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Ship : Lantashi Dance
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Log : 002
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Date : Undetermined
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Status : Unstable Captain
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/* TRANSMISSION START *
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Captain Lantashi's Report:
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As reported in my last QEC transmission, our ship, the Lantashi
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Dance, brought the command crew and some support personnel out
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of statis. But we don't know if we were woken up early, late, or
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on-time. What we did know is that a lot of the ship's systems were
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down, and that 40% of the stasis pods had failed during our voyage,
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leaving 20 of our crew dead.
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We had no idea where the ship was, other than it appeared to have
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drifted into a nebula. It is very colorful outside! Being in a
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nebula also means that we had wandered way off course.
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So, let's see... updates!
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Kit, our Catfolk doctor, has been concerned about me, Evidently
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I have had hibernation sickness, and go into states where I act
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a bit erratically, running about yelling that I miss my fox,
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and that I want to climb trees.
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I don't remember these "episodes". I think Kit is just toying
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with me. And anyways, our ship is starting to grow trees, so
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if I am really doing that, well, I'll have a tree to climb
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soon enough (see below!).
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Also, Yonas, my first officer, has threatened to relieve me
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of command several times. I don't understand why! Our last
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conversation went something like this -
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#################
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# Conversation
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Yonas: You are not yourself Captain. Half the time you seem
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half-sane, and half the time I think you are being possessed
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by an alien being.
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Lantashi: Oh, Yonas. You don't mean that. Look, the ship is
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still in one piece, and we will find our position in this
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Cosmic Voyage soon. I promise.
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Yonas: Really? Where are you half the time? The AI, Foxy, says
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that you are in engineering, climbing on the equipment. That
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Fusion Reactor has been unstable as it is! We don't need you
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pulling out any essential wires.
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Lantashi: If you only believed you would only begin to exist.
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Yonas: What does that even mean???
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Lantashi: I need a new Harpy Sister.
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Yonas: You are an only child! And what is a Harpy Sister??
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Lantashi: What are you going on about, Yonas? I was just saying
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that our engineer is slowly getting the reactor stabilized, and
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we should have enough power to get underway soon!
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Yonas: You were talking about harpies!
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Lantashi: Yonas, you should talk to Kit. I don't think you are
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feeling well.
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# Report Continued
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#################
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I didn't believe Yonas' version of the conversation, but Foxy (the
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AI) played it back for me. So, yes, I might be under a little
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stress. But you can't blame me!
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More news:
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Dothmer, the Chief Security Officer, seems to think we are dead,
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and that the "heavens" that we are wandering through are the
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literal "heavens" of his religion. He's composing a ballad about
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the ship right now, thinking that the QEC system might be about
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to broadcast his poem to the living.
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I don't know if the QEC system has *that* capability... but,
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who knows?
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The QEC is working (yeah, yeah, I know... I'm typing on it),
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and we are receiving transmissions! But they might be alien
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transmissions, or perhaps some sort of encrypted computer code.
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We're currently trying to decode it.
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And there is a report about another ship that whose crew is being
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activated from stasis. I don't think that crew is going to be of
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much help to us, but if you receive this transmission, feel free
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to respond.
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Bearth, our Elephant Man engineer, managed to get the hydroponics
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mirrors working. What are those, you ask? Well, it is a system that
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combines our water supply (of course... hydro) with, well, Windows,
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basically. We open up windows on the outside of the ship, and the
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light filters through a series of tunnels, and is centered
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into The Garden.
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The Garden is a part of our ship that I insisted on including.
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There is no way a Sylvan is going to be in space for near-eternity
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without some trees and fruit and vegetables. But the hydroponics
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system would only work in a star-system, and only if we were close
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enough in orbit to receive sufficient light.
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Well, guess what? This nebula we're in, with its colorful rays
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of warm, beautiful light, seems to work with the hydroponics
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system, the light and water and soil, and The Garden (don't
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forget, capital 'T', very important!) is starting to bloom!!
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And those silly scientists on Earth said this wouldn't work on
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the Dance!
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However, the vegetables that already are starting to grow are a
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bit strange. Alien. Some of the crew even say sinister. But I like
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them. We have orange and purple trees springing up as well. The
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color is off, and the bark doesn't feel quite like the trees at
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home. These are totally new species, or maybe mutated species from
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the seeds that we had brought with us. Anyways, I guess that means
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I get to name them! Yay!
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Okay, other news. The maintenance folks got the external sensors
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up and running, but only with minimal power. There is a star system
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.2 light-years away. I'm not sure how to label the direction, since
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I don't know where the center of the galaxy is. But the lights of
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nebula are thicker there, so for now I am refering to it as
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"nebula-coreward". Our engines are a bit under-powered right now,
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but I have given the order to make our way into the system. With
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any luck, we will find a planet with a breathable atmosphere, or
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if nothing else an astroid with needed materials.
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What is that you ask?? (I think I'm talking to myself)... what
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about the crew still in stasis? Well, once The Garden vegetables
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grow, and if the vegetables are edible, the 10 of us who are awake
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are going to look at waking up the rest of the crew. Some of the
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remaining "sleepers" are engineers, that are to construct a colony.
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Some are scientists.
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And we could use all their expertise! Hopefully soon we can wake
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them up.
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Until later, Lantashi out.
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/* TRANSMISSION END */
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Wiki System
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Nebula -
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A giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Shine light though it, and it
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becomes shiny, beautiful.
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Nebula Coreword -
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Lantashi's term. Toward the center of the nebula.
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Harpy Sister - Some type of toy? Nobody knows.
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