Transmissions from a planet hopper
On my way to the Metaphoris’ polar region. My Elite-class range rover has a nifty auto-drive-by-wire, it’s not really automatic, but also not completely manual. It depends on the terrain I will be driving upon. So, logging in my journal. I never thought I could go blind of my rationale under the shadow of the …
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Human minds are funny. Once it gets hold of something it can hold on to, it’s almost impossible to erase it, or change. “An idea is the most resilient parasire” as told by Dominick Cobb, Inception. Catching up with Ostraflex. I was excited about it, and I miscalculated my flight plan, and now in retrospect …
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Repairing was going well, until now. I don’t have a robot repairing kit, so I am doing it manually. But looking at my logs, I am spending more time with the simulator, than on repairing. It’s important that I repair my ship, to fly again. And if I do a bodge job, I will burn …
Cleaned up all the lateral thrusters. The main engine outlets seems to be intact. Lot of progress today. Metaphoris isn’t that bad after all. I tried to reach out to Ostraflex today, no response. Either Radakee is already in cryo-sleep for the next push, or she doesn’t want to respond back. That’s respectable. I guess …
Physical damage is usually very hard to repair, specially if it’s of composite construction. I have been avoiding repairing some thermal protection panels for some time now, but I really should have before flying this time. These aren’t really an issue but in this case, it is. The crash was pretty bad, and if I …
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I generally split hydrogen and oxygen from regular water. There’s not much of it where I crashed few days back. But there’s a cave about 2kms from the crash site, as my vibroscanner reported. So naturally, I went there to grab water. I entered the cave, it wasn’t too small, I could stand in there. …
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Testing out repeaters around the Omega belt, to pass it back to Earth.
Repairing my ship on this planet hasn’t been easy; I am getting there. I really thought I could fly out this time, but I failed. Radakee even said we would make a short landing on the polar region, so that we could watch the sunset on Metaphoris, one last time before we fly away. But …
I have been contemplating about keeping a journal for some time now on this planet of Metaphoris, but I have been too busy looking for ships that are flying by. Space travel is dangerous without another ship around you. I started picking up a ship’s transponder signal few days back. We initiated communication, and we …
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