PERSONAL LOG
07-26-2018
Day two since I awoke to a universe forever changed. Whatever happened seems to have affected and changed literally everything in some way, major or minor. Even my own senses seem sharper, as if I’m seeing things in greater clarity and detail than ever before. The sense that the universe has been given new life is palpable…even the Gek, Korvak and Vy’Keen I’ve met all seem to be excited and eager to explore the new possibilities this “Event” seems to promise.
That said, with the promise come the problems. Whatever cataclysm befell the old universe didn’t spare my ship, my weapon or even my exosuit. It’s a miracle I survived at all. The Gek that found me said they’d all been knocked out by the wave of intense light and sound that preceded the change in the universe, and when they’d recovered they saw smoke over the hill from their outpost. My ship must have gone down when I passed out during the Event, and thankfully I’d been flying close enough to the ground that the crash didn’t kill me. The Gek called in a hauler from the orbital space station, and when I woke up I was in the medical bay, with my ship battered but serviceable in the landing bay. The Gek on the station all seem to regard me as some sort of celebrity. I guess they don’t see too many of my kind in their systems.
Good thing too, as I will need to impose on their good will a bit longer. My ship is a disaster…most of it’s tech is beyond repair. My weapon is the same way, and some of the more advanced features of my exosuit were fried during the Event. I spent much of yesterday and today hunting down blueprints, parts and materials to fix the basic systems of all three. Luckily my account seems to still have all the units I possessed before the Event, and of course the Gek are all too happy to sell me whatever I need (at outrageous prices). They don’t have everything though, so I’ve had to make several trips back and forth to the planet’s surface for raw materials.
Whatever happened during the Event seems to have changed the basic building blocks of the universe. Elements seem different, and yet similar, to what I recall from before. My memories of that time are still hazy…obviously I remember the Gek, Korvax and Vy’Keen, as well as Travellers and others like myself, and I recall my ship, and the Sentinels (still around, damned Event couldn’t have done the universe a favor and taken those little shits out). Everything else is like I’m seeing it through a fog. So I’m slowly relearning what elements do what, and thanks to my Gek friends I’ve learned a few new things, especially about refining metals and creating fuel for my ship, weapon and suit.
I still have a long way to go until I’m fully operational once more, but I’m at least to the point where I can begin exploring this new universe in earnest. My next tasks include additional resource gathering and repairs, accumulation of more Nanites, as those seem to be the currency of value now, and the Gek have invited me to establish a base on the planet below the station, I assume because they’ve come to enjoy the steady flow of units and resources I bring to the system’s economy. I’ve also discovered my suit has a digital recorder drone, so I will attempt to use that to document my travels from here on out. Perhaps I will even meet others like me, explorers and traders whose desire for discovery have brought them here to the outer fringes of the universe.
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