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The Khurakan System
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rottielover 30 Oct, 2022 @ 9:45pm
Survivor's Log
Starlog: 10302022

I awoke from cryosleep to find myself floating among the wreckage of our ship. Soon I found the body of crewman Bowmont, he had started to write something on a pad, something that I wish I would have read at the time. Instead, I surveyed the damage, total and catastrophic loss of hull integrity that caused the ship to break apart, I was not sure why. I was unable to locate any other survivors and so I started to gather supplies. I immediately grabbed O2 and H2 bottles, weapons and ammo, and my tools and set off to start cobbling together the machines that would allow me to sustain life and call for help.

Not long after finding supplies my suit AI warned me it was picking up a strange signal in the local area, too close to be random. So I investigated and found a nightmare... It attacked again, trying to complete its task and kill me, the last of the crew. It managed to destroy more of the ship, but after I got over my initial fears, I had nothing to lose, so I charged in and got in close... To my surprise, it was indeed some type of technology, but unlike any I had seen before. I got to work with my grinder and managed to disrupt its power systems.

After that, I cobbled together a little survival barge and set to my grim task of salvage for anything I could use.

I'm currently surveying the few asteroids I'm able to spot visually or through the camera system that I just rigged up. Luckily for me, I found a small amount of ice, and have been able to produce some O2 and H2 fuel to keep me going for now. I managed to pick up 2 planets on my camera system, close to the 2nd star in this binary system.

My next task will be communications and a distress beacon, but I'm hesitant to actively transmit any signals. Who knows how many more of those... those THINGS might be lurking out there in the darkness, just waiting... My next priority is defensive systems.

It will likely be 30 days before we are declared overdue, and I doubt they will start searching for us this far out in the system. I hope I can be rescued, but if not, hopefully, this log will find its way to be read by human eyes again one day...
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rottielover 1 Nov, 2022 @ 11:10am 
Starlog: 11012022

I've been able to survey the local area and find 4 asteroids in the local space. In quite a shock, I confirmed that Pirates have been operating in this area for quite some time. I am now convinced that our ship was attacked and destroyed by a cleverly designed defensive system, designed not only to defend this area but to scare off future incursions by generating a story. That said, I discovered a large chunk of ice, and surprisingly my suit picked up a faint signal coming from it. After investigation, I located the body of a pirate and his small mining ship. It appears that he was accidentally left behind by his party and eventually ran out of supplies. He finally ended it by opening his visor.

I was able to salvage his small mining ship, unfortunately, the data storage had been wiped clean, but the components from this ship allowed me to construct several machines I found in the database I was able to salvage from the wreck of our ship. The most useful has been the Nanite systems, collecting resources from the asteroids and assisting me in building my survival ship. [Mods added Nanite build and repair, nanite drill and fill]

Once these systems were operational I found myself with some time to search the database for other useful items, and I found a Lidar Mapping system! [Script Lidar Mapping]. It's limited to a 10km range, but it was able to help me confirm that I had located the bulk of the resources in my local area.

Unfortunately for me, the last attack from the Pirate defense system destroyed the Jump Drive, and I find myself with no Gold left in my supplies. I did find a Gravel Sifter machine [Mod Gravel Sifter] which will allow me to gather trace minerals from the asteroids, but I don't believe I will be able to gather a sufficient amount in order for me to make a Jump Drive before I die of old age.

So instead I decided to fill my storage with as much ice as possible and I set off for the central star, hoping that I will encounter more resources and possibly make planet fall. I have built a new cryo chamber and I am setting off for the planets I have been able to visually observe. My testing of the Lidar system has been successful at triggering my CryoPod to wake me when it detects something.


Starlog supplemental:

After placing myself back in Cryo, the Lidar system woke me unexpectedly earl. As it turns out, by complete random dumb luck, the course I set took me close to a unique asteroid, one I had never encountered before now. This asteroid is a nearly 100% made from Uranium ore. Unfortunately for me this asteroid shows signs of mining activity. Since I do not wish to be some pirates next meal, I gathered my fill of ore to process and have set off once again to see if I can make it to a potentially habitable planet before my systems fail. I have a LONG journey ahead...
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