Kyle Rhider is one of the first three thousand passengers on Earth's first interstellar voyage. In order to escape a collapsing Earth, humanity has been forced to look to other star systems to colonize. These are Kyle's logs as he faces an uncertai...
Hello again. I'm afraid I've been somewhat irresponsible with my logs... I'm now on Titan. I'm sitting in one of the enclosed arboreal parks writing this. It's really awesome that we are able to save some of Earth's legacy by putting these maple trees, redwood, oak, and a few others (I think) in these recreated habitats.
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I'm curious as to what we will find on our new planet. No one has sent probes or anything, counting on the terraforming process to deal with a harsh climate (if it has one). The only reason that we've chosen that planet to settle is because it's in the life-giving Goldilocks zone. The Goldilocks zone is the area in space where it's not too hot nor too cold for life to be sustainable. But since this planet is in the Goldilocks zone there may be native life there. If that's the case, we will not be responsible for mass genocide of life and will seek out refuge among ten other less desirable planets. Pray it doesn't come to that. And that is not our only worry. If anything goes wrong with the ship none of us will be able to do a thing about it. We'll be in Cryostasis for the whole journey. The ship has redundant systems, but it can't undo major catastrophes such as a meteor or comet impact. If the radiation shields go down we'll all die within the hour because radiation is ten times more potent in space. Pleasant right? The Cryostasis chambers can survive the vacuum of space if there's a breach and we're all sucked out, but they won't be able to sustain us for long disconnected from the ship. If our engines go out our velocity will keep us going but the maneuvering jets won't be able to slow us up when we reach our destination. So we die. Oxygen breach, we die. Reactor meltdown, we die. Power failure, we die. Life support failure, we die. But the chances of these things happening are very slim do to the ingenious engineering of the ship. That's what I keep telling myself anyway. Next log I record, I'll be on Pluto about to embark. Write you then.
