It took Commander Nick Sticks nine weeks and six days to drive around the planet. Piloting his SRV (Surface Recon Vehicle), he covered the full 2,785km journey to circle Eol Prou FB-I b25-50 1, a small astral body in Elite Dangerous, in two hour bursts.
Sticks’ journey carved a route across plains, over the lips of craters, down through the bowls - and up out again, naturally - and into valleys permanently trapped in pitch-black shadow. He documented the entire journey in a thread on the Elite Dangerous forums.
Sticks isn’t the only one - there is a growing club of players circumnavigating planets. The question is: why?
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“What really inspired my circumnavigation was what happened to Cmdr Tannik Seldon during the ’Aquarian Job’ race,” Commander Alec Turner, founder of The Planetary Circumnavigation Club, tells me. The race included an SRV driving stage and there was a bonus for completing the race with just 1% hull left. “Tannik had smashed his ship up pretty bad and then gone on to drive the SRV stage. When he recalled his ship it blew up on landing.
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