THE EDGE OF THE VOID GETS CLOSER Sunday, October 20, 3202, 14:18 hours (2:18 pm local time) at Velazquez Orbiter, in orbit around the planet Sampsons Misery, 4th planet of the Brown Dwarf Daayho D in the Daayho star system (@ -52,7,7) I have arrived at the capital of the Stellar Network territories, one of the last of the coreward political stellar regions before the Unexplored section of the galaxy. From here, unexplored star systems start only 111 light years coreward of this star system, about 66 sectors coreward overall from the Sol system. Sol (@ 0,0,0) itself is now 420.51 light years rimward. The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy (a/k/a Agamemnon) located at sector -3125,0,0 is now 24,585.01 light years coreward of here - which means Ive travelled only a little over 1% of the total distance from Sol to the Center of the Galaxy. Travelling will soon become much slower, as I expect to enter the Unexplored region by my next stop. I plan to stop at the furthest out habitated system I can find, at the very fringe of the Stellar Network territories, and then decide if its time to trade in my ship or not. The Explorer is well suited to travel in civilized space, where refueling is commonly available and planetside starports or orbiting space stations are frequently found, but once outside the realms of known space, my only source of fuel may be fuel scooping from gas giants, a tedious and dangerous procedure. Explorer has only 55 tons of cargo space free to use for hyperjump fuel, and with a range of about 34.5 light years per jump - and a cost in fuel of 15 tons per jump at maximum range - Explorer can only manage, at most, 3 jumps (about 103 light years, total) before I would have to stop for refueling. A bigger ship, while slower from the point of view of how far a single hyperjump can be, would carry enough fuel that I could perhaps jump 7 or even 8 times before having to refuel. As I get closer to the center of the galaxy, the distance between star systems becomes less and less and the concentration of stars per sector becomes higher and higher. Already the concentration of star systems per sector is nearly double what you find in the Sphere of Sol. Ill put off the decision on a new ship until Ive reached the end of civilization - then see what my options are.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:35:04 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015