PMC Wanderer Voyage Home Story PMC Elite Dangerous

PMC Wanderer Voyage Home Story for Elite Dangerous, my fleet carrier "PMC Wanderer" was something like 40,000 light years from the populated space towards "north east", then I decided to bring the carrier to Col 285 Low Temperature Diamonds mines, this is the story how that voyage unfolded.

Overview

PMC Wanderer Voyage Home 44,800 light years.

Got an crazy idea that I want to bring my real account (CMDR Snake Man) PMC Wanderer fleet carrier back to populated space so I can get into the Low Temperature Diamonds (LTD) mining frenzy that is going on which makes you billion credits within a day. I don't really need the credits but hey if its there why not take advantage of it Smiley :)

Also I made a grave mistake outfitting my ships on PMC Wanderer, miner has no sub surface mining equipment, no ship has SRV (just in case you want to drive around) and I have no fast fighter type ship to skim those deep canyons really fast and dangerous. In general I want to bring in more various ships with PMC Wanderer as you just never know which kind of ship you might need while out there a long time from now. The ships do not take any space from the owners carrier so its fine to bring many.

Hmm most likely I will be engineering some type-9 mining setup to be more efficient. Dunno, we'll see when this LTD mining craze is over.

2020-06-19

2020-06-19T21:13:24Z Back in PMC Explorer asp cockpit on board carrier PMC Wanderer, in system: Dryaea Brou TS-U e2-0.

We currently have tritium reserves of 565t in fuel tank and 4894t in cargo hold.

Services; repair 180 units, armory 250 units and universal cartographics 120 units. Total of 550 units. Used spansh fleet carrier route plotter to calculate my voyage home and it came out as 97 jumps, estimated time 4 days and several tritium "restock" mentions which means mining 1000t of tritium.

Spansh plotter. 2021 Edit, something changed in Spansh carrier route plotter link as it now sets used capacity to some crazy number. Also with new tritium usages if you click that link in 2021 or later its no longer 4 days etc as its calculated with new usages.

Spansh says estimated time is calculated by "Spansh: jumps * 1200 + restocks * 25200 = seconds, then rounded up to human readable. I estimated 7 hours to fully restock a fleet carrier at a pristine ring." and by fully restock he means 1000t in tritium fuel depot only, not full cargo capacity heh.

Spansh website uses community gathered data through EDDN. So when it plots a route, every waypoint is already discovered system. Also few of the jumps turned out to be three hundred LY in distance (4 jumps in total shortest was 346.44ly), this is very low when the range is 500ly. If you plan on doing discovering yourself or want to do max range every single jump, then do not use spansh plotter.

I do like spansh plotter because it shows you when you need to mine more tritium, if you are low, also it tries to find a suitable mining system from the database. At least I assume it does, how come else it would show you a system name where you must mine tritium. So that is very helpful, but yeah these four jumps in the three hundred range, I mean its over hundred LY wasted per jump, that is a lot of light years.

In the future when I plot some route to where ever I'm going I wont be using this plotter as there is no point, just mark a final destination waypoint into galaxy map and start plotting towards it, easy. Also I want to scout ahead with PMC Explorer on any future PMC Wanderer trips, no more jumping into unknown systems.

2020-06-19T21:25:18Z Started plotting route, first hyperjump is in, here we go Smiley :)

I immediately felt bad as I wanted to store as much tritium in PMC Trader cargo hold to make the carrier jumps lighter, so that prevents me from taking PMC Explorer and hop ahead towards the next waypoint. Ideally I'd like to scout the way ahead so there was something to do instead of waiting for stupid 15min counter to reach zero and then go through the hyper jump nonsense sounds.

But unfortunately to make things as quick as possible I need to sit in the PMC Trader cockpit in PMC Wanderer's hangar ready to transfer tritium into the fuel depot when it runs out and then plot more hyper jumps.

So this is according to spansh estimated time 4 days of doing that, assuming I don't need to go mine tritium anywhere. I bet I do so that will make this trip interesting, that desperate need to get tritium mined, but first you need to discover the rings haha Smiley ;)

Looks like PMC Wanderer new ID is Q1L-19Z

2020-06-19T21:41:14Z Docked at Grairaea KC-B d1-6/Q1L-19Z.

Now I just need to keep an eye on the cooldown 3min timer so I don't get caught in discord or something while carrier is ready to plot the next jump, there is plenty of time to read discord when the extremely long 15min counter is running. 

2020-06-19T22:02:15Z Docked at Eembaitls HD-I c23-2/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-19T22:23:15Z Docked at Eembaitls HF-U b30-0/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-19T22:46:14Z Docked at Eembaitl YX-U d2-3/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-19T23:07:15Z Docked at Dryu Chroa LO-X c28-5/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-19T23:29:14Z Docked at Dryu Chroa NJ-P c19-1/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-19T23:50:15Z Docked at Dryu Chroa JW-Z b27-1/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T00:11:15Z Docked at Baulou TI-D b12-3/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T00:32:14Z Docked at Ooscs Chruia OO-Z d13-58/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T00:53:15Z Docked at Ooscs Chruia TL-L c21-3/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T01:14:15Z Docked at Oob Chruia DD-D c12-6/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T01:35:16Z Docked at Oob Chruia CM-F b11-2/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T01:56:14Z Docked at Stuenooe NO-Z d13-1/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T02:17:15Z Docked at Kuemo UR-P b39-6/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T02:38:16Z Docked at Stuenae QK-F b25-1/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T02:59:14Z Docked at Stuenae QR-N c6-2/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T03:20:15Z Docked at Hypao Auwsy SM-Z c27-2/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T03:43:14Z Docked at Hypoea Prau YD-E a80-1/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T04:04:15Z Docked at Hypoea Prau ZO-R b24-1/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T04:25:16Z Docked at Hypoea Prau RN-V b8-0/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T04:49:15Z Docked at Phrua Ploe DZ-D d13-10/Q1L-19Z.
2020-06-20T05:10:16Z Docked at Phooe Aoc XD-K d8-8/Q1L-19Z.

Then I was so tired had to call it a night. More traveling tomorrow.

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