Time to Orbit: Unknown

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> I follow Captain Sands into Storage Ring 2. He leads us a little away from the path between airlocks, to a spot where nobody’s likely to interrupt us accidentally while moving about the ship, and fixes me with one of his usual easy smiles. … Continue reading 061: NEGOTIATION

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> I’ve done a lot of jobs on this spaceship. Technically, I’ve done all the jobs on this spaceship. I’ve been pretty bad at most of them. I’m an okay gardener, but I broke several bones playing engineer, avoided being the psychologist as much as … Continue reading 060: INFORMATION

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> The Public Universal Friend, me, and Tal are selected for the mission of briefing our captain. It seems like the group best suited to give the maximum amount of information with the minimum amount of freaking out. We sit him down at the table … Continue reading 059: RESPONSIBILITY

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> I move my stuff into Habitation Ring 1 that night, choosing a room as far away from the one where I found Leilea Arc Hess as possible. While I’m moving, I take the time to go through every currently unoccupied room in Habitation Ring … Continue reading 058: DISCLOSURE

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> Despite Sands making it clear that Movie Night is in no way compulsory, almost everyone shows up. The only one absent is Celi Tate, the new doctor, and our existing doctors explain that ke’s under sedation in the medbay, dealing with complications from chronostasis … Continue reading 057: FAMILY

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> I’m checking our various hardware supplies on a terminal in Network and Engineering Ring 1 later that day when our new psychologist walks in. “It’s Aspen, right?” “Sure is. How are you doing, Renn?” His grimace makes his perfectly symmetrical cheekbones stand out even … Continue reading 056: HISTORY

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> By the next morning, everyone’s awake, registered, and well enough to (at Captain Sands’ insistence) attend a morning meeting at our usual picnic table, even though there’s no way we could all fit. (Everyone except Zale and Clover, our two failed revivals who are … Continue reading 055: ICEBREAKER

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> Sunset moves in her bed, and the Friend quickly shoos us all out. “Go and inform the captain,” it says, which… okay, yes fair, he should be informed, but I still can’t help but feel annoyed. If I was still captain, I – well, … Continue reading 054: RECORD

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> The first of our new crewmates to wake is the doctor, Celi Tate. The doctors are insistent about kem not being crowded, so it’s a few hours before I’m allowed to see kem. Ke blinks up at me from the hospital bed. “Captain Sands … Continue reading 053: AUTONOMY

<<First .......... <Prev .......... [Archive] .......... [Map] .......... Next> .......... Last>> All eight of us crowd around the chronostasis pod. It doesn’t take the entire crew to revive someone; we could work a lot faster if we split off into groups of three, but no one, event he captain, has suggested doing that. It’s not … Continue reading 052: EXPAND