Day 3 Beagle Point Trip
25 Dec 2020Dantassii Tacatii
Day three is done. I resumed the 3rd Leg of my trip at 10:15am and docked at DSSA HSRC Limpet's Call at 1pm. This leg was 116 total jumps and I didn't have to reroute due to running out of fuel. So far I've made a total of 476 jumps since I left Jameson Memorial.Something I have noticed in this leg is that the number of systems with a scoopable star but zero planets or moons is considerably higher than I saw on the other side of Sag A*. Even with the lack of planets and moons, I did discover a single ELW and about a dozen TWW and this resulted in a return of about 16 million credits of exploration data, even after the 25% fee charged at Fleet Carriers. The lack of planets and moons makes for faster travel as I don't have to FSS the system if all it contains is stars or their remains. I didn't run into any black holes or neutron stars except for the neutron star at the destination system.
After reaching Limpet's Call, I first tried to plan a straight trip to the gateway to Route 33 across the Abyss, however this is over 20,000 Light Years from my current location so it looks like I'm going to have to add another Leg to my trip. Leg 4 will take me to DSSA Galactic Unity in 163 jumps. At my current rate of 25 jumps per hour, I should be able to do this leg in 1 day.
Tentatively, Leg 5 will take me to the gateway to Route 33 across the Abyss. If my ship is able to traverse Route 33, then Leg 6 should find me at Beagle Point. It not, I may need to take a side trip around the Abyss with multiple short legs. There are several DSSA Fleet Carriers in the area so hopefully I'll be able to find a route from one of them straight to Beagle Point.
Once I start my return from Beagle Point, I will take several side trips to visit the DSSA Fleet Carriers in this section of the galaxy that I didn't visit on my way to Beagle Point. DSSA Fleet Carriers make the trip to Beagle Point much easier as they provide known locations to put into the auto-map to create each leg of a journey to the far reaches of the galaxy.