March 31st, 2552 Limbo Tow Truck Driver/Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting This is what hell feels like. The only thing worse than arguing bureaucratic red tape with the brass is arguing scientific paradox theories with a bunch of engineers and scientists, and I’ve got both. All I want to do is do my […]
Read More 91-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 30th, 2552 Bad endings Tow Truck Driver/metallurgist’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting A lot has changed overnight – another squad from the Valkyrie arrived, Dancer was with the squadron and I knew something was up when her first reaction was to hug me. The others were slightly more restrained, but they were all […]
Read More 90-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 29th, 2552 Findings Tow Truck Driver/metallurgist’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting So, after all the cloak and dagger work they decided that it was time to hold a briefing and go over their findings, not with the fleet, not just with the mechanics, and God forbid they talk to me— no, they reported […]
Read More 89-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 28th, 2552 Stress points Tow Truck Driver/metallurgist’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Tower and Fipps have been doing their best to keep me occupied and out of the way, but by midday, they’d had to call for re-enforcements. Cookie tried being reasonable and when that didn’t work Mac went straight to the facts. […]
Read More 88-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 27th, 2552 Busywork Tow Truck Driver/metallurgist’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Well, since they couldn’t have me just sitting around moping, Cookie and Mac worked together to get me some kind of assignment on the project. I understand that the powers-that-be want to make sure I don’t break something during the reverse engineering […]
Read More 87-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 26th, 2552 Age vs Beauty Tow Truck Driver/Gumbo Cook and caretaker/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting I’m not allowed to touch the new ship— they don’t even want her in the same compartment as My Gumbo. Aside from yesterday’s walkthrough— I haven’t gotten to see the ship, I can’t put her through her paces […]
Read More 86–Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 25rd, 2552 Need to Know Tow Truck Driver/Usual Suspect/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting I wasn’t the only person to recognize the general build of the ‘package.’ You can wrap it up however you like, but a ship is going to look like a ship under wraps unless you box it first. By […]
Read More 85-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 24th, 2552 Almost but not quite under wraps Tow Truck Driver/Usual Suspect/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting The top-secret package arrived today – Wrapped in the plastics we were taught to wrap artifacts in, only it was wrapped so tightly, no one could tell what we were looking at, which I think was […]
Read More 84-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 23rd, 2552 There’s an Acronym for that Tow Truck Driver/Usual Suspect/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Well, the squad did not return with the find, but two pilots did, looking for extra grapples and repairs to their ships where the grapples failed. I should have been allowed to work on it. I’m qualified […]
Read More 83-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 22nd, 2552 Double Secret Assignment Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting They are still being so secretive about everything and the only good thing I can say about it is the fact that I’m not the only one who’s about to burst from all the secrecy. Even Cookie and Mac […]
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