LogBook #16 Back to Deep Space Exploration and Ammonia Worlds
08 Dec 2020Isabella Adair-Levine
[Log Entry #18][Isabella Levine]
[12/08/3306]
"Well, didn't think I'd make another log for some time but here I am making another. Honestly, making these gives me a chance to speak out loud and not in someone's ear and drive them to fly into a star. But I must say, after my last log, I did take the time to help out with the Capital Ship construction. The beautiful Majestic Class Interdictor. Well...I think at least compared to the Farragut Battle Cruiser. I'm probably a bit biased since my father commands one. Although I hear the Farragut is quite a brutal Battlecruisers when it comes to firepower."
"But besides that, transporting the building materials needed was rather easy to my surprise considering pirates and Feds attempting to undermine. There was a nice system nearby called Scylla and it had a planetary port that was selling Building Fabricators for a really good market price. Catch was you had to travel two hundred light-seconds to get there so I struggled a bit to keep myself occupied during those jaunts between large binary systems. I think it was worth it because anything else was too far away or sold out nearly."
"When it came to pirates, occasionally there were the cocky little buggers that tried to jump me thinking I was easy pray. They weren't much concern. But the bigger guys were though and thankfully I didn't run into them too often. Only outside of Mandh system. I do wonder if that's either because Commanders and Law Enforcement were taking them out so aggressively or the increased payouts for criminals has discouraged some of them from sticking around long. At least in the Mandh system. Outside of that, I'd be chased by more dangerous pirates but nothing I couldn't slip away from.
Eh, but overall it was a great credit-building opportunity. Now the next thing on the 'To-do list' is to help out with this Ammonia World scan job from Sirius Atmospherics. Good old exploration! I've missed this and I'm super excited to be back at it. I've already jumped onto this and had brought out my Diamondback to start the search near Coalsack. So far I've surveyed three Ammonia World but while I was looking at the scan data it got me thinking about why exactly we're out here doing this. It's not like other planets can't be terraformed for Human inhabitants. Ammonia Worlds have their own very unique biosphere. I think it's a bit wasteful to try and terraform places like these that are filled with possibly very interesting biodiversity like the flora and even fauna of the planet compared to human favorable ones. It's just so different and I think there are other worlds we could terraform. I mean, I've heard Thargoids originate from Ammonia Worlds so is this...some passive-aggressive way to poke at them? And if so...why is that a good idea?"
"Ugh, I don't and most likely won't know. But the payoffs good and I need this time out here by myself. Should note that I've spotted Thargoids in the area as well. They seem uninterested in me but...never can shake the feeling of how creepy they are. I mean they're aliens. To them I'm probably just as creepy I bet. Some fleshy mammal thing with a funny looking body. So I'm going to avoid them for now rather than shoot at them for sport. I've seen how good some Commanders can be at hunting Thargoids. We've come a long way since we first saw them...or at least in my generation. Thargoids before then were way before my time. Eh, anyway, that's it for now. Going to use this time to explore. Commander logging off."
