Entry 0007 - What is COL 70?

CMDR's Log
13 Sep 3302

So here I am, enjoying the view, getting ready to blast past Barnard's Loop, and finally set my sights on the outer rim.

I am going to miss views like this.

When my nav computer starts puking on every route I try to plot toward the rim. Every plot, "Plot failed." After some poking around, slowly backing my route length up by hundreds of light years at a time, I found out that the sector directly between Nehet and the outer rim, by way of the far side of Barnard's Loop is called COL 70. Every system I checked in COL 70 is restricted. You need a permit. A permit that's not recorded in my nav computer. The nav won't even think about setting a route to or through anything in that sector.

Usually, you'll see a message saying "Sol permit required" or "Acheron permit required". Those, I get. This is "Unknown permit required." That is some shady, hinky stuff right there.

Conspiracy theories aside, it looks like I'm going to have to backtrack a bit. I've made that turn to starboard a little earlier than I expected, along with a pull up toward what we usually call the North of the disc, to try and miss COL 70 by way of COL 69.

The shape of frustration.

On the upside, COL 69 showed me my first white star in a while. Yellow was getting pretty boring.

It's the little things.

Anyway, I've set down on a little rock to stretch out, get some shuteye, and try and sleep off the frustration of this minor setback. Hopefully, the next transmission will be from a good chunk more rimward than I am now.

Nighty night.

CMDR Aubrey Herreshoff,
Signing off.

== EOT ==