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 decided we would try to reach the next star system together. I grossly miscalculated orbital dynamics, and I failed to enter Radakee’s orbit. Radakee, a brilliant pilot, born on planet Earth, had come close to entering a D-orbit around a star somewhere in Sector T3LNGA once, but she executed a perfectly timed burn, pulling herself out of danger. She is a great pilot. Her ship Ostraflex, is a Class III latest generation spacefarer, made for serious exploration.
I never went to space school, I have only flown by myself couple of times for short duration. Before I crashed on Metaphoris three Earth years ago, I was orbiting planet Banxian. My ship isn’t new, it’s pretty old. It’s a second generation explorer class speeder, goes pretty fast, but control computer is pretty rudimentary. Unfortunately synthesising fuel on this half barren planet, makes it incredibly hard to try and escape this planet; Not to mention the repair work.
While flying into orbit last time, I made multiple course corrections, according to specifications Radaki gave me. She even came to Lower Metaphoris Orbit to rendezvous with me, but we failed to attain a singular course and diverged. Unable to fix my course in time I crashed on the surface again, bumped the hull pretty bad. In retrospect it looks very naive to take flight like that in retrospect. Anyway, time to get back to repairing my ship. “Tomorrow’s a new day”, as my friend Danx always says.