An explorers journal Voyages I to III (in brief).
02 Dec 2016Sekiou
I remember rolling into Worldige Station at the end on November 3301, my shiny new pilots license in hand and the keys to beat up Sidewinder, one carful owner, honest.I thought it looked like the next best thing to a Gin & Tonic on a hot day.
I'm supposed to be writting up my voyages of exploration, so onward..
Voyage I: Space Dust.
My first voyage, if you can call it that, was in the local area around Worldige and took place in early Dec 3301. I had hauled my butt into an Eagle with the meager profits that I was making in my Sidewinder and only had the basic disco scanner. Having looked into no more than 10 systems and probably got no further 20 lights away for Worldige I was interdicted and turned into space dust. I was very new to the universe of Elite.
Vooyage II: Jump planning, how not to do it.
The next time I headed out, this must have been either at the end of Dec or early January 3302, I still only had the basic disco scanner but had managed to get myself into Cobra MkIII. Heading in the direction of Pipe Stem/Bowl I made it out of the bubble and ran into a patch of brown dwarves due to not being particularly good at jump planning. With dismay I realised that I didn't have enough fuel to go back the way I had come and spent some time locating a star on the galaxy map that I could refuel at. At this point I still hadn't noticed that if the Inforamtion tab is selected, you can see the star type and I was guessing wildly by the colour of the star in map! I was lucky to make it home.
Voyage III: A trip to Maia.
Maybe it was Feb 3302, I'm not sure, I made my first visit to Maia in my trusty Cobra MkIII. I had finally got an Adv disco and Detail disco. Man that was tedius but it was the furthest that I had gone and my first black hole. I hadn't read up on Barnalces and Meta-Alloys at this time so didn't see any. Still it was a good trip and I was proud to that I had been there.