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Bio Hunter [WE-05M]
(Mandalay)
 
メンバー登録日:
2015/10/17
 
入力した距離:
14,458
 
訪れた星系:
38,247
初めて発見した星系:
19,104
 
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3,129,692,471 Cr
DW2 Days 20-27

It took me eight days, but I finally finished my first circumnavigation of a planet - Quantum World!

I started at the north pole, +90° latitude and set off down the +90° line of longitude.

Starting the journey

I crossed the south pole at -90° latitude where the line of longitude flipped over to become -90°, ending my trek back at the north pole. I found it interesting how the gravity changed from 0.04g to 0.03g part way through, then back again. One more Elite activity to tick off my to-do list.

Moon circumnavigation

I wish the lighting was brighter. It was very difficult at times to drive and even the new night vision mode wasn't too helpful. It was almost always pitch black, which made for boring driving.

There were several days where I was unable to play, which contributed to the time taken. Regardless, I'm now many days behind the fleet which should be at WP4 now, and I still have WP3 sightseeing to do.

In particular, before I go to WP3 I'm going to visit Plaa Aescs KI-K d8-116 which is rumored to have two moons that share almost the same orbit and may even 'collide' like the moons in Kyloasly DA-A f69 (or used to, I think Frontier 'fixed' them).

DW2 Days 17-19

Day 17: I tried to climb to the top of The Arkgamanon Mountain Range, but was unsuccessful - the sides are practically vertical! I got a little bit further up than -21.6953/-128.0598 before I lost grip and tumbled a long way down. I decided to call it quits before I lost an SRV.

I flew on to NGC 6629, then immediately to Eagle's Landing, where I called it a night.

Eagle's Landing

Day 18: I flew to Eudaemon Anchorage in Rohini. No sightseeing. When I arrived I transferred my mining equipment from Omega Mining Operation - it will make it a bit quicker to transfer to the forthcoming core station-building mining CG.

Day 19: Before I left Rohini I visited Orange Vista Incorporated, a tourist installation orbiting very close to the main system star:

Orange Vista Incorporated

My Beluga got up to 87% heat when leaving - good thing I've got a G5 low-emissions power plant.

I parked for the night at the north pole of Quantum World, the smallest landable planet discovered in the game so far at a radius of 137km.

North pole of Quantum World

There is a planned meetup to circumnavigate this world tomorrow at 13:00. The plan is to leave on longitude +90.0. The total distance is expected to be about 860km and take about 7 hours. I'm thinking about doing it, but it will have to be by myself, as I will be off socialising (!) at that time.

DW2 Days 15-16

I didn't fly at all on Day 15 due to IRL commitments.

Day 16 started at the WP2 meetup site. I made a quick visit to the Rock of Isolation.

Rock of Isolation

It's a prison vessel where you go if you commit a crime nearby.

The first stop on the way to WP3 was CD-28 14266 (NGC 6565):

NGC 6565

The Wolf-Rayet really makes for bright colours, especially filtered through the dust in the rocky rings.

Last stop was The Arkgamanon Mountain Range:

The Arkgamanon Mountain Range

The mountains rise up spectacularly from the plains below.

I might try driving the SRV to the top tomorrow...

DW2 Day 14

On the last day at WP2, I decided to finish the Anemone Botany Tour. That meant flying out to HD 172275 and then to Bleae Eurk FG-Y g2. My little bit towards the 250,000,000Ly target of Frontier's 25th anniversary unlock.

There are Prasinum Bioluminescent Anemones on ABC 2 a.

Prasinum Bioluminescent Anemones

Note that you can see the reflection of ABC 2. It's an M-class star directly overhead only 6Ls away, yet the surface of the planet is pitch black! I really hope those "pitch black" folks are happy.

Still, the purple glow was quite pretty.

Prasinum Bioluminescent Anemones

After a meal break, I returned to find the O-class "A" just rising:

Sunrise

So pink!

Last stop before returning to WP2 was Bleae Eurk FG-Y g2. On the only planet in the system you can find Puniceum Anemones. Probably any of the Biological sites will do, but I found them at #5.

Puniceum Anemones

On returning to WP2, I stopped by Omega Mining Operation to sell exploration and codex data, and give the ship a "once over".

Then it was off to the meetup on 7 b at Geological site #5 where the methane ice vents were quite active.

Methane Ice Vent

Soon afterwards quite a few commanders turned up.

