24th December 3301 – 23.52
The days of PanGalactic empty offices by Wrangell City 42nd Docking Bay seem a long way away today. The company has more than grown. If only a few of Snoquot Labour officials have publicly described PanGalcatic as a ‘bunch of mercenaries’ the indisputable truth is that the company is now feeding several millions of Snoquot inhabitants and is even running subsidiaries in the Imani System, a few light years from there.
Colonel Matzov’s art of tact and diplomacy prove to be a lot more than the unexplained but persistent rumors I was now only beginning to get used to.
In all fairness, none of this would have ever been possible without the continuous support from the Sirius Corporation and Li Yong-Rui himself, on both a financial and logistical level. We were part of the family, per se, and as a member of the family I was rewarded by the corporation with a full refitting of the Nostromo II, the old Lakon Type 9 I took from Wrangell City to 38 Lyncis in order to help with the new Orbis Starport project…
A very different beast indeed.
Through some engineering wizardry, the ship was now significantly lighter. The refinery and various limpet controller modules had made room for auto field-maintenance units, a twin SRV hangar, a rudimentary chemical testing and analysis laboratory and even a green house. The Nostromo II had a clear purpose and Mr Rui’s representative made it perfectly clear when handing the renewed vessel over: Sirius was about discovering new worlds. And regardless of the many pilots having already left civilized space, whether to simply investigate uncharted territories or more recently, to gather new clues about the distant Antares incident, more would never be enough…
It was his understanding that I had caught the explorer’s bug. He couldn’t have been more accurate in his assessment. Ever since I had come back from Sagittarius A*, I had been feeling out of sorts… out of place. So they had naturally thought of me for their next exploratory enterprise.
24th December 3301 – 23.59
Rui’s representative only took a few minutes to outline the mission.
For several centuries, explorers from all walks of life had set out for the unknown in the hope of finding the perfect world. Entire colonies had left even long before the development of our modern Frame Shift Drives, seeing generations come and go during their journey, and might very well still be out there today. The Siruis corporation had already commissioned several ships to go on a blind search in an attempt to find these pioneers.
The Nostromo II was also ready to go if I chose to. A basic A.I. had been uploaded in order to assist me in the search and to effectively help avoiding any potential human error.
I couldn’t have explained why or how, but I instinctively accepted, without even thinking. I felt a huge weight off my mind while boarding the ship and booting the systems ready…
I haven’t even warned Ivan Matzov… He’ll understand…
(to be continued…)
The days of PanGalactic empty offices by Wrangell City 42nd Docking Bay seem a long way away today. The company has more than grown. If only a few of Snoquot Labour officials have publicly described PanGalcatic as a ‘bunch of mercenaries’ the indisputable truth is that the company is now feeding several millions of Snoquot inhabitants and is even running subsidiaries in the Imani System, a few light years from there.
Colonel Matzov’s art of tact and diplomacy prove to be a lot more than the unexplained but persistent rumors I was now only beginning to get used to.
In all fairness, none of this would have ever been possible without the continuous support from the Sirius Corporation and Li Yong-Rui himself, on both a financial and logistical level. We were part of the family, per se, and as a member of the family I was rewarded by the corporation with a full refitting of the Nostromo II, the old Lakon Type 9 I took from Wrangell City to 38 Lyncis in order to help with the new Orbis Starport project…
A very different beast indeed.
Through some engineering wizardry, the ship was now significantly lighter. The refinery and various limpet controller modules had made room for auto field-maintenance units, a twin SRV hangar, a rudimentary chemical testing and analysis laboratory and even a green house. The Nostromo II had a clear purpose and Mr Rui’s representative made it perfectly clear when handing the renewed vessel over: Sirius was about discovering new worlds. And regardless of the many pilots having already left civilized space, whether to simply investigate uncharted territories or more recently, to gather new clues about the distant Antares incident, more would never be enough…
It was his understanding that I had caught the explorer’s bug. He couldn’t have been more accurate in his assessment. Ever since I had come back from Sagittarius A*, I had been feeling out of sorts… out of place. So they had naturally thought of me for their next exploratory enterprise.
24th December 3301 – 23.59
Rui’s representative only took a few minutes to outline the mission.
For several centuries, explorers from all walks of life had set out for the unknown in the hope of finding the perfect world. Entire colonies had left even long before the development of our modern Frame Shift Drives, seeing generations come and go during their journey, and might very well still be out there today. The Siruis corporation had already commissioned several ships to go on a blind search in an attempt to find these pioneers.
The Nostromo II was also ready to go if I chose to. A basic A.I. had been uploaded in order to assist me in the search and to effectively help avoiding any potential human error.
I couldn’t have explained why or how, but I instinctively accepted, without even thinking. I felt a huge weight off my mind while boarding the ship and booting the systems ready…
I haven’t even warned Ivan Matzov… He’ll understand…
(to be continued…)
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