The Long Road to Livingstone Point
29 Nov 2024Travers
Well the exploration journey continues this week, and it's a long slow slog. I'm out on the very southern edge of the galaxy travelling between Amundsen's Star and Livingstone Point with my pal Hig Hurtenflurst. We've been out for about six months now and I'm beginning to forget what civilisation looks like. Still, that said I've heard on Galnet that apparently that last Thargoid Titan is currently headed for Earth, so I'm definitely best off out of it. We'll see how much is left when I eventually get back.All this Thargoid stuff really spurs me on to build my own colony. The plan has been to build a mini colony with Hurtenflurst and a few other Cmdrs out in the Tenebrae region near Magellan's Star. For those who don't know that's the cardinal point on the very east of the galaxy, and it's beautiful and wonderous out there with so much to discover.
But, and apparently this is a big but, there's word on the grapevine that the Brewer Corporation, the company that makes all the fleet carriers, has found a problem with the engines on their new colonisation ships. Apparently these ships are just too large for the engines, and it looks like the whole damn machine is going to have to be pulled apart and redesigned. That could hold everything up for months, but for right now the engines are only capable of pushing those ships out 10ly.
That's damn hilarious, funniest thing I've heard in years. My eagle can jump more than double that, and my carrier can do fifty times that. I can just imagine the sales pitch. "We at Brewer are proud to announce a new way to live, in your own private colony, right next door to the system you grew up in." I sure hope they fix that, or else it's gonna take me about 1,000 years to get out to Tenebrae, and even with modern medicine being what it is, I'm pretty sure I've not got that long.
Anyway, for now I press on. It's gonna be at least a month, probably two before I'm back in the bubble again. Set myself a deadline of the middle of January next year, so Christmas and New Year in the black, that'll be fun, I'll have to put the string lights in my cockpit again. Apparently in January Brewer are gonna have in-person demos of these new ships and I'll get to try one for a few weeks, if it doesn't break down between systems. We'll see.