The well prepared route to them has sent us through some interesting systems again. First leg of the journey directed us to the Taygeta system which hosts a very special space station. The station named "Titans Daughter" is very close to the ring of a ringed planet.
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| A dangerous place to live |
I do not hold a university degree in astro-architecture but I am relatively sure that is not a good place for a space station right there. Also insurance rates might be fairly high in this neighbourhood.
For those specializing in galactic history the route also passed the Merope system - where humans for the first time discovered thargoid ground installations. The system has some tourist beacons that, when scanned, explain some of the history of interaction between thargoids and humans. Also they try to explain the permit locked systems mentioned in last weeks article (older readers might remember).
A kind of inofficial meetup happened at the "Squirrels Nest Bar", a space installation in the Merope system that has an alarming combination of advertisements for (a) Lavian brandy (don't drink and fly) and (b) participation in spaceship racing events. It even has a racetrack on around the Bar. What could possibly go wrong? So we decided on a good meeting point for us law-abiding citizens.
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| A lot of ships from the local authorities were scanning us for unknown reasons. |
After that I took the "Indesctructible 3" on to the track. The australian members of our community actually taught us the correct word for what we were doing there: Hooning. Very educational, this trip.
Public service announcement: Boosting your ship into a tunnel while someone else does the same thing from the other end of said tunnel can lead to explosions.
After minor issues with integral parts of my spaceship I boarded the "Indesctructible 4" and continued the trip to the next destination. The very compassionate other members of the trip were so nice to warn other commanders going into the tunnel afterwards - mostly with sentences like "Be careful, there are parts of CMDR Universallaie scattered all over the place".
The final destination for today includes a special event: We will do a thargoid activation - I have no idea what this is and I avoided researching it beforehand to not spoil the surprise for myself. We got some very detailled instructions beforehand. An important part, printed in bold letters, was: "do not shoot any of the Thargoid surface drones (the floating, fishy looking things) and try not to ram them with your SRV". If you have read last weeks article about our SRV driving madness as well as the general chaos this group tends to create, I imagine this to be a very difficult part. So I'll be making a proper tea now (for the lack of Lavian Brandy I will have to use rum) and am looking forward to the exciting event that is ahead of me... the writing will continue once it is done.
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| Fly responsibly - not like we do. |
Okay, back I am: We went to a Thargoid installation - it looked very spooky from the outside, much like a strange kind of daisy in the middle of a rolled up dinosaur skeleton.
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| Thargoid site |
There we collected some special devices that activated the central machine - making a spectacular lightshow after being braught online.
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| Nice lightshow, dear aliens. I guess showbiz is a thing with every species. |
Many thanks to our tourguide CMDR Jon "Hicks" Tomasson, who did the research and collected necessary stuff in advance to give us all the rare opportunity to see a alien machine being powered up. Thanks also go to the guides of the three other groups for their work.
This is CMDR Universallaie, currently docked in the "Stargazer" Asteroid base signing off.
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