March 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 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 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 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 20th, 2552 Psych Eval Shuttle pilot/Lab Rat/mechanic’s apprentice – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting 4 months since I was assigned to the Vision Project, 3 Months after leaving Tera-prime and being dumped on the Valkyrie’s view, a month after we lose half of a ship’s crew and just days after another pilot is killed – […]
Read More 51-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 […]
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