Just the Star Call
03 Jan 2021Eeka
Here i am, after a nice night of sleep in the Eagle's Landing planetary outpost. The lights in the ship's bridge are already up as i watch the ground crew activate my landing pad systems, let's get to the surface and ready the take off checklist.It is beautiful. I have the Galaxy's arm on my right and the Eagle's nebula on my left. The skies are a little more starlit as i'm closer to the center. Did i mention this beautiful white gas giant in front of me?
I look into my bridge's notebook. 4th day of journey so far. After selling exploration data here i've reached 150m profit in this trip, but i'm no longer grinding for credits, i've got all assets i need. Perhaps grinding for meaning and objective is a more accurate description of my current situation. As young commanders we struggle to reach our goals but we don't prepare for the time after we reach it, or do we?
One can easily get lost in the Cosmic Sea. What a humble name. I could sort all grains of sand in a beach and still wouldn't have sorted all systems there is to visit in this galaxy alone. This can be an overwhelming thought to any explorer, or more precisely, aspirant explorer, when sitting into its commander chair. Too many options, so much distance, so many jumps and the usual rush that is having a limited amount of time to live.
Exploration is not for everyone, definitely. Despite all my previous achievements and badges, despite how obvious it can be, i'm only realizing it now, in front of the unique, neverending spectacle i'm witnessing while prepping to take off.
God, i love this ship. It is so rounded for my preferences, for the performance i crave. I love to be jumping around, like a white-orange-blueish spark of intelligent life, visiting lonely, dark, forsaken and primal worlds. I come, i look then i go. Nothing can hold me and i can go anywhere i want, with my ship. I love scanning those white, red, cloudy, freezy, dusty little bubbles. I spent a whole day doing it and in the end i was feeling happy.
How can this be? It sounds so boring, "scanning stellar bodies". Yes, Exploration is not for everyone and after trying many different roles there are, most of them very fun, none of them made me feel that happy and peaceful.
Maybe it is because all space dust that i'm made of feels happy to be amongst their siblings, maybe it is the gambling to find a GGG system or even Raxxla... I can't say and i don't care to know. I just feel the stars calling and i must attend.
