Expedition III: Enterprise Commanders Log 7
16 Feb 2017Tman3555
CMDRs Log 7Time: 6:51:50 UGT
Date: 16 Feb, 3303
It's been a couple days since my last log and quite a bit has happened. Lets start with where our last jumps left us. After a long day of jumping back on the 13th, we ended up running into some more drive problems, luckily not as bad as the first run around, but it did set us back a couple days. However, I could not have asked for a better system to be marooned on. We found a system named Skaude JJ-L C10-68 and in there was a beautiful ringed lava planet. Best of all, it had a moon .3LS away that orbited it. I will attach some pictures below but I have to say, it was one of the most beautiful planets I have seen out in the dark. That alone warranted our stay to take some amazing pictures.
Unfortunately the press for time forced us to move on. Only just over 500LY away from our second destination, the crew and I pushed hard to make through the next 34 so odd jumps. What we would jump into was quite the surprise. As exited witch space, our ship made a terrible screeching noise and red alerts went up everywhere as we were instantly pulled out of supercruise. We had successfully made it to our next scientists destination and what was there to greet us none other than a black hole staring us in the face. I still have a migraine from the time distortion effects that gave me. We managed to get the ship under control and get her back into supercruise, nearly frying everyone and the ship in the process. The heat generated trying to get back into cruise was tremendous. We lost our last heat sink in the process, guess we will have to be careful about our heat generation from here on out. Not to mention the ships hull is down to 87%. As we pulled away from the black hole, we would be confronted with a beauty never seen before by myself or my crew. In the Skaude AA-A H294 was a giant ringed red giant star. The view was breath taking, no wonder that scientists was willing to pay so much to get there. Looking at the system map I also saw some white stars with rings as well, unfortunately once again we were pressed for time and had to jump off, but not before taking our fair share of pictures.
We are currently on our way to our next scientists destination which is over 7,000LY away. There was another stop closer, however we decided to go for what pays the most first just in case we have to abandon the others. I wanna get as much money from this as I can still. With just over a week to finish what seems to be another 15,000LY in getting to 3 destination, and not to mention the trip back, getting all three destination is looking like a pipe dream now. I have pretty much stopped scanning systems in order to just speed jump to our destinations. The ship really has taken a beating, and her paint is barely hanging on at this point.
Currently we have taken rest in the Prua Phoe ZG-W B6-1 system on planet 1. Nothing spectacular here compared to the other two places I talked about. The planet we are on is orbiting another moon right next too it in a beautiful stellar dance around each other. We will take a brief brake and repair as many of the ships modules we can before continuing on our sprint to the finish.
Our current location on this planet is:
0.5470
103.2314
Cmdr. Tman signing off.
CMDR Tman
Caption of the I.S.E.V. Constellation
Commander of Expedition Enterprise
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