Day 9 - Thread
It’s time to leave this planet before it eats you or crushes you or sells you something else you don’t want! It wasn’t the tourist hot spot that it advertised - time to see what a new sector of space has to offer! You charge up your engines and ascend through the atmosphere back out to the calm silence of space.
Enjoying the serenity for just a moment, you see what looks like a large tour bus chug along past your windshield. A tour! Just what you need to get acquainted with these parts.
You follow the bus and see the words “Hermes Tours” painted in large letters along the sides of the bus. You hail them and they send over information about the tour, including a map of the area. You’re thrilled to start the tour, but the bus seems to be stalled out, waiting for something. What is the tour bus waiting for?
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Follow the rules listed on the right to chart a single loop path through this region of space. To get started, notice the asteroid your van is next to is on the edge of the map, so the path through it has to run left-to-right.
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Once you have your path figured out, travel along it, starting from your van. The last section of the rules says to pay attention to the distances between asteroid fields. Notice that there is always one planet between asteroid fields - the position of that planet along the path is important.