So... now I'm documenting the fact that I'm talking to myself?
18 Apr 2024Salega Garnessa
Dear Diary (see, corny already)This girl from Coelho Station's come a long way, both figuratively and literally. I know it's nothing compared to some commanders but I was a child from the lower decks who barely had enough to eat or clothes to wear and I'm now a Commander with a pimped up AspX, a billion plus credits in the bank and I'm on my way back from the centre of the Galaxy. Yay for me, eh?
So why am I writing this? Good question.
1) Out here, tens of thousands of LY from the Bubble it's pretty lonely. Apart from the constant joy of astrobiology and exploration, there's not much else in the way of diversion apart from changing my hair style and/or colour and printing new clothes. So I talk to myself, a LOT. This entry is the next step up (or down?), broadcasting my ramblings instead of keeping them to myself... in space no one can hear you dream, right?
2) For the above mentioned reasons, I need to maintain focus. After bumbling around in Inner Orion for ages I set myself the goal of reaching Sagittarius A* by New Year 3310 and I did it, on the day itself. So now I'm on my way back... but back to what? I'm too far away to be of any help with the Thargoids and I'm on the fence as to whether we should be fighting them anyway. I mean, it's pretty damn certain that they were here first and our own history should tell us that muscling in on other peoples' territory is not a recipe for peaceful co-existence, eh? Elite rankings have never interested me, I'll get there when I get there (if); Guardian sites freak me out, like having a picnic in a cemetery; I've written stuff for Canonn, but apart from making periodic updates to it from EDMC data, that doesn't fully occupy my time. I need a short term goal that appeals and I'll write it down so I can accuse myself of under-achieving if I don't do it.
So.... here it is:
I'M GOING HOME
Not my home, not Matet, but SOL. 'The Cradle of Humanity'. And Earth, Terra, Gaia - call her what you will. She won't be my first Earth-like, but she's kind of an important one.
I'm 19,786.59 LY away. There's a lot of astrobiology and exploration between me and my destination and I'll have to go via Varati... and then I'll need to earn a permit, so it'll take a while and maybe I'll log my progress here... or not. This will be Day 1.
P.S. There's the posterity thing, too, you know. I'm just one tiny human in a vast Universe. If one of the myriad things that could blot me out of existence actually does so then at least there's you dear diary, a few bytes of data, a bit of cosmic graffiti, that says "Salega woz 'ere".
I WOZ.