I have been very fortunate in the system, Ipengdoimai XII to
have found a nicely crashed Iidakawa S40 to repair on planet Joyishol Pafjor. I
now have a lot of cargo space, along with the array of weapons, pulse engines,
and shields. Also, it is quite a comfortable living space when I require rest.
I think I will have to think very hard if I were to ever find a larger,
technically advanced derelict.
Unfortunately, I tangled with the Sentinels on this planet,
and it was a fight they would not relent. For the first time, I encountered
their tall, two legged beast, and I promptly shot it down. Once I decided to
leave the planet, I was jumped by Sentinel fighters. After destroying wave
after increasingly numerous wave, they had nearly depleted everything I could
use for recharging my shield generator, so I was forced to head back down to
Joyishol Pafjor. Once there, I gathered stocks of iron and headed back into
space, prepared to fight to the death. To my pleasant surprise, they had given
up.
From here, I went on to the Astaibalsangiche system, where I
mined and searched the four planets for further funds and information on the
Geks. Also, I’m on the hunt for the updated Atlas chips, which are rumored to
be rewarded when the riddles at the operations centers are found. We will see.
I then went to the system called Eenhoutkeethole XVII, where
I continued these pursuits. That system
had four planets, but I was unable to locate anything significant. From there I
went to the one planet system, Irtzerbije, and I quickly became tired of the
lacking resources of Aojiawshean-Oka.
At this point, I decided to make a long hop. I had put
together the most advanced warp drive, the theta, and went for a 500-light-year
jump. It was here I found Somakodawanu and its system of three planets. All of
which were rather disagreeable in either conditions or Sentinel hospitality, so
I took another long hop to Ussapolucrua. At this point, I’m within the upper
ranges of 176 thousand light years from the rumored center of the universe, but
I’m in no real hurry.
A planet in this system features lacking Sentinels, no angry
animals, and no radiation or toxicity to speak of. It is plentiful in gold,
emeril, and plutonium, making it an ideal mining trip. I have called it,
“Ichi’s Concern”. Temperatures rise dramatically during storms, but there are
so many extensive cave systems here, there’s no reason for worry.
On a trip back to "Ichi’s Concern" from the space station, I
jumped into a fight with spacepirates who thought it wise to attack a convoy
of freighters. I shot down more than twenty of them only to be set upon by the
defenders. I attempted to flee, but was forced to shoot down my two pursuers. This
triggered the Sentinel fighters, of course, but I was able to engage my pulse
engines and head down to the planet in a flash.
Landing on “Ichi’s Concern” for the second time, I
experienced something that I can only attribute to a combination of equipment
malfunction and gravitational anomaly. When the canopy of my Iidakawa S40 swung
open and I began to step out, my body was shot skyward. This was done with such
force that if my exosuit was not so well designed, that the g-forces would have
killed me. Before I could understand what had happened, I was in the
stratosphere of “Ichi’s Concern”, looking at the yellow sheen of its ozone
layer, the darkness of space, the stars, and the other planets in the system. Fortunately,
whatever had happened was not powerful enough to launch me into orbit. I felt
the gentle tug of the planet’s gravity pulling me back down. My fall
accelerated very quickly, and I oriented my body to keep my ship on my nose.
With my jetpack, I slowed my decent enough to land safely in a body of water,
just a short distance from a shore. It took a short while to walk back to where
I had left my ship, which seems to be undamaged. It is my hope that such a
thing never occurs again.
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