Satterqua S43

As I waited and waited, I realised, once I am that far in saving up units, then I can also do it a bit longer in order to afford one of the 32 cargo unit Ships.

Jumped to the next system. It was a single planet system with the planet ending up a tiny bit to far inside the Goldilocks-Zone and hence about 50 C° during the day and the occasional heat storm that pushed it up to 114 C°.

Luckily enough though I found 5 planet bound equipment stations (through scanning from my ship) at which where I was able to expand my Exo-Suit-Storrage capacity and Gold nuggets as tall as a mountain.

Took me about 40 minutes to grind the essence of the Gold nugget from the mountain side into my inventory, with my current equipment.

After grinding for even more Gold and Emeril, in order to exchange into units, I finally made it up to 5,4 million. As soon as I had the finances, those ships that I wanted to buy stopped appearing.
Though, I was also sitting on a couple of Warp Cells, as a side product of my field trips. So I kept on jumping, from system to system and space station to space station, in order to look out for my next space ship. At the seven (accounting for approx 600 light years later), I found it. A Vi'keen Warrier sold her to me for 5.2 mill.

Now I have a full Hyperdrive, two spare Warp Cores and enough storage capacity to collect and craft.

 A view weapon upgrades and exploring as well as trading can begin.

I guess it will carry me quite a part of my remaining 178.000 Light years, and hopefully keep those pesky space pirates of my goods & at bay.

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On a different subject:

I keep finding those Atlas stations, which give me those Atlas Stones (worth about 60K where I am at the moment) and two tech items.

The last one looked more like a black hole, instead of a red pulsating sphere. Odd. Just Odd. Wonder who built them, and why. They seem to be connected with my travels back to the core and try sooth my mind ever-time I connect with them.

Well, as long as they keep upgrading and sponsoring me, ... no bother.

A Korvax Priest offered to show me a short cut through a black hole at a "space anomaly" station just one systems later. Got to say, sounds seducing, though I don't trust those kind of short cuts. With my luck, I fly in, calculations are off just a bit and I am even further out. To much of a gamble for me at the moment. Not happening. Lets see what the next planet brings.

For now I will follow the straight line that was set out for me.