The Hades Project Ch.2

[Seth Karlo]

Some people believe that the world revolves around them.
Some believe that life is for them alone.
This... short-sightedness, this blindness, this ignorance...
Ignorance breeds fear, and fear breeds hate.

Soon those that believe the world revolves around them,
Start to curse the very world that they love.
Hate breeds pain, and pain breeds death.
And soon, peoples stupidity is the cause of their own demise...

Day 9

Cassandra has retreated to her room to work on the artifact. I have left her to it, spending half my time speeding away from Sirius, and the other half working on my own personal project: Trying to understand the ship I love. Who knows how this will end? Perhaps this is my final mission in life, to help these people bring an end to the Nomads... whatever they decide to do, I shall help them, not just because of my loyalty to humankind, but also due to what they did to this ship and the children that are with me now...

Day 17

I have now not seen Cassandra for 2 days, she has been in her room trying to decipher a genetic code so complex that my head immediately began to swim, and I had to leave the room... Me and physics? Genetics? Not a good match I feel. On another note, we have officially left Sirius, and I have set a course for a Red Giant star that the Peregrine spotted on her telescopes. The radiation should shield us from any scans that are sent our way... somehow I have a feeling we will be out here for a long long time.

Day 31

It appears the Peregrine's weapons systems that appeared when we were facing the Nomad battleship do not exist, nor have they ever done so... either the Peregrine is lying to me, or they never existed. Both of these possibilities are worrying, were we hallucinating? Or does my own ship want to keep secrets from me... how can it keep secrets from me? The AI should be gone... perhaps it is not, perhaps I do not have control over my own ship... for the first time in a long time, I am truly worried.

Day 38

It's a strange change from being able to leave my clothes anywhere and eat whatever I like. Cassandra insists on having fruits and vegetables at every meal, and throws stuff at me if I leave my T-shirts in the hallway... god, I swear I am never getting married.

Day 51

Goddamit, I think I like her.

Day 53

Yes, I definately do.

Day 54

For gods sake, women, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

Day 59

I'm avoiding her, she found an empty pizza box in the control room.

Day 103

It has been a long time since I wrote anything here. Cassandra seems to have made plenty of progress on that Nomad thing, and I have turned my attentions to hobbies in my spare time. It seems that the Peregrine is capable of building ships aswell as providing food and water, some sort of energy to matter conversion. I am currently designing and will soon be making a ship for myself, though I'm not certain how big or small it will be...

Day 111

Something is happening to the Peregrine... we have been in orbit of the star for 68 days now, and all of a sudden the Peregrine started... well... growing. Ports are opening on the side of the ship, and new machinery emerges, builds, constructs... I do not know how much longer my ship will look the same for.

Day 122

Our living spaces have increased dramatically... when a laboratory was created next door to Cassandras room, it confirmed my suspicions that the Peregrine is not dead. My ship requires me to link with it in order to fly itself, to do most things, but hidden away is the being that died so long ago.

Day 124

We are falling towards the star. This is my goodbye.

Day 125

We seem to have fallen... through the star. Shields are active, power readings off the scale... I think the Peregrine is using the power of the star to fuel herself, but to do what? Get bigger still? She is already unrecognisable... My fingers remained crossed that this transformation is not a curse...

Day 217

Today is the first day I succesfully got the computer operational once more. My ship no longer looks like she used to, at the moment it looks like the beginnings of a Zoner Juggernaut, and I assume that the Peregrine took that shape as the only other type of ship in her database, we were Zoners after all, but she is far from complete. I can still merge with her, and today we set a course back to Sirius. Cassandra needs help now to finish this. Let us hope these transformations do not stop us...

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