Be prepared? Nah.

Be prepared? Nah.

So on the spur of the moment, I sat down this evening and thought I should do some exploring. I've never done a dedicated trip before so I headed out in my stripped out Anaconda with a 30+ ly jump range but taking along some SRV's as well.

After 3 hours I ended up about 1230LY from LTT 4961. I'm finding stars & worlds with nobody else's name on them and I am starting to scan the bigger objects. Not sure how much use it is to scan the worlds that are < 2000 km in diameter.

I landed on a system near Shapley 1 in my Anaconda. Very rugged ice world where I picked up some materials (nothing valuable).

I had wondered off so far from my Anaconda that I realised that it would be easier to have it fetch me. The bloody thing parked on top of a nearby cliff and I spent the next 30 minutes driving up and sliding down trying to find a 4x4 route to the top. I'm pretty sure my Annie was punishing me for this sudden unplanned trip, but I was determined to "Run up that hill" without giving it the satisfaction of thwarting me.

On my way to Shapley 1, I managed to lose 3% hull with a careless mistake during fuel scooping. I guess it was a knock to the pride I needed. I will try and preserve the hull strength more carefully in future...

Not sure if I am going to go as far as Sag A. Who knows. In the attached image you can see the hill I had to climb. It was steeper than it looked, I promise...