Log 05: Into the Black (18 Aug, 3307)
19 Aug 2021NullPriestess
Location: Bubble's EdgeDistance from Home: 342 LY
System Status: Green.
Once more into the darkness I go.
It's been a while, yeah? I wish I could say I had interesting things to talk about... but, in honesty, I don't. I did a lot of work for folks in my not-as-new-anymore Maverick suit, got a new exploration suit upgraded, so on and so forth. I'm about as optimally equipped now as I can be. Hell, I even equipped one of the new detailed scan probe launchers to the Radiant. (Hell of a thing, that - doing planets that should take six probes in *two*.) She's about as light and far-jumping as I can possibly get her, now. It's a thing of beauty.
And it's with beauty in mind that I've got the Radiant plotted out into the darkness. I'd say I had a specific goal in mind, but... well, I don't. When the dockmaster at my last station asked me where I was going, I just sort of vaguely waved towards the access gateway; between the aeroponics supplies, the plethora of sample containers for the exobiological work I plan to do, and the assortment of rations and spare parts? He probably got the idea pretty quick. Some power cells for my suit, some medical packs just in case, and I plotted a course to a planet I essentially picked with a dartboard, and threw myself in that direction.
This has been a long time in coming. I mean, hunting pirates, hunting bounties, helping this corporation or that... yeah, it's all a thing. But out here? The stars, with no other ships demanding to scan my hold or whatnot?
This is where I belong.
