October 7th, 2552 – Tactics Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting One of the decisions the brass had to make was not one I envied: do you put all your eggs in one basket where you can protect them or keep them apart which means randomly moving about and trying to communicate with one another? What […]
Read More 281-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 6th, 2552 – communication issues Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting I can only imagine how hard it was for Jatuun to relate to Aziz, and they are the same person at different stages in their evolution. From there, trying to communicate to the Older one and have her translate to me— that was like […]
Read More 280-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 5th, 2552 – Conversations with old friends Part III Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Communications are a strange thing – you have to have a point of reference to have any hope in understanding each other. Andi proved to be our bridge— but she wasn’t really Andi anymore – she was a lot more […]
Read More 279-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 4th, 2552 – Conversations with old friends Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Lil’bit showed up around noon and I somehow knew that I didn’t need him to talk to Jatuun. I knew that Jatuun had done something to me— something more than teaching me what I needed to use the well. Jatuun was once […]
Read More 278-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 3rd, 2552 – Void walking Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Today we worked on finding places where the expansion was thick enough for us to form a well and traverse the void that way. We had a lot of failures – but I also just knew when we’d hit the right point. I could […]
Read More 277-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsOctober 2nd, 2552 – Expansion Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting With Jatuun in my head I was able to lead our expedition team away from the Lasatiea. Through Lil’Bit I was able to understand that the only way to avoid them was to cross the void. Easier said than done. The void is nothing and […]
Read More 276-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 29th, 2552 – Another place another time Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting No way this ends well… The diplomats want me to take them back to Baljatuun, Jatuun told me not to come back until I heard otherwise and of course I’m the only one who heard it or could understand what he was […]
Read More 273-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 28th, 2552 – Another Time, another place Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Sometimes I think my life is a shell game. The day started out with me three diplomats, an Einherjar rep, and three guards heading planet side to talk to Baljatuun. He seems to need someone or something to talk through with the […]
Read More 272-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 27th, 2552 – At Odds Pilot/Explorer/Interpreter Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Baljatuun is learning how to communicate with me, or I’m learning to listen better so he can tone down that sandpaper on sunburn feeling in my brain when we communicate. I get the feeling he has hasn’t talked to anyone in a very, very […]
Read More 271-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsSeptember 26th, 2552 – Baljatuun Pilot/Explorer Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Because of our first touch down protocols, no one was really worried when I spent the night planet-side. Let’s face it, worst-case scenario, I can sidestep almost anything and get— somewhere. Only it seems Jatuun can interfere with the well – and then all windows […]
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