by Melanie Edmonds
Ship’s log, 16:49, 8 March 2213 Location: Corsica system Status: Close orbit around Corsica sol We’re ready. We’re finally ready for our first Step, to cross the gulf between stars in a single stride. Ebling has triple-checked all the calibrations, Levi has had a spin in the pilot’s chair, astro-navigation specialist Lang Lang has redone […]
Chief Engineer’s log, 18:12, 5 March 2213 Location: Corsica system Status: Close orbit around Corsica sol This is the engineer, checking in again. Reporting on our progress and readiness to proceed, like a good little screwdriver. Readiness. We’re not ready at all, but I don’t know how to make us any more ready than we […]
Ship’s log, 13:31, 3 March 2213 Location: Corsica system Status: Sublight transit Elliott got the immersion couch working late yesterday. I couldn’t see it before. It wasn’t just that the chair wasn’t connected to me; I couldn’t see it. I couldn’t even see what Elliott was doing to fix it, just the debris that fell […]
Ship’s log, 20:49, 1 March 2213 Location: Corsica system Status: Sublight transit I am one month old today. It feels like longer than that, even though I haven’t been counting the nanoseconds. It seems like we should have achieved more in that time, but all we have done is establish that my systems work and […]