September 20th, 2552 – Now we’re cooking Structural Engineer/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I got a long debrief from the brass and a warning from Fipps. The brass wanted to make sure they’d covered everything and that they made it clear that they were not responsible for what I did on my […]
Read More 264-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 19th, 2552 – Survival Structural Engineer/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I think we were all in shock. 7 skiffs, full medical staff, or scavenging teams— just a field of debris. I knew I should high tail it, but where? There were more of us on board that we had supplies and […]
Read More 263-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 18th, 2552 – Review, retrieve, repeat Structural Engineer/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Today things fell into a bit of a routine. The salvage crew would survey an area, identify the key pieces we’d want and or need, then the trained wrecking crew would come in, disassemble the items take out the […]
Read More 262-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 17th, 2552 – Human is a state of mind Structural Engineer/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Now that we’ve identified the source of our problems and, more importantly, how to counter them we’re getting to work on salvage and honoring the dead. We have to do this relatively quickly since we aren’t […]
Read More 261-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 16th, 2552 – Triage Structural Engineer/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Surveying the wreckage we could see that most of the damage had been done from inside each ship— at least until one or two of them fired on the others. As near as we can tell, the ships that were fired […]
Read More 260-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 15th, 2552 – Proper send-off. Escape artist/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Unfortunately, there were a lot more losses than recoveries. All told we were able to save 7 Ani children and 2 adults. Call it a moral imperative, call it sentimentality – we couldn’t just leave the bodies of the fallen […]
Read More 259-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 14th, 2552 – Rescue Operations Escape artist/Subversive Rescue Operations Director Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Our Salvage message quickly became a rescue mission when we found out, thanks to our computer and linguistic specialists, that many of the Ani in the medical bays had been put into stasis. As chaos reigned, orders were given for […]
Read More 258-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 13th, 2552 – Bone Yard Escape artist/Probable Plague Victim/Subversive Influence Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting It turns out there was a reason we haven’t seen any new jump points in the area of Tequila Sunrise: The Ani had a fleet parked on the dark side of another planet’s moon laying in wait. The only reason […]
Read More 257-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 12th, 2552 – Conspiracy Theory 2.0 Escape artist/Probable Plague Victim/Subversive Influence Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting What do you do when your team of crack scientists start acting like themselves and the medics on the evac skiff declare them cured? Why you go back to the environment that put them there in the first place, […]
Read More 256-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 11th, 2552 – Time and Distance Escape artist/Probable Plague Victim/Subversive Influence Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting So, the grumpy 12-year-olds are starting to come around, except for one who’s sure I must be at the root of it— probably did something to the food I was bringing. He kept giving me the hairy eyeball and […]
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