September 23 3305

Today I started to explore this nebula.  I checked four systems at random and all four were previously visited by other commanders.  Which isn't surprising.  This is a large, prominant nebula and anyone coming out to this end of the galaxy is likely to visit it!

So, a new plan.  I am going to go as far out on the edge of the galaxy as I can.  I'll explore the very rim and slowly make my way back towards the bubble. 

*Later this same day.*

I noticed that there is a region on the edge of the galaxy called Tenebrae.  It is completely devoid of stars.  I find it odd to have a section of space marked off as a region of a galaxy, yet there are no stars there.

In my wanderings I found some peduncle trees and went in for some close up photos of them.  The first one has my ship parked about 50 metres from the tree, to show the scale of these things.  They must be about 200 metres across.