From the Desk of Director Sarah Martinez, Entry 4
October 12, 2101
Had to hop out to New Eden before dawn this morning. Took the Spiraling Hope out since all three ARKs were on migration missions to Erias.
There’s just something… different about taking the small ship, you know, diary? The folks down in Blink Tech tell me its because the nav system is different than the ARKs. Namely, the big colony ships don’t have a secondary nav system like the Hope.
These entries are classified, right? I can just say shit?
Okay. Don’t know how much of this is true and how much is just weird hero worship, but here goes: apparently the early Blink Techs that adapted the Hope's systems screwed up the original design and left off the secondary nav systems. No one noticed until the first ARK made a round trip with no issues.
So, clearly Blink travel doesn’t need a secondary nav system, though that begs the question as to why it’s even on the Hope to begin with. Unfortunately, this little ship was so heavily classified—or whatever the corporate equivalent was in 2076—the Blink Techs didn’t even know it existed; they just had the blueprints for the engine system.
Anyway… Blink travel in the Hope has been giving me a headache, okay? Ugh. Even writing that out makes me feel icky inside. Last thing I need is some fucking mental barrier getting in the way of doing my job.
Whatever, that wasn’t the thing that bugged me about the trip, so I’m not sure why I’m obsessing over it. There’s nothing I can change about that anyway.
So. New Eden. The colony is… coming along despite the Edenites organizing their own bullshit and trying to kick us off the planet. Yeah, you read that right, diary. A few of those old rich assholes who fled the Earth back in ‘76 decided they knew better than the rest of us.
Shock. Gasp.
This is my surprised face.
But still, they’re organizing “protests” and “walkouts” as if this was still the early 21st and they had a say in anything. Their leader is an ex-senator, Joseph Drumm, who I ran into back in the day. Such a prick, but he’s good at convincing people he’s working for them even when it’s entirely self-serving.
I mean, maybe Drumm is doing it for them, but I doubt it. I still remember how red his face got when ALIZA told him off. Maybe if I get him angry enough, he’ll just pop like a flesh firework and I can get back to saving humanity without his precious antics?
Bad Sayre. You can’t say shit like that.
But that’s why this journal or whatever the fuck is for, right? Get these thoughts out so I’m not actively wondering how much force it would take to choke that big fuck out?
Okay, I do feel a little better now. Maybe the Erias trip this afternoon will go smoothly for once. Turns out humans don’t particularly enjoy living on an asteroid, even if the minerals being mined there provide the expansion fuel we need to survive.
Stranger things have happened.
Just not recently.
And there’s the timer.
Until next time,
Sarah Martinez
