So, current location: Blooe Ploe CL-Y G4 ABC 1, somewhere on the nothern hemisphere.
Current action: trying to determine if this O-class star I'm looking at is so bright that its in the Ultra-Violet range of the light band.
Current musing - I'm nearly 50,000 LY from Sol, and I've still got more to go.
I started this journey nearly a year ago - it was the second relaunch of the FGE's Sagittarius-Carina mission, as we'd all sped back to the bubble to pick up our SRVs when Horizon had dropped. It was an ambitious mapping project, meant to be done at our own pace, allowing us to take diversions at our leisure. And I liked it - I could jump through systems, see the occasional interesting item, log a few earth-likes whilst I was at it.
Only I probably spent too long on out here - others finished and headed back, started with the Engineers, and started Colonia...but you know, its kind of grown on me. The
Linebacker isn't the most spacious of ships (i'm constantly kicking Boots out of my bunk when I take a nap), but it certainly gets the job done, with a 31 Ly range, and about 20 charges of T1 Jumponium in storage if needed.
And its gotten me this far...
(yes, there are a couple of areas where it tracking has jumped - I can't figure out why it did so, and why it isn't picking up the rest of my logs...go figure)
And in that time, I've logged 5 major POIs, and 20 minor ones, including 14 Earth-likes, 7 Ammonia Worlds, 5 Water Worlds, a "depot" system, and a several stellar items: twin Herbig Stars in close formation, a black hole in close orbit around an G-Class,. I also found that the "lower" neutron field that the Hurt Highway uses extends down the Sagittarius Arm.
And I've still got 7 waypoints (~35,000 Ly) until I reach Beagle Point.
After that...well, the expedition's original plan was to come back via the Core and 15 Sagitarii. But you know...I'm thinking I might continue on with a circumnavigation. Get it out of my system so I can come back and enjoy the advancements that have been made whilst I was gone.
Assuming it doesn't get blown up in the meantime...