Appleton Laboratory Station Log

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Official Appleton Laboratory Station Log
April 6, 822 A.S.
-Recorded by Dr. Ron Kosher

The supplies for the core upgrade are trickling in. As of 3:08 this morning Kishiro still needs to ship another 30,000 Optronic Arrays and Gateway needs to ship another 17,095 heat sinks.

Jordan has determined that the damage caused to the superconductors is from sort of high energy radiation. However, the radiation from the Omega-3 sun should not be intense enough to cause this kind of damage. We were worried about it affecting some of our very sensitive instruments on Appleton, and is why we positioned our station where we did. However, it should have almost no effect on these materials. Jordan calculated that it would take over 1000 years of constant exposure to the most severe radiation emitted by the sun to cause this kind of damage.

We surveyed the area and cannot detect levels of radiation that could cause this. It seems to have a very specific effect on these superconductors. Alyssa is working on making a crude radiation detector out of the superconductor material to attempt to isolate the source of the radiation since it seems to be the only material on the ship that is affected.

Alyssa also thinks that there might be a solution in Nomad technology, apparently their neurological systems can be made into superconducting materials, and they are very radiation hardened. I have no experience with them, but Alyssa worked with them for some time in Omicrons before she joined up with us. I am going to look into seeing how much of a pain it would be to get a few samples into the lab to look at.

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