Day 5:

Tomlinson arrived just before we headed out for engineering, she gave us some antibiotics to use just in case we got infected, usually parasites like this can be countered pretty easily even with basic antibiotics. The power went out about four hours ago but the ship's life support can still function in a sort of limp mode by filtering ambient light from the exterior of the ship into the organic life support systems that come standard on imperial vessels. We’ve managed to find a seemingly safe spot just a few rooms down from engineering. A few parasites caught our group by surprise and we lost two good men today. This was their first assignment and they looked so excited to help the empire scout out the galaxy, I’ll be sure to tell their families personally that their sons died as heroes who gave their lives to save others. We could have very easily lost more lives today if the parasites weren’t so easy to take down once we had our guard up, pretty much any way that would kill a human can kill the parasites since they appear to die if the host does. The lights going out on us didn’t help much in terms of visibility but as fate would have it we ended up gaining an edge over the parasitic bastards. Normally not being able to see would be a bad thing but it would seem the suit techs back home thought of everything when designing these helmets, one of the main emergency features of the helmets is designed to give visibility in true darkness. A form of echo location is embedded into most imperial helmets that produces a white outline of the surroundings on the helmets overlay visor, but more importantly it tracks moving targets even in areas that can’t be seen by the user yet. If I had only thought to turn this on before the lights went out I could have prevented the deaths of two of our own. I won’t let anyone else die.

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