Day 7:

With the reactor back to relatively normal operation the parasites have grown more aggressive and have forced us to barricade ourselves in. Jones and I have come up with a strategy to give us control of the areas between us and the group holed up in the cargo bays. By using the parasites' tendency to hibernate for a time after sustaining damage to our advantage we can move them out of the areas between us and Tomlinson’s group. Hilbert and the rest of the engineers aren’t too keen on the idea of displacing parasites into other areas where they could end up causing more damage but we’ll need the supplies stored in the cargo bays if we want to make it out of here alive. I wish we could contact Tomlinson but the ships communication systems appear to be down at the moment and as part of a scouting mission our suits only have local comms functionality to avoid enemy detection. We have more than enough firepower to clear the area between us but it would be nice to make this a coordinated effort to ease the amount of work we’ll have to do. We currently have ten people with us so we’re going to send out a group of four including myself to see that the way is cleared. Normally as captain I’d be under an obligation to not take any unnecessary risks to myself, but considering that our group consists of mainly rookies I’ve chosen to lead this task force myself to ensure that no one else dies on my watch, plus I’ll be able to make better tactical decisions if I have all the information first hand. After we re-establish contact with Tomlinson we can focus on getting the comms systems back on so that maybe we can see about constructing a distress beacon. Pretty soon we’ll be on our way out of this nightmare we’ve gotten ourselves into.

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