Days 5 and 6 Beagle Point Trip
29 Dec 2020Dantassii Tacatii
Day 5 was a VERY long day as I left DSSA Galactic Unity bound for DSSA Tartarus with 279 jumps ahead of me. I left at 8:40am and discovered right away that there were MANY more planets and moons to scan (including a total of 6 ELWs, 5 of which had never been seen by human eyes). I ended up stopping nearly 10 hours later at 6pm after completing 200 jumps. I resumed on Day 6 at 8:20am and docked at DSSA Tartarus at 11:30am.Even with the 25% fee for turning in exploration data at a fleet carrier, I managed to net over 91 million credits at DSSA Tartarus for all the exploration I did along the way. 279 jumps beats my old leg record of 255 jumps back when I was coming home from Sag A* in July.
I examined going straight from DSSA Tartarus to Beagle Point and discovered that I could make it there in 131 jumps. So by the end of leg 6 I would find myself in the Beagle Point system. Something was wrong with the refueling facility on DSSA Tartarus, so I ended up having to leave the fleet carrier without a full fuel load. Lucky for me, the 1st system on leg 6 had a scoopable star.
As it was still early when I arrived at DSSA Tartarus, I decided to see how much further I could make it to my final destination on Day 6. I discovered that many of the systems on the last leg of my trip had very few planets and moons in them, so FSSing each system went pretty fast. There weren't many ELWs or TWWs and all of the ELWs and most of the TWWs I found had already been DSS'd by someone else, so I didn't spend any time DSSing most of them. There was only 1 system with an unscoopable star on the route and I docked at DSSA Distance Worlds, the DSSA Fleet Carrier at Beagle Point, at 10:05pm on Day 6.
As I noted in my first log, this trip was done using a fully engineered, but not maximized jump range, Anaconda without using any neutron stars or jumponium. I FSS'd all systems with planets in them and DSS'd any ELWs or TWWs that had not been DSS'd by anyone before.
The trip took a total of 1049 jumps over the course 40 hours and 15 minutes total flying time done over 6 days. This averages out to a little over 26 jumps per hour. I didn't beat my record of 44 hours of flying time over the course of 3.5 days, but I wasn't as pressed for time on this trip.
Tomorrow, I plan on exploring the sites and sights in the Beagle Point system and relaxing after 6 days of travel. I'm definitely going to look into jumping out to the 'furthest' point while I'm out here. As it only took 6 of my available 12 days to get out here, and I want to celebrate my 1 year anniversary of getting my pilot's license on January 14th while still in Beagle Point, I don't intend to start my return trip until the third week in January.
I may adjust my original plans for my return trip. Originally I had intended to explore as many systems as I could on my way back to the bubble going by the most economic means to hit the maximum number of systems. About 35 jumps away from Beagle Point however, I discovered that most of the systems I was passing through had already been completely mapped by other commanders. I think what I'm going to do on my return trip is to take Route 33 to DSSA Eleanor, then cut over to DSSA Tartarus, and then travel beyond there to DSSA Jolly Rodger. From that point, I'll start my return to the bubble, scanning every system along the way. That should give me more 'first discovery/first scan' bonuses. As I will be taking my time and may take side trips along the way if I see any unusual nebula or other sights, I won't be posting a log every day during my return trip. I'll probably post at most 1 log every week to sum up the number of jumps I've done and other interesting trivia facts of the week. If all goes well, I hope to arrive back home at Jameson Memorial sometime between late March and mid April 3307.