NYND 3308: Entry 2
10 Jan 2022Bampeanut
After a breakfast of grilled cheese and coffee i set out again, takeoff was smooth, i'm back on course for the PW2010 star cluster. Had a mishap after a few jumps, me still being tired and not really paying attention means i almost ran my fuel tank dry, had enough fuel left to jump to a scoopable star, if not for the density of the region i am in i would have had to call the fuel rats.
Shortly after the fuel debacle i came across a system with 4 terraformable worlds and an undiscovered water world, I wonder if anyone will ever terraform these worlds, considering we are a few thousand light years away from the bubble. I wonder if i even should map these worlds considering we wont terraform them for probably a few thousand years, yet again Universal Cartographics always pays well for these worlds.
After around an hour of jumping i can start to see the star cluster in the distance, i'm not too far away now, i think i'll do some exobiology once i get there.
I've arrived at the main star in the super cluster, it seems that this system is absolutely filled with metal-rich planets, it also appears to have 2 ringed stars and lots of life.
i'm on planetary approach now, this planet seems barren but my scanner is telling me that there is some form of life here, alongside that i think i can get a few nice pictures of the sky with my handheld camera.
my landing computer appears to have been damaged so i'll have to land manually, this might take a while... i found a suitable landing spot after a minute or so of searching, my temperature readouts are telling me it is too hot to stay on the surface for long so i'll have to get these photos quickly.
CMDR Bampeanut has disembarked the ship
Artemis suit audio log: CMDR Bampeanut
"that really is a sight to see, i've stepped out of the airlock now and am greeted by an amazing view of the gas giant that this moon orbits. my suit temperature readouts are telling me the surface temperature is... 1394K HOLY CRAP, i gotta go quick, i landed in a valley because it was the flattest landing spot, but it doesn't make for the best photos... alright i've got my photos heading back onboard now."
CMDR Bampeanut has boarded the ship
Ship Text log: CMDR Bampeanut
Now that i've got my photos i'm going to start to look for the life my computer reported, i think i will just fly around until i spot some... While flying around i spotted something inside of a crater, entering it and activating my ships night vision reveals it is fumaroles of some sort, i decided to land and am going to try and scan them with my SRV
SRV Text Log: CMDR Bampeanut
Driving up to them, i notice that these are much larger than they appeared in the ship, a quick composition scan indicates that these are silicate vapor fumaroles. Something i noticed is that these fumaroles have crystalline structures growing on them.
Ship Text log: CMDR Bampeanut
Back onboard now, going to continue the search for life... strange thought, early 21st century earth would have freaked out if they found extraterrestrial life, and yet modern day explorers treat it like its a normal day, i'm surprised it took humanity so long to find it.
HAHA FOUND IT, took me 20 minutes of flying and searching and i found it in a crater, it seems to grow around the fumaroles which surprises me because i didn't see anything near the other fumaroles I visted, i do not know if this is enough variety to get a genetic sample but we are about to find out.
SRV Text Log: CMDR Bampeanut
Driving up to one and activating my composition scanner reveals that they are rubeum bioluminescent anemones, visually they look like little cocoons or maybe watermelons with holes in them, the holes look like little windows almost, sort of like a little colony of life is inside, which there is! these life forms tolerate huge temperatures and absorb energy from nearby stars to keep themselves alive.
I forgot to log it but i disembarked and ran around and got my samples as quickly as i could, this crater did have enough diversity to get my full sample, for some reason my genetic sampler was logging 2 different types of anemones, yet my ship and SRVs compostion scanner were only logging 1 species of life, it might just be a small variant of the same species. i think i will go to sleep on this planet tonight, im too tired to fly somewhere else and flying while tired is an easy way to die. CMDR Bampeanut Signing off