3/5/1532

Andrea and Lin entered the anomaly today. I can’t help but be concerned when they take risks like this, but I’ve known them long enough to realize that nobody’s going to be able to stop them. Oh well, it’s not as if I’m much better about avoiding dangerous jobs, and I wouldn’t have it any other way either. That’s probably why I get along with them so well.

I’ve sent a report back to the Imperial Authority, it always enjoys hearing about an exciting adventure, and unusual discoveries. It’ll likely be sending a much larger team here to specifically study the aperture, assuming it reappears as we think it will. After all there are no known records of apertures outside the artificial ones created by humans. I know there are suspicions that a natural aperture was what caused The Crash .Though the original colony ship’s flight records were mostly unrecoverable so there’s no direct evidence that survived. My bet is that a whole bunch of academics are going to be climbing over one another in their eagerness to explore a possible clue about how we arrived in this galaxy.

Fortunately that won’t be my problem, I just need to babysit the study team for a bit longer and then I can get onto my next mission. I’m still amazed that Andrea and Lin are getting to jump through an unknown aperture before me. I always figured being a ship’s captain would mean I’d be the first of us to fly into the unknown. Plus, they get to skive off on a whole bunch of paperwork for the next five years. I’m not sure which of those things makes me more jealous.

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Addendum:

Doctor Arbordous practically had to be dragged kicking and screaming away from the aperture just now. It’s not like the rest of Ristula 4 went away, though you wouldn’t know it by talking to the Doctor. Fortunately the rest of the study team was able to help me get their leader to refocus on the original mission for now. Though I suspect that it won’t be long until the Doctor is back down there, even after the aperture shuts.

The first reports coming back from Lin and Andrea did not help keep the team on task. The sensor recordings of that strange predator that attacked them are mystifying everyone. It’s ability to seemingly toy with its own momentum is fascinating, imagine if my ship could do that. I’m more frustrated than ever that I’ll have to wait at least five years to hear much more. It’s been a real roller coaster of a day, so I think I’ll end things here.

Second Addendum:

The ‘Good’ Doctor managed to set off one of the Farrous just now while directing a drone to collect dung samples. The crashing and trumpeting woke everyone else up from some much needed sleep. Sleep that Doctor Arbordous should have been indulging in as well. I respect the Doctor’s abilities but I’m glad I only have to work with them in short bursts. Now I’m going to try and get back to sleep.