March 12th, 2552 Some pieces not for use with other sets Tow Truck Driver/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting I spent the morning conferencing with Cookie and Mac on the changes I worked out with Fipps. Cookie was the one who found the issue before anyone else. We worked out the changes on individual […]
Read More 72-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 11th, 2552 Some Assembly Required Tow Truck Driver/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice/ – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Fipps set the telescope up, but all we saw was yesterday’s news. Well, technically it was the day before yesterday’s news if what he’s telling me is right. Let’s face it, the only part of relativity that I’ve ever […]
Read More 71-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 9th, 2552 Catch and Release Tow Truck Driver/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘ConV’ James Reporting Today was kind of like yesterday, only in reverse. Fipps turned the scientific equipment over to me and I mounted it on the Pavane. After Cookie and Mac reviewed everything remotely, Fipps came back for a final systems check. Dancer […]
Read More 69-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMarch 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 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 […]
Read More 59-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 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 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 […]
Read More 48-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsFebruary 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 […]
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