Elite Dangerous

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Tell us about your longest journey!

Posted by Alex Sinclair in Elite Dangerous

Not all those who wander are lost, and not every odyssey comes from Odyssey! For this reward, we want to hear the stories of the longest journeys you've ever undertaken in Elite Dangerous, regardless of whether or not you made across the finish line. What did you set out to do and why? Who did you do it with? What trials and tribulations did you face along the way? Bonus points for storytelling flair and images! Feel free to enter with text, but we'd love it if you entered with video instead.

Thank you to VoldainHunt for the reward idea!

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Created at 8:30am, 11th December, 2024. Page last updated at 11:36pm, 9th March, 2025.
Deadline at 12:00am, 10th March, 2025.

Submissions (27)

XCezor2/17/2025

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o7 Commanders!
In terms of the furthest journey, it was to the Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and here are some pictures I've made during that journey:

And speaking about the longest journey in terms of the most time spent on it, I think it was our squadron activity during the Colonia Operation (our code name for the Third Phase of Colonia Bridge Project), where Fleet Carrier owners involved into it (including myself) had to move their megaship entire way to the Colonia system. So because this journey takes a lot of time by itself, I've made some pictures while waiting for another jump or direct in the Colonia region.

There were a couple of challenged during this operation. How much fuel we need to reach Colonia, how much will we waste with full cargo space, how many carriers we need to have any chance and the most important one, who will deliver all that cargo in Colonia from our carriers.

After a bit of math we've managed to load all carriers with cargo and tritium for extra fuel, and those who finished earlier, started their journey. I won't add extra details here because I've already explained this operation in another, older post on Just About, so I'll leave a link to it:

Tell us the story of one of Elite's most iconic moments! | Just Elite Dangerous

Elite Dangerous has been around for a decade, and Elite itself has been around for four times longer. During that time, there have been countless iconic moments...

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Alec_Turner12/30/2024

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I expect most people's submissions to this bounty will be measured in light years (or hyperspace jumps) and so you may not initially be very impressed when I say mine is approximately 4,600 kilometers but let me introduce you to the Planetary Circumnavigation Club.

The Planetary Circumnavigation Club

Having just completed my own circumnavigation of a small moon in an SRV I decided to do a little bit of research and have come across enough other people crazy enough to perform this right of passage that I thought I'd create a new thread to celebrate their achievements. If you too have driven...

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This club celebrates the achievements of those commanders who've completely circumnavigated entire planets or moons in the humble SRV (you can find a complete list of all officially recorded circumnavigations in the OP of that forum thread - there are over 100!).

To date I have completed 6 circumnavigations of my own, the longest of which was around HIP 23759 9 A (subsequently named "Wormwood" by fellow planetary circumnavigator Walter Wall, aka Alvin aka Stardust Brothers). It's the yellowy brown moon in the image below.

If memory serves this was my third planetary circumnavigation and it wasn't originally intended to be a circumnavigation at all. It was just a nice planet and an intriguing little ravine, which I followed.

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At the end of the ravine was more ravine, and then some beautiful landscape, and then an intriguing mountain on the horizon and then another and so on until, before I knew it (and long after most who followed my exploits knew it) I'd gone all the way around the planet and ended up back where I started.

You can read the full account of my nearly three month long journey over on the following forum thread:

Let's see where this little ravine takes me

Back in November 3305 I paid a visit to HIP 23759 to see the Gnosis, which had allegedly got itself entangled in an installation. When I got there the Gnosis had been freed but the sight that greeted me on arrival was spectacular nevertheless. On posting that screenshot in the Screenie(s)...

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As a final piece of advice for anyone tempted to head off on a "little" journey of their own (whether it be a planetary journey like this one or a galactic journey like many others here) I will just hand over to a wise wizard who once said ..

ThePunisher993/9/2025

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As I joined last year this beautiful game I still didn’t do much in exploration but I'm gonna tell you My story of my last big adventure :

just few days after I started I wanted to do some exploration after doing combat and also trading, so I managed to find a planet with some signals so I targeted it and went with my humble old Sidewinder I managed to learn how to use SRV in an other planet and started making my way to my destination ( some Geological formation on planet surface )
what I didn't know is once on It how to reach It, so for over 5 hours I was cruising through the coldest environment just to out of no where I saw white textures.

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Hunter3/9/2025

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In 2022, more then 3 years ago my feet and my ship still called the spirit took to a journey I never forget. I decided to go and search for the first time the Barnacles sites.
I planed my way to " Pleiades Sector PN-T b3-0 " where it should spawn a lot of them.
Jump after Jump, Scan after scan I accumulated millions, until I reached my goal .
At first I found only empty sites without metal alloy which was the big price but I didn't give Up
many hours of probing later Finally found what I was looking for :

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But the Journey Didn't end their as I found my self heavy with the caustic metal alloy in my cargo I got a signal from a close system as Unhuman signal I reached to my galaxy map and locked in my FSD and jumped with no second thoughts, what I found made me fall in love with this game as shown in this video was unlisted from back then and published today, sorry for the quality ( my old pc )

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PixelBandits3/6/2025

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My longest journey in terms of distance within Elite Dangerous was out into the Formedine rift, to the site of the Zurara mega-ship. This was way before there were many large ships, and this was part of a tour where I checked out Elite's creepy and atmospheric generations ships as part of my own Operation Minerva.

It took me weeks to get out there, but when I finally arrived it was quite an experience. There were a number of audio logs (no spoilers!) but most of all the tranquillity of knowing that there was likely not another player for light years around... eerie, peaceful and incredible all in one package.