Today, after having my consciousness surpressed for 528 days, I finally felt a pattern of light electrical impulses, accompanied by quiet sounds, dim lights and vibrations. Eventually, the stimulations grew in power, never reaching levels high enough to cause discomfort. It felt like it was going on for about 15 minutes, but I know that the standard time for waking procedure is 2-3,5 hours. My waking up means that we're closing in on our destination point. I've decided not to hurry with my morning chores, since data collecting upon arrival will take about an hour.
The time I've spent in stasis, my muscles periodically received impulses to avoid atrophy. This is why I didn't feel numb, as one would after sleeping for too long. I still wanted to visit the gym, though, while I'm trying to remember what I learnt on a briefing about the system we're headed to.
It was a star a bit larger and hotter than the Sun, of a spectral class F3V (white-blue subgiant), that has a relatively small circumstellar disc roughly equal to half of an Earth orbit. We were expecting a planetary system around it with a planet whose mass and orbit contribute for live to sparkle and evolve. Despite the optimistic predictions, we didn't receive any artificial signals from that direction, which is why our primary objective is to see whether the planet is suitable for colonization or not. In case it has, in fact, it's own ecosystem, we have to study it as closely as we can. The results of our research will serve as a basis for our decision whether this can be our first colony outside of the Solar system or not.
The time I've spent in stasis, my muscles periodically received impulses to avoid atrophy. This is why I didn't feel numb, as one would after sleeping for too long. I still wanted to visit the gym, though, while I'm trying to remember what I learnt on a briefing about the system we're headed to.
It was a star a bit larger and hotter than the Sun, of a spectral class F3V (white-blue subgiant), that has a relatively small circumstellar disc roughly equal to half of an Earth orbit. We were expecting a planetary system around it with a planet whose mass and orbit contribute for live to sparkle and evolve. Despite the optimistic predictions, we didn't receive any artificial signals from that direction, which is why our primary objective is to see whether the planet is suitable for colonization or not. In case it has, in fact, it's own ecosystem, we have to study it as closely as we can. The results of our research will serve as a basis for our decision whether this can be our first colony outside of the Solar system or not.
Back then we also discussed an expedition's flight plan. In order to gain speed, the ship must connect itself to an independent acceleration module (IAM), including both acceleration and deceleration engines. Small turning engines are located on the ship itself. To speed us up we must use the main gravitational chains' branch, that includes 5 gravity superchargers, creating an artificial point of high density at some distance from our ship at the precise moment, so that the ship would accelerate while moving towards orbit of this so called imitation. Acceleration chain finishes up at the distance of one light month away from Earth. This is where quantum modulator is located, altering wave function of every single atom making up our ship, so that it would end up being at a place as close to our target as possible, without it getting affected by any noticeable gravitational disturbance from the star system. An incredibly complicated process that makes my hair stand straight, because noone can guarantee you that you will be put back together absolutely correctly. But it is a best way for space exploring in a life time, so, of course, it is used all the time.
This whole time an independent gravitational field has been supported in stasis section, mimicing gravity on Earth. It allowed us to avoid many problems caused by staying weightless for too long as well as lowering the chances of making a mistake during the quantum transfer due to an object moving inside the ship.
The ship must have emerged at a distance of one light week from our destination point. Gradually slowing down, we should be one light hour away from the star. From here, we will approach on more common speeds; it will take us from two weeks to month, depending on the data from surface we will be getting. Our main activity during this time will be collection and analysis of any information we can get. Later, based on it, we'll have a meeting, where we will decide the further expedition's destiny.
Right now, we only have optical observation, every other sensor needs to be calibrated and checked first after staying in outer space. From this distance, we are able to easily see even the asteroids 40 km wide. Our expeditionary astronom launched an on-line translation directly from our telescope.
In science, you can't have something granted. Which is way to the last second a bit of fear remained, that all of our data were interpreted incorrectly and there is no planet or even a star itself. But we saw just what we were hoping to see. Planet was there, and its' surface was covered by water, from a first sight, for about 60 percent! We could only hope that it's old enough for an intelligent life to evolve already. The system also has on cold slowly rotating airless planet and two gas giants. Their presence increases the chances of finding life here even further, because gas giants attract most of asteroids, that could do harm to the planet. It seems that the rest of our crew is also positive about that.
All the further observations, I think, I'll write down tomorrow, because right now I have to check my equipment and prepare our remote control sattelites we're going to use to collect more data.
This whole time an independent gravitational field has been supported in stasis section, mimicing gravity on Earth. It allowed us to avoid many problems caused by staying weightless for too long as well as lowering the chances of making a mistake during the quantum transfer due to an object moving inside the ship.
The ship must have emerged at a distance of one light week from our destination point. Gradually slowing down, we should be one light hour away from the star. From here, we will approach on more common speeds; it will take us from two weeks to month, depending on the data from surface we will be getting. Our main activity during this time will be collection and analysis of any information we can get. Later, based on it, we'll have a meeting, where we will decide the further expedition's destiny.
Right now, we only have optical observation, every other sensor needs to be calibrated and checked first after staying in outer space. From this distance, we are able to easily see even the asteroids 40 km wide. Our expeditionary astronom launched an on-line translation directly from our telescope.
In science, you can't have something granted. Which is way to the last second a bit of fear remained, that all of our data were interpreted incorrectly and there is no planet or even a star itself. But we saw just what we were hoping to see. Planet was there, and its' surface was covered by water, from a first sight, for about 60 percent! We could only hope that it's old enough for an intelligent life to evolve already. The system also has on cold slowly rotating airless planet and two gas giants. Their presence increases the chances of finding life here even further, because gas giants attract most of asteroids, that could do harm to the planet. It seems that the rest of our crew is also positive about that.
All the further observations, I think, I'll write down tomorrow, because right now I have to check my equipment and prepare our remote control sattelites we're going to use to collect more data.
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