June 10th, 2552 Starting something Part-time mechanic/Jump Gate Engineer Kat James Reporting Today has been a case of unraveling a long chain of ‘We said, they said.” For once I was glad I wasn’t considered ‘first contact’ material. Especially when they accused us of invading their space and trying to assure them that we were […]
Read More 162-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 9th, 2552 What Goes Around Part-time mechanic/Jump Gate Engineer Kat James Reporting As the retro fit progressed, I was beginning to feel hopeful that we’d be able to turn things around, and it looked like we might be on the safer side of things when The Enemy fleet shifted into our plane around us. […]
Read More 161-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 8th, 2552 Jump Gate Engineer Rescue Pilot/ Part-time mechanic/Jump Gate operator Kat James Reporting My new official designation is Jump-Gate Engineer, which is cool, even if it isn’t accurate. I know that I’m one of the few pilots who can trigger a well, and use it to go where I want, and I can […]
Read More 160-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 7th, 2552 Happy Landings Rescue Pilot/ Part-time mechanic/Jump Gate operator Kat James Reporting I’m pretty sure I lost a day or three in there, but since we got back to the fleet today, I’ll just do my update with today’s date. To be honest I kind of lost track of how many times I […]
Read More 159-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 6th, 2552 Left Handed Spanner Rescue Pilot/ Part-time mechanic/Jump Gate operator Kat James Reporting It seems my avoiding discovery has taken us a lot further out of the way than planned. Fipps figures it’s going to take us about seven jumps spread out over the next few days if we want to get to […]
Read More 158-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 5th, 2552 Side Stepping the Enemy Rescue Pilot/ Part-time mechanic/Jump Point operator Kat James Reporting We were on our second set of jumps, and I was in the well about to push on when my detector went off – The Enemy was close by and closing in on us. Since we couldn’t stay in […]
Read More 157-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 4th, 2552 Wishing Well Rescue Pilot/ Part-time mechanic/Jump Gate operator Kat James Reporting Our arrival was baffling to the rest of the fleet, especially since we were responding to an SOS that hadn’t been sent yet. While Tower answered a lot of questions about what happened, Fipps worked on making sure that everyone could […]
Read More 156-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 3rd, 2552 Might as well Guinea Pig/ Part-time mechanic/Canary in search of a coal mine, Kat James Reporting With all the planning and briefings and debriefings the brass scheduled, the actual jumps were rather anti-climactic. We had to take four jumps of twenty, which was new, but in theory, it was the same as […]
Read More 155-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 2nd, 2552 I win? Yay me? Guinea Pig/ Part-time mechanic/Canary in search of a coal mine, Kat James Reporting It took several iterations of ‘The Gumbo is the only ship equipped for jump point travel’ before the brass accepted that the Gumbo was the ship that would have to go and find out what […]
Read More 154-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 1st, 2552 SOS Guinea Pig/ Part-time mechanic/Canary in search of a coal mine, Kat James Reporting Today’s Testing was canceled and we have a new directive: find the rest of the fleet. It started with a 30 day old SOS and got weirder from there. I have a decent understanding of Time/distance communications and […]
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