Log Update (5,183 hours) - 3,671 scans in 287 systems.
08 May 2020Evolution
It's been 35 hours since my last update, I stuck to my original plan of gaining as many planetary scans as possible and also decided to adjust the loadout of Moribus Astrum (Corvette).Viatorem (Anaconda) was used initially to fly back to the bubble, buy and engineer an 8A Armoured Power plant which took 44 jumps.
I flew back to the Pleiades Nebula to install it on Moribus Astrum. but realised I'd made a mistake... Instead of having the normal anti Thargoid loadout on the ship, it had the Thargoid scout loadout, so when the Gauss cannons etc were put back on, there wasn't enough MW for the module loadout! Still bearing in the mind the main plan of gaining planetary scan data, I stuck with Moribus Astrum and took an economical route back to the bubble. I purchased another 8A Guardian power plant, re-engineered the 7A Dirty drive thrusters to clean drive and re-engineered the sensors to wide angle (from legacy).
After those were sorted, an extra engineered 5D Hull reinforcement was equipped and I headed off to adjust the FSD with Felicity Farseer. I decided to equip a quick jump drive (which is the only ship in the fleet of 24 with that type) as I won't need to fly the ship far when it's back in the Pleiades Nebula. Plus, having a faster jump drive might come in useful for extreme situations.
With everything up to spec, I set a long route back to Asterope with a detour via Sothis covering 136 jumps, FSS scanning everything along the way and sending probes to any high value / terraformable worlds.
After docking at Copernicus Observatory in Asterope, Moribus Astrum had it's final module changes made and then was put into the stations hanger storage (the fleet ship description has been updated as well).
Viatorem was used for the next phase in travelling to the Witchhead nebula with an economical route, involving 63 jumps.
I then met Chloe Sedesi and increase my reputation to level 5, before visiting the surrounding systems to sell Cartographic data and get allied with new factions since my last visit, 2.5 years ago.
So over the last 5 days, I've jumped 287 times and scanned 3,671 planets meaning I now need 5,837 for the INARA Award of the Explorer lvl 2. Onwards and upwards, back into the void with me!
