Doalm Koals: Secrecy.

Log 2: Nov 27, 2214

Sunday

Sleeping up here on Mars always freaks me out a bit. I won't lie. I find it easier to deal with zero gravity than just a little bit of gravity. It takes a while to get use to it. You have to relearn how to toss a ball, or pick up a fork. Even going to the bathroom is different. Better than the alternatives, but still it takes some getting used to.

Anyway, starting the day by meeting the new team. These white coats are going to want me to wear pristine gloves when I touch their new ship. They're very protective of this stuff. They like to keep everything looking new. That's ok though, once things get their first scratch, then you can call it a real ship.

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I's the end of the day, and thankfully it is over. I can tell you now the ship is a real ship. It's just a small chip, or maybe a crack, but it will still run fine. They can replace those screens pretty quickly nowadays, but the mounting plate will have its little dent for a while. It's not my fault they built this cockpit for someone half my size. How was I suppose to know my coffee cup would go flying out of my hand, and whiz by that lady's head when I activated the initial warm up sequence. It wasn't my glitch.

My brain is full. Maybe having one of those memory extenders like Casper has would've been helpful today. The day started out really well. Then went down a bit, then back up. And by back up, I mean when it ended. It'll take a day to repair the console, minus the dent.

I did happen to meet most of the team on this new special project. There's Angus, he's in charge of the researchers and propulsion drives. Dr. Rachel Blyth, she's running the new G-Drive components team, and then there are a few other people that helped out, Special Ops Tilly, who's in charge of security. He served in Australia as well, so he knows how bad things can get. He was on the last team out there, so for him to be here seems a little out of place. Seriously we are on Mars, there's almost nothing here, except for the city on the hot side. Maybe he's looking for an easy role before he's out?

There was also a Dr. Mira who was working on things and ignoring me. I hate that. She is cute though. She was plotting routes and nav. She seemed to know her stuff. She said she was assigned here a few months ago to revamp the systems integration and take it to 'the next level'. I'm like what are you talking about? It's a comms panel. It figures out where we are going and how we get there. Start and Finish, what else does it need to know? Then she tells me she programs the gravity propulsion navs, not the computer. I bet she is an FB, but her hair is too long, so maybe not.

Well, I'd better get some rest, tomorrow we are going to go see the new launcher, seeing how they have a cracked screen to fix. I thought I saw another ship in the bay identical to the one I'm taking out. I'll see what I can find out.

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If they have two ships, then they need two pilots right? Who's the other pilot?

Beeks.

Ps. If you do go read the reports on what happened in Australia, whatever you read is nowhere near the truth. It was 10 times worse. And to be on the last team to get out of there? It was a mad scramble. All the atmospheric modeling suggested Australia had plenty of time before the freeze was going to hit them, but once the current stopped, it went bad fast. Faster than anybody expected. Once winter took hold, Antarctica made its goals very clear. The ice-creep was incredible. You could literally watch the ice freeze over the ocean. It threw Australia into a frenzy. How do you move 400 million people off a continent in months? People didn't believe the scientists. They didn't take the warnings seriously. Some people apparently stayed behind. God bless them. I don't know how they survived. The last team in was literally pulling people from their homes and freezing to death before they could get to the transports. They had no protection gear, nothing. Then chaos set in when the ice-creep hit land. They detonated everything they could think of to slow it down. They even detonated nukes, like that was going to help. Mother nature has a serious mean streak for freaking up her planet. Australia was the first to go down.