Voyage of the Ardent Citadel Week 5
Ardent Citadel: Week 5 Summary
On April 27, 3308, the fleet carrier executed four jumps to travel 2,000 light years and arrived on station at Zejiae PJ-G b15-2, a trinary star system with one class M and two brown dwarfs with number smaller bodies. The system is approximately 14,500 light years from the bubble. Approximately 500 units of tritium consumed, all jumps completed normally.
During an excursion of one of the jump systems one of our commanders, Tioneal, failed to return to the carrier before lockdown and was thus forced to watch the carrier enter jump and leave him behind. Though initially frustrated (this is the second time something similar has happened to him) he did get to see the carrier jump sequence from the outside for the first time and was easily able to catch up in his Anaconda.
We have returned to the Sagittarius arm in the Temple region and are surrounded by numerous star clusters ripe for exploration. Our commanders in smaller ships with jump ranges less than 20 ly are finally able to stretch their legs a bit.
Thanks to CMDRs Gelubii Pelubii, Tioneal and Otis D. Blake for their contributions this week.
The Ardent Citadel will deart for its next stop, Clookao ZG-L b25-0, on May 6, 3308.
Master’s Note:
I have been monitoring developments back in the bubble with concern. The situation with Salvation seeming to take affective control of the major powers—which is how I see this, a power play using the Thargoids as provacatuer—may mean we won’t have a bubble to return to, or least not one we recognize. I’ll speak with the CMDRs aboard as to how they want to proceed. Some may choose to continue the voyage, thinking we’re far enough way. But I know all to well the carrier cannot avoid returning to civilization forever, and there will come a day that, like it or not, the mistakes, greed and blindness of others will become a reality—or nightmare—we all must face.
— CMDR Markus Amarper
