“IF YOU FIND THIS RECORD ... THAT MEANS WE’RE ALL DEAD ...”
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“Daily recording of Private Joseph Nash ... Stardate two seven twelvffhh ...
“I try to sound star trek-ish .. but it turns out kinda lame ... so”
“Daily recording entry number one eight two o ... date twenty-seven ... twelve ... twenty-one eighteen”
“... damn 1820 ..., that’s over a thousand and eight hundred days ... four years huh ...”
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“Almost four years, since USS Dominion travelled at FTL factor 1.7 from Earth to Gliese 581c ... “
“That’s approximately 5 times faster than Speed of Light .. that’s the top speed of this ship FYI, if we go faster than this we could rip the hull apart .. ”
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“Gliese 581c .. is a planet circling a dwarf star in its habitable zone .. circa a century ago, scientist detected there’s a probablity that this planet holds a habitable condition .. with a just temperature for liquid water thus capable of supporting life ..”
“... But not until ten years ago, when the technology of light speed propulsion was perfected .. and ..”
“.. and .. USS Dominion -this huge-ass mothership- is the first vessel that was ordered to do that space travel ... our main mission, of course .. to scout whether or not there is life in the planet ... and if possible ... to colonize it”
“Nope! Correct that! ... not if possible ... but a MUST ...”
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“We’ve got no other options, we must form a colony here .. because ...”
“Bee~cause ... Sh*t .. USS Dominion was designed for one way travel only .. zztt-it’s suicide mission brah!-zzt ... zzt-F*** off dude!-zzt ... yeppe .. a number of individual ... zzt-including me-zzt .. were voluntarily applied to take part in this mission ... even knowing that this is one way ticket travel”
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“Nash!! Quit goofing around!! Get yer ass down here!!”
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“Sir! Yessir!! ... okay, USS Dominion apparently shutting down the Anma* Hyperdrive now, we’re out of FTL .. now, Gliese 581c is only 30 milion klicks from us .. still invisible tho, it takes two or three days for this 200.000 tonnes ship to complety stop, due to de-acceleration from light speed .. if we abruptly stopping, the inertial force will crush us flat ... so ..” (*ANti-MAtter)
“NASH !!!”
“SIR!! YESSIR!! ... okay, Nash .. out!”
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-Starting ... Interface online: Begin recording ...
“OK .. Hi! Private Joseph Nash here .. again ..”
“Gliese581c is in front of us now, if ... –Sccuseme- .. –Sccuuuseemeh- ... damn, it’s soo KRODID here!”
“If you can see .. look! Look! .. that’s Gliese581c .. the third star of Gliese 581 System .. beautiful ain’t it?"
"It’s larger than Earth, twice or thrice as big ... with five and a half time Earth’s mass, Gravity will be quite a bitch down there ... and since the host star is a red dwarf .. the HZ is rather close to it, which means planets who reside in the HZ are tidally locked, with one side basking in the sun and the other succumbs in eternal darkness .. -bzzt- just like my Ex's Heart-bzzt-"
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“... How about water? Life? Is there a possibility there’s life-froms thriving there, Nash?”
“Well.. Ya! .. there’s no telling how much water it has exactly, but from what it’s seen, it’s quite a lot isn’t it? H20 is the basic catalyst for life to form, assuming that life is common occurence in universe ...”
“Is it tho?”
“Of course! I’m not a scientist here, but I strongly believe that Earth is not the only planet that holds life .. if it is, the universe is quite a big waste .. well, we can’t be surely certain at this point before we really go down there .. too bad you didn’t draw the short straw eh Brynn??”
“Well you’ll go, right? .. I’ll wait for your report then”
“Yessirie!”
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“.. Daily recording Private Joseph Nash ... 1822 .. listen, right now the CO, Captain Chang is assembling the seven man scout team with me in it, in charge of-“
“Pipe down, Nash!”
“.. In charge of scanning and recording the planet’s surface, here.. lissen ..”
“ ..n this mission, history will be carved with our names in it .. pioneers, first generation of colonyst .. the Gliessians ... Corps, brace your self .. both physically and mentally to ...”
“Yea ..
“BE QUIET! NASH!”
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“Okay the away team has been gathered, consists of seven crews, thus the introduction ...”
“From right to left, The Leader Sergeant Adam Scott .. a.k.a the Scotty”
“Hiyya ..
“Second man Corporal Jacques Leroux ... a.k.a the crazy French”
“All French people are crazy ... proudly speaking”
“Our Muscle Private Mike “THE BIG MIKE” Barley”
“Look at these babies!
“Comm Officer, the only stranded beauty Private Veronica Addler”
“F**** Off Nash
“The Medic Private Ahmed al Rashyid ..”
“Salam”
“Over there our pilot Private Otto Fischer making prep .... OTTO!! Wave here!!”
“And the ME .. Private Joseph Nash, with a special task to record the whole damn thing ..”
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“Otto!! The strato's too thick, one wrong flip we'll sway like a loose kite!”
“Not this baby it ain't ... not while me helming it Sir!”
“Holly!! ... Nash here!! .. the planet’s got –bzzt- tty thick athmosphere .. we’ve just passed brick-solid turbulence at around 50 klicks from the sur-bzzt-ce ... -bzzt- ... hella dizzifying ...”
“Finger Cro-bzzztt- ............................ –bzzttt- ...................... “
Craaashhh BZzzzzttt Creeeakkkk
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