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

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 0Stines Legacy - log file excerpt 02517-08-12	/Stines Legacy/stine_0001.txt
 0outpost M-48 - Raiders and Bugs	/outpost M-48/Raiders_and_Bugs.txt
 0outpost M-48 - Serina and Emily	/outpost M-48/Serina_and_Emily.txt