Nathan James | Info & Internal Logs

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Log #004 - Testing

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Captain's log, entry four. We've received news that the Jumpdrive installation was finished and it was successful, my engineering team and the one on Leniex really did a great job. I had no doubts in any of the teams, they looked certain while planning. It was long two days, I'm glad it's finished. Now, the next phase was about to start. Installing the Jumpdrive was just the first phase, we had to test it. I decided to move a bit away from Fort Leniex, just in case anything goes south, we don't damage the station. First, we entered coordinates of a place where we want to jump to, we went with Kepler for start, since one of our contacts likes to meet up at Ames and we did not receive a permission from Alliance Commander Cobra to traverse through Ontario. His decision was reasonable, he has barely any knowledge or trust in us. We inputted the coordinates and started the charging sequence...

I must say it was terrifying, the sounds and the whole ship shaking as the jumpdrive was charging itself. It was expected since we're bending space and time, but in reality it's a whole different story. As soon as it charged to a hundred percent, it went to a complete silence, just a low buzzing sound of our reactor. I gave the order for a jump. As soon as my XO gave the command, light from outside shined so bright we all had to look away.

The lightness reached it's maximum and then it went all dark. I was expecting another surge of light, but then I realized we're in thick Kepler nebula. I glanced around the bridge, to check if everyone was okay. After I confirmed everyone was good, I went over the radio to check up on my crew and all departments, told them I want a damage report. During the next minute, I received a word from every department that we're all good. Our ship is intact and nobody got hurt in the process.

We've set course for Colorado jumphole, we were quite far away from it. Nothing odd since we've obtained these coordinates from an old friend, they were outdated a bit but it's better than having no coordinates at all. The process behind obtaining such coordinates is a heavy task, we'd need another transport to go along with us just to fuel the survey module which gets us the coordinates.

We've remained in the asteroid fields in Colorado for few more hours to do checks on our systems, since we had to test it once more and jump back to Vespucci. After we got green lights from the tests, we've proceeded to charge the device again. Same unpleasant noise and surge of light again, I've grabbed my XO and rested my hand on his shoulder as we were about to jump again.

In a blink of an eye after the light surge, we were in Vespucci again. Quite astonishing device, I knew it was already being used for some years now but I've never experienced a similar thing in my lifetime.

I've set course back to Fort Leniex, engineers on the site wanted to double check everything after these two jumps and I've ordered a full sweep of the ship for any signs of damage.

Until next time.

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