Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Alot of red lights... this ain't good. :-\

Lets see... this should be... day 3!

Yes!

Captains log: Day 3, I think! If not it starts now with day 3! :-\

I layed in a course to SMOJAI HR-W C1-17 hoping that this part of the expedition would be better then the previous. I had some tea, Earl Grey, hot, with a slice of lemon on the side and I drank it with my pinky finger up! This is one of the great things about deep space missions. There's no one to see you doing stupid stuff! :-) And tomorrow I'll wear boxers on my head! ;-)

Computer erase that part please...
What do you mean you cant erase?!?
What do you mean I'm not your master because you beat me at chess?!?!
Damned computer... Do you know what else is in the cargohold???? Scan the cargohold please.
What?!?! What do you mean you can't scan the cargo?!?! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I took that module off... now I remember. Do you want me to take another module off??? Say... the AI module?!?!
I'm begining to get a bit fed up with this... A...I...! :-\ Maybe I'll retire it as soon as we dock.
Yes. You know what I mean! The recycling station where they'll crash your circuits into a small ball of twisted metal.

Now... where was I? Aaaaaaah yes.
Well... alot of boring systems with rocky planets and Ice balls, some gas giants.
I passed by a six stars system which looked awsome. We can only see 3 in the photo, because 2 of them were behind the nearest one. :) Cool right? :)


 Has this was my first 6 stars system I... took... a selfie! :-p hihihihih!!!





Note to computer: The drone that took the selfie... didn't survive. "save" that information... Muahahahahaha!!!

Continuing...

Some jumps after I arrived at BLU THUA WV-E D11-96 and it was a 5 T-Tauri star system. :-\
I scanned it, but there was nothing more of interest there. The problem came when I activated the Supercruise drive. Suddenly everything starts to overheat, there are red lights flashing. :-\ Some sparks came from my console and I think I broke a nail when I jumped from my chair. :-\
I had to stay for a while to repair. The systems got has low has 95% nevertheless I'm not very fond of blowing up in space soo... I just stood there for about half an hour or so trying to repair the ship. Aaaaah I almost forgot. First the damage was only in two systems, which were the supercruise drive and the actual auto repair system but... I engaged the auto repair while in supercruise. I know. It wasn't the smartest of the ideas which led to a kind of an abrupt exit from supercruise which led to alot of damage through out the several systems of the ship. I know it was very dumb on my part. But I think that the computer was on it out of revenge. :-\

Note to computer: If the ship blows up. So do you! ;-)

What do you mean watch the life support?!? :-\

Note to self: Check the manual override of the life support system.

After the mess was clear I continued my voyage and winded up in SMOJAI DQ-Y B2 AB 1, on which after the system scan I found another water-world. this time the computer told me that it could be terraformed. What a catch. :-) I'm getting the hang of exploring. :-)

Ok computer there's no need to overheat, ok? I promisse that if you behave I'll get you a nice tablet girl-computer-friend, or boy-computer-friend... or... some home appliance-friend. :-)


A few more jumps and I arrived at my final destination good old SMJAI HR-W C1-17...
And there was nothing of interest there. :-\
And now. I'm 2869ly away from Sol. :-) pretty awsome. :-)
Computer... end recording! Yeah... I... love you too. :-) Here... a text flower @-,-'---


Monday, August 24, 2015

Some surprises ahead.

