Elite Dangerous - A Distant Rendezvous (43000 LYs from home)

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So, about 9 weeks ago Erimus Kamzel set out to explore the far side of the galaxy on an epic journey that took him through the galactic core, past nebula and black holes (incl. Sagittarius-A) alike. He's documented his journey in an absolutely glorious series of YouTube videos entitled "Distant Suns":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlxQlUpqv8OAmzA41B5A2u2_SqVXf2s2Q

On the way he twice came out of supercruise wedged between binary stars that caused heat damage, leaving his Asp currently at 24% hull and with a badly cracked windscreen. With no stations in that remote part of the galaxy and thus no opportunity to repair he's now been limping his way slowly back towards civilized space, trying to plot a path that will avoid any further encounters that would surely destroy his now paper thin ship, the Beagle 2.

Meanwhile another adventurer, R4nger0 (R4 to his friends) has been making a similar whisky fueled voyage in his Sidewinder (Sneaky Pete), why? because it's hard and FOR THE DAMN GLORY! as he would say in his daily "Crossing the galaxy in a Sidewinder" twitchstream:

http://www.twitch.tv/r4nger0

About 2 weeks ago it became apparent that these two, with some minor course alterations, could arrange a rendezvous.

Unbelievably, this meeting finally took place around 4:00pm GMT yesterday. The two pilots, with so much to lose, were naturally cautious about getting too close to each other but ultimately the whole thing went off without a hitch.

The OP shows the video that Erimus made of this encounter.

R4's unexpurgated hour long twitchstream is available here:

http://youtu.be/JvG_pQ0xwrM

Truly awe inspiring stuff!

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