October 11th, 2552 – Ashes Ashes. Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting This time when the well opened up, we had some warning and were in the process of leaving our space for another we’d been scouting when the Lasatiea were on their way. It started with a tickle in my mind— like the kitten soothing […]
Read More 285-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 10th, 2552 – The children’s table Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting When I was a kid, and distant relatives would come to visit on some holiday, the adults would have a veritable feast – all the fancy foods and the good dishes would come out— except for the kids. I remember being relegated to […]
Read More 284-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 9th, 2552 – Caution is the better side of caution Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting So – having no idea where Earth is from here has its advantages – there’s no need to worry about telepathic entities picking up on it, but… they do pick up on a lot you don’t think they would. […]
Read More 283-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 8th, 2552 – Exploration Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Today, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about Nietzsche… something about staring into the void and having it stare back. Yeah, it seems that the void isn’t really all that void – it’s just… not designed for us. There are… beings in the […]
Read More 282-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 7th, 2552 – Tactics Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting One of the decisions the brass had to make was not one I envied: do you put all your eggs in one basket where you can protect them or keep them apart which means randomly moving about and trying to communicate with one another? What […]
Read More 281-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 6th, 2552 – communication issues Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I can only imagine how hard it was for Jatuun to relate to Aziz, and they are the same person at different stages in their evolution. From there, trying to communicate to the Older one and have her translate to me— that was like […]
Read More 280-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 5th, 2552 – Conversations with old friends Part III Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Communications are a strange thing – you have to have a point of reference to have any hope in understanding each other. Andi proved to be our bridge— but she wasn’t really Andi anymore – she was a lot more […]
Read More 279-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 4th, 2552 – Conversations with old friends Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Lil’bit showed up around noon and I somehow knew that I didn’t need him to talk to Jatuun. I knew that Jatuun had done something to me— something more than teaching me what I needed to use the well. Jatuun was once […]
Read More 278-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 3rd, 2552 – Void walking Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Today we worked on finding places where the expansion was thick enough for us to form a well and traverse the void that way. We had a lot of failures – but I also just knew when we’d hit the right point. I could […]
Read More 277-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 2nd, 2552 – Expansion Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting With Jatuun in my head I was able to lead our expedition team away from the Lasatiea. Through Lil’Bit I was able to understand that the only way to avoid them was to cross the void. Easier said than done. The void is nothing and […]
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