Fissure

Taking bearings in a void.

Farquhar

In the mid-28th millennium there was 
a relative physicist named Farquhar who
proved
categorically
that navigation is random.

Imagine.



Constellations

Different stars.



Celebration, Continued

Celebration

Happy Christmas Day to you.

Ship and Regiment, Part 10

We are constantly raising the next iteration of the regiment; by charter each is called the 302nd Wasteland Reconnaissance.

The redundancy is reassuring.

Ship and Regiment, Part 9

Ship and Regiment, Part 8

It's best if the Regiment is picked up on schedule.



Ship and Regiment, Part 7

Sometimes it takes more than five years, we have
no means of communication with the ships
prior to their arrival in orbit.

Several times a whole generation passed
with no sign of a freighter. 


Several times two ships have
presented themselves
simultaneously.



Ship and Regiment, Part 6



Ship and Regiment, Part 5

We are beholden to this obligation: that every five years a freighter arrives in orbit, and Kalkovac will have raised another regiment to load into it.

Men, officers, equipment.

Ship and Regiment, Part 4

Like I said, we have a king and he has a king.

Ship and Regiment, Part 3

And by doing so come to terms with the fact that we are freight.

Ship and Regiment, Part 2

 All the ships we call The Freighter, however different.

Ship and Regiment

Schooner, launch, liner, sub-light container tug: individually there are monumental differences between the vessels that 
sporadically arrive to collect the Regiment.

Talk 20

We never saw the Skoli again.

Then there was the Laurie Alabastar in 599; and then the Ruffine (603), the St. Bambi (606), the Taro Lomax (614), the Planar (619), the Honda Suzuki (623), the Pelo Strove (628), the Blemish (631), and the Organic Curiosity (638).

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Talk 19

There was the voyage of the Cantibule in 584, the Herring Cove in 589, and the Skoli in 593. 

Talk 18

The wreck of the Aristauchade was shocking, but the next year another freighter came and then another six years after that, and then another and another and another.

Talk 17

You simply adapt.

Talk 16

The Ejecta left in 567 and never came back. Then the Hakon five years later, and it also failed to return. And then the Aristauchade came 578, loaded up the regiment, and fell through the atmosphere burning.

 

Help

Where was I?

Denizens (2)

Denizens (1)

We are the denizens of a wall-eyed god.

Talk 15

That was followed by the Circle Thrift in 558, the Quantum Migraine in 563, and the ill-fated flight of the Ejecta in 567.

Talk 14

Then came the notorious voyage of the PCH Looking Glass.

Year of the gods 554. Nasty bit of business.

Talk 13

The first of the great transports was the Agatha Whetstone, and then in 544 came the Yubari. Huge ship. We filled it up with people and equipment and off it went.

That was the very beginning of the great cycle and five years later a converted tanker called The Myth of Chan appeared for transport. 

She arrived to much fanfare in 549. In those days the conscription was greatly celebrated.

Talk 12