Friends Among the Galaxy
20 Sep 2021The Bell Tolls
Captain's Log, date 09-20-3307.The journey continues, at reasonable pace. Another 700-odd jumps are behind me, and who knows how many are ahead of me. If I'm thankful for anything, it's that this navigation computer does its job. Usually.
The star density continues to be fairly extreme out here, so my next waypoint is still another 718 jumps ahead of me. But that's okay, it's nothing the SS Inquirer can't handle. I've put her FSD through 3200 jumps already, and it hasn't showed any signs of slowing down. The modules are still in great shape, and I think I owe that to my careful piloting. I'm always using the safety measures when it comes to navigating. Hyperspace dethrottle, autodock, and sometimes supercruise assist. We're only human after all, and sometimes you just need to step out of the pilot's seat for whatever reason. I've come back to my bridge many a time to find myself comfortably orbiting whatever body I was headed towards, ready to be DSS'd. With the amount of system and planetary data logged into my ship's computer, I wouldn't dream of flying any more dangerously than this.
Not many exobiology samples on this leg of the journey. Been focusing my time on jumping. Maybe I'll do it again, in the next few legs of the journey, but I've already lost count of the amount of samples I have stored in my cargo hold. The Vista Genomics employee at Jacques is not going to have fun going through all these, I'm sure of that.
Now, normally I'm alone most of the time out in The Black. If you're an explorer, you know how it is. But alas, I found myself with a fellow squadmate. CMDR CorttXD, also part of the Stellar Cartographer's Guild, who rendezvoused with me out in sector Phroi Flyuae. At first it was just a telepresence to one of my open seats, but a day or so later they had flown all the way out to meet up. We travelled to a nearby landable, looked for some exobiology samples, then took some drone footage. It's... a unique experience to not be alone so far away from civilization. Probably something every deep space explorer could use at some point.
There's nothing quite like you and a buddy dropping out of supercruise on the same planet and following each other down to the surface.
Anyway, I think that wraps up this log.
I'll see you at the next waypoint.
//CMDR The Bell Tolls
