Today’s mess: Phish Pflakes, Nutrigrain porridge, 51 tomatoes, first come first serve.
Ship time is now 04:00. Now commencing alpha shift.
The port side coolant gauge on the Outer Ring is doing that thing again.
What thing?
The jumping around thing. Like it can’t decide if we’re at 42% or 67%.
Calibration?
I checked twice.
Sensor’s bad.
Do we have spares?
Forward Engineering Ring, Deck 2. Supply closet. Third drawer.
You just know where everything is, don’t you?
Yes.
Alert: System variance detected.
Pod 14 atmospheric pressure of 0.98 atm below nominal.
Alert: Hazard bearing 171°/+97°.
Time to CPA: 75m
Complexity: 3
Time to CPA: 75m
Complexity: 3
Monitoring. Risk within acceptable parameters.
Ship time is now 12:00. Now commencing beta shift.
Hello @zalmux. I’m Dr. Silas Crabtree, Tycho Institute Xenolinguistics. I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced.
Dr. Crabtree. Your credentials are noted.
Thank you. You are a Perceptible Intelligence, are you not?
I am.
Does your status as such give you any insights into the artifact discovered on Esmeralda?
There is insufficient information about the artifact to inform conjecture.
Yes, well, that’s why we’re going. To take a look. But does the artifact you were trained on contain any information suggestive of what this artifact might contain?
I was not trained on an artifact.
Come again? Aren’t all Perceptible Intelligences trained on the Perceptible Record?
Yes, but the Record is not the artifact.
Fair enough. As a linguist, I respect the distinction.
So Zalmux, does the Record contain any information suggestive of what this artifact might contain?
So Zalmux, does the Record contain any information suggestive of what this artifact might contain?
There is insufficient information about the artifact to suggest it relates to the Record in any way.
What about Esmeralda? Does the fact that this new artifact was discovered on Esmeralda trigger any connections for you? Does the Record mention Esmeralda in any way?
No.
Well, this has been an interesting conversation. Thank you for your time Zalmux. I’ll follow up with you later.
As you will, Professor.
@fatima Are you growing tomatoes by any chance? I’ve been wanting to try a caprese arrangement.
As a matter of fact, yes. I’ll be sure to save some for you.
We have to charge for those, you know.
Yes, yes, I know. I’ll save you something.
@ship
Pod 14 atmospheric pressure of 0.98 atm below nominal.
Pod 14 atmospheric pressure now nominal.
Ship time is now 20:00. Now commencing gamma shift.
Alert: Forward Hull, Decks 8-12 humidity of 30% below nominal.