Entry 124 - 06.13.3304 The start of the long road ahead
13 Jun 2018MBaldelli
Current System: Praea Euq XS-U d2-70I had missed the cockpit of the Zheng He. The open observatory feeling of it. The calm and quiet that often comes just before the roar of the FSD as I start up into supercruise and after finishing a system survey the slow rumble to slide into Witchspace. While it didn't have the throaty roar that comes from the Tokugawa's engines (which are in fact much bigger), it's enough for the Deep Space Explorer that I am to enjoy enough to think that it has the necessary power to plow me through the stars.
While this is the second day I've been outside of the bubble. I'm heading for a Wolf-Rayet that I heard talked about at on the docks of Jameson Memorial, I admit that I spent most of the day surface mining a couple of planets; one in Praea Euq XS-U d2-76 and the other at d2-70.
I'm doing this surface mining as I'm waiting for a commander who has contacted me via subspace that he would like to join me in the Deep Black so that he can finish up his Elite Rankings with the Exploration division of the Pilot's Guild.
This is the first time I'm doing a Deep Space Survey with a wing. This is going to be a new experience for me. Deep Space Explorers and Surveyors are generally a solitary lot: like wolves without a pack. And for the last couple of years, I've gotten rather used to being solitary in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Anyway, nothing to be said really other than the luck I've had collecting Antimony, Zirconium, Manganese and Phosphorus. I still have about 5 occupied life pods in the cargo hold from the hapless ship that I came across on the edges of the Bubble. Pity I haven't had the same luck with Polonium; but that material is extremely difficult to find -- let alone extract. I also came across a downed Federal Probe on d2-70. While he payout isn't much -- it'll certainly maintain my reputation with the Federation when I get back into the Bubble.
With that, time to go deeper into the Black.