I bought Elite Dangerous when it went on sale, right after the newest update. It had been on my wishlist for a while now, but it just seemed like the right time.

Then I heard about the second Distant Worlds expedition.

It seemed like something interesting, so I started to scramble around to gather the resources to make the trip.

My Commander wouldn't have even attempted the trip if not for two things. The first was a very generous player who cut me in for part of a high-value wing mission, and the second was couple of overly successful mining missions.

This still didn't quite optimize what my commander actually has, it was just enough money to make the journey sort-of practical.

Of course I fly all the way out to the first way point, some 5,500ly from where I was based, and immediately start having regrets. Is my ship really good enough? Am I a good enough pilot to survive the unknown? What could I have done to make the trip easier and faster?

(As it turns out, rather a lot so far. At the very least if I had taken another hour to engineer my FSD I could have added another 5ly to my jump range. As it stands the first waypoint station doesn't sell the equipment that I would need to be able to do it here and flying back to the 'bubble' of civilization would take me hours of gameplay I'm not sure I have time for. Especially since I would then have to turn around and come back to the waypoint.)

It could be an interesting UF story, and maybe a way to pull in *insert fandom here*. A sort of gold-rush has kicked-off resulting in a large mass of civilians of various abilities grabbing whatever ships are out there and flying out into the void to see what is there (and to get the naming rights of anything they find.) This could be a group heading out from known UF space, or maybe a group heading in largely unaware of how crowded the galaxy really is.