by Melanie Edmonds
Ship’s log, 23:51, 5 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting Location: Outer hull (Big Ass pauses in his traverse across the surface of the ship to clip a safety line onto an anchor ring. Turning, he trundles down the curve of the ship’s side, spinning the […]
Ship’s log, 22:27, 5 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting Location: Cargo Bay 1 (From an open vent high on the cargo bay wall, there is an echo of soft squeaks, followed by a metallic scrabbling sound.) Location: Engineering (An upper access panel is open. […]
Ship’s log, 21:44, 5 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting Sometimes, things happen so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. Even for a ship, used to managing parallel streams of input, processing, and output, it’s stressful when they all seem to compete at the same […]
Ship’s log, 20:53, 5 October 2214 Location: Approaching standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting Location: Bridge STARRY: Another anomaly, captain. (In the centre of the room, a light blooms in the holographic schematic of the ship, indicating the location of the gravity fluctuation. It is near the bulkhead between […]
Ship’s log, 19:02, 5 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting Artificial gravity disabled Inertial dampeners offline That’s three, by my count. Three distinct gravitational fluctuations, each one stronger than the last, each one located in a different part of my structure. I have disabled all […]
Captain’s log, 18:24, 5 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting Log location: Captain’s Cabin This is Captain Warwick reporting after direct contact was achieved between the crew of the Starwalker and the star-born entity known as Cerces. The official wording might be technically correct, but in […]
Ship’s log, 16:14, 4 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting Cerces wants an avatar. He wants to come with us. The captain is definitely going to kill me. I should get Sara to wake him up. The captain needs to know about this. But what does […]
Ship’s log, 14:33, 4 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting This isn’t at all what we had in mind. I know we were a little bit rushed getting here but this is ridiculous. It isn’t supposed to be happening like this! Right now, I’m standing on […]
Ship’s log, 13:02, 4 October 2214 Location: Standard orbit distance from the Cerces black hole horizon Status: Orbiting They call space a ‘void’, but this close to a black hole, I’m starting to get a new perspective on the word. Looking into it, into Cerces’s darkness, I see a real void, a nothingness. That’s […]
Ship’s log, 11:56, 4 October 2214 Location: Near Sarabande Station and the Cerces black hole Status: Sublight transit I just moved inside the orbital path of Sarabande Station and cut my sublight engines. I’m still heading towards the black hole, but coasting now. It’ll take us a little time to get in as close […]