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Local Date: 02517-09-14T04:41:37 (Tuesday, September 14, 02517, 4:41 AM)
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From: Vanda Escamilla (v.escamilla@records.stineslegacy.ship.ithacus.star)
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Subject: Did someone misplace a planet around JDSPS2401.4.718L?
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Hello out there. I am Vanda Escamilla, historian and records officer on the
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ark ship Stine's Legacy. Pardon me if I do not comment yet on what I've had
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time to read in the QEC logs. Because as perplexing and confounding as the
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messages I've skimmed through have been we have a mystery of our own. You
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see when the our voyage was being planned we were very careful to pick a
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destination which would serve our needs and yet be unlikely to be attractive
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to anyone else. The place we named the Ithacus System (catalog number
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JDSPS2401.4.718L) was picked for the evidence of an asteroid belt and no
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habitable planets. The surveys didn't even show planets which looked
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promising for terraforming.
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Why then do our telescopes show a near Earth sized planet that was not on
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any of the telescopic survey observations? A near Earth sized planet which
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is showing the lights of settlements when the night side is viewed.
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Despite only seven of us being awake yet and Captain Nath saying not to do
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so we now have a betting pool just what has happened. I've put an hour each
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of kitchen and housekeeping duty down on a human Luddite colony seeing as
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how we have not picked up a single radio broadcast. The same wager on someone
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tampering with the Jovian Deepsky Planet Survey data. Marian, he's the medical
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officer among those of us who woke up, put a but on a navigation error leading
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us to the wrong destination. Sorry Marian, but too much matches up with what
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we expected. Just so long as you ignore the unexpected planet.
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If I'm wrong about the inhabitants of Ithacus IV being Luddites and you happen
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to be reading this, Good News, we are not here for your planet. We don't want
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your pile of dirt. We're here to embrace the vacuum of the Ithacus System.
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If you see a new wandering star in the sky in the next months that will be
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us. Soon the sky will blossom with habitats. You can settle for the ground
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we just want the sky.
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