Cryosleep failure in the Veil West Sector
20 Jan 2020Mos Superum
=== BEGIN LOG ===Where do I begin?
I ran into Thargoids unarmed and unprepared 6 months ago. Decided on a walkabout out west.
[sigh]
And now I've been in cryosleep for 5 months. I dunno how I'm alive. COVAS on the Vaderland is glitchy right now. I'm not sure if if it was a shielding breach or what, but -- there was damage to a subsystem linked indirectly to cryosleep and other life support. I -- I could be dead out here.
[another sigh]
I was making my way out to Veil Nebula West, stopping every so often to resupply for injections and to build up my reserves for the long final trip to Colonia...
I found myself alone in the dark and trying NOT to think about that Thargoid attack -- now -- good lord -- so many months ago. The time to myself had been comforting.
But I wasn't really alone out here. I'd find a geological site to mine / explore, and I'd find evidence that humanity had lost its way this far west. I know other pilots have come this far, but -- space is big, and I really hadn't expected to run into many folks unless I hit a "tourist" spot. What I found out here wasn't alive...
A downed fighter. I was going to have to be careful. If someone had a fighter out here, they were prepared for combat. I was not.
As I continued west, I took in the beautiful sights of the universe -- the Thargoid threat was far far away...
And -- again -- I couldn't escape death -- another crash site, further west closer to the Veil Nebula West. Followed by a cracked Empire probe. At this point, I had three passengers in stasis with me -- escape pods for which I'm not equipped to open or deal with. I wanted alone time, but I wasn't going to abandon them.
I settled down in late August of 3305 for cryosleep -- the more I found evidence of "ended" life out here, the more I needed to close my mind to it. I was seeing things. Hearing things. Wondering if one of those escape pods was going to crack open in the cargo hold.
I found a biological site and some terrific exploration and mining and felt good about the "break" -- this was my last view of my camp site before entering for 2 weeks...
...and now... COVAS is telling me it's 3306. What the [edited]?! If the tertiary life support hadn't kicked in, I'd be worse off than those persons in the escape pods. I have no idea what's going on back home. I feel compelled to return but -- I'm afraid of what I'll find. Once I get the damage repaired (hull at 94% -- but a nearly fatal 6% lost), I'll consider a return. In the meantime -- I'm too close to the nebula to miss it. I could get some amazing data to bring home.
Alone and not alone -- and nearly dead for it too.
Signing off -- but I'm sleeping in the cockpit this time.
COVAS -- end log...
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