Lee's Diary - Pilot of The Narcotic

[Narcotic]

Date: 14 September 819
System: Conorado
Location: In Narcotic's cockpit
Topic: Final steps.

Inside the Narcotic.

I can't remember, when I last had such a hectic and stressful day. The morning, I've visited a private combat flight school and had four hours theory teaching followed by two hours flight lesson in a heavy gunship. Everything worked pretty well, and I'm convinced, that it helped much.

Afterwards, I've been finishing the main preparations for the Narcotics maiden flight. Most of the premises got filled, the tanks and provisions are full. Besides, I've checked the ship engines, communication systems, food and water supply systems, heating installation and artificial ventilation, ship controls and thousands of other more and less important things. Everything seemed to be in order, except for one thing; the cloaking device. The engineers tried to upgrade it to suit the ship's larger size, but it just didn't work out as planned. Something was missing. Normal fuel just couldn't run it, nor could MOX. I had no idea why they did mess it up. However, I guess I'll do without it for now.

Corridor near the ship engines.

In the late afternoon, the 'transport' from Malta arrived at Barrier Gate, whom I've ordered to bring me some suspicious orange drugs. Together with a small choice of talented maltese crew members. It took me another exhausting two hours to question them, to see if they fit my taste. Meanwhile, I've asked Melosa to get me another few spaceship crews at the different bars on Barrier Gate, since she knew a handful of faithful friends, who might look for a challenge.

Interior of the escape pods.

To cut a long story short: I've picked 23 of those young and experienced recruits from Corsica, and Melosa brought me another 5 friends, she recommended me. So in the end, I had 20 crews, who were split into engineers, pilots, workers, navigators, communicators, etc. , furtermore, I've choosen 5 marines, for safety reasons, and 3 scientists for doing general research and medical service. All in all a healthy mixture in my opinion.

In the late evening, I've celebrated the completion of the Narcotic, together with Melosa and my recently put together crew. We clink glasses on the Narcotic and on our future time, we'll spend together in space. Tomorrow at this time, I'll be somewhere lost in space...

The cockpit.