My home for the last week and soon the expedition will receive the coordinates for the next waypoint and we shall leave this place and jump into the darkness. So before we receive our marching orders I head out for a little tour around the serounding system.

I found 2 tours on FLEETCOM discord Trip Name: Anemones botany tour & Colours of clouds

Anemones Botany Tour

This circuit has been established with discoveries of commanders CMDRs Mist0, Hanna Hunter, GenDeathrow, DocteurGui, Nozdus, Kazahnn Drahnn and Nathaniel Hawkwood, as well as with the help of Extools et EDSM databases.

Trip created by CMDR Alistair Hope.

• Trip Name: Anemones botany tour – WP2
• Objective: Visit all types of anemones known to date
• Total distance for main itinerary (6 anemones types): 700 Ly
• Optional part (with 2 remaining types): + 4000 Ly

First stop on this Botany Tour we find these lovely pumpkins on the planet surface. Croceus according to the CODEX. Found on planet B 3 A (Biological POI #2) Star system: Byua Euq EG-Y e41

Stop 2 on the Botany Tour is in the Traikaae CR-N e6-1 we came across these pumpkins Roseus. nice weird colouring on these on this log G planet. Star system: Traikaae CR-N e6-1

Nice triple star system on the way to the next waypoint on the Botany Tour.

Botany Tour, More Pumpkins, I think they are watching me Star system: PW2010 112

Distant Worlds Expedition arrived at the Omega system.

Here we are working on 2 Community Goals to get a starport built near Sag A. These 2 CG's are for the basic construction materials for the starport. By the time the expedition arrived in the Sag A sector of the Milk Way, the super structure of the starport will have been built. Then another CG will be undertaken to improve the stations services. We have also been promised there will be basic mining modules at the station so we don't need to bring our heavy mining equipment all the way.

Finally made it to the Waypoint #1 Omega Mining Operation Asteroid base in the Omega Sector VE-Q b5-15 System (5,422LY from Pallaeni)

Afew snap shots of the trip out here.

Hello Pumpkins, we come in peace.

Pretty sunrise on a rocky moon.

Cloudy skies

Was pretty surprised at the port had a shipyard and a couple of decent ships in the shipyard. As soon as I docked up I bought a AspX and outfitted for mining. Needed to swap my FSD from Grease Monkey so I didn't have to be jumping alot just to get to the mining rings I'd heard about.

Anyways didn't have alot cargo space so what I may end up doing is re fitting Grease Monkey for mining as I could get alot more cargo space than just 64T in the AspX where I had to keep dumping limpets as the asteroids where giving up alot of materials that are needed for the Distant Worlds 2 Mining CG.

I sent for "AirWolf" my Chieftain which will that over 15hrs from the bubble so I can also take part in the Bounty Hunting CG here which looks to be going VERY slowly, probably cause its a pretty remote place so wanted people are few and far between.

Accidentally erased my jump data when swapping ships but still have the exploration data. Adjustments to Infinity has been made so that data wont be reset when swapping ships.

Started out this morning after the big rush of last night. Wanted to make my way to the next way point & take my time. Still ironing out a few bugs with Infinity’s Exploration database. She still a little chatty so need to select fewer prompts for her to give me information about the system I’m in unless it’s important.

Gone up about 1k light years above the galactic plan in order to get more undiscovered systems.

It’s nice and quiet up here. I had forgotten how quiet it was.

Launch Day:

It was a busy night I could hear on the long range comms system.

Hearing the CMDRs with excitement in their voices all wondering what they where going to find out in the deep dark black.

There was a few reports of crimmals in the system destroying CMDRs as they entered. Most of the ships where easy pray as they where mostly exploration builds and without weapons for the most part. There was a few CMDRs providing protection for the wide eyed explorers but some did fall before they could even leave.

Another reason why I didn’t launch with the rest for security as Grease Monkey is no combat ship in any form.

“Infinity, system jump!”

and so it begins......