WP2 Meetup

While goofing around in my SRV I accidentally got myself stuck down an icy canyon close to the landing site. It took a lot of boosts to get out, but I came so close to losing my first SRV on any expedition. I accidently covered up my SRV by the tail of the solid arrow - it's so small! (And the canyon actually quite big)

Close call

DW2 Day 13

A bit of a quiet day. Mostly just visited Byua Euq EG-Y e41 to see the Croceus anemones on B 3 a at Biological (2).

Anemones

I then decided to see what was at some of the Geological sites. The next photo was at #4. The Beluga runs a bit hot, doesn't it?

Hot Beluga

... Ha ha ... not really ... my Beluga's heat was actually 11%.

I thought I'd end the night by finishing the Colours of Clouds tour. Trifid Sector DL-Y d157 has three Notable Stellar Phenomena POs. I saw Rubicundum Collared Pods in the first:

Rubicunum Collared Pods

I discovered that you can take samples of pods with the Research limpet controller.

In the second were some Solid Mineral Spheres:

Solid Mineral Spheres

The third had Albidum Collared Pods:

Albidum Collared Pods

DW2 Day 12

Day 12 was the Anemone Botany Tour. This one is in PW2010 210 (The PW2010 Supercluster):

Anemone field

And this one in PW2010 299:

Anemone field

The blue Roseus Bioluminescent anemones on PW2010 112 were very striking:

Blue Roseus Bioluminescent anemones

The last stop were the Roseus Anemones on Traikaae CR-N e6-1:

Roseus Anemone field

DW2 Day 11

Today I did the Colours of Clouds tour. First stop, Omega Sector DM-M b7-16 with Rubicundum and Roseum lagrange clouds.

I found Albulum Gourd Molluscs:

Albulum Gourd Mollusc

and Purpureum Metallic Crystals:

Purpureum Metallic Crystals

Next stop was the Caeruleum lagrange cloud in Omega Sector VJ-Q b5-6. More metallic crystals:

Prasinum Metallic Crystals

and Rufum Gourd Molluscs. These molluscs seemed to be attracted to my ship and emitted electric charges that slowly wore down my shields:

Rufum Gourd Mollusc

The Croceum cloud in 2MASS J18182881-1649403 was quite dark:

Metallic Crystals

The last stop for the day were the Rubicundum and Luteolum clouds in Omega Sector AF-A d153. The solid mineral spheres produced small dust clouds:

Solid Mineral Spheres

DW2 Days 4-10

Just finished contributing 1156T to the mining CG.

Beluga leaving Omega Mining Operation

That got me into the top 25% and should net 35MCr.

The next activity is to do the Colours of Clouds tour, visiting six Langrange clouds in the area of WP2 before the meetup this weekend. There are four close to the Omega nebula and two more near the Trifid nebula.

DW2 Day 3

Landed on Traikaae CH-Y c10 1 a - a moon of a gas giant with water-based life. It has spectacular deep spiky canyons that for the most part are impossible to land on. However, sometimes large open flat areas turn up, like this one at -56.95/28.93.

Landing space

Next stop was Thor's Eye. I last visited on the original Distant Worlds Expedition. It's always cool to see the light distortions of a black hole.

Thor's Eye

Herschel 36 was the next POI to visit. Two O-class stars with a nice view of the Lagoon Nebula.

Lagoon Nebula

My final stop for the night was the Cinnabar Moth Nebula (Traikaae KT-P d6-10).

Cinnabar Moth Nebula

Tomorrow: the PW2010 supercluster and waypoint 2: The Omega Mining Operation.

DW2 Day 1

I missed all the DW2 launches - had to go to bed several hours before the EU launch, the US launch was while I was at work, then the AU launch was while I was heading home from work. Sigh - I could have made the AU launch if it was 24hrs earlier on the Sunday afternoon/evening.

When I logged on the Pallaeni launch site was deserted and quiet. I took off and headed to the Shapley Fine Ring nebula.

Shapley Fine Ring Nebula

I've been there a couple of times before, so I didn't do any sightseeing. Next stop was "The View" in HR 6164.

The View

The planet doesn't have a particularly high gravity (IMHO), only 3.3G, but it seems to have caught out a few new explorers.

There is a Tourist Installation scarily close to a neutron star.

Tourist Installation

Next stop was "Cycladia" (Blu Thua GI-B b55-2), a system with a ringed Earth-like.

Ringed Earth-like

It was here that I parked up for the night.