Once that happened, it became a very fun and interesting challenge. It involves locating a star that will take you in the desired direction and determining its distance. If it's beyond your ship's maximum jump range, you determine if an FSD injection (a temporary boost to jump range, good for one jump) will get you there. If so, do the injection, make the one jump and repeat the process.
In this manner, I sometimes managed to get to a small cluster where the navigation computer could plot a 2 to 4 jump route without using the injections. The injections consume resources and resources are limited! It's best to not use the injections if you don't have to.
I found a very pretty earth-like world, way out here in the middle of nowhere.
Later, I found a metal rich planet. I decided to land and do some mining to see if I could get some of the resources needed for FSD injections. This may be the smallest planet (moon) I have ever landed on. It has a radius of only 170 kilometres!
I made back into Hawking's Gap, which sits beside Lyra's Song. It finally became very difficult to find a path into Lyra's Song, so I parked it for the night. I may need to move further clockwise along the region before trying to go outward into Lyra's Song again. I'm right on the edge of the border, but the closest star inside the other region is about 140 light years away. Even with an FSD injection, my maximum jump range is 127.24. That just doesn't work!
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