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Note: this article may contain references to the biography of Martind Forlon.
While relaxing in local station bar I opened Galnet and read latest news. One from articles called "Ghost Ship arrives in Chukchan System" raised my interest. At first I thought it will be one from those old huge Generation ships (usually found as abandoned wrecks), which were able travell only at sublight speed, but then I found some notes saying that this may be something little different. I not needed much time for deciding to go there, and thought which ship may be the best choice for journey there. In the end I choosed my newly purchased Imperial Clipper which I equipped for survival in hostile space ... news like that always attract also rogue commanders and possibility to be attacked are high. However in so fast ship, like Imperial clipper is, and which is equipped with high capacity fast recharging shield, can pilot feel quite safe, unless he do bigger serie of own mistakes. Nice look, very good maneuverability at supercruise speed and luxury internal space are further bonuses of this ship and allows fully enjoy all "exploration" trips.
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Details are important, I know it, ... or better to say I really should know it. I didn't pay enough attention to details in news and megaship's log, and this resulted in wrong assumptions. News were saying that megaship called Adamastor travelled at sublight speed almost 200 years to her final destination (system Chukhan), but that is not the same like say that ship has only sublight engines. I searched for help (Note: Cannon discord was very helpfull like usual 
) and then quickly realised where I did mistake. I needed follow megaship course backward (and not try to find her 1st destination, like I tried), and on that last part (in ship's log) the megaship certainly travelled at sublight speed. Latest Adamastor's stop before Chukhan was in system with single A class star ...
I searched in galaxy's map for system with given characteristics in presumed course and there was just only one single system with A class star in almost 200ly distance to Chukhan.
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I flew there and on arrival I've started distant scan of each planet (using Full Spectrum_Scanner, aka FSS, which is internal part of each ship). It not needed much time to find planet which had on surface possible "other" Point of Interest (PoI). After short flight in supercruise I reached planet and headed to destination with PoI. My reward was find of wreck of crashed Sidewinder ...
I landed with my clipper and deployed surface-recon vehicle (SRV) equipped with Data Link_Scanner (DLS) designed to "hack" different sort of data sources. From Sidewinder computer was downloaded personal log of Professor Carver. Log contained big amount of interesting information and also clear clue leading to nearby nebula (Coalsack Nebula) which was my next destination. After 10 hyperjumps I reached nebula and started local survey. Small complication was, that nebula contained more systems with star type (single class "M" star) mentioned in Adamastor's log. This may take a while ...
Finally I found the correct system! Before this I however needed to visit maybe 30 other systems which had main "M" class star, but inside of system did not met other conditions from Adamstor's log. Distant scan of planets revealed POIs with possible content related to Thargoids (like Barnacle forests etc., which all have unique energy output). Inside of system were three high-metal planets which fit conditions, on the last one I finally found one from previous "stops" of megaship Adamastor ...
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... and this journey is not over yet ...
