Entry 14
Came across a waypoint. It located a massive forest filled with the large flowers that scatter actoss the planet surface.
They reach 5 meters high with a stick stem and large orange petals. I inspected the plants close up, trying to understand why the waypoint lead me here. Why was this marked. Now, i know all plants have some use to someone, so i decided to do some real research. Their pollen isn’t loose like most flora. Found that the pollen are packed in round spheres and when handled carelessly, they pop open and create a large orange cloud that obscures vision and coats everything in an orange glaze. Very hard to remove.
I started carefully collecting these "pollen bombs" and storing them in crates. Spend the whole day cutting down the flowers and collecting them. When the sun set, i had 4 crates, with 15 units each. Already looking forward to convincing some Gek or Traveller that this is worth buying/using haha!
Entry 15
After spending five days on Alkeline XII, I returned to the ship and slept the night in the back of Lover, Please Stay.... The systems hummed softly, the air finally clean after days outside in the toxic haze. I left early the next morning. It was time to move on.
Some Travellers choose differently. They settle. Pick a planet and commit to it fully, mapping every inch, cataloguing every species, turning a single world into a lifetime of work. I understand the appeal. There’s depth in that kind of focus.
But that was never going to be me.
I’m an explorer. There’s always another horizon, another signal, another unknown waiting just one jump away. Staying too long starts to feel like missing out on something else.
I have a direction, even if I don’t always have a plan. The center calls, whether I understand it or not. Every system I pass through, every planet I leave behind, brings me one step closer.
Whatever is waiting there at the middle… I intend to see it for myself.