Void Opals

Void Opal hot spot - An Icy ring around a class II Gas Giant

Had Surface deposits and a core of Void Opals

Suplhur in Orange!

Sulphur Dioxide Geysers

Mapping Planets

Initially I wasn't sure which planets I'd mapped but it tells you in the display of the details below the description. I find it quicker to use the traditional system map when checking I've mapped the whole system, rather than the very cool new orrery view.

Surface features in the system the expedition has fully mapped.

Sulphur dioxide vents and fumuroles

 Oddly I think this was a water ice fumurole:

 Ice Geysers

 Mapping a planet and its moon

The Journey Begins

The day has arrived.

My exploration Anaconda is fitted out for some mining and exploration and I'm going into the black.

To the Bloody Rim "Sanguinous Rim" and then further to Xibalba and the ultimate dark.

By the time this journey is finished I expect to be Elite in exploration.

Krait

With a boost speed of 480 and a max jump range of 42 ly I can get Ratso out of trouble faster than I got in!

Elite

The bonus weekend when tax was waived allowed me to hit that coveted Elite status at long last:

I already had access to the founders world through back channels but now its official:

A Majestic Interdictor Hove into View

Galactic Medical Recon Missions

GMR has been running for a month now. Some snapshots below including CMDR Marsh in his Diamondback

Promotion to Viscount

Multiple guardian ruins and a structure at Synuefe TP-F b44-0

Looking for Orbs I tried an old favourite Guardian site but there is a new structure here also: 2 / 3 sites plus a structure!! I'll investigate that tomorrow. Time to retire to my cabin for some rest.

New Guardian Structure

COL 173 SECTOR QU-O D6-32 3a

Project Bulwark - Thargoids are probably the Guardian's AIs gone rogue - the irony!

I have recently been  donating and supporting the Federation in preparing new autonomous defences against the Thargoids. However the irony isn't lost on me that the Thargoids are probably the descendants of the Guardian AIs gone rogue.

Hence I also helped Ram Tah recently in collecting a bunch of Guardian artefacts. Sadly not a popular effort!

Some Snaps From the Seven Sisters