Category Archives: Short Stories

I’m giving the heat dumps a day to settle in before characterization. Back to more normal work today. Did some rounds on the mech deck. Everything normal, just like it should be. Ran out a formal report to the engineering on … Continue reading →

Had a good day re-installing everything. There’s nothing like a clean system working smoothly. Of course, the heat dumps are still deactivated, pending diagnostics. Most tasks have acceptable time frames for completion, but diagnostics are renown for their unreliability. It may take days … Continue reading →

Worked late today finishing the particle scrubs. When I got back to quarters (just a little bit ago), there was a message waiting for me. Apparently three departments love the idea of cleaning all of the air-handling equipment before we … Continue reading →

Heard a couple of engineers complaining about the temperature in their quarters. Apparently they are propping their doors open at night. Almost makes all the hassle worth it. Spent most of today finishing the disassembly. Tomorrow is scheduled doing the in-place particle scrubs. … Continue reading →

Got pulled from the cushy landing vessel maintenance to work on that thermal dump unit shut-down. Apparently Dirk really sold that request at the A-tor meet. Maybe he saw the irony? Anyway, today I was swimming in thermal paste and … Continue reading →

We’ve started decanting and initial preventative maintenance on the landing vessels. Very dense to work on; Mostly just checking brand new systems for corrosion and double lubing everything. Kick can sometimes disturb internals, so flight crew is doing SSF testing. … Continue reading →

The mission is going forward! The whole maintenance team spent the day re-tuning the drive nodes for orbital insertion. I had a bit of trouble with the doors; It seems they recognized my crew ID and went into high-security mode. … Continue reading →

Back to work today. Made the rounds on preventative maintenance that was neglected during the cleanup. A-tor meeting today to go over the initial observations of the system. Soon we’ll know if the mission is going ahead. Very exciting! The … Continue reading →

The kick was really strange. Our schedules were synched so we’d be asleep when the kick drive ran. It took about three hours for a ship this size to go all the way to EP-61. There’s a very audible mid range … Continue reading →

Finished cleanup today, just in time too. Took soup again for lunch though. Tomorrow we should be back to blissful boring routine… on the other side of the kick. Got off shift a quarter early. Drifted around the observation room. Shohs is … Continue reading →