March 8th, 2552 Catch Me if you can Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting So – we’ve been able to confirm that the fleet made it to VV 271.1 but of course, what we’re seeing is not what they’re doing. In fact, I had just finished hauling my gear to the […]
Read More 68-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 7th, 2552 Theoretical Time Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting If everything is going according to plan, Dancer will have picked out a landing site and will be preparing to deploy the remote landing craft. Knowing the crew, there will be a long debriefing and they’ll hold off landing until […]
Read More 67-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 6th, 2552 Waiting Game Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Day one of waiting. So far, this mission seems to be a study in how long I can hold my breath. We won’t know for 2 days if they made it to VV 271.1 and then it will only be […]
Read More 66-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 5th, 2552 Communications Breakdown Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Communications started to break down almost immediately – the homing beacon on the Valkyrie went from sounding ever minute to every two until it was almost pointless. If anything happened to the fleet – I’d be traveling so slowly I’d […]
Read More 65-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 4th, 2552 Wall Flower Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/Wall Flower – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting With all the briefings and all the discussions, the fact that I would be staying with the main fleet while the Valkyrie and the Memory headed out, the fact that I’d be watching from the sidelines didn’t really hit […]
Read More 64-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 3rd, 2552 Planning Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Okay, I know that the plan is the first casualty of actually trying to execute it. I wonder if that’s why execute is the word we use— anyway, today is 9th day, and while we’re taking it easy today, we’re planning. […]
Read More 63-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 StarsMarch 1st, 2552 Call Sign Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Dancer, Jo-Jo, and to a lesser extent Skip decided that I needed a better call sign than ‘Convict 237’ it didn’t roll off the tongue, and it just has too many syllables. I was hoping they’d go with ‘Kat’ it […]
Read More 61-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 29th, 2552 Heart to Heart Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It was after my third training run of the day while I was waiting for Flight Ops to decide what monkey wrenches they could throw my way when I caught sight of Dancer. Betty Jean Cartanzki— I kid you […]
Read More 60-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 28th, 2552 Catch and Release Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting So… the selected pilots they get to do planetary landings and all the extra flight time they can manage so they have as much experience as possible. That means landing on everything in the fleet, including Big Momma, and lots […]
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