Sender ID:Hermann Otto Location:My parents house on Planet Nuremberg, after a single but well earned holyday. Subject:Pilot Report on my first trip to Gallia To:DHC HQ CC:All interessted DHC employees Priority:Low Encyption:-
Guten Tag, meine Damen und Herren!
Some days ago I visited Gallia for the first time. It was a very long trip, so please don't be angry with me that I didn't report earlier ...
The background for my trip to Gallia was that Edling needed some Cryocubes for building further upgrades. There were still two Stock's holds left, when I was ready for a trip to Gallia, where I never was before. But because I wasn't there before I wanted not to fly all alone. On top of that I had a description of the way but not all waypoints in my computer. And I knew the Taus to be a dangerous place ... As Andreas Schmidt decided to fly there for one hold full of crycubes and offered to show me around, this problem was solved and to I agreed to acompany him bringing the secound load needet to Edling.
So we both loaded up our cargo holds with military vehicles at Nuremberg and set out for Kusari - the first step of that route.
Everything went fine, so we were in Kusari fast and proceeded without interruption to the Taus. From Kyushu we went via jump hole to Tau-23 Unknown terrain for me. So our trip became interresting for me at this point. First, the large astroid field and moderate radiation - both no real thread to us - but then: red dots appearing on the scanners! Enemy bases! And on top of that Andreas telling me that usually a lot of pirates, semi lawfulls and lawless folk used to hang around here!
But our luck doesn't desert us. We came through fine and went - again via jump hole - to Orkney.
First thing to see: the large minefield. But Andreas prepared me, so I did'nt run into it. He also told me that Gallia has a battleship next to neraly every jump gate and we discussed a while the benifits and losses of militarism ...
After that the third jump hole lead us to Languedoc and to the Gallic border. And near the Dauphine jump gate, I saw my first Gallic battleship. This ships are nearly as elegant as a liner. Knowing the gun power of Gallias gunboats and cruisers from meetings in Bretonia, that made me fear them even more ... Good thing I am having no querrel with them anymore! Also notable is, that Languedoc has eight planets! Something I haven't seen many times in Sirius.
Dauphine, we entered afterwards and through an as alien as elegant shaped jump gate, while having 'just' 7 planets suprised with another couriosum: it consists of unbeleavable FOUR suns (!!!) which are seeming not to rotate around a shared gravitational centrum at all (!!!). ... But thats not enough! In Dauphine you can find a cluster of four planets, forming something like an thetraeder around a fifth, smaler one! Physical impossible!!! But it was real. Andreas warned me not to came to near to that phenomenom. And I resisted to watch from a closer distance. When I remembered it afterwards, I am very glad I have risisted. That I was more than close enough.
Throughout all this suspense I nearly oversaw that at every jump gate we passed, a battleship has taken position.
In Burgundy, wchich has ten planets, we were welcomed again by a battleship. I think it was around here we recognized some space traffic. Besides its military presence Gillia seems quite empty to me. So we traveled to Ile-de-France, Gallias main systhem, unharmed.
Now it got very exiting again. Ile-de-France contains thirteen planets and another couriosum. This time not build by nature, but by the Gallics: they have built a double trade line through out more than half the systhem!! ... A double trade line, where nearly no space ships are around ...
That we were greeted by another battleship doesn't really reached my mind on this systhem beeing so big and shiny all around.
Suitable for a double trading lane, Planet New Paris has three docking rings. Not that suprising anymore. Anyway I had to concentrade on docking procedere now, because we finally reached our destination. So we landet on Planet New Paris to sell our Military vehicles and loaded up polymers Sarcelles Shipping Facility. Our way now led us past Montmartre Space Colony on wich Andreas made me aware. That one is really big and shiny. We really should invest some billion on Augburg to expand it ... or better built up a new colony!
But then we hurried to Sarcelles Shipping to swap our polymeres with cryocubes we have come for all the long way.
Afterwards we set out for the jurney home. But by using the jump gate between Ile-de-France and Burgundy we ot cought by a ion storm, cunfusing not just our ship's computers but the jump gate as well. But luckily we both got through well and could after our ship's systhems got back to normal proceed finally.
I can't say much to our jurney back. It was quite eventless after the ion storm. And still 'drunken' from all that new expiriences and wonders I have watched, I just regocniced the way back as quite long. You all can imagine how exhausted I arrived at Edling. And why I took a holyday after this to visit my parents. But I am glad I made this trip and don't want to miss it now. Thanks to Andreas for flying with me and showing me all this wonders!
Signed, Hermann Otto DHC-Gatzweiler
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