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>> CAPTAIN STARM REPORTING
>> STARDATE:	UMA-ZETA-CT A01A 0311 0520
>> SHIP ID:	BABY-BEAR

>> SHIP SELF-DIAGNOSTICS

>> ALL SYSTEMS ONLINE

>> HULL 	[=================== ] 95%
>> ENGINES	[=================   ] 85%
>> FUEL		[========            ] 40%
>> SHIELDS 	[==================  ] 90%
>> HORS D'OUVRES[===========         ] 55%
>> CAPS LOCK	[====================] STUCK ON

>> TRANSMISSION BEGIN

CAPTAIN STARM, MISSION - WHY IS MY CAPS LOCK ON. captain starm, mission report.
a short series of misfires: what more skeptical cosmonauts might call "failure
to adhere to mission protocol," we aboard baby bear call "character" and "sense
of adventure." my co-captain and i had originally agreed to make a quick stop
in orbit around alioth. there's a bit of an old haunt of ours there, a little
games diner at L4. get an overpriced coffee and play a little bit of settlers.
it's a good little sunday-drive distance for the aux-ships too -- we haven't
taken em out in a quarter of an orbit and it's just a nice way to stretch your
legs when you've been a bit holed up.

our first misfire is my co-captain miscalibrated the SusAn and we overslept --
i sound like i'm blaming her but i always put it on her to calibrate it just
because i hate doing it, so i don't really have a right to complain about any
hiccups there. i kind of hummed and hawwed a little about aborting the mission
entirely, but i had a bit of a brainwave -- some might call it "fudging success
quotas by rewriting the mission objective" but i am a glass-half-full type of
person and prefer to spin it as "creative license" and "saving the mission." we
overshot and ended up at mizar, but why not take the aux-ships out anyway for a
bit of a shorter ride, hit up a restaurant and go for a bit of a picnic?

i got a craving for gamma lobster, and the best damn sandwich shop in the
asterism is in geosynchronous orbit around alcor Ad. lo and behold, our second
misfire: the place is closed for hull upgrades, and no other lobster shops are
open nearby. whatever, there's a shawarma place in just about every other
system in this cluster, and the one we go to actually has manibeast meat. hell
yea

the crystalline bismuth shores of alcor Ad give the alien impression of a
totally inhospitable planet -- these stories you hear of diamond rain and
methane oceans, surface temperatures of 90K to 740K, crushing sulfurous
atmospheres or nothing but the thin seasonal offgassing of ethanol ice at the
poles. but no, that's a water ocean -- the blood-red colour is what, to my
understanding, could best be described as the silicon-based equivalent of an
algal mat, and is the only life native to this star system. and the atmosphere
is surprisingly breathable, if a bit nitrous. i don't think you'd wanna be
breathing it in every day, but nobody's here every day anyway -- it's
picnickable, not liveable. it's cold here, 270 K cold in the sweltering heat of
its "summer" -- the yearly temperature fluctuations here are driven less by
axial tilt and moreso by its unusually elliptical orbit. the surface will
plunge to about 100 K at its low. but that picnickable-not-liveable range is a
bit of a sweet spot to me, it's not every day one gets a planet all to
themself. and seeing the light reflect along that irridescent beach, it strikes
me as perfectly fitting that you should be the only person on this world with
me (if only for a lunch), and that the cold is rather the type of misfire i'd
rather endure with you.


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