February 10th, 2552 Project Tweaks Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic in training – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting The Franken-ship is looking more ship, less cobbled-together these days. She’s not as sleek as the other exploratory ships, but she wasn’t designed to win any beauty contests. She’s a multi-purpose vehicle and as such, she’s a thing of her […]
Read More 41-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 9th, 2552 Trio of Terrors Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic in training – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting You’d think with how busy we are and how much work we have to do in order to survive long enough to do our mission— people would be focused on that. Well, most reasonable, well-balanced people were focused on […]
Read More 40-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 8th, 2552 Arcade Games Flight Simulator Failure/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Today, based on the new protocols, all pilots were called upon to report to the simulator for training. My problem is— the simulator isn’t real. In the history of simulators, I have yet to find one that actually handled like a […]
Read More 39-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 7th, 2552 New Protocols Metallurgy trainee/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Spending the night onboard the Twilight was— surreal. There’s only a skeleton crew, and everyone there was either sleeping with a spacesuit in hand, sleeping in an escape pod – or simply not sleeping. I spent most of the night dozing in […]
Read More 38-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 6th, 2552 Robot arm Metallurgy trainee/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It would seem that working in an iso suit is like working in a spacesuit that is far more delicate and unforgiving and you have almost no dexterity whatsoever. Working in an iso suit over a spacesuit is just plain ridiculous. On […]
Read More 37-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 5th, 2552 New Job, better job Concerned Pilot/Metallurgist/Mechanic/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Today was the first landing on an alien planet, well, almost landing, almost tragedy. Remember how I said that we were making plans based on things we know while poking at the unknown? Yeah that… Turns out that at least […]
Read More 36-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFeb 4th, 2552 Adapt or get left behind Katherine ‘Kat’ James, sometimes pilot, sometimes wrench monkey reporting While I am still working on the Franken-ship, I am also taking science classes on types of rocks and minerals and how they are formed. Or as Tower put it – If a bunch of Einherjar can learn […]
Read More 35-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 3rd, 2552 New Job, better job Pilot/Mechanic/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Daniels has decided that I need to focus on one thing right now and that is my project. He seems convinced that we are going to need to be able to scavenge parts, coble them together and make something we need. […]
Read More 34-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 2nd, 2552 Redundant Redundancies Pilot/Mechanic/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It’s fun sitting in on lectures about safety and caution when what they want you to do is touch down on alien planets, follow protocols that were designed to control the unknown based on the known. So we’re basically gathering samples following protocols […]
Read More 33-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 1st, 2552 Buckling down Pilot Mechanic Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It almost feels like we were all holding our breaths and now that we know where we are, and just how far we are from home, we can get to work. Until now, we’ve been maintaining the fleet and discussing the possibilities – now […]
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