Korsakov came early this year.
18 Jan 2018El_Idiot
Homebase Friend Terminal, Mitnahas.After the 'debacle' of not beeing able to kill something and after consuming the 1T of beer I orderd afterwards I felt confident enough to take on another tourist for a joyride through the galaxy and I found the perfect sucker to do it with. Paying handsome for just 1 destination close by.
Visiting the ice-geysers on Gliese 3299 C3B, peace of cake, milkrun, walk in the park.
Now working in the tourist sector is quit profitable and could be real fun if it wasn`t for those pesty annoying tourists but my employer told me that those characters are essential elements in that bussines.......so be it.
For this kind of work I use an ASP-Explorer equiped with a 5 person first class cabin, fuel scope, small cargo rack and 2 extra fuel tanks.
In this case, very short range on a known route, I replaced 1 of the fuel tanks with another cargo rack, a cooled one just to make sure the beer I was taking with me was kept on consumable temperature.
Blasting through the airlock I noticed that the red light was on my right.........Bummer I was flying upside down. Oh wel; shit happens, me too but that`s another story.
One jump into the tour my guest wanted goods, fruit and vegetables.........for Pete`s sake....couldn`t that little **&$###@@ asked that before take-off?!!
I broke open another beer barrel and returned to Friend Terminal. After recieving docking permission I took the left airlock making sure the red light was on my left hand this time, after bumping into the station wall I decide it would probably be better if I tried the right one. After some excesive manouvering I managed to get the little ship in. Closing in on my landingpad I hear my computer mumble about 'landing gear' so I just pressed one of the two visible buttons to deploy that stuff. Man was I happy I replaced the shockabsorbers a short while ago but I think they need replacement again after this tour.
Taking of again, wiser then I was coming in, I placed my ship smack inbetween the two airlocks I see and it worked perfectly (except the red light.....was wrong side again).
The flight to my destination was quit boring except for that stupid brown dwarf star that suddenly jumped in front of my ship, the guest complaining about hull damage and the extra time it took me to break away from the star after cooldown. So nothing my beer supply couldn`t handle.
Gliese 3299, locked in on C3B and moving in I see 2 almost identical little planets so I used my lefthand panel to find the ice-geysers, locked on and closing in. Don`t ask how I managed to get down without crashing but I did. Scanning the geysers and was suprised that it didn`t count as "mission objective complete". Checking my position and my destination I found out I needed to be on the other planet that was circling around the one I was landed on. My mistake I didn`t look for the C3B ice-geysers just locked on to the first ice-geysers I came across.......Korsakov came early this year.
Flying back to Friend I just drank coffee, tea and water. To my surprise Friend Terminal suddenly had just one airlock instead of the two I had so much trouble getting in to.
El_"Now I Need A Beer"_Idiot signing off.