25 DEC 3302, I need to be more careful
25 Dec 2016Ice_91
Col 359 Sector IQ-L B22-3 C, unnamed, dark, cold and dusty planet (682.61 LY from Sol) - So, this is the first time i left the inhabited bubble and i already have a feeling of freedom. Some things have gone bad and i lost all of my cargo, but the 3 scientists seem to be happy with all the data we gathered till now. I landed on this cold, dark and very dusty planet, collected a few probes for the scientists with the scarab and i am just writing this log before i finally fall into my bed in the pilots cabin.Here is what happened:
At around ~300 LY away from Sol i got interdicted by some strange guy with a cobra. I thought, i already left the threatening part of the inhabited zone and submitted to the interdiction. Well, i was wrong and found myself in a fight. Looked like i underestimated his skills a little bit and i decided to escape after he damaged my hull down to 83%. I had a long distance to go, so i jumped right into the next system. I guess he lost the track after a while.
A few jumps later i found my first undiscovered planet at Col 359 Sector UX-X B 16-3 system (~670 LY from Sol).
Then i came across a signal source. Since i didn't see any other ships for a while i was wondering what kind of signal source it might be. I exited supercruise and found a lot of ship pieces floating and rotating around, nearby there were 5 occupied escape pods. I was curious about what might have destroyed their ship. I stood there for several minutes and i was thinking about what i should do. My cargo was already full with galactic travel guides. At first i turned around and started to charge my FSD for supercruise, but at the last splitsecond my inside humanity told me to cut the supercruise and go rescue these people. i abandoned some of the galatic travel guides to scoop up the escape pods. Once they all were in my cargo i checked the escape pods for any way to open them, but i really had no clue how these things work. Maybe they will survive inside that pod until we arrive at colonia.
I kept on jumping from system to system and scanned every little body i could find. At some point i realised that i have lost some of my cargo somehow. It was almost empty. 1 escape pod and 1 galactic travel guide was left. I checked my modules panel and it showed that the cargo hatch has got damaged, probably from that fight with the cobra.
Few jumps later i found a red dwarf with 2 huge rings around it. I never saw a sun with rings and was a so much impressed, i had to check that out from closer. It was a bad idea... I was so distracted by the size of the rings while it's proximity to the sun was so close, that i flew too close to the sun and got catched by its heat. I instantly turned for the escape vector and managed to escape and although i didn't get much damage overall, it seems like all the heat went right into the cargo hatch and melted it down to 58%. All the escape pods and galactic travel guides were gone.
Cmdr. Ice_91 - out.