The reality of travel

I can only try to imagine what it was like 21,000 "earth years" ago, with a few million humans trying to travel over that small little waterlogged sphere.

As I found myself finding Uitra too small and limited, my Heron was unprepared but willing to help me get out. My data analyser, being a little buggy lately, as well as the relic analyser was set up, probes loaded and off I went. My travel mate and spacewife, Meerkat, stayed behind to rest.

Entering Unpas, then Shihuken, Tuuriainas and most of the rest, was done with the usual trepidation and caution. Probes were launched, and simple scans done for any signatures in the solar systems that provided some hint of profiteering hopes... data and relic sites. Not many, as is typical here in the higher security systems. I guess with the healthy minded, neutral and well oiled civilisations, resources are tapped dry sooner or later.

I continued having low to no success as I traversed through 0.7 and 0.5 zones, with only minor successes in signature analysis. At this point I decided to just throw caution to the wind, and peek into  BWF-ZZ.

Naturally, no risky jumps should be made without doing some crime checks on the gates...
In spite of risk, low numbers and checking timing on the kill listings, I went through, and made it back. I went past the shooting and shenanigans. One could say like a well-oiled machine, but it was more luck than anything else.

Stay safe explorers, ratters and bounty hunters, for you are the real skills out there!