Bo'Groll - he was clean too :-)

On the First Day of Christmas

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:-

• 15 Diso Ma Corn (230,685 cr profit)
• 9 Leestian Evil Juice (138,744 cr profit)
• 7 Azure Milk (115,345 cr profit)
• 7 Lavian Brandy (114,548 cr profit)
• 1 Leathery Eggs (13,633 cr profit)

Happy Christmas to the people of Lange Vision in Mara, and 612,955 credit profit for me :-)

The Naming of Names

Back in the Kickstarter I reserved the CMDR name "Mara Jade" for £15.

Mara Jade was a character in the Star Wars Extended Universe novels.  She started off being an Imperial Assassin for the Emperor, but on his death at the hands of the Skywalkers she found herself out of a job and took employment working for the Smuggler Talon Karrde.  Mara Jade soon rose through the ranks of Karrde's organisation and ended up as his second in command.  She was given her own Ship "Jade's Fire".  Then over the course of the next decade went on many adventures and missions with the Star Wars Characters, at one time even being seen on the arm of Lando Calrissian before finally marrying Luke Skywalker.

Mara has been my avatar in Runescape for 7 years so it only seemed fair to continue the tradition in Elite.  I was strapped for cash at the time of the Kickstarter or I wish I had pledged more to get the higher levels of rewards.  So I didn't have enough spare cash to name a planet, a star or an NPC.

So I was simply stoked in Gamma to find that Mara had her own system anyway.  Its down in Empire space about 50 light years from Achenar.  It's my adopted home in the game, and it would be such a shame not to live there and store all my ships there, wouldn't it?

Not to be forgotten, her last name Jade (also the name of my cat), got a look in too, and he has his own planet in the Cemeiss system.

Day One Death

Day one of Elite Saturday the 22nd November 2014.

I failed in the race to Sol.

I was so eager was I to leave my starter area around COSI, that I ran out of fuel trying to find a hyperspace route out of the area and and let this happen.

Sob.  So I died only hours into the release cold alone and suffocating in the depths of space in this unexplored system.

But since then (posting this retrospectively on 7th March 2015 as I didn't even have this blog back then) I still have not died again and my insurance claims are still at Zero!

Of course, now I've said that it's going to be tempting fate and another CMDR's guns!

 

Sigma Bootis Pirate Scum

Ripped off by the Mierck station at Sigma Bootis.  I think its a scam.  They offer you 100K + missions to take cargo there then don't let you dock.  Its a pirate station as it has pirate logos and holograms hovering over it.

Maybe they only let their own factions or similarly dodgy f*****s dock.  Or maybe they don't have a pad for big ships (Lakon Type-6) - I did spot a destroyed wreck on one pad - maybe the mid-sized ship pad?  I don't know, but I know they had empty pads because in Private Group and Solo I tried docking multiple times and there were ships coming and going and leaving empty pads.

Well as they wouldn't let me hand in the jobs I jettisoned them at the station, earned 7500 in fines, but it was worth it :-)

Still had to pay off a 50k fine back at Aganpipe where I took on the mission.  Was tempted to leave it... as I said, what a bunch of scamming pirates.

Wasp-18

Definitely one for the list WASP-18 330 ly from Sol.

The closely orbiting gas giant of 10 Jovian masses is prematurely aging its stellar companion by interrupting the magnetic fields.

Chi Hercules

Chi (x) Hercules is a G type star 51.7 light years from Sol containing 5 planets and one moon.

It has a habitable world Apasam - which is orbited by the Gorbatko Reserve space station and its moon Kumay (pictured right).  Apasam's climate is pretty stormy as can be seen by this passing photo I took catching hurricane in progress over one of the oceans.

Like Chango - Apasam is a large exporter of fish.