Miraj Derani Personal Log #7

Posted on 02 Oct 2016 @ 9:50pm by Ensign Miraj Derani

293 words; about a 1 minute read

Galileo Day 57
Live flight hours 161
Sim Hours 81.5

We've picked up a distress call and are diverting to the source, which looks like its an old freighter lost for forty years. Everyone seems to be reacting like its a trap. How come no one has heard from them before? How come its showing up now? but I think they're forgetting just how much of a long shot a distress call is.

Messages in bottles are more effective. By comparison with space a message in a bottle is the size of a small galaxy. A distress call is sub atomic. All it takes to become unimaginably lost is to lose Warp capacity. I mean, if you lost warp it would take five years permanently at maximum impulse to cross the Paulson Nebula. And if you lost impulse you would take over a hundred years just on thrusters assuming you could keep to the shortest course with your instruments spazzing out. And trust me, when we go in, they will fritz like nothing youve known. You'll hate it, but it can't be helped.

And yes the chances of anyone being alive are small, but they could have gone multi generational. And even if they haven't, then someone somewhere still needs to know that for sure.

So tomorrow we're going into the Paulson nebula, with its ridiculously dense clouds and sensor mangling particles. I've flown blind plenty of times but never into anything like this. Got to hope we don't end up hitting the recluse and doing more damage than help. You'll be fine, trust me. I know this will be the first time we've done anything hard together, but trust me, I'm the best hands on your helm you've ever had. You'll be fine.

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