The Carkadan

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Logbook
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January 21, 828 A.S.

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We actually did it.

We powered up the main reactor and nothing blew up. Life support's running at only half power and the engines may be purring like a cat choking on a furball, but the ship's running and that means we can finally get out of Bering.

Question is, of course, where do we go? Logically, we should head to Rheinland in hopes of finding people and materials that can help us put this boat properly back together. So we could head south and look for the jumphole to Hamburg. But something tells me that the Krauts wouldn't be too keen about seeing us roll up in one of their own warships. That only leaves Liberty. There's plenty of scrap floating around in Texas and New York and maybe the Junkers on Rochester can lend us a hand with some of the repairs.

I just hope us showing up in an old Rheinland corvette doesn't trigger any mass episodes of PTSD among the police and navy patrols we're sure to come across. Isabelle had the idea to add a prefix to our transponder to make it perfectly clear that this is a civilian vessel and not a one-ship Kraut invasion force. I hope it works.

Regardless of the troubles that probably still lie ahead of us, I'm proud of what we've accomplished. We got ourselves a proper home and I'm its captain.

Here's to the Carkadan.

Edit:
That thing I said about nothing blowing up? That was a bit hasty. Activating the cruise engines ruptured a fuel line and nearly depressurized the engine room. Looks like we'll be flying on impulse for a while.

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Olivia Sable