“Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic.” – Edward Abbey, Author

20.3.yc118 J115234 < Constellation 66 < Region 8

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For some odd reason, I’ve been in the news recently. So, why all the attention this past week? I completed my K-Space exploration three and half months ago and started my W-Space exploration at the first of the year. One would think that with faster than light communications the news of my grand adventure would be clear across the cluster by now. Perhaps only bad news travels fast and good news is slower than light speed? Regardless, it’s nice to share my story, even as one who tends to be a bit shy and quiet such as myself. (Maybe that’s the real reason news has been slow to propagate!) Some call that humble and that’s part of it as well. I hate talking about myself, my accomplishments, and I certainly don’t boast about it. I’m a firm believer that your true character is not defined by the words you speak, but rather by the actions you take.

Tiberius StarGazer

To be fair, I was contacted by Tiberius StarGazer, Editor in Chief of #EVE_NT, a couple of months ago, but with the CSM elections and other happenings going on around the New Eden cluster, my story took a little longer to be posted. No worries at all in that regard and completely understandable. I believe it is also because of their post that the other highlights have come about this last week. (On a side note, I was contacted the week after my completion of K-Space by the ISD, Interstellar Correspondence, for an interview, but they never followed up after my reply that I would be interested in sharing my story. Not sure what happened there. *shrug*) ((Side-Side Note, immediately after my announcement, CCP did post about it on their Facebook page as well as their week in review, which was really nice and very kind of them to do so.)) I just wanted to take this blog entry to shout out some folks and say thanks as well as highlight the news articles and post if you wanted to check them out for yourself.

Kenneth Endashi

Cista2

First up, special thanks to Tiberius StarGazer who kicked it all off this week with the EVE-NT news article “Katia Sae – The Exploration of New Eden and Beyond”. Thanks so much for having an interest and giving me an opportunity to tell my story! No worries for taking time to get it out. 🙂 Next up fellow corpmate and explorer Kenneth Endashi who posted on the EVE Online Forums “Meet Katia Sae – who explored and photographed known space. All of it.” Nothing is greater or more humbling than being recognized by your peers. Thanks Kenneth and thanks to those who posted replies! Especially Rain6637 who posted a great spin on the Star Trek intro, lol. I’ll post it below. Lastly and perhaps the most surprising was from Cista2, who tipped off Massively so they posted “EVE Online player spends three years visiting every system” about my journey that referenced the EVE-NT article. That was very nice to see and the comments posted by the readers were for the most part pleasant to read. 😉

Mynxee

Finally, special thanks to Mynxee, who always goes out of her way to encourage and support all of us in Signal Cartel, no matter how we choose to explore the cluster. In my case, she’s always posting encouraging replies and the medal I was awarded for my endeavor (which I love, btw!) to news articles and post that talk about my journey and in the case of CCP’s EVE Online Facebook page a while back, defending me. 🙂 I couldn’t ask more of my CEO, let alone a friend. It’s a pleasure to serve such a great corp and I do mean that. Their encouragement and support go a long way to keep me going. I couldn’t do it without them as well as others who’ve encouraged me along the way. So, thanks to all who have taken a moment to read, comment, and send emails. You all keep this half-hearted fanatic going.

Rain6637

Jove space: the final frontier.
These are the systems visited by the explorer Katia Sae.
Her ongoing mission: to photograph all known systems,
to seek out new sights and new warpable objects.
To boldly go where no capsuleer has gone before without being tossed out of the AT.

– Rain6637

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“Always concentrate on how far you’ve come, rather than how far you have left to go.” – Unknown

6.3.yc118 J163701 < Constellation 248 < Region 25

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Two hundred wormhole systems explored and a couple of thousand to go. Several folks have asked me: what is my goal, how many wormhole systems per day was I hoping to explore. My reply was honest, I had no goal per se. However, I was hoping to keep my previous pace from known space which was 6 to 8 systems per day on average. With two months and 200 systems, my pace has been steady, but it’s half of what I had achieved before. Well what does that mean? Instead of taking a year at the least to find the 2,604 wormhole systems I need to explore, it’s looking like at a minimum of two years and that’s “IF” I find all the systems I need to when I need to and keep my current pace of 3 to 4 a day. That’s unlikely, as I’m already hitting a fair number of duplicate systems I’ve been to already.

What’s really odd is, I’ve only explored 8% of wormhole space, but this last week, it seems my odds of finding a system I’ve already been to has been closer to 30%. One would think I should be encountering about 1 in 10, but it’s been closer to 3 or 4 in 10. There must be something to that, something strange. It does seem I find systems clustered together and not by constellation or region. Once I find 1 I’ve been to, I find many. By the same token, when I find 1 I’ve not been to, I find similar. Groups and clusters… odd and not what I was expecting.

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Something else too and this should come as no surprise, but it was pleasant to see, like known space and the familiar background nebulas found in each region, the same can be said of wormhole space. I’m sure that’s what played into the classifications of them, it’s an easy means to identify them. In a future blog entry, I’ll post them up. There are still some regions I’ve not found yet and I’d like a chance to include them as well. If you’re curious, you can check them out here.

I’ve heard it said that slow and steady wins the race, but this isn’t a race nor are there any prizes. I’ll just keep at it to appease the explorer within me. Fly clever!

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