by Melanie Edmonds
Ship’s log, 12:54, 28 July 2213 Location: Corvus FTL Corridor Status: FTL transit We’re on the move again. Hurrying back towards the JOP at a fast limp. The FTL drive is working fine, and the captain has put our so-far-useless pilot in charge of managing the jumps. It frees me up to concentrate on […]
Chief of Security’s log, 09:26, 4 August 2213 Location: Intersystem between the Corvus FTL corridor and the JOP Status: Sublight transit Chief Gail Cameron, reporting on the Lou Tripi situation. Verify credentials. Identity verified. Credentials verified. Good. Lou Tripi was arrested on 7th July and placed in the Starwalker‘s brig. She has […]
Ship’s log, 13:32, 11 August 2213 Location: Intersystem between Corvus FTL Corridor and the JOP Status: Sublight transit We’re a couple of days out from the JOP. I think I’m the only one not looking forward to getting there, though I have plenty of reasons to be glad of the chance to dock. Once […]
Ship’s log, 15:50, 13 August 2213 Location: Intersystem between Corvus FTL Corridor and the JOP Status: Adrift Recording: 14:02, 11 August 2213 STARWALKER: (sounding strained) Elliott, my engines are offline. All of them. ELLIOTT: (in Engineering with his head down over a holographic interface) Yeah, I know. I can hear them not humming. SW: […]
Captain’s log, 09:20, 18 August 2213 Location: Intersystem between Corvus FTL Corridor and the JOP Status: Adrift This is the captain, checking in. The ship is still adrift – we’ve been hanging out here in the black for so long that we came dangerously close to a collision. We were getting close to the […]
Ship’s log, 13:43, 25 August 2213 Location: Intersystem near the JOP Status: Sublight transit I can’t believe the captain asked me if I would lie to Elliott. If I had eyelids, I’d have widened them to stare at him. For him to ask that – ultra-straight John Warwick, who always plays by the rules […]
Ship’s log, 08:45, 1 September 2213 Location: JOP approach Status: Thrusters only Here we are. Home(?). My birthplace; where I started, and where I might end. Butterflies are caught in my ventilation shafts. I’m on final approach now. My FTL and sublight engines are offline, disabled by standard protocols this time, not sabotage or […]
Ship’s log, 02:52, 8 September 2213 Location: JOP Status: Docked I am officially dead. For Danika, this is the second time, and it’s no more accurate now than it was the first time around. The motions have been gone through, the logs have been doctored and filed, and my decks are missing their hum. […]
Ship’s log, 12:16, 15 September 2213 Location: JOP Status: Docked They’re forgetting me. My crew, the ones who went to the captain to ask him to find a way to save me. The ones I’ve nurtured and kept safe in turn. They’re getting used to me not being here. It’s only been a couple […]
Captain’s log, 14:26, 22 September 2213 Location: JOP Status: Docked This is the captain’s log. We’re docked at the Jumping-Off Platform, awaiting a decision by the Judiciary on the matter of Security Officer Lou Tripi and the sabotage she committed aboard the Starwalker. The crew have given their statements and we have provided all […]