I’ve completed the old CNE route, and I’m ready to head back to the bubble to see how much the fruits of my efforts were paid. Unfortunately, I must wait for the Iridium Wing to come ‘save my ass’ at the appointed time (2pm on Thursday).
\nThey told me that I need to be within 150Ly away from the edge of the bubble. I.. went a bit further than that (just a bit) and tried to go near to Khun(the home of another engineer, but was outside from the bubble). Yet I wouldn’t get that close.
\nJumped into a system, and as I finished my ‘honk’ to reveal the system, I got the familiar “Ahoy matey! We got booty to claim!” pirate talk. Quickly moved away from the star and tried to jump out of there, but he interdicted me as I was charging up.
\nAfter the interdiction, I tried to set the left panel to jump to the nearest system I could to hopefully get the fucker away from me, and it had worked for the time being.<\/p>\n
Thought I was safe, so I reported into my little mission panel of the Iridium Wing Discord channel they setup for me that this system, they can use as the rendezvous point. I was 133Ly away from the edge of the bubble. A ‘bit’ too close, now that I look back at it.
\nAfter reporting in, I decided to head to the only landable planet (thinking the pirate wouldn’t follow me). As I did, somehow the same pirate managed to reach me and interdicted again. This time I was in trouble, losing 14% of my hull (down to 78%). Again, I jumped out of there as quick as I could, and now I’m in the ‘COL 285 SECTOR GF-T B18-8′ system, near the star, where I’ve logged off and won’t come back on ’till then.<\/p>\n
In my defense, it was a perception failure of telling the distance of the edge of the fucking bubble. I also failed to read the part where they told me that any further than 150Ly, pirates will start to spawn in and try to kill me.
\nBut now I know, and how to prevent this from happening again. But since the damage has (literally) been done to my hull, I might as well stay there and await rescue. Pirates won’t attack an offline player. \ud83d\ude42
\nI am curious how this escorting thing is going to work. Are they just going to follow me and make sure my ass is clear of a pirate biting on it? Or even better, take my cargo for me and them being the target (instead of me) until we get to Farseer. Though reloading all of that cargo is going to take time.
\nWhat gets me is they never asked me for my laden jump range. How odd. Guess I’ll find out when that time comes. I just pray this works. Heard they’re pretty good at what they do, so… yeah. Going to be..interesting. To say I’m not worried is an understatement, especially what just happened to me (the frequency of the interdictions).<\/p>\n
Anyway, moving on (or should I say moving backwards to before this happened), I went back to the NGC 7822 nebula and scanned every single black hole I could find. Getting to the nebula got a bit tricky, as I wanted to go on a more direct route instead of using the Cave Nebula. More of that unfortunate crap of my jump range not being high enough (with a low star density). But I managed to do the same thing I did to originally get there on my return trip.<\/p>\n
After then, I headed to Veil Nebula East and the Sadr Nebula. The Sadr Nebula bored the hell out of me. It looked boring. The planet looked boring. But I did find an interesting POI, where instead of seeing cargo canisters, were 6 occupied escape pods. Very odd. There was no crashed ship or any idea how they got there.<\/p>\n
After that, the expedition was over. So I did what I said I was going to do in the last blog post — bookmarking and scanning the WPs of WP1 and WP0 of the GNE. No problems there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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