Long Drive II, entry 3
07 Dec 2015James T Bagg
December 06, 2015/3301 Let's push through our second leg of this trip, shall we.
- Start plus 5 minutes: I've found life; a gas giant with water based life!
- +0:39 Oh snap! I've discovered a water world that is a terraforming candidate.
- +0:53 Found a wreckage, more than 2,400 light-years from civilization. Rest in pepperonis.
- +1:05 The stars are noticeably less densely packed than before, which makes sense since I'm about smack dab between the Orion Arm and the Perseus Arm.
- +Passing through a field heavy with unscoopable dwarfs.
- +1:34 Last scoopable star for eight jumps...
- +1:40 Flew too close to a T-type star. Thanks to a malfunctioning navi-computer. Hull and modules at 99%. Accidentally popped a heat sink while fumbling with the controls.
- +2:03 Another wreckage found, more than 2,900 light-years from civilization. Took picture.
- +2:06 Navi-computer has decided I really need the system map for Wolf 1301. Fuck you navi-computer.
- +2:12 Currently scanning a large multi-star system. Reached 506c, new supercruise top speed for this trip.
- +2:25 A Water World!
- +2:30 Another wreckage 3,104 light-years from home.
- +2:49 Game crashes. Snack time.
- +3:21 Underway again.
- +3:45 Life! Ammonia based life on a gas giant.
- +4:18 Lots of gas giants in this system; took a picture.
- +4:19 Life! TWO of these giants harbor water based life!
- +4:30 It appears not may have traveled this far, in this direction, judging by how rarely I now enter previously explored systems.
- +4:45 Stars are becoming more densely packed, I am entering the Perseus Arm.
- +5:25 Scanned a neat system with a pair of binary water worlds and two terraforming candidates (one of which the mentioned water world).
- +5:35 Is that an Earth-like world?!
- +5:46 No, it was not. Just a pretty methane covered high metal content world.
- +6:00 Time to shut her down.
Lesson to carry forward: Throttle down during the FSD count-down, before the jump so you exit the jump not under power.
Gas Giants (GG): 28
Type I: 17
Type II: 4
Type III: 3
With ammonia based life: 1
With water based life: 3
HMCW: 48
Terraforming Candidate (TC): 2
Water Worlds (WW): 3
TC: 2
Bunch of stars, and a handful of metal rich and rocky bodies.
Running Totals
GG: 41
HMCW: 90
WW: 5
Travel time: 13 hour, 10 minutes
Distance from start: 3,781ly
Entry 1
Entry 2