The New Snake in the Cosmic Grass!
02 Aug 2018Chris Birch
Birch Log - 17:22 2 August 3304I recently got my first major expeditionary-class vessel - an Asp-Class explorer. I decided to name this after a semi obscure astronomer, Dr. Aaron Price. A bit of research (you wouldn't believe how hard that was. Far too many records were destroyed and mangled during WWIII) indicated that his favorite color was yellow, so I decided on that as the paint job.
Here it is, my new pride & joy, the Aaron Price floating, just repainted, outside of the Galileo starport in orbit around the Moon. Love these Orbis-class stations.
To put the Price through its paces I took it to a rather special place to get another picture. This is the cockpit of the Aaron Price. Yea, that's me. Wow that light makes me look like hell.
The march of history has largely forgotten Dr. Price. He was overshadowed by his more famous daughter, Caroline, who, of course, is known for being part of the first Titan Expedition launched by the United States of North America in 2065 after the end of WWIII. Caroline, legend has it, laid the keel for the first Titan orbital station, the direct descendent of the Orbis-class starport now in use today.
I came all the way out here to get this picture at this particular star. The star outside the ship at this point is Mira. It's weird what can come down to us from history. I came out here because history tell us that Dr. Price's daughter, Caroline, had a middle name of Mira. She was named after this star. Weirdly, there is another story that says she was named after an ancient computer server. The vast majority of historians completely discount this, but the story lives on after more than a millenium.
