January 12th, 2552 Crew Review Convict 237 reporting for duty I’m learning a lot more about the interplay between the Deep Space Exploration Agency, the Confed Military and the Justice department conscription committee, or more to the point, the lack thereof. It turns out that the majority of the crew was handpicked by the mission […]
Read More 12-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 11th, 2552 Evac Drill A Bunny suited Katherine ‘Kat’ James reporting There’s nothing like an emergency drill after the fact. The ‘Twilight of the Gods’ hull ruptured. The emergency call rippled through the fleet. Before the klaxons fell silent, half the crew was gone. There was a tense silence as the recovery teams were […]
Read More 11-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 10th, 2552 Ship Shape isn’t all that shapely Pilot Katherine ‘Kat’ James reporting Now that we are officially in unknown territory we’re working our way through systems checks. I’m learning a lot about swearing, detecting areas of radioactive saturation and stress, what Cookie calls ‘an RS and S’ check. My part of the check […]
Read More 10-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 9th, 2552 9th Day Pilot Katherine ‘Kat’ James reporting Today is our 9th rotation, an official fleet day off, which is to say everyone only works as much as necessary to keep things running smoothly. We get a few extra hours for leisure, and this, our first 9th day, was also the day we […]
Read More 09-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 8th, 2552 Exhaustion has its benefits When you’re too tired to rise to the bait one of two things happen – you either end up being the victim or they leave you alone because your lack of reaction kinda takes the fun out of picking on you. It also helps if they know that […]
Read More 08-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 7th, 2552 The more you know… They say the more you know the less you understand. Personally I want to find whoever ‘they’ are and slap them in the back of the head. After our morning inspection and commisary duties, we were to report to our assignments for the day. In my case, I […]
Read More 07-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the starsJanuary 6th, 2552 Cross-Training Wrench Monkey in Training- Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It seems that my apprenticeship to the chief mechanic had been planned before I was even accepted to the Vision Project. Chief Charles “Cookie” Pentecost, told me that the justice department had forwarded our psych evals along with recommendations on how to best […]
Read More 06-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the starsJanuary 5th, 2552 Identity Pilot Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Sometimes I think I put that there just so I can remember who I am. I am so tired of being called Convict 237. Then again it’s better than being called by the charges I was convicted of. The more I learn about my fellow consriptees, […]
Read More 05- Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 4th, 2552 Dates Pilot Katherine ‘Kat’ James wondering One of the downsides of having too much time and nowhere to go is the fact that you have too much time to worry. I compensate for this by wondering about random things. Today I spent a lot of time thinking about dates. I started wondering […]
Read More 04- Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 3rd, 2552 Colorful Kat again Each section of the ship is color-coded. If you lose your way, all you have to do is find your line and follow it around the ship back to your area. There are, of course, variations on the color – patterns and shades where things overlap. Medical, for example, […]
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