I’m attending a writer’s retreat this weekend and one of the exercises for overcoming writer’s block was to look at a picture and put an element from the picture into your story – you don’t need to include it – but I think I’ll keep it… My picture prompt was a kitten… and this was […]
Read More A Year Among the Stars – AllegoryMarch 15th, 2552 Study in green Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting New suit, still class C- but at least I’m not being studied. I am, however, being recorded. This is to make sure I don’t screw anything up, and if I do— there is an audit trail. I pulled the […]
Read More 75-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 2nd, 2552 Researching the Research Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Today was spent shuttling people between ships as we prepare to separate into our mission groups. I guess they’re getting all their physical time in while they can. Transmissions are all well and good, but since we haven’t figured […]
Read More 62-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 17th, 2552 Stir Crazy Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It seems that the attitude of the flight deck is following the science department’s lead – the only pilots who need to work on landing and dusting off from different surfaces are the pilots selected for the exploration missions, so all […]
Read More 48-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 16th, 2552 Assignment Envy Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/Mechanic’s Apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting The science boys have mapped out the area and have identified several likely planets to explore – with FTL up and operational, the plan is to leave the Valhalla as our base of operations and then have different ships take different […]
Read More 47-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 15th, 2552 Wrong Pilot, Right Time Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic in training – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Sometimes you get assignments based on the best person for the job – when you can plan things out— that’s what happens when things go according to plan. The universe, it seems, loves a plan, and how little […]
Read More 46-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 12th, 2552 A moment Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic in training – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting I nearly hit someone today, which usually a good sign that I need to back off and regroup, only I’m on a ship that’s more like a small town. Sure there are people I haven’t met and haven’t ticked off […]
Read More 43-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 11th, 2552 Failure to maintain Philosopher/Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic in training – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting The universe is not a forgiving place. Sometimes we forget that— sometimes the reminder is a little hard to take. We really didn’t have time to mourn properly when the Twilight ruptured, we were too busy trying to make […]
Read More 42-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 6th, 2552 Robot arm Metallurgy trainee/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It would seem that working in an iso suit is like working in a spacesuit that is far more delicate and unforgiving and you have almost no dexterity whatsoever. Working in an iso suit over a spacesuit is just plain ridiculous. On […]
Read More 37-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 5th, 2552 New Job, better job Concerned Pilot/Metallurgist/Mechanic/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Today was the first landing on an alien planet, well, almost landing, almost tragedy. Remember how I said that we were making plans based on things we know while poking at the unknown? Yeah that… Turns out that at least […]
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