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+ Slantwise Convection + Status: 3 + Notes: +
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+ MY: 2461 + AMS: -7,1M + +
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+ Lead Pilot Mandated Log Entry #3 +
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Arthen Damasatra making my third official log entry.
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Preliminary evaluation of planetary data continues.
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Second wave of Neumann devices' datastreams were incomplete and
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fragmentary, requiring delay to complete third generation devices
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initialization. Early evaluation of this dataset indicates greater
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level of completeness, and we are proceeding accordingly.
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Initial planetary data indicates two likely possibilities,
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confirming preliminary E.S.S.I. conclusions.
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Evaluation of prior pass data has been completed, and computational
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parameters have been confirmed and approved. Instruction from
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CentCom (in attached directive data) concluded data evaluation at
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-7.24m.
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Live fire engine test completed succesfully at -7.15m, no
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significant anomalies
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:Log ends.
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+ Slantwise Convection + Status: 3 + Notes: +
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+ MY: 2461 + AMS: -7,1M + +
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+ Lead Pilot Personal Log Entry #2 +
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The slog continues, helped in no way by the high-handed mucky-mucks
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in CentCom. The purity of the random selection model proves itself
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again, my ass.
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I can't pretend that the failure of the second-wave von-Neumanns
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isn't troubling, even a little. When the datastream was given to
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us, there were huge chunks missing, so that meant there was
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something "wrong" with the devices. Sal and I were worried this
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meant the mineral composition data for the system was wrong, that
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the place isn't as rich as Essi's models suggested.
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Thankfully, the third-wave came on-stream just as predicted, so we
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can put those concerns aside, for now. The missing data is still
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missing, though, so we'll have to wait for the sails to get more
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complete data on atmospheric structures.
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We got the info from the previous passes done, with help from
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Bartik.
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While doing that, it turned out that Sal is a dead-header. She let
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it slip after a particularly annoying conversation with Bartik one
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evening. We never talked anything like this "before", so it was a
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complete surprise to me. She wasn't involved in the campaign
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against the Augments, but she was in the 30% who voted against
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having them on the ship. I honestly don't know what I feel about
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this, just another part of the chaos that's all around me, I think.
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I just want to get on, get the burn done, and move on from flying
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this giant to flying smaller simpler things. I don't care if I do
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that with Augments or without, I'm so sick of waiting.
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And turns out, I'm not the only one! CentCom decided we'd done
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enough checking of the prior pass data, ordered an end to the
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analysis, and ordered us to proceed to a live engine check as soon
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as, and gave a bare-minimum 86 kilosecs deadline. We ran through
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the checklist in perfect pattern, and so, five planetary systems,
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hundreds of light years later, I drove this ship (for about 5s) for
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the second time.
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I want to do it again. I have to do it again.
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I just better get it right. No pressure.
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