July 21st, 2552 – Building a better base Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting With plans of fuel processing in the works, it looks like the lunar – bug-free base, will need a better design, and a lot more safeties built-in. That means airlocks, separate buildings; shielding, and distance between processing centers since ores […]
Read More 203-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 20th, 2552 – Harvesting fuel Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting The seeds that were planted on Ptera have started to sprout, and the seedlings have taken root. In the morning everything was going according to plan. I was leading the bugs away while the science team checked on the plants. I almost […]
Read More 202-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 19th 2552 – Lunar Base Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Today we started work on a base station on the moon, the idea being that we’d have a place to process ore from the belt and, if it pans out, produce from Ptera without having to keep the fleet near-by. Ptera might […]
Read More 201-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 18th, 2552 – Jumpgate navigation Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting You’d think the command staff would understand the concept of downtime, and maybe they do, but usually under the heading of ‘no rest for the wicked.’ While metallurgy and astronomy were focused on the belt, and bio and agriculture were focused on […]
Read More 200-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 17th, 2552 – Agricultural Endeavor Scout/Bug herder/Chef Kat James Reporting With the scouting done, I was informed that my services on the belt were no longer required— at least not for a few days, so, in the meantime, I’m back in a dart playing dodge bugs with herds of fireflies. While I played pied […]
Read More 199-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 16th, 2552 – First Industrial Enterprise Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat James Reporting One of the advantages of being one of the criminal consriptees is the fact that no one trusts you so they record everything you do. It means that when you come in from 48 hours of mini jumps and roughing it in […]
Read More 198-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 15th, 2552 – Exploratory Mission Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat James Reporting One of the skills the Jump pilots have learned is how to prepare meals in your ship. The difference between me and the other pilots is the fact that the Rummage Sale Gumbo is designed to do a lot of different things – […]
Read More 197-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 14th, 2552 – Point of origin Decoy Pilot/Pest control Specialist/sometimes suspect Kat James Reporting Today we focused on the moon, so instead of running decoy, I ended up in the Gumbo shuttling samples from probe craft to a temporary pontoon craft that was serving as a base between the moon’s surface and the rest […]
Read More 196-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 13th, 2552 – Moonglow Decoy Pilot/Pest control Specialist/sometimes suspect Kat James Reporting So- it would seem that the life cycle of the fireflies is just enough that I can kill off a bunch of them and we have maybe 12 hours to work without the fireflies before they start building up again. So, this […]
Read More 195-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 12th, 2552 – Sidestep Decoy Pilot/Pest control Specialist/sometimes suspect Kat James Reporting Today, I almost got myself blown up. Twice. Someone decided that there were a lot of raw resources on the planet of exploding insects and they needed more people collecting more samples – which meant they needed a bigger target for the […]
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