15-March-2173 (10:42:13)<\/p>\n
In dock at Nusku Spaceport.\u00a0 Captain Brierfield has assigned me and Mr. Matthews to a mission.\u00a0 We have orders to board a Florin class shuttle and make a cargo pickup from Ceti-V.\u00a0 It’s a mining rock, about 70 hours from Nusku.\u00a0 I’ve been there before with MacKenzie back in the day (his family is from there).\u00a0 I don’t expect this trip to be nearly as fun (or exciting), but it might be nice if I get a chance to drop in on his folks and some of the gang from the old days.<\/p>\n
Duty Report:\u00a0 Loaded and logged the last supply load assigned to me.\u00a0 Security gear stowed and stashed on board the Monarch.\u00a0 Comm, comps and spacer gear packed for mission.<\/p>\n
(11:51:17)<\/p>\n
Supplemental:\u00a0 Mr. Matthews has asked me to pilot the shuttle!\u00a0 I get to FLY again!<\/p>\n
Duty report:\u00a0 Flight plan calculated, plotted and filed.\u00a0 Pre-flight check completed.\u00a0 Liftoff set for 15-March-2173 (12:02:00)<\/p>\n
. . . end log<\/p>\n
16-March-2173 (16:21:33)<\/p>\n
About 28 hours into the trip.\u00a0 And I’m getting to FLY!\u00a0 God, I’ve missed this.<\/p>\n
The Florin is a nice little shuttle.\u00a0 Got some speed to her, and even packs a tiny punch.\u00a0 Been getting to know Mr. Matthews a bit.\u00a0 He’s one hell of a navigator.\u00a0 He shaved hours of what I thought was a damn good plot.\u00a0 Seems like an okay guy, too.\u00a0 He’s not military, though.\u00a0 I wonder how he’ll react if things go south?<\/p>\n
Duty report:\u00a0 Flight proceeding uneventful and according to plot.\u00a0 Running fire control simulations to familiarize myself with the systems.<\/p>\n
. . . end log<\/p>\n
17-March-2173 (18:11:21)<\/p>\n
Well, the “uneventful” part is over.\u00a0 We landed at Ceti-V, but were slotted for just a quick grab & go.\u00a0 Mr. Matthews helped with the loading equipment and showed me how it worked a bit (Mac would have laughed his ass off at me trying to drive that loader).\u00a0 While we were loading, though, a screamer came in way off approach.\u00a0 I don’t know what got into this guy but he was nuts.\u00a0 At first I thought he’d just lost control, but when Mr. Matthews had me hop in the shuttle and track it, I plotted his approach and saw the he trying a crazy-fast atmospheric braking orbit.\u00a0 After a few circles he hit the surface.\u00a0 Mr. Matthews had me relay all my telemetry to Ceti Control and offer our assistance.\u00a0 We finished our load (to clear the dock; it’s a one-pad port there) and set out with a few volunteers from the dock to attempt a recon\/rescue\/recover.\u00a0 When we got there, the crash had left a gouge about 3 km long and skipped back off the surface.\u00a0 We tracked the “landing” path and found the craft settled about 10 km farther down.\u00a0 There was no sign of survivors among the debris, and the ship was pretty banged up.\u00a0 But the contragrav was clearly still operational because the ship was floating about 15 meters off the ground.\u00a0 We approached as closely as possible but encountered some serious interference with our gravity thrusters (turned out they had externalized their artificial gravity field to cushion the crash; pretty quick thinking for a nutcase).\u00a0 We examined for a bit, and then Mr. Matthews had the idea to take out their power supply to disable the gravity and let it crash so we could get on board.\u00a0 He pulled up a schematic for me to pinpoint their power plant, and I popped it with one shot from the little laser the shuttle had.\u00a0 Worked like a charm.\u00a0 The ship dropped like a rock and we set down next to it.\u00a0 We went aboard and found the five crew unconscious but alive.\u00a0 We kept them that way while relaying condition reports to the base physician who was en route on the air raft.\u00a0 He got there and did some real patching up, then requested we use our shuttle to medivac everyone back to the port.\u00a0 We did that no problem, and they took them all to sick bay for treatment.\u00a0 We couldn’t wait around for an update, so once everyone said a quick thank you, we lifted off and headed back to Nusku.
\nIt wasn’t the craziest trip I’ve had to Ceti-V, but it was pretty close.\u00a0 And I don’t have to wonder how Mr. Matthews responds under pressure, at least.<\/p>\n
And, of course, I’m getting to FLY!<\/p>\n
Duty report:\u00a0 Cargo pick up completed.\u00a0 Observed unidentified inbound to Ceti-V badly off-approach and in communications blackout.\u00a0 Tracked and plotted.\u00a0 Mr. Matthews offered to assist Control in recon\/rescue\/recovery operation.\u00a0 Found vessel badly damaged (possibly Pickett class).\u00a0 Disabled power plant to shut down inverted artificial gravity field to facilitate boarding.\u00a0 Made rescue of five (5) crew.\u00a0 Medivac’d under supervision of Ceti-V station physician.\u00a0 Offloaded at port and launched for return to Nusku.<\/p>\n
. . . end log<\/p>\n
20-March-2173 (12:06:21)<\/p>\n
Made it back to Nusku and the Emerald Monarch today.\u00a0 Got a nice congratulations from the Captain.\u00a0 Mr. Matthews recco’d me, so that’s a nice start with a new ship.\u00a0 I think I’m gonna like him.\u00a0 Also found out that we have a Gunnery Officer on board now, so I made my report to him.\u00a0 Seemed competent and professional, but kind of flat.\u00a0 Doesn’t seem to have a lot of life to him, but he’s my superior officer and I have to report to him (and probably even more so, once we get some weapons).\u00a0 Still haven’t met the Chief of Security.<\/p>\n
Man, it was great to be flying again!<\/p>\n
Duty report:\u00a0 Florin shuttle returned, cargo offloaded.\u00a0 Reported to the Captain and resumed shipboard duties.\u00a0 Made report to Chief Gunnery Officer.\u00a0 Routine maintenance and diagnostics completed.<\/p>\n
. . . end log<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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