CMDR PAUSANIAS - THE SHIP OF THE MIND EXPEDITION - DAY 74
22 Oct 2020Pausanias
MINING IN THE TRITIUM HOTSPOTS OF THE GALAXYHi Cmdrs,
I completed the 8 jumps I needed to do to get to the Carrier without finding anything of any note and handed in 9,000,000 of exploration data. I also offloaded the Cutters 266 tons of Tritium. As I’m using about 120 tons per Carrier jump, and mining 266 tons, it takes quite a bit of mining to keep her topped up.
I set up another jump for The Carl Sagan which gave me a 26 jump chase and stayed in the Cutter so I could get some more Tritium if I found a hotspot. Six jumps into the journey I found an Icy Ring with the required Tritium hotspot and mined a full 266 tons. This is an image of me leaving the rings and heading for the next jump. This was a lovely looking Gas Giant too.
After a few more jumps I ended up refuelling from this Class A Star, they are massive but relatively ‘cool’ by comparison to Orange Stars, this means they are easier to refuel from as you do not get so hot skimming the star.
In this image I’m leaving a nice red High Metal Content planet I’d just mapped.
Then nothing of interest for ages, I thought I was going to reach the Carrier without having any further images for you and then I found this pair, two HMC planets with very colourful surfaces which seemed incredibly close to each other, by Galactic standards at least!
I then reached the Carrier quite quickly after this as I had three systems in a row where they were ‘Sodallski’s’, systems with sod all in them, apart from the main star, even the system The Carl Sagan was parked in was a Texas System, a ‘Lone Star’.
I handed in 4,500,000, made sure everything on the Cutter was shutdown properly for the night and hit the Carriers bar for the evening. Zaya Lehner, my Armoury Manager, was in there giving me this look . . .
She’d noticed more Seismic Charges missing form the Cutter proving I’d been needlessly blowing rocks up. I’m in trouble again.
Total Carrier jump distance since 10th August: 25,500 ltyrs - (Personal note: 51 jumps on 22 Oct)
Total Ship jump so far: 44,859
Total planets Level 3 scanned: 17,787
Total exploration data: 448,500,000 credits
Total systems with my name on: 2961
The Cutter is now 17,477 ltyrs away from Sol!
Distance to Beagle Point: 53,563 ltyrs
The adventure continues . . .
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