First Exploration trip
03 Oct 2017Patramix
Well Today i just got back from my first exploration trip.so couple weeks ago, i bought an Asp Explorer, outfitted it with the necessary equipment, and nothing more, not even any guns... yeah i was hoping. i got a hold of a star map, with known locations, aka the road to riches route, so i unlocked from Medupe city, and pointed my ship in the direction of the first star on the 400 system route i planed,
yeah i knew this was going to take a while but that what exploration is eh! before leaving i stocked my ship up with as much food and whiskey i could. as i set off for the first few hours of none stop jumping i set my command chair in recliner mode, a custom mod i made in anticipation for these long voyages, and what a good call that was, after the first day of traveling i was happy. once my first system reached, which wasn't far, as the route starts in known space, i started to learn how these new detailed scanners worked, i had never used one before, simple tech really, made for everyone, but it was nice learning how to scan planets. 1, 5, 30 systems in the first full day of travelling and scanning was completed, i found a nice little corner of a star system with a nice view, my first Earth like planet that's inhabited yet. got in geosync orbit and pureed me a nice glass of old fashion whiskey and enjoyed the view, the cockpit of these Asp X ships offer a nice view.
As i started my second full day of exploration, the monotonous actions started to develop, as i scanned the 50th system, then the 70th, i could both see how the trill of discovering and charting new space would be amazing and boring at the same time, alone in space, not having seen an other ship, in a few day's After successfully scanning my 100th system after an extremely long day, i decided to head back to port, Garcia station in this instance, to see what kind of money i had made on this multi day journey, it toke much less time then i was anticipating.
upon arrival at Garcia i cashed in the exploration data, and oh my god that was freaking awesome, 101 Million credits, for cruising around, no passenger screaming at me with demands, or threats, not cargo losing profits in my hold... pure credits.
then i got to the news in the bar... while i was off gallivanting in space, Alien's, freaking aliens... Thargoids where back, and doing all sorts of things, rumors then proof that they where intercepting and destroying human ships, and stealing people in there escape pods... so now i have 2 choices, stay in known space while keeping an eye on my assets and aliens in case they attack colonized space, or refuel, reequip, and point my ship back into deep space and go explore the unknown. i, i dont know yet... might have a few drinks here a L46, see friends and such. before anything happens