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+Ship   : Lantashi Dance
+Log    : 003
+Date   : 2496-07-22-08
+Status : System Approach
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+
+/* TRANSMISSION START *
+Commander Yonas' Report:
+
+It has been slightly over a month since the last QEC report,
+delivered by Captain Lantashi.
+
+Lantashi is still in command, but our Doctor, Kit, is very
+worried about her. The captain is spending much time in the
+Garden, often in a trance. I believe the perdicament we find
+ourselves in has unhinged her. She is often speaking in a
+language unknown to any of us. We thought it could be an
+ancient form of Sylvan, but if it is, the ship AI is unable
+to translate.
+
+Current status -
+Entering Star System Kelev 01-072. We overshot the our destination
+by 125 light-years. The actual year we find ourselves in is an
+estimate, based on last known speed and direction.
+
+All crew are now awake. As the captain mentioned, 20 pods were lost
+during flight. Another 5 crew died on activation. Five are activated
+but currently confined to med-bay, still struggling from being
+activated from stasis many years past how long the capsules, or
+ship, were supposed to last.
+
+Most primary computer systems are down. Life support is working,
+and both suprising and thankfully, propulsion is online. 01-072
+has two planets in the habitable zone, the 4th and 5th planets
+from the star. One looks to be 1.45 times the size of earth,
+the other .85 times.
+
+That is the most we can tell in this nebula. The gasses of the
+nebula, while lighting up the sky and helping the Garden to grow,
+heavily interfere with our sensors.
+
+The Dance was designed, among other things, to be a kind of an
+ark. As such we have a lot of ancient technology on board. The
+oldest computer on board is something called an Amiga. There is
+also an early 21st century GNU/Linux communication device
+(something they used to call a "cell phone") that some creative
+person, centuries ago, managed to port Serentity OS to.
+
+None of this is in my area of expertise. I'm not even an Earth
+native, unlike the captain, whose race somehow survived on earth
+thousands of years before humans came to be.
+
+However, one of the engineers woken up, a 25-year old (when she
+was put into statis) woman named Sarah West. Miss West unpackaged
+and reactivated the old hardware, modifying it and hooking it
+into the ship systems.
+
+Much of the hardware was way too old to be of use, but using it we
+were fortunate to bring enough systems online to learn about our
+local environment.
+
+Every vessel should have a resident geek, a hacker who loves to
+tinker and find uses for hardware and software no one has thought
+of before. I bow my horns to you Sarah West. You are a life-saver!
+
+*If* we make it to the closer of the planets within the habitable
+zone (01-072.4 - the 4th planet), which is closer within its orbit,
+and *if* it has a breathable atmosphere and decent life, and *if*
+someone we can actually land the shuttle (or the whole ship)
+somewhere on the planet... well, that will give us time at least.
+It is probably 2 more weeks until we enter orbit
+
+The greater threat, right now, seems to be on the ship. No, not
+the captain, as strange as she's acting. I've spoken with the
+other officers, and we all known to be careful which orders to
+obey of her's right now.
+
+But many of the crew are convinced there is something on the
+ship with us. A life-form, not of any race known to us. Several
+of us, myself included, have caught "glances" of something
+unnatural. But before we can focus on it, it is gone.
+
+The sensors, cameras, microphones, etc, have not picked it up.
+It is only being spotted with the bare eye.
+
+We've asked the AI. It has postulated that it may be a new
+life-form that exists in the nebula, and is not ship, or planet,
+bound. The other thought our AI had, even more disturbing, is that
+the life-form is made purely of software, but somehow "evolved" to
+no longer be bound to computer hardware.
+
+Chief Security Officer Dothmer is concerned with any of the
+possibilities. He thinks that onboard is not software, or an alien,
+but some sort of demon. I worry about Dothmer almost as much as
+the captain, because he doesn't wants to exist the ship, without
+suit, to become one with the cosmos.
+
+We can't reach that planet soon enough!

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