CMDR PAUSANIAS - THE SHIP OF THE MIND EXPEDITION - DAY 99
16 Nov 2020Pausanias
MY FIRST BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL ON THIS TRIPHi Cmdrs,
As I left The Carl Sagan today, to explore this system, I took this image of the Carrier in the Nebula itself with the nearby Sun for a backdrop, note the scarcity of stars too.
I've pretty much scanned the system I was in last night as promised. I thought there would be more here than I found but what I did find was worth it. Four Biological Signals on a moon, these are the first Biological Signals I have found on this journey, sure I've found some before but not out here. I went down to investigate. All four sites turned out to be Bark Mounds looking much like this one.
These have a different set of 'objects' you can shoot off than the Fumaroles I've encountered so far but still yield both basic and high end materials to collect although all I really got was Antimony as I am full of a lot of the other materials I found.
This first one is called a MUSSIDEAN SEEDPOD and looks like a grey coloured pod.
This next one is a PHLOEM EXCRETION and looks a bit bobbly in shape.
The third one is called a CORDYCEP GROWTH and is like an unopened plant, the leaves of the plant rather than the flower.
And the fourth formation is called a POLYPOROUS GROWTH which looks distinctly like the fungus you see growing on Earths trees.
There was a continuous eerie sound coming from the whole area which I can only describe as a sound like a continually grumbling hunger noise you get from a human stomach, I didn't get eaten whilst there!
As I said earlier I did visit all four of the sites on this moon but they were all the same, Bark Mounds. There was nothing else worth investigating within this system so I returned to the Carrier and set up the next jump sequence. This turned out to be 9 jumps for the Asp and on that route I did find another field of Carbon Dioxide Ice Fumaroles but decided to carry on to the Carrier where I handed in 5,500,000 in exploration data and then set up the next jump for the Carrier, 8 jumps for the Asp.
Not much has happened after that other than I keep coming across systems already scanned by someone called TOTHAM, I either need to change course or change ship to try and break the cycle, he must be using a ship of similar jump range to my Asp and heading for the same place I am, there's too much coincidence on the number of systems he has already visited on my current route.
I've landed on a planet tonight near some Carbon Dioxide Ice Fumaroles but I probably won't investigate them tomorrow in favour of just cracking on.
Night, night Cmdrs.
Total Carrier jump distance since 10th August: 43,000 ltyrs - (Personal note: 86 jumps on 16 Nov)
Total Ship jump so far: 69,937
Total planets Level 3 scanned: 26,949
Total exploration data: 701,500,000 credits
Total systems with my name on: 3535
My Ship is now 32,130 ltyrs away from Sol!
Distance to Beagle Point: 41,845 ltyrs
Onwards to the next point of interest . . .
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