Weekend expedition: 3306.08.02 morning
02 Aug 2020Suremaker
The deep-space feels lonely. I am not sure why I started feeling it last night. It's just a weekend trip and soon we'll be back to the bubble, but maybe the fact we are orbiting a lonely star 2000 LY away from homeport summoned this feel.I tried to recall what triggered it... Interestingly enough I did not feel it during exploration. I know my ship very well, it is my home really, and jumping from system to system brings more excitement and curiosity than loneliness.
I dove deeper in the memories... Yesterday, a lot was going on. I had found out Earth-like world and few terraformable planets, almost had died on arrival to Sifi BV-G d10-81. Then I had come back to the carrier, a single orbiting item over the white-yellow star in Sifi WO-P c19-2. I had jumped out of the supercruise nearby Eridu and had been greeted by a mechanical voice of the Air Traffic Controller...
That was it! Even though I knew there is a crew waiting on Eridu, the mechanical greeting voice made me think this place is dead... like The Zurara I've seen last year, all other megaships or abandoned outposts I visited.
I called Clifford, the bridge officer. "Do we have anyone with skills to adjust ATC voice synthesizer?" I asked. "Let me check with my staff" he replied.
15 minutes later he called me on the intercom that Tailor from the repair crew will come to my cabin in 5 minutes.
"I need your help" I said when I saw him entering my cabin. "Can you adjust our ATC voice to sound less mechanic and more human?" I asked.
"Yes sir. I had changed it on the outpost I was working before and I have all the necessary software in my archives" he said.
"Amazing, please let me know when you finish!"
30 minutes later I went on Krajtek for a small trip around the carrier so see how ATC works. It was much better now!
From now on, anybody who visits the carrier will hear a welcoming greeting that is much more live than the surrounding void.
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Now it is time to prepare for a trip back to the bubble and refuel the carrier with reserve Tritium. When finished, there will be some time for the last explorations yet.
ETD home: 21:00