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Log Entry 13


A beautiful system. A gravitational ballet that I am so glad I am able to appreciate.

Came out of jump about an hour ago, still moving like flash. .872c, according to the readings. No idea where I am. Came out on the edge of a system, and I don't recognize it. The Navigation systems are still trying to plot my location. Nothing habitable here according to sensors, but the system is beautiful.


Star is a tiny M class star with a mass of .2. All the worlds orbit it so closely. It is a beautiful dance, as they orbit so close to each other, but they seem to have established an equilibrium. I rather hope my passage through the system doesn't disrupt it.


Main engines are still burning and keeping me at a stable .88c. Sensors show I will reach smooth-space about five hours from now, and I will have smooth sailing from there for several hundred light years. Nothing much in the direction I am traveling, and unless I can confirm my location, there is no reason to not keep going that way.


There isn't any system like this one listed in the catalog of surveyed systems, but with the fact that little stars like this are some of the most common, and the fact that the catalog only contains about 500 systems, that is not anything to go by.


I've again done all I can. I'm going to run a full diagnostic and then dump the results into another log file for upload. Strange thing though. I don't have a data-stream from the ET/EC comms. There is connection, but no data stream. As if there isn't anyone on the other end. But there is no telling what the trip through jump did, so that is yet another things that makes me worry, but isn't something I can use as an true indication of an issue.


Once I'm done with the diagnostic, I'm going to get a full rest. Hopefully the Nav system will be able to pin down my location so I can do course corrections and calculations for the final jump, based on that location data.


This system really is beautiful. I'm glad I have windows.

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