Out here in the Dark
22 Nov 2020Eris
Pilot's Log: CMDR Eris, aboard the Nyx. 22 Nov 3306 - 01:14
Hi?
I've been flying around for years now and I've never written a single log on this thing, but I guess sitting here on this empty world 17,575ly from home has given me time to think.
Where to start... a few days ago, maybe a week, I don't really know, I was talking to my friend Packie on his carrier in Exioce. Amazing lad, he's been exploring for years. He asked me about my travels, about what I've seen, and I told him that I hadn't really gotten that far. Usually I don't go further than 2000ly or so, but the furthest I had been was with him on his carrier out to those abandoned settlements in the Formidine Rift. He decided then that he wanted to take me on a proper expedition, without carriers, just our ships and the void. Old school.
So... here I am. Out in the bloody Norma Arm. I hadn't done a single jet-cone boost before I went on this trip, and now I've done at least a dozen. Packie and I have discovered hundreds of worlds, dozens of which were terraformable, even some of the neutron stars hadn't been found before, there's just so much untouched space out here... well, untouched by humans anyway.
And the sky... it's so... full. They call space a void, but when I look up at this sky from my cockpit it's just lit up with hundreds of blue stars alone. It doesn't feel like a void... not out here towards the middle of the galaxy.
Packie said once we reach this arbitrary point he's chosen out in the Arcadian Stream and hung out there a bit - he said something about no one ever going there - that we'll head to Sagittarius A* and then on to Colonia. I've always meant to head to those two places, but I've never really had much reason to. Guess I'll find out what it's like now.
Anyway, this is Commander Eris, signing off.