February 2nd, 2552 Redundant Redundancies Pilot/Mechanic/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It’s fun sitting in on lectures about safety and caution when what they want you to do is touch down on alien planets, follow protocols that were designed to control the unknown based on the known. So we’re basically gathering samples following protocols […]
Read More 33-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 1st, 2552 Buckling down Pilot Mechanic Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting It almost feels like we were all holding our breaths and now that we know where we are, and just how far we are from home, we can get to work. Until now, we’ve been maintaining the fleet and discussing the possibilities – now […]
Read More 32-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 31st, 2552 We know the Frikarwe Pilot Mechanic Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Today is an official fleet celebration day – we now know where we are in relation to good old Mother Earth: We are in an area designated: galaxy MACS0647-JD – some 13.3 billion light-years from home. I don’t think anyone’s really thought […]
Read More 31-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 27th, 2552 A tour of the stars Katherine ‘Kat’ James, sometimes pilot, sometimes wrench monkey reporting I can definitely see why they have 9th day. All work tends to be hell for morale. But a little bit of organized tomfoolery can go a long way. While it was literally a bus man’s holiday, everybody […]
Read More 27-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 26th, 2552 Trouble is its own reward Katherine ‘Kat’ James, sometimes pilot, sometimes wrench monkey reporting Word of my antics reached my three self-appointed watchers. They made no bones about what they were doing, and the fact that they were on to me. It would be nice if they were actually watching what was […]
Read More 26-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 25th, 2552 Bad seed Katherine ‘Kat’ James reporting If I didn’t like Daniel’s before— I’d adore him now. When the ship’s guard brought me before him for breaking curfew, he just looked at them, and then he looked at them some more before shaking his head. “Gentlemen— we’re on a ship, in space, thousands, […]
Read More 25-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 24th, 2552 AWOL A prison suited Katherine ‘Kat’ James reporting There is another problem to having too many jobs, I can’t work on my craft until after the day’s assignments are done and the hangar has been swept and mopped. Then there’s a new duty, making sure all the equipment and spare parts are […]
Read More 24-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 14th, 2552 Backfire Pilot 237, Reporting Remember how I mentioned that there were different castes, and they don’t talk to each other? It’s more that they tend to issue orders to each other and no one is listening. Case in point, the Military was running the investigation into the explosion and at about 02:00 […]
Read More 14-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 13th, 2552 The stick Convict 237 Well, two months after launch and any progress we’d made as individuals has been forfeit. We’re all back to washing dishes, doing laundry, and cleaning areas no one else wants to clean. Worse, the guards are being particularly focused on keeping us away from anything that could be […]
Read More 13-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJanuary 10th, 2552 Ship Shape isn’t all that shapely Pilot Katherine ‘Kat’ James reporting Now that we are officially in unknown territory we’re working our way through systems checks. I’m learning a lot about swearing, detecting areas of radioactive saturation and stress, what Cookie calls ‘an RS and S’ check. My part of the check […]
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