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From: A-54H1
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Position: Xur 5
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Stardate: 201253281
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The months of waiting are finally over, my patience has paid off.
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Finally, after seven long months after I graduated from the
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academy, I've been assigned a mission and, more importantly, a
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ship.
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The mission doesn't sound too interesting, it is yet another map an
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unknown part of the universe. It boils down to having a ship full
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of scientists, flying to a far away-ish space and then letting the
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scientists play with their fancy gyzmos. After some time in the
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unknown space, we'll conclude that the unknown space isn't all that
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unknown and that it is in fact quite similar to the known space.
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Just vacuum and rocks.
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The more I think about it, the more it feels like the higher
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command just wants to be rid of me and they don't mind giving me an
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expensive toy just so I sod off. But hey, at least I'll have my own
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ship.
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Now, about the ship. I almost spilled my coffee when I read the
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assignment order. It is not just any regular ship, the engineering
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corps really outdid themselves this time. It is one of the two
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ships of Atreides class in existence, the wonderful A-54H1. I
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wasn't really fond of the codename, so I imediatelly renamed her to
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Asahi. Her older sister, A-54H0, was a prototype and was undergoing
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trials during last two years. I haven't read the reports yet, but
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apparently the prototype was finally approved for real world use.
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She is like a dream. She has state of the art equipment,
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propulsion, sensors, everything. She even boasts an Outer Hull
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Reconfiguration module, meaning she can change the shape of her
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outer hull to some degree. Not sure for what purpose, but she is
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definitely packed with features. I can't wait to take her out of
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the dock. So far I've been granted only remote and read-only access
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so I can familiarize myself with her at least a bit, without flying
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away with her immediatelly.
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She is built to be flown with standard crew of 60, with skeleton
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crew being just 10 people. In worst case scenario, she can be flown
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with only 4 people, but I hope it won't ever come to that. From
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what I heard she will be fully staffed and we will be carrying a
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lot of passengers. I should receive the full crew roster in a few
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days, so far I have no idea who I'll be flying with.
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I'm really looking forward to taking her on her maiden voyage.
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