May 11th, 2552 The Fates Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting Our hosts do not have a name for themselves and while the diplomats were trying to come up with something to call them, they explained that the old one (me) had named them ‘The Fates’ when they had visited me on Dancer’s […]
Read More 132-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 10th, 2552 A matter of protocol Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting First-contact is a really big thing in the fleet, and only the brass and people cleared for first-contact are supposed to actually, you know, make contact. That’s all well and good, but when the people you’re meeting with ignore the […]
Read More 131-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 9th, 2552 Curious and Curiouser Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting It seems the lizards have some friends in high places – Fipps was trying to catch one and as he almost had it, it vanished, reappeared on my shoulder, and chittered at him, almost like it was lecturing him. I chuckled […]
Read More 130-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 8th, 2552 Curiously Random Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting With 4 probe craft and the Valkyrie’s View performing the scans, we got a very good picture of the moons and the surrounding solar system. The atmosphere on Random is almost earth-like, with slightly lower 02 levels while Curious looks like it […]
Read More 129-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 7th, 2552 Randomly Curious Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting For now it looks like our exploration is going to be centered around Curious and Random, they both have better raw materials and Dancer’s Retreat looks like it will be much better for Agriculture and R&R. We’re supposed to start taking samples […]
Read More 128-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 6th, 2552 Dancing in the ruins Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting I got a lot of teasing about the lizards, and you can say what you like about that kind of encounter, they were friendly and curious, and as far as I know, they didn’t try and kill me. That in […]
Read More 127-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 5th, 2552 Random Encounter Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting I have to admit, I felt a lot better having something we could use to detect our visitors, and Fipps was actually able to use my recording and the information he got from his sensors to develop something that would, he hoped, […]
Read More 126-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 4th, 2552 Denying the undeniable. Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting Seeing the enemy ships in action seemed to be just what Fipps needed to work out part of the diagrams we had on the Mark 7.5. He said it was so simple he should have realized it weeks ago. He gave […]
Read More 125-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 3rd, 2552 Denying the undeniable. Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting It wasn’t until I’d finished my post-flight physical and a full debriefing before I learned that I was gone for 5 minutes after the explosion – I was there, the explosion hit and five minutes later I appeared about three kilometers […]
Read More 124-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 2nd, 2552 Ghosting Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting I’m learning more about mechanical engineering and science concepts – it seems to be the only way to survive this mission. It’s amazing how inspiring self-preservation can be. Today was a study in another science Icon – Murphy. Now Murphy and I were […]
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