I'm debating myself if I want to actually take the time to get the FSD upgrades or just go back out. I want to do both, and as I'm already at a 33LY jump range it'd be nice to get a little bit more. But at the same time I just want to go back out and explore. I did start heading out to Barnard's Loop and such and after flying past it I started running into permit locked sectors and eventually got trapped so I turned around and found a slightly different way back between Col Sector 7, Horsehead, and whatever other crap is locked out there. Was really frustrating when I thought I was past Sector 70 and then found out its almost u shaped and is way too large. I'm sitting at Farseer Inc and will probably try to look for the materials a little longer before ultimately deciding to heading towards the opposite side of the galaxy.
Side question, as my Google searches are only so good without knowing what I'm looking at. On the Galaxy Map what galaxies are the ones visible but obviously unreachable? The first one is, I'm pretty sure bottom left corner (looking from Sol direction towards center)? And what is the giant blue mass under neath our galaxy?