CQC Startup / Orionis-Crab Expedition Update
14 Oct 2021Lucy Feonix
Commander's log, 14th of October 3307.While doing Vista Genomics' work out in the Black, it does get a little boring sometimes. To remedy this, I set up a remote link with Utopixx Entertainment's division in the Tavern. They've set me up with the software I needed to play along in the Close Quarters Combat championships they organise. I've been playing a few matches a day in the past few days with Commanders HFF and Jonny of Alchemy Den fame; they've been showing me the ropes of the simulator and helped me calibrate my systems.
Since I started a few days ago, I've already reached the rank of Amateur. Not a big achievement, I know, but hey. We all gotta start somewhere. Besides, it's good to have something to do out here in the black. Maybe it'll get me a step further towards the fabled sextuple Elite, though I've heard that it's scarce at best and nigh-impossible at worst to reach Elite rank in the simulator, as Utopixx is quite... hesitant to give out these ranks.
In the meantime, I've been making some progress on the Orionis-Crab expedition: according to COVAS I've got roughly 75 jumps to go. With a little bit of napkin math, that's about 3757 lightyears - not the furthest humanity has gone, of course, but in my opinion definitely a respectable distance, and by far the furthest I've gone outside of the Bubble myself.
I expect it will take me roughly another week to get to the Crab nebula, with another two to three weeks estimated to get to the Bubble nebula. From there, I'll be going home, but I don't know how long that's gonna take. COVAS tells me to take it one step at a time, so I guess I'll listen to that.
The biological data I have collected in these systems should be more than enough to make this trip - well, not worthwhile, but it should be good to break me even. The goal is to become an expert in the field of exobiology, and apparently that rank is attained through profit. It seems like such a strange metric to me, but I guess I'll have to agree with that. I've got little choice, after all.
I should get back to jumping. This data won't collect itself, after all.
End log.