CMDR PAUSANIAS - THE SHIP OF THE MIND EXPEDITION - DAY 149
05 Jan 2021Pausanias
MORE MINING, TOFFEE AND A SEARCH FOR MORE TUNGSTENHi Cmdrs,
Both Shen and myself have been mining a lot today. Shen's added between 3-4 loads of Tritium and I've landed 500+ tons in one hit using the Cutter’s specialised load out.
Once we were both back at The Carl Sagan I moved it on with Shen onboard whilst I changed to the Asp and went to a moon orbiting the second planet which had Tungsten deposits. I’ve used quite a few drill heads up and needed to replenish the stocks I’ve used to synthesise new ones.
This is me emerging from orbital cruise to the moons surface. Note the mountainous region which was actually on the edge of a crater.
Once on the surface I drove around for about half an hour finding all the Tungsten I needed, mainly from Metallic Meteors. Scattered around the moon were many rocks, all looking like they were made of ‘toffee’. This was a particularly big chunk!
Once I’d got what I needed I set off to meet up with Shen as by this time he’d found another hotspot after he’d jumped with The Carrier.
Within two jumps I crossed to the IZANAMI Region, a region I have not yet been in, so, everything I was scanning was shooting off to the Codex.
After scanning my way through several systems I’ve reached where Shen was mining and called The Carrier over to the planet.
I’ve turned in for the night, I’ll stay in the Asp for tonight rather than transferring to The Carl Sagan.
More mining tomorrow.
Total Ship jump distance so far: 188,563 ltyrs
Total planets Level 3 scanned: 44,869
Total exploration data: 2,008,786,984 credits
Total systems with my name on: 5004
My Ship is now 40,783 ltyrs away from Sol!
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