Captains log Day 007

Well it’s done. We used the last of the fuel for the ion drives. We’ve been accelerating at 1 g for a week now and have travelled more than 1200 au’s. We are almost at 2% of the speed of light. The fastest thing man has ever created.

To slow down we are going to need more fuel. That’s not really a concern though. We can use the magnetic field generators to “scoop up” some of the interstellar gases. There are one or two molecules of hydrogen per cubit meter out here. It’s going to take a while to refill the tanks, but time is one thing we have plenty of. Next stop, Alpha Centauri, in about 217 years.

Captains log Day 113

This isn’t good. I just got a preliminary report from Chief Engineer Dutch. In order to survive we need to recycle everything. We took twice the consumables we thought we would need. We should achieve a 99.99% efficiency with our recycling. Dutch said we are actually only getting 99.7% over the past 90 days. If this rate doesn’t change we will run out in 181 years.