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Point Defence

Internal Logs: Day 41 Transcender System MasCon: /SYSTEM- Activity on surface System: Broadcasting status queries… Base 1 reports all clear … Base 2 reports all clear … Base 3 reports minor damage … … Base 4 reports moderate to severe damage Base 5 reports severe damage- requesting repair operations … … Base 6 reports all clear MasCon: Not ready for this… MasCon: Hang in there, self ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Surveyor Report: Day 1525 Anomalies located Slicers and Minions on course to intercept Warning- The above entries have been deemed as external interference and have been logged for review ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Internal Logs: Day 41 Pioneer System System: Warning- Unidentified objects on course for intercept to ...
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Plan Of Action

I have woken up before my alarm again, as per tradition. I sit up and look around my room, half expecting to see my old office, papers all over the floor because I forgot to clear up the night before. But no, I am in my room, sitting on my bed, sheets comfortably pulled up to my waist. I slip out of them and sigh. It has been a while since I slept in a bed. Of course, my penchant for falling asleep at a desk, working late into the night, is no help whatsoever. “Right, what am I going to do for…” I check my phone to see how early I woke up, “Two hours now?” I said to myself. Two things immediately caught my eye: my backpack with most of my notes and my luggage with all of my personal belongings. Ah, who am I kidding? There is no way I am clearing my luggage out; I live out of my suitcase even when I return home anyway. I grabbed my backpack, pulled out my notebooks and my file with my rough maps, and started rearranging them again. Station 1 is located in a pretty expansive region of th...

Growth

The day was passing by quickly. It felt like barely 10 minutes ago that Fareed was walking down to the station. And now it seems like the world has grown so much larger, and he has met three new friends already. They had left the station a long time back. Alistair and Jasper were reminiscing over drinks and food at a nearby pub. Fareed, on the other hand, was leading Felix and Isaac further into the city of Arteria, past the storehouses and the shops and towards the fields. After quite a bit of silent walking, Felix spoke up, “I’m sorry, mister…?” “Hmm…?” Fareed looked back, unsure how to answer. “Uhm… what do we call you? Or rather, is Mr Fareed okay with you?” “Huh? Oh yes… Fareed is fine, you don’t have to use ‘mister’” “Ah, I meant did you have a family name?” “Oh! No, I don’t.” Felix was taken aback by the answer, but he kept walking. Isaac took his turn now. “Uhm, where are we headed?” “Where I work. Mr Alistair told me to take you there to inspect the progress of our commission....

Wonder

The streets of the residential areas of Arteria are a pretty noisy place, not because it is a bustling marketplace or because it is an industrial district. The bustling is from the community and the people as they strike up conversation with each other, as everyone knows each other. Some people are returning from a hard day’s work in the agricultural fields, while others are packing up their food and drink for their shift in the same fields. Arteria is, first and foremost, an agricultural and ranching settlement after all. That makes the sight of someone like Mr Alistair strolling down the street all the more puzzling- a businessman who made and maintains a small fortune not grown from the land but from the material extracted from it. Metal deposits in the nearby mountains serve as a constant supply of fresh material to use in his smithy, and his connections have allowed him to maintain an advantageous relationship with the mining guild. In return, the mining guild receives a handsome ...