avevale_intelligencer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2006-02-06 09:56 am
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2006-02-06 09:56 am
Extended metaphor 2
Captain's log, supplemental:
We have now secured the planetoid and extraction of usable resources will begin directly. While this is by no means a final resolution of our problems, it will afford us a further lease of life and a chance to see if the hope it represents is justified...or not. Science Officer confirms that there is a sixty-three per cent probability that we will find a star system on this heading within the next three to four months. That, unfortunately, is as much as he can tell me. Long range sensors are irreparable even with the extra materials. We should be able to compensate for lateral drift now, though, so we can at least maintain a course.
The crew are divided. Some see this as a sign that our long voyage will soon be over, that the system will contain a life-bearing planet on which we can settle. I have not the heart to disillusion them. Others, including Number One, are convinced that there will be no end, that the system, if it exists, will be barren, or worse, inhabited by hostile aliens. I have no arguments to set against this belief either. For myself, I believe that this will be a respite only, a chance to bring the ship up to full function and perhaps rest my weary crew before setting off again. Maybe I have grown too old either for hope or despair. That the voyage will end is beyond doubt: that it will end in success, far less certain.
Gods grant us the strength to carry it through, whatever happens.
We have now secured the planetoid and extraction of usable resources will begin directly. While this is by no means a final resolution of our problems, it will afford us a further lease of life and a chance to see if the hope it represents is justified...or not. Science Officer confirms that there is a sixty-three per cent probability that we will find a star system on this heading within the next three to four months. That, unfortunately, is as much as he can tell me. Long range sensors are irreparable even with the extra materials. We should be able to compensate for lateral drift now, though, so we can at least maintain a course.
The crew are divided. Some see this as a sign that our long voyage will soon be over, that the system will contain a life-bearing planet on which we can settle. I have not the heart to disillusion them. Others, including Number One, are convinced that there will be no end, that the system, if it exists, will be barren, or worse, inhabited by hostile aliens. I have no arguments to set against this belief either. For myself, I believe that this will be a respite only, a chance to bring the ship up to full function and perhaps rest my weary crew before setting off again. Maybe I have grown too old either for hope or despair. That the voyage will end is beyond doubt: that it will end in success, far less certain.
Gods grant us the strength to carry it through, whatever happens.