It is good to be back in the Black… and 90 million richer
16 Jan 2024Fortuna D
Commander's log, January 15 3310
- Returning to the Black after a period in the Bubble is an exciting change of pace, especially when you get 90 million credits in your account at your first stop on what is going to be a long journey.
After a few weeks in the Bubble, preparing equipment and testing new ships and enhanced versions of the existing fleet for this new expedition, we left Shapsugabus, home of The Stellar Cartographers Guild, starting a journey that will take us up to Explorer’s Anchorage, with lots of waypoints to check on the way there.
Everything is working as expected in the Fleet Carrier The Yellow Star, which was completely checked and refitted after our journey through The Elysian Shore and Formidine Rift, which served as a test bed for this new adventure, and about which you can read more in the eBook published, The Stellar Remnant Tour.
We’ve some new different ships to test and our Sidewinders for Exobiology were the subject of a major rehaul, to make them even more efficient at their specific task. The experience gained on this new tour will, no doubt, be used to further enhance the small ships.
Besides testing the different configurations on the other ships brought for this expedition – we’ve three Asp Explorer, one Imperial Courier, a Dolphin and even one Alliance Crusader in the fleet now… it’s going to be fun trying them all! – we’ve a busy schedule, with new Guardian sites to visit, as we continue to search for the reasons for their (apparent) demise, following our long campaign at Eta Carina, work published in two previous volumes of what we’ve decided to call The Yellow Star Archive.
This brief note, though, is more about the exhilarating experience of returning to the Black. After a series of jumps that placed us some 1500 light years below and away from what are the most populated traffic lanes on the path to Explorer’s Anchorage, on the Stuemeae FG-Y d7561 system, we had a first taste of what it is to be back in the Black: the first stop were we left the Fleet Carrier gave a planet with six biological samples, for a total of 90 million credits for what was a clean job after landing… thanks to the “land anywhere” Sidewinder. Not bad to start the tour!