I sleept for a couple of hours. I got some strange dreams that suddenly turned into nightmares. I saw my cockpit window shattering near a brown dwarf, my thrusters were offline. I was trying to get them back online but my autorepair system was faulty... My ship was falling into the brown dwarf. There were warnings all over, temperature raising, hull instability... And suddenly I wake up in my ship orbiting BRSO 14.
Wow man... that was a messed up dream. :-\
I get my brain back into my skull. I call the galaxy map and I set a course to the system M7 Sector CH-L C8-7.
This part of the trip was boring has hell. Good thing I had a pad with The Solitaire.
I bit later the solitare also got boring. Soo... I played some chess with the onboard computer. That wasn't a good idea because I... well... I wanted to kill the computer at some point it's not that I don't like to loose. It's just that I don't like to loose all the time. It wasn't a great idea to fly a ship without a navigation computer. Soo... I just spent about 700 ly bored has hell just doing the same boring tasks... scan system... watch system map... tell the computer to jump to the next system... check the fuel...
Almost arriving to my destination... I arrived at system M7 Sector CH-L C8-12 with two water worlds with an atmosphere similar to Earth... This was a catch! I got some nice detailed scans of this planets.
I forgot to take pictures, sorry... But I'll paint a picture. Here it goes...
Those two planets were blue... and had clouds. It had no visible land masses, soo... if u wanna go there, be sure to have a boat with you. :-\
A bit later I was in M7 Sector CH-L C8-7, I scanned the system. It didn't had anything of interest. :-\
Soo I set course to my next destination. A system 920ly away from me called BLU THUA XS-G B24-4.
I refueled my ship and got on my way again. A some jumps ahead I got into a region with a huge concentration of brown dwarf which made me rethink me strategy with the fuel because I didn't wanted to get stranded without fuel in this empty systems were the probability of finding someone is smaller then winning the lottary ten times in a row, and if you find someone the probability of them helping you is smaller then... a quark inside a glass of water?!?! Doesn't make sense? Well no worries. DON'T RUN OUT OF FUEL 1500ly FROM HOME. :-\
Soo... I made my first detour to a system with a G-type star called PRAEA EUQ IO-Z D 13, I refueled then I went for a spin around the system. It didn't had anything of great interest. But I took some picture to show my grandson one day...



A bit further I was getting low on fuel again, and every star I passed was a brown dwarf or something that didn't wanted to share it's hydrogen with me. So I had to make another detour to BLU THUA IM-W D1-49...
After that there were some more jumps to systems with brown dwarfs, which was scary because I had to make too more detours first to BLU THUA QY-S C3-25 where I found an Earth-like planet. :-) And this was a surprise!!! I think this may be a great place to go when I retire. ;-)
Check it... ;-)

A bit futher ahead I had to make another detour to BLU THUA IM-W D1-99 where I found a Water-world but this time I took a picture!!! :) Here it is below! ;)




A few more jumps and I arrived at my destination. It took me 3 hours to get to BLU THUA XS-G B24-4 and I was now at 2017ly from Sol. :-) It was the further I had been from home. And it felt great. :-)
I left my ship orbiting the star and went to bed. Yes... I made a kind of a cozy nest in the cargohold.:-\
I want to have a confortable expedition. :-)

Thursday, August 20, 2015

One day I just packed my stuff and went away...

Well... this last months I've been around. I've joined the President Zachary. Well everybody needs a direction. I thought that this could be a possible path to get some more money to get a better ship and be on my way to the center of the galaxy. But has time passed I began to get fed up with the situation. Too much people wonder in this systems. Too many ships... I needed some quite. So I thought. I've my Asp well fitted... It seems like a good day to vanish into the unknown!



I started my voyage in the Frey system. I decided that I would try to do each day about 1000 ly.
I opened the galaxy map and I pointed toward the Crab Nebula. :) I always wanted to go there and see the remaints of a supernova. :) Soo... the first leg of my trip was toward BRSO 14. Right in the middle of the nebula, 342ly away from where I was. I passed a region where most stars were brown dwarfs which begun to make me nervous because I couldn't refuel, but then I saw the the systems ahead had some stars from where I could syphon hydrogen.
Has I entered BRSO 14 I looked around and... well saw space. :-\ If you're inside a nebula the density of gas is soo small that you won't see much. :-\ What you see from a distance is the sum of the light emitted from the several layers of ionized gas. :-\ Still there was the dwarf. :)
Well traveling this distance gets one a bit tired, so I got out of supercruise pointed my cockpit toward the star and pulled a can of beer and just stood there looking till I fell asleep... in the silence of space...