Star One reached at last
24 Aug 2016Cral Travis
At 04:09 on 4th August 3302, CMDR Cral Travis of the Terran Federation became the first human being to ever reach the closest point in the Galaxy to the huge Andromeda Spiral, our nearest galactic neighbour apart from satellites like the Magellanic Clouds.BYAA THOI GC-D D12-0, known in some old Earth legends as Star One, the first and last star beyond which there are no other stars for over 2 million light years. It lies 41,753.2 light years from Sagittarius A*, as remote again from the Formidine Rift as that is from the Galactic Hub, and thus Travis may be the Commander who has existed further from galactic centre than any other human being.
Travis gazed into the void with his one good eye, and found it pleasing. No human being had ever set foot in the remote reaches of the Rim, here; he decided to survey the heck out of every part of every system on the way home. Unless the Andromedans got in contact first.
(Accessible only by nearly thirty 100-light year jumps beyond the galaxy rim, this was the hardest thing I've ever done in a game. Log events and pics to follow. I took a short movie of my arrival in this most remote spot.)