Its over there.. waaay over there.
26 Jun 2020Aequfire
Hello Mom,Just wanted to write a quick update. Not sure when I will get the chance to send this off but I have a little down time and I am starting to talk to myself so at least this way I can pretend I am actually talking to another person. It is dark out here and I do love it but it sure does get a bit lonely. There was always so much activity on the Biased Muse, with you, Dad, Sally, and Teche that it feels really weird that I am the only one on this ship. Granted the Artemis is a third the size of our old Type-9 but when it's just me, there sure is a lot of empty space on this ship. I enjoyed the quiet at first and in most cases I still do but every once in a while as I stare into the endless abyss, I do feel profoundly lonely. Anyways, I guess that is just a very roundabout way of saying I miss you guys.
The other day I jumped into some random system near Traikeou nebula, my destination actually, and was excited to pop a EL on the FSS. I was very excited, it was one of the first EL's I had encountered outside the bubble and I was very excited to map it. And then I looked at the distance indicator and my heart sank. This EL orbited a star some 400,000 ls from the dump star... Not quite a run to Hutton Orbital but this was certainly going to cut into my planned timetable. So I set off for this far flung Earth Like wondering casually along the way if the Pilot Federation would update their Nav charts to change the dump star in the system. I wasn't even sure if that was a thing that could be done but it seemed to me at the time that with all this amazing tech and our ability to perform complex feats of Astro-navigation that changing a dump star so that future colonists wouldn't have to put up with the same slog I was currently subjecting myself too.
Out here in the black, streaking through star systems in supercruise does afford one a lot of time to mull over such minor flights of fancy and every once in a while things that are a little more serious will creep into your brain in the cold silence of the black. I found myself thinking of Teche as my speed indicator ticked up over 700c. I really do miss him and Sally and I hope that she is doing okay. His loss was hard but I know that they were close since they had flown together since long before they joined up with us. I am sure she took it the hardest of us all. I was trying to remember the story he told about the time in Cubeo where he took a wrong turn and ended up in the private Imperial Family Hangar and swears up and down he saw a young Princess Aisling Duval before the guards noticed him and drug him out threatening to shoot him. He was always a good story teller and if that really did happen, that gift of gab was probably what kept him from being shot.
Speaking of Sally, once I have mapped this nebula and gotten my fill of exploration for the time being, I am going to head back to Procyon and convince one of the engineers that lives out that way to upgrade my Frame Shift Drive. I will check in on Sally and see if I can convince her to head out to Colonia with you two. I think she would enjoy it out there. I want to head out there sometime soon and maybe she would catch a ride with me. It would be nice to have some company on that journey, someone else to talk to other than myself. I will be sure to let you know how that conversation goes.
Until next time,
Jacob.