Advent 2020 Day 15 – Guest Battleship Master Dwagon

Hello everyone,

I’ve been blessed with something quite lovely today. They’re guesting on today’s Advent pic …

May also contain Lucrehulk Battleship

Isn’t it lovely ? Also adorable. How about a better look ?

Has great taste in snacks

I love it. He’s a custom dwagon made for me on behalf of a very dear friend, inspired by my own dwagon pics. I was still in work mode when he arrived but now that’s dropped I’m genuinely a little bit emotional :-).

A lovely and very special gift. THANK YOU !

I have been struggling a bit lately, probably because Brain wants to go on Xmas leave already. But Dwagon has picked me right up.

I’ve been doing internet spaceship again over the last few days. The objective was to get to the first waypoint in “The everlasting expedition”. It’s way off to the Western edge of the galaxy. Here’s the map :

Green means whoosh

The more dense line scrawl to the middle right is where we live in our galaxy and the rest of the scrawl shows where I’ve been since resetting. I’m hoping to circle the galaxy on this outing. Only about 250,000 light years to go. It gets pretty difficult to navigate when you’re on the fringes of the galaxy like that and Searching For Dragons needed another little refit to give her the jump range required.

110 light year jump, without a neutron star

Yep. Long way. And I suspect being off angle like that is going to really upset some people who see this :-D.

Where stars ?

It’s an odd sight too, because there are usually many more stars in sight than what’s in that picture.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun. Where is it ?

I think that might be the Andromeda galaxy painted on there in the lower middle.

4 billion stars

And that’s us looking back at our galaxy from the extreme edge.

Pretty.

I don’t think I’m going to be talking about the games I intended to mention tonight. (Master of Orion 2). They’ll wait for another day.

Dwagon is such a thoughtful and lovely a gift and I’m still massively going Aww 😀 <3.

Searching for … landing spot ?

That’s where I left the ship tonight. Stay safe everyone, be well.