October 26th, 2552 or January 2553, maybe 2650? – Sub-currents Pilot/Explorer/Envoy Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting It’s one thing when you’re the one being railroaded— the universe is like that and let’s face it, it’s how I got here in the first place. But not one, but 3 or 4 different species are being maneuvered like […]
Read More 300-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 StarsJuly 26th, 2552 – Dart Express Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting From the sound of things, the brass is thinking we should spread out more so that if we’re attacked–when we’re attacked— we won’t all be in one place. While I can agree that small groups might be able to move around unnoticed, […]
Read More 208-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 19th 2552 – Lunar Base Scout Pilot/travel agent/Chef Kat “S-Kat” James Reporting Today we started work on a base station on the moon, the idea being that we’d have a place to process ore from the belt and, if it pans out, produce from Ptera without having to keep the fleet near-by. Ptera might […]
Read More 201-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJuly 4th, 2552 – Never study physics from a philosophy professor Part-time mechanic/sometimes suspect Kat James Reporting Today Druckab vanished for half the day- but when he returned, he was a lot more forthcoming. I’m guessing that he spent the morning reporting in to the Parataph command and they’d given him the go-ahead. It seems […]
Read More 186-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 16th, 2552 Instant Pre-play Part-time mechanic/sometimes suspect Kat James Reporting This is so surreal it isn’t funny. The Parataph had put me and Druckab in a room with a panel of experts, theirs and ours. I basically have a lawyer, a diplomat, and a very protective, yet diplomatic Einherjar in the form of Tower […]
Read More 168-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsJune 14th, 2552 Internal issues Part-time mechanic/sometimes suspect Kat James Reporting I have no clue what the Old One told The Enemy but things have seriously changed. First, their name actually translates closer to Nemesis than Enemy, and to be honest the two words meant the same thing to me, but I’ve learned that there […]
Read More 166-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 27th, 2552 Jump Points Guinea Pig/ Part-time mechanic/Canary in search of a coal mine, Kat James Reporting So- it seems the trick to getting me to shift is to get me bored to the point of tears, talking about scientific theory and shipboard politics, throw in some rules and regulations and then when I […]
Read More 148-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 14th, 2552 Worlds Collide Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic/un-diplomatic Diplomat, Kat James Reporting Today I met myself, if only for an instant. Aziz was trying to get me to understand their ways – that there is no barrier between worlds or times, that it’s all in my mind. For the most part, it was mostly […]
Read More 135-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsMay 8th, 2552 Curiously Random Test Pilot/ Part-time mechanic – Schroedinger’s Kat Reporting With 4 probe craft and the Valkyrie’s View performing the scans, we got a very good picture of the moons and the surrounding solar system. The atmosphere on Random is almost earth-like, with slightly lower 02 levels while Curious looks like it […]
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