Absentee(-minded) recipient
15 Dec 2023El Saico
Krait Phantom PX-STN "Ascensus Averni"Eord Prau VQ-K d9-383 D 1
I should not venture so far from the bubble at this time of the year.
Galnet just reported another call for help to deliver gifts, this time from an "eccentric inventor". Last year I got those nice fireworks out of it (speaking of which, I should have taken them out of the Leif Erikson as it's not getting used again that soon) but never bothered with the last one as it was on freaking Hutton - even my carrier was no use with Proxima Centauri being clogged at the time! Hope someone else picked up that one.
Speaking of absurdly long travel distances, this 500,000 lightsecond trip was worth it. Despite being on a system with a neutron star, Universal Cartographics had no footfalls registered for this planet (gee, I wonder why...), yet as predicted I found some very valuable Stratum Tectonicas outcrops here. And there's still more left to scan nearby.
A small detour on my way to the next nebula, but these samples alone will pay for a month of upkeep of the Choupana Velha.