First created March 5th, 2024.
Last edited August 12th, 2024.
(FIELD REPORT - EXPEDITIONARY TEAM 041-A “Journeymen”)
DATE: ██/██/████
AUTHOR: Hollis, Juno
REPORT READS AS FOLLOWS:
In an hour’s time, myself and four colleagues will be departing from ██████ Station on an expedition to a distant world designated by my superiors as “Oxi 44-2”, while documenting our findings along the way.
Our vessel, known by its official designation of ███ 041-A, has been loaded with a few years worth of supplies, an OmniNet-capable GMS ship terminal, a few exploration rigs brought on by members of what would be the ground team, including my personal GMS Everest, and just in case, a few distress beacons placed in strategic positions on the inside and outside of the ship.
As I write this log, our resident engineer Tobias is going over various system checks in the cockpit alongside the deck crew, while our geologist Allison is assisting our xenobiologist, Benny, in loading equipment into secure cabinets in our onboard laboratory. Finally, rounding out our merry little band is our systems technician and computer jockey Riley, who is currently accompanying me in the crew quarters, finagling with the terminal which I’m trying to use to properly document our journey, or at least what will be its beginning. He insists he keep doing so, spouting bits of technical jargon and insisting that the terminal we’ve been provided is “horribly unoptimized”, and that “he can fix it, just give him a few”, and unfortunately, I’ve failed to convince him to do so after I’m done writing multiple times.
Though, we might be launching a bit ahead of schedule, as I’ve just been notified that we’ve been given the all-clear by Toby and the rest of the engineers, and all of our equipment has been loaded. As such, I will have to concede to Riley’s wishes and hand over the use of the terminal to him for the time being.
This has been bookkeeper Juno Hollis, signing off.
postscript: this was actually meant to be a backstory piece for a Lancer character I was brainstorming when I was going through my Lancer phase around Winter 2024.
the idea was that Juno Hollis, the person writing this log, was meant to be the record-keeper for a deep-space survey team sent on a redacted expedition of a planet in the distant reaches of the solar system, and that by the time they actually became a Lancer proper, half of their team would be dead due to "mysterious circumstances" regarding an encounter with "something" when they hit ground zero.
Juno's actual bio is now available here!