Appleton Laboratory Station Log

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Official Appleton Laboratory Station Log
March 14, 822 A.S.
-Recorded by Dr. Ron Kosher

I have finally gotten to making the first log entry for Appleton Laboratory. We hassled with the various approvals needed from both Bretonia and the Confederation of Freeports (CoF) for nearly a month before we could begin construction. We tried to get a better location closer to Freeport 1 for radiation shielding purposes. However, we failed to convince both the War Cabinet and the Confederation of Freeports to allow it. Ultimately, Bretonia signed off on a 10 K distance, but the CoF would only allow a 15 K minimum distance. We attempted to appeal the CoF decision, but had no success, and ultimately built 15 K from Freeport 1 using the Freeport as a shield from the sun. We informed the Bretonian government of the new location and of the shortening of the base’s name from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to simply Appleton Laboratory. Some of the staff brought up the issue of possible confusion with Rutherford Spaceport, so we decided to shorten the name. We are now listed as a registered base in Bretonia.

Things have been crazy since we put the station up a week ago on March 7th. Hardly anything worked, and we were scrambling to get the shield generator online. We finally succeeded that day getting all the supplies we had stockpiled on Freeport 1 moved over to our station, and getting the generator online.

Later that night, we were able to get the rest of the supplies imported to finish construction of our storage module, so we weren’t so cramped.

This week we have just been working on getting all of the systems up and running as well as working on upgrading the power core to accommodate all of the additional space we will need. We contracted with the Iki from Kishiro to ship in the Optronic arrays from Kusari, which was the furthest away supply we needed. We also contracted Bowex to ship in 100,000 units of industrial hardware.

Our core upgrade is being completed as I am writing this, and we will begin construction on more cargo expansions to hold all of our equipment we will need to bring in.

-End Log Entry