Horsehead Nebula Expedition Day 4/5
15 Aug 2020FiveStringJeff
Day 4 was short - maybe 6-7 systems. Nothing of real note until the end - I was in a system with a lot of worlds and the server kept dropping me. I did find a Water World, though.Day 5 I started back in that system. A few planets said First Discovered by Validating. I think that means I'm the first, as long as I sell this data before someone else. That's awesome.
About 4 systems in, found a binary system with 10 high metal content worlds, including one terraformable. Bingo. Another of the ten had some geological features. The first one of those I found were sulfur fumaroles. Not only did I get a codex entry bonus, I found that several of the fumaroles had crystalline clusters, crystal fragments, needle crystals, or piceous cobble on them, and if you shoot them and scoop them, they drop elements. I had no idea. But my element inventory has now skyrocketed.
When I recalculated my route, I had 71 systems to get to the point I'm aiming for - a point that just might let me jump across these locked sectors. Now I'm at 41 systems. Maybe tomorrow...