Water Damage:
Some idiot spilled whatever they were drinking all over my data pad yesterday, of course that idiot was me and I was drinking water, but I’m still mad about it regardless. Nearly two weeks of translated texts down the drain. I spent all yesterday attempting to repair the damage but sadly much of the internals have been fried and the data is likely gone for good. With this setback I’ll likely have to consider calling in a few favors with some of my colleagues to help finish the translations. I had hoped to have these translations done by next week to be on schedule for the next step of the process, or at least the schedule I’ve set for myself, officially there is no deadline but I’m certain High Command won’t have infinite patience in this matter. Ironically, I’m sure those ever crafty little Darvic technicians have some kind of text relating to the repair of such devices but I simply don’t have time to conduct such a silly side quest when the fate of our entire species could potentially rest on my shoulders. Hopefully I can finish these translations relatively quickly.
In lighter news the archeology team has found some old examples of Darvish ships that were in production in an old shipyard two star systems away. Roughly fifteen ships were found, all in various states of completion. I can’t wait to get my hands on those ships which are set to arrive here next week, the reason for my current translation related dilemma. If I can finish translating the Darvic documents by the time those ships arrive I’ll have both written and physical documentation of the Darvic ship building process, information that will be invaluable during the later stages of the project. The information that I retained during my own translations of the old texts gave me a bit of insight into the shorthand notation on some of the old drafting documents that the Darvish designers used, it seemed rather crude but also quite efficient, so I can’t really fault them for having such a system in place. I can tell that there is so much knowledge in this place and it’s a shame it has been forgotten for so long. It really makes me wonder just how much of our own knowledge we’ve allowed ourselves to lose over the years, with machines performing much of our construction and maintenance duties it’s no wonder nobody has any idea how to design a new ship. I’d bet we hardly have anyone who can even reprogram our shipyards to be able to build a new design anyway, we’ve been building the same ships for so long it’d be a miracle if they could.
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