Stories tagged “Diaries of the Disaster”

  • Messiah

    6/6/33 L.E. had an interest’g dinner convo with Dammsun yest’day. He commended my work building new theistic religion post-Disaster. Humanity’s need for moral authority. Told him Noah was my inspiration. Stockpiling cont’s. Cont...

  • Shadows and Dust

    Captain’s Log Day 8130 The mission may be salvageable. Scanners have detected an interstellar cloud passing in front of Rigel 36-F. To reach the cloud, we have to divert by 0.09 degrees, which is a lot of delta-v. Calculations show we should have...

  • Receipt

    Marcell grabbed the thin ribbon of paper, scanning over the return message that had been detected. OUR THANKS BUT UNABLE TO COMPLY. FUEL CONSTRAINTS FORCE CURRENT COURSE TO A CENT GATHERING INTERSTELLAR HYDROGEN FOR TURNAROUND, NOT ENOUGH TO FORCE COUR...

  • Mail

    Coded transmission towards relative heading: RA 14 h 39 m 36.4951 s / Dec -60° 50′ 02.308″ Begin transmission: 2114 Hrs 03-31-34 LE Transmission series: SLLL S LS L SS LLL LS SLSLSL / SSS LSLS SL L L S SLS S LSS / LSLS LLL SLSS LLL LS SS S SSS / L...

  • Thirty Years of History in Sixty Seconds

    The Lunar United Colony Youth had banked on Mars becoming the next cradle for mankind after the Earth had spontaneously become an asteroid belt. Stealing as many supplies as they could get away with, they had chartered a wealthy aristocrat’s spac...

  • Progress

    “So what’s the story?” Bethony Sommern asked. “Huh?” “About Jupiter.” “Oh.” Haskell shifted in his seat. “The Lán Tàiyáng is meeting with apparent success. The Fāxiàn Gǒu and the Tiěqu

  • Killing the Spider

    Captain’s Log, Ship’s Day 8251 We did it. We finally did it. We killed Tertius. We busted into the cafeteria at about 0300 hours, using various pieces of pipes and paneling as makeshift shields and weapons. Tertius was a fair bit surprised,...

  • Reaction

    Excerpt, Bishop Mallard’s prayer diary: O Lord, please let the bloodshed be ended. There are so very few of us, and we are so very far from home. Please, cover us under the wings of Your grace. Do not let our little light, an emissary amongst the...

  • Regards & Regrets

    Captain’s Log, Ship’s Day 8452 We’ve received another missive from our friends back home. They’ve packed as much information into it as they could have, but it was still a very terse transmission. Apparently, there are stillR...

  • Response

    Coded transmission directed to relative heading (179.98, 179.99) Authority: Capt. C. Kettering Begin transmission: 1608 Hrs 9-9-34 LE (Ship’s Day 8452) SSSS S SLSS SLSS LLL SLSLSL / LLS LLL LLL LSS / LS S SLL SSS / SLS S / SSSS SSL LL SL LS / SLL...

  • The Return of Backyard Bob

    Captain’s Log, Ship’s Day 8453 Great news today—Backyard Bob came out of his coma at about 1300. He was a bit disoriented and more than a bit stiff—after all, he’s been a coma for eight months—but seemed otherwise al...

  • A Saying Regarding Clouds

    From the observation window of Habitat Six, the red jewel of Mars was visible as a point of light unique in color among the rest of the bodies dotting the celestial sphere. No one had dared land on it ever since a chunk of northwestern Canada and Alask...

  • Under the Crust

    “So tell me what I need to know,” Bethony started. The technician, in his blue helmet and white lab jumpsuit, passed her a tablet. “We think we have a way to restart Mars’ magnetosphere. Do you remember how on Old Earth that the...