After spending the whole of the second day roaming and searching out further on the planet, I had decided to leave the planet today when the timing was right. From what I can tell I've managed to log all the local flora and fauna of the planet, and almost cataloged all the animals, save for one that escaped... my elusive "white whale" so to speak.
I found yet another ship crashed into this wild ship's graveyard... this pilot was worse off than the last... as it took a good while to scrape and pick the pilot's full remains out of the glove-compartment... and I so wish I was kidding! Guess we can give that one a jar-label of "Captain: The Special Sauce". As for this ship's name... I'm fairly certain the only way a human could pronounce it, is if they cut their tongue in two, and had one half sound part while the other half sounded the other part, at the same exact time... forget just tongue-twisting level of confusing... thus, not even going to try!
I've massively upgraded and modded out my multi-tool and managed to squeeze 22-slots into it. I'm seeing a way to get it up to 24, which I may mess with later... but for the time being it fights creatures like a cannon, and mines up resources in almost the same fashion... it might almost seem fitting for it to have a spinning barrel-chamber like a gattling-gun at this point. ;)
After stocking up a bunch of resources and believing myself ready to plunge back into the wild blue yonder just before hitting the wild blackness with white polka-dots of beyond, I finally bid fair well to Captain John Doe and Captain The Special Sauce, and rocket towards the sun, which oddly seemed to be just to my left as I was leaving the atmosphere, gonna' have to make a note of that if I ever return to the planet, because I'm fairly positive its thermostat is busted!
On my way up to the atmosphere I received a distress-signal alert on the view-screen... after scanning and locking its coordinates, I decided to track it down and see what's up. Turns out it was yet another Vy'Keen on a neighboring planet. This Vy'Keen however, had a message for me from a couple people, one of which I believe was named Polo, along with a blueprint for a light-speed hyper-drive. That'll be welcome on my trek back home. I rubbed his belly as I've come to learn to do with still being able to fluently communicate, pretty certain that's either a sign of respect or a request to a first date; whichever it is, I shouldn't be around on this rock long enough to find out, I hope... however, I am now up to what I believe is almost 60 words of their dialect, so that's good.
Packing it up and about to leave this little rock, I seem to get another hail from a nearby off-world space-station. Setting my coordinates I head there. Seems the same people that left the hyper-drive blueprint, have left another note telling me to buy one of the parts I need from a terminal on the station... at my own expense, gee, that sure was nice of them... sarcasm.
Finishing up, I find myself receiving a third hail from a planet that's a tiny bit of a jaunt across this galaxy, so I set coordinates, and boost my way over there. After a few minutes I come across a planet a bit even more barren than the one I went to originally for the hyper-drive blueprint. I've decided to jokingly name this planet "Mars II", and the one that had the hyper-drive blueprint "Valley of Death"... due to a sense of endearment and fuzzy-blanket-style-feelings to the first planet, I've decided to keep its name off the records, so that it can be my private "vacationing spot" later in the future, maybe.
Anyways, on "Mars II", there's another Vy'Keen with another note and a chunk of antimatter which apparently is needed to assemble the hyper-drive. Once I had all the components I needed, I went ahead and built the sucker into the ship. I've decided to rocket up and park half-way through the atmosphere in an ionosphere-pocket, rendering me undetectable by radar for the most part, and am watching the event-horizon of the galaxy "sunset" as we speak.
Once again, this is Commander Thundermonkey signing off until next time!
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