Starwalker

Ship’s log, 10:27, 1 February 2214 Location: Positional orbit around Gienah Sol Status: Stationary   Finally, I’m starting to feel whole again. My edges are the right shape, my skin has been repainted, and I have thrusters back in all the right places. My filaments are fixed and settled into their channels along my hull. [...]

Ship’s log, 08:02, 28 January 2214 Location: Orbit around Gienah Sol Status: Partial sublight transit   No more crazy FTL jumps for me. There’s a reason why they teach pilots never to do that and I came pretty close to the worst-case scenario. I have an awful list of injuries. It makes me glad that [...]

Ship’s log, 20:03, 26 January 2213 Location: Gienah System, Corvus constellation Status: Sublight transit   Our plan is set. I’m to make a suicidal FTL jump towards a star and ride the corona to the other side. I have to make everyone think I’ve melted in the heart of Gienah Sol, all to get enough [...]

Ship’s log, 19:47, 26 January 2214 Location: Gienah System, Corvus constellation Status: Sublight transit   There’s a bitter taste in my mouth: I’ve decided to side with the pirates. It feels like someone has flushed acid through my ducts, or there’s a dustbunny in there, spitting with disgust. I’m backed into a corner. I could [...]

Ship’s log, 10:52, 26 January 2214 Location: Gienah System, Corvus constellation Status: Sublight transit (tethered)   Things are shifting on my decks, subtly and only when no-one else is looking. I’m full of smiling ghosts who sidestep whenever someone glances away. The captain is talking with the rest of the crew, making arrangements and setting [...]

Captain’s log, 16:24, 19 January 2214 Location: Gienah System, Corvus constellation Status: Sublight transit (tethered)   It feels wrong calling this a captain’s log. I’m not a captain any more; I’m a prisoner aboard my own ship. I’m not prepared to call this a ‘Prisoner’s log’ just yet, though. By the time I’m ready to [...]

Ship’s log, 12:41, 12 January 2214 Location: Gienah System, Corvus constellation Status: Sublight transit (tethered)   Elliott has disappeared inside my head. Did I upset him? Did all that tactile stuff make him that uncomfortable? It was just… a little touch. Was it wrong of me? Maybe he went to back to fix those grav [...]

Ship’s log, 12:06, 12 January 2214 Location: Gienah System, Corvus constellation Status: Sublight transit (tethered)   The captain asked me to break into the comm traffic between the mercenary ships and the people they have on my decks. He figured they had to be routing their transmissions through my systems, and he wasn’t wrong. So [...]

Ship’s log, 10:52, 12 January 2214 Location: Gienah System, Corvus constellation Status: Sublight transit (tethered)   So here we are in a new system in the Corvus constellation, trucking towards Gienah Sol. I thought we might head to Minkar again, but Hunt doesn’t want to risk it. We have to be predicatble enough not to [...]

Ship’s log, 17:01, 5 January 2214 Location: Corvus FTL Corridor Status: FTL transit (tethered)   I have a bitch in my head and it’s not me. This Morra, she’s not welcome and she knows what she’s doing. She knows how to step on my protocols and walk through my systems on spike heels. She’s done [...]