February 27th, 2552 Briefing Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting You can feel the excitement building. Everyone in the fleet from the conscriptee pushing a broom in maintenance to the lady serving coffee at the briefings, to the staff taking notes, we all feel it— okay, all three of those are me, […]
Read More 58-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 26th, 2552 Tow Truck Barge pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting With the first landing about to become a reality, I have a new-new job, and the Gumbo just added another purpose to her resume – Tow truck. The RS Gumbo is now the official barge for the Pavane. While the research […]
Read More 57-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 25th, 2552 Flight Team Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting With the exploration teams focusing on landing and training – the missions are being planned and each pilot is being assigned a dedicated support team – Mechanics, trainers and even a nutritionist. Any time they request a change to their ship, […]
Read More 56-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 24th, 2552 Final Exam Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Turns out the Gumbo wasn’t my Apprentice project – it was more a proof that I could follow directions, figure out what I needed and how to put something together from the ground up. My actual project to be judged by […]
Read More 55-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 23rd, 2552 9th Day Races Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting I have a new side project to work on, one I actually have some experience in. One of the things the fleet planned for us this 9th day was some races. Each ship pulled a pilot from their exploration team […]
Read More 54-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 22nd, 2552 Boxing as Therapy Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting I realize it was probably part of the investigation, but Tower was in the gym when I got there. I haven’t really done any training since the last time I needed this particular form of therapy, but he and several […]
Read More 53-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 21st, 2552 Cold Reality Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting We lost another crewman today. One of the conscriptees was found in a restricted area of the ship. Ship’s security investigated it – they took a whole 10 minutes out of their day to look into his past and the scene […]
Read More 52-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 19th, 2552 Troubleshooting Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting They broke Big Momma again – Different pilots, different pressures, different breakage– same arm. I looked at it, looked at Mac and shook my head – the chances of two different pilots using the same tools, doing the same job and breaking […]
Read More 50-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 18th, 2552 A new Project Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It seems that before I can work on adding an arm to the Gumbo, I need to work on the arm on Big Momma. It started malfunctioning during some of the training runs for taking samples. So, I have to […]
Read More 49-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 […]
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