It's been only three days out of planned five, bit I can't remain calm already. The waiting makes me short-tempered; I'm even thinking about visiting our psychoanalytic. I never thought waiting would be such a torture for me, and I wasn't prepared for this. An onboard infonet helps, but only for a couple of hours, after that I get bored and just fall asleep with the tablet in my hands. As I know, many crew members have the same problem. It's only our astronomer, it seems, who's spending his time at the telescope. I've talked to him yesterday, and he said that he grew tired of watching the Minocha system, and he started looking around at the surrounding sector of Milky Way, hoping, that he will be able to find any interesting astronomical objects, to be able to send a probe there without any additional problems.
Oh! I forgot that I haven't mentioned out crew yet. What a bad-mannered thing to do. Well, the "Tounhar" ship crew consists of 114 men, out of which 48 has responsibilities of only expeditionary scientists. One of those people is I, Adrian Carting; back on Earth I was modeling possible directions of living creatures' evolution depending on the different conditions of its' origin and development, and so my goal is to analyze the data from excavations we're going to do on the planet, of course, if we're able to find life there, in order to see the underlying mechanisms of local evolution. It should help us to understand if there're some common evolutionary laws, which life follows. Every scientist also has an assistant, who's basically a replacement in case an acting specialist is somehow unable to perform his duties any longer. My assistant is a young man from China, Chen Ir, a quiet and serious guy. I've tried to establish some sort of contact with him, to sort down with beer and talk, but he refused, so I can't really tell much about him yet.
In general, biologists are the biggest part of scientific expedition members — 8 botanics, 4 mycologists, 6 theory biologists, including myself and Chen, 2 biochemistry experts, 2 anatomists (both are ex-surgeons) as well as 2 sociologists, in case there is an advanced civilization on this planet. 4 people are making up the heading council, they must command us on Anansi as well as reporting back to Earth. The rest consists of geologists, archeologists, and paleontologists, to analyze the life we're hoping to face. Information they've gathered I shall process with extreme presicion. We're also bringing with us meteorologists, geographers, and specialists in non-organic chemistry as well. Huh, I guess, we're making the half of our science team, but it feels like we're the bigger part of it.
Oh! I forgot that I haven't mentioned out crew yet. What a bad-mannered thing to do. Well, the "Tounhar" ship crew consists of 114 men, out of which 48 has responsibilities of only expeditionary scientists. One of those people is I, Adrian Carting; back on Earth I was modeling possible directions of living creatures' evolution depending on the different conditions of its' origin and development, and so my goal is to analyze the data from excavations we're going to do on the planet, of course, if we're able to find life there, in order to see the underlying mechanisms of local evolution. It should help us to understand if there're some common evolutionary laws, which life follows. Every scientist also has an assistant, who's basically a replacement in case an acting specialist is somehow unable to perform his duties any longer. My assistant is a young man from China, Chen Ir, a quiet and serious guy. I've tried to establish some sort of contact with him, to sort down with beer and talk, but he refused, so I can't really tell much about him yet.
In general, biologists are the biggest part of scientific expedition members — 8 botanics, 4 mycologists, 6 theory biologists, including myself and Chen, 2 biochemistry experts, 2 anatomists (both are ex-surgeons) as well as 2 sociologists, in case there is an advanced civilization on this planet. 4 people are making up the heading council, they must command us on Anansi as well as reporting back to Earth. The rest consists of geologists, archeologists, and paleontologists, to analyze the life we're hoping to face. Information they've gathered I shall process with extreme presicion. We're also bringing with us meteorologists, geographers, and specialists in non-organic chemistry as well. Huh, I guess, we're making the half of our science team, but it feels like we're the bigger part of it.
However, scientists are not the only part of the crew. In fact, most of it are automats' operators, 53 in total. They maintain the control over all ship's systems, but, fortunately, so far we didn't need them to interrupt mechanisms' work. The ship's captain, Gerald Sart, a middle height British guy, who barely leaves his room; it seems like he only gets out to take a meal or tea make an announcement. Until the ship've landed, he's our boss; in his absence — this role is taken by his best man, Andrey Hlodko, Ukrainian, if I understood correctly, a positive middle-aged man. He likes spending time with us in our messdeck, which we call, by our mutual agreement, living room, to make the sheep feel more like home.
We also have, of course, a medicine team — two therapists, four nurses, two surgeons, psychotherapist, and sociotherapist. It's not much, but their work is heavily supported by robo-doctors. Even the surgeons are, in fact, engineers more than they are doctors. Also, we need the last two medics in order to keep us as a fully functional work group, because we can't really predict what's going to happen after being for at least two month in such unique conditions. It seems that only the captain has already been in space, but I'm not sure; perhaps, somebody from operators team, I haven't really talked to them much yet.
And, finally, our last five members of this expedition. It is our two cooks, who I don't really know yet, astronavigator and his assistant, Andrew and Jilly Backins, father and daughter, and our astronomer, John Tanner, who already became a friend of mine. An American with Scottish ancestors, John is a smart and social man, who, as he says, "lived alone for many years and kept on thinking this whole time, so now he has an opinion on pretty much everything he knows."
I think, that's enough for today. I have a training scheduled soon, so I have to prepare for it. I think I'll describe the ship tomorrow, to have something to recover my memory by back home.
And, finally, our last five members of this expedition. It is our two cooks, who I don't really know yet, astronavigator and his assistant, Andrew and Jilly Backins, father and daughter, and our astronomer, John Tanner, who already became a friend of mine. An American with Scottish ancestors, John is a smart and social man, who, as he says, "lived alone for many years and kept on thinking this whole time, so now he has an opinion on pretty much everything he knows."
I think, that's enough for today. I have a training scheduled soon, so I have to prepare for it. I think I'll describe the ship tomorrow, to have something to recover my memory by back home.
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