19 September 3308
14:17 hours
After more than a year, and over 6,000 solar systems charted, the Anaconda Majestic is finally back home in Miphifa. Unfortunately, the expedition was a sad one. I found the wreckage of the Kimu, my fiancee’s (Sui*) ship near OVOMLY HR-C D285 C 1. No evidence of what attacked it. Only a couple of vacuum-frozen bodies of the crew were around it. I have my concerns. She was supposedly on a scientific and charting mission. There’s nothing out here in the way of Guardian or Thargoid artifacts. Why attack the ship? I hope one day I can come back and place a marker or monument to the Kimu.
The trip wasn’t a total waste. After mapping the Velus Bubble—arrogant and presumptuous to name it after myself, I know, but I had to do something—I did find quite a number of terraform candidates, and even a few Earthlike worlds. It’s only a 120 light year diameter area of space, of course. One of the Earthlike worlds (OVOMLY HR-C D316 B 1) seemed exactly like the sort of place Sui would have wanted to live. I named it Sui’s Rest in the computer. Now, I’m told that the Emperor herself is interested in the data I’ve accumulated. No wonder why, with the Thargoids knocking at our door in my absence. Maybe she wants a contingency in case Imperial space is overrun.
She even presented me with the rank of Baron and an Imperial Clipper specially designed, in honor of my loss. I’ve named it Sui’s Requiem. Now I have to decide what I want to do with myself and the three billion credits I’ve earned, due in no small part to the assistance of the Inverness and her crew. The Pilot’s Federation promoted me to Class V Elite Explorer, too.
*named after a friend who died of COVID early on in the pandemic
With the exception of maybe around a dozen systems, that entire "bubble" should have my name on every planet and star. Whew!
14:17 hours
After more than a year, and over 6,000 solar systems charted, the Anaconda Majestic is finally back home in Miphifa. Unfortunately, the expedition was a sad one. I found the wreckage of the Kimu, my fiancee’s (Sui*) ship near OVOMLY HR-C D285 C 1. No evidence of what attacked it. Only a couple of vacuum-frozen bodies of the crew were around it. I have my concerns. She was supposedly on a scientific and charting mission. There’s nothing out here in the way of Guardian or Thargoid artifacts. Why attack the ship? I hope one day I can come back and place a marker or monument to the Kimu.
The trip wasn’t a total waste. After mapping the Velus Bubble—arrogant and presumptuous to name it after myself, I know, but I had to do something—I did find quite a number of terraform candidates, and even a few Earthlike worlds. It’s only a 120 light year diameter area of space, of course. One of the Earthlike worlds (OVOMLY HR-C D316 B 1) seemed exactly like the sort of place Sui would have wanted to live. I named it Sui’s Rest in the computer. Now, I’m told that the Emperor herself is interested in the data I’ve accumulated. No wonder why, with the Thargoids knocking at our door in my absence. Maybe she wants a contingency in case Imperial space is overrun.
She even presented me with the rank of Baron and an Imperial Clipper specially designed, in honor of my loss. I’ve named it Sui’s Requiem. Now I have to decide what I want to do with myself and the three billion credits I’ve earned, due in no small part to the assistance of the Inverness and her crew. The Pilot’s Federation promoted me to Class V Elite Explorer, too.
*named after a friend who died of COVID early on in the pandemic
With the exception of maybe around a dozen systems, that entire "bubble" should have my name on every planet and star. Whew!
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