by Melanie Edmonds
Ship’s log, 11:19, 15 May 2214 Location: Orbit around Corsica Sol, Corsica system Status: Star Step drive active This isn’t going well. We started the work on Corsica’s gravity tides four hours ago. We had the simulations all calculated, the factors all built in. We had a plan of attack. Everyone agreed that we […]
Ship’s log, 06:30, 16 May 2214 Location: Orbit around Corsica Sol, Corsica system Status: Star Step drive active It’s a new morning and everyone is eager to get going today. We have a new plan, a new way to help this star. The latest simulations ran smoother than our previous ones, and returned the […]
Ship’s log, 14:28, 17 May 2214 Location: Orbit around Corsica Sol, Corsica system Status: Sublight transit After yesterday’s rounds of skimming the corona, pulling streaks of burning gas along in my wake, and letting them fall back down again into new patterns, I feel like my hull is thin and pitted. I don’t have […]
Chief Engineer’s log, 14:28, 21 May 2214 Location: Corsica to Alpha Centauri FTL corridor Status: Sublight transit This is Engineer Monaghan, logging on the 21st of May, blah blah, reporting on the refit of the Starwalker. We’ve been installing a bunch of new gear: check the logs if you want to know what, but […]
Ship’s log, 16:32, 26 May 2214 Location: Alpha Centauri to Beta Apodis FTL corridor Status: Sublight transit Coming out of another FTL jump, I feel like my hull is humming. Elliott keeps griping about stress fractures, even though we haven’t found any yet. Bit and Byte have been scouring my bulkheads and beams, just […]
Ship’s log, 16:32, 15 June 2214 Location: Beta Apodis to Alpha Centauri FTL corridor Status: Sublight transit Tick another fixed star off my list: Alpha Apodis is healed and settled down again. We only Stepped in and out of it once, fairly recently, so it was much easier to soothe her patterns than the […]
Ship’s log, 22:19, 27 June 2214 Location: JOP to Feras FTL corridor Status: Sublight transit I feel like I’ve been out of the universe for an age, as if I’m disconnected from the bigger issues driving the world around me. Normally, it would be rare to be within sensor range of another ship in […]
Ship’s log, 19:45, 28 June 2214 Location: Approaching Feras orbit, Lambda 1 system Status: Sublight transit This system is thick with ships. I thought there were a lot the last time I was here, but that was nothing compared to this. The beacons are bleating constantly, trying to guide ships into the correct orbital […]
Ship’s log, 20:16, 28 June 2214 Location: Feras orbit, Lambda 1 system Status: Docking approach On the outside, I move serenely, sweeping around to docking bay Alpha 62. They’re squeezing me in between a freighter and another scout-class, the clamps extending at an awkward angle to account for the bigger ship’s bulk. I should […]
Captain’s log, 11:21, 30 June 2214 Location: Dock Alpha 62, Feras, Lambda 1 system Status: Docked and powered down Log location: Captain’s cabin Every time I open this log these days, I wonder if it’s for the last time. Things will start to happen soon and then there won’t be any time for logging, […]