate - Thanks for having me! -. And of course I missed out on the mass jump because I was running late. I didn't miss the speech though. After Jackson's Lighthouse I plotted a route towards the second waypoint in the list and after a view hyperspace jumps I stumbled upon an Ammonia world. At that moment I realized that I had received an compelling message from Sirius Atmospherics to provide data on ammonia worlds for terraforming purposes. At that time only a handful where needed to gain a nice bonus for delivering.
Al of a sudden I was quit the busy commander trying to follow the Trip and trying to find ammonia worlds. With only a couple of day's left to gather al the data I made the decision to leave the group and finish the trip in the shortest possible time, missing all the fun stuff unfortunately, and focus more on finding the most wanted exploration data while jumping towards Colonia.
Blua Hypa Glowing Green Giant
Now in Colonia I had a nice databank with Universal Cartographics data but only two days to return to Betancourt Base some 21.kyl from Colonia. I was hoping to find an willing fleet carrier commander who would take me on board, but as you might guess, no outbound ships planned for over a week. -- Brown alert -- Also, I'm here but -again- failed to complete the necessary arrangements to fulfill the needs and requirements for the engineers in the sector. So a third trip will at some point be made to this neck of the woods to finish the latest engineering lines.
But I digress.
With only one option left I decided to take the Neutron Highway back, I plotted a route and received a list containing a little over 100 jumps back. Never had I attempted to increase my jump range by supercharging my FSD via the neutron jet streams. The first ones where nerve-racking but lo and behold, after a dozen or so I actually - kinda- got the hang of it making billy big steps on the first day with almost 13.5kly.
On the second day on the Neutron Highway I got a bit cocky and slammed right in to the exclusion zone of an Neutron star, luckily I missed the jet cone and was able to pop an heat sink and be on my merry way once again. On the latest part instead of making 11 jumps to the next Neutron star I took the " normal" route to Betancourt Base since it was only 16 jumps away. Around this time Cecil came on to the bridge and started to annoy the cr*p out of me.
Cecil is tipsy again and screwing around with the comms panel mumbling "What does this button do?" pushing out wierd comms to an live chat. I Swear i'm going to airlock the nutter someday.
For now I have confined him to the cargo bay, along with the cat :-) for the duration of the trip.
See map -The Enthusiastic Christmas Colonia Trip-
[END OF CMDR's log, stardate 10123306]