Not much point in joining anyone while so far out – 28.55K ly from Ghekreep, my current base of operations, which itself is Federation but too far from anyone’s control. I expect to join Felicia Winters upon my return.
Getting to the galactic edge is taking longer than I thought.
Excellent! My plan as well. For the Federation! 
I try to get some exploration done on my lunch hour but, of course, their servers are wonky today. I hope they get righted by 6 so I can get in after work.
With yesterday’s galactic map update, I started to wonder if there even is an edge to the galaxy. If I’m not close in another 15K I’m a-turnin’ 'round.
I’ve had enough of these black holes! At this point, my ship is held together with the handy commander’s secret weapon: Duct Tape.
33.5K ly out. Might as well keep going until this thing flies apart or I run out of jumps in this direction.
Visited one Leonard Nimoy Station, orbiting the planet Vulcan. LHS 3006 star system.
It was pretty inside, but lame for outfitting with a very small, sad shipyard.
Looks like I can go another 1500 ly if she holds together. There are still more stars I wasn’t previously aware of up to 4000 ly out but those are so spread out that getting to 'em is probably impossible without a flying gas tank and massive jump drive.
Cmdr. Holdstock singing off and going into sleep cycle.
Little things that make me love this game, #57: I just stopped off at the Tannhäuser Gate (Aztlan star system), and watched the C-beams glitter in the dark.
I’ve been flying around doing various things like bounty hunting, light trading, and exploring in my Diamondback Scout, truly an outstanding jack-of-all-trades ship.
I also picked up a flight stick. Combat now seems almost too easy…
ETA next stop: Acokwang.
Really? Acokwang? Really?
It was a binary system of binary, blue T Tauri stars (four stars total.) Plus two huge, metal-rich worlds with outposts and a class I gas giant.
22 more jumps and that will be as far as I go before the long voyage home starts. If only there was a Bird-of-Prey I could steal.
Cmdr. Holdstock signing off and going into sleep cycle.
Is there an online map - just want to get a sense of scale of how far you went .
The size of the map is basically a scale model of our real life galaxy but with lots of content generated by the game. The use of generated content increases as one travels away from our solar system.
I’m currently 43.2K ly from Earth, in the direction of the Pipe Nebula.
Wow! Found another route to go even further: 36 jumps, 784¼ ly.
I should say, the Diamondback Scout is very good for bounty hunting, especially if you take advantage of its agility—I took out a “Dangerous”-piloted Python yesterday—and is decent for exploring, having an acceptable jump capacity, 16-ton fuel tank, and room for size 3 scoop, detailed surface scanner, etc. For the price, I’m thrilled with its role as a “combat explorer,” and it’s fun to fly.
But it’s shit for trading. If I drop the fuel scoop, I can get it to 16t of cargo. I could drop shields and the scanner as well, but … If I want to get serious about trading, I need something else.
Type 6? I guess…
But my DBS is all decked out and I wanna keep it! …grrr…
You’re making me miss my Asp.
Right. That’s about enough of this adventure.
Byeia Aoscs NT-Y D1-1, 43.9K ly from Ghekreep, 43.95K from LHS 3447, 44K from Earth.
Think I’ll hang around here for awhile before heading home.
Well just back into this, took forever to update the game, and now have a long grind of trading ahead to get something decent.
Is that the “normal” way of building up credits? I was doing this before I stopped playing when my computer starting doing random freezes (although they weren’t quite as random when playing ED or Kerbal Space Program), but it just seemed that it would take forever to be able to get a ship more suited for exploration that way.
Of course, this assumes that I don’t run into yet another ship with its weapons pointed straight at me that somehow manages to stick to my tail like glue.
Took about 33 days to get this far; wonder if I can get back in fewer without losing my ship.
Will have to start back tomorrow, too many things going on to play today.
Yeesh!
Quarter of the way home, entered system on a heading directly between an A/K binary. Still in one piece but hope to not find many more of those.