The Dusk
20 Apr 2020TomWG00
System: ArqueLocation: 30km north of Abel Laboratory
Vessel: The Dusk of Eol Prou
Professor Palin has certainly improved the drives of this ship. The stock speed when I purchased it was 265m/s, but after opening up the drive chambers for higher plasma injection, it now reaches 412m/s cruising speed. Sure, it's not the fastest possible loadout, but with all it's weapon potential, it certainly gets around. Next upgrades are the shields and making the beam lasers more efficient, so they place less strain on the power distributor and to squeeze out a little extra damage.
I can now reflect on the journey I took from the starport Daedalus in Sol, to Marco Qwent in Sirius, and finally to a crashed Thargoid ship in the HIP 17403 system. The latter leg of the journey was certainly more tense as I navigated the Scarab through the graveyard of Anacondas surrounding the crashed Thargoid vessel. It's certainly lucky that the Dawn didn't suffer the same fate. I never thought that selenium would be the last thing I needed to modify the ship, but I found myself in hyperspace en-route to a random system, on the hunt for the rare element. I still had some leftover materials, so I boosted the propulsion systems of the Dawn slightly, increasing it by roughly 30m/s, giving it that extra kick for when I'm in real-space.
I'll enjoy a few more minutes of practicing combat manoeuvres before charting a course back home to Daedalus. Time for a well-earned rest in the residential bar.