April 30th, 2552 Sensitive Exploration Team /Test Pilot/ Parttime Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting So after a few training runs on landing on the moon and Dancer’s retreat, I ended up working to design a better landing system, well, landing and lift system. I had a library full of design specs, with everything […]
Read More 121-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 29th, 2552 Landing on Theoretical Impossibilities Exploration Team /Pilot of Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting So, my first official day of working with the Exploration Team and what am I doing? Designing better landing gear for landing on unknown surfaces. See, this is where simulators fail. You can program the most complex […]
Read More 120-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 28th, 2552 Back to the Basics Exploration Team /Pilot of Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting When you can’t make sense of things, its usually because they don’t make sense, or you’re missing something. Sometimes the missing things are small, sometimes it’s a world of science and technology that are simply beyond your […]
Read More 119-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 27th, 2552 Reflections Exploration Team /Pilot of Schroedinger’s Kat/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting I’m not sure who, or where— but I seem to have someone higher up who’s listening and watching out for me. Just like the Gumbo— If I don’t progress as we had planned the me that would have built the […]
Read More 118-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 26th, 2552 The Ship That Wasn’t There. Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting And just when you think you have a line on everything, someone pulls the rug out from under you. Just one of those things – a pilot landing their craft, only the deck went one […]
Read More 117-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 25th, 2552 Resource Management Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting Today I learned that I am no longer a convict, a pilot or a mechanic – I am a resource. I knew I was on this mission as an expendable member of the crew that’s what joining as […]
Read More 116-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 24th, 2552 Getting Approval Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting I now have official orders to proceed with working on the Gumbo and I’ve been granted full access to the official notes on the 5.7. And I’m using them – not the way the brass would think— our […]
Read More 115-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 23rd, 2552 Scribing. Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting Today marks the day I would have added the arm to the Gumbo if all these shenanigans hadn’t started happening. Now I’ve got another other job… one that needs to happen like yesterday. We all knew the arm was […]
Read More 114-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 22nd, 2552 Laying our guns on the table Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting The only good thing I can say about today is the fact that, with a reliable witness and video, the brass is now investigating the non-crew. Of course, it took them trying to kill […]
Read More 113-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsApril 21st, 2552 Who’s protecting what from whom. Survivor of The Second Twilight of the Gods Incident/Schrodinger’s Undead Kat Reporting I now have two sets of guards – the first set is making sure I don’t touch my own ship. The second set is making sure no one touches me. It took me the entire […]
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