------------------------------------------ INCOMING TRANSMISSION DESIGNATION: SC PROMETHEUS BLUE SIGNATURE: b6a45a11-5a7a-4d28-a5c9-069a0bf9e9ba WARNING: SIGNATURE CORRUPTED OR INVALID. PLEASE CONTACT THE OWNER ------------------------------------------ Hello, worlds! I've been working on a QEC receiver, and I think I've gotten it to work. Well, at least, I got it to receive part of a transmission from THE Lovelace!!! A salvage crew seems to have boarded it, based on the tiny note that I received. Apparently they're really into old Earth movies? I guess their letter reached RS001 and just... kept going, eventually reaching me. Or maybe my receiver is just so hopelessly broken that I'm receiving messages from millions of miles away. I guess my engineering knowledge knows no bounds. In other news, I got a basic scanner to work, and it's currently reporting that I'm about half an AU away from a planet designated HJP385-1. According to some quick math, that puts Earth directly between myself and the Lovelace. That must be how I got that excerpt from them. Here's what the scanner shows at the time of writing: +---------+ | | | HJP385* | | | |||-----|-+ || || +--------|-+ || | | | | HJP385-1 | | | | || +----------+ | ||| | || | || | || | SC Prometheus Blue The * denotes a star, and the lines represent the current gravitational vectors. I also figured out what was wrong with the water lines. Turns out they don't like rusting in a garage for 20 years. I replaced them with some new piping I had in storage, but those were my last ones. I'll have to stop by somewhere to restock. I jettisoned the old pipes, so sorry to anyone that accidently gets hit by a stray tube. I'm about a quarter through my freeze-dried food packs, and the crops are almost ready for harvest. I'll have to buy more food when I stop, too. Anyway, this message is getting kind of long, and for some reason this transmitter still has a maximum character limit. I'll have to figure that out soon. This is Captain Pax Terra, signing off. ------------------------------------------ END OF TRANSMISSION DESIGNATION: SC PROMETHEUS BLUE SIGNATURE: b6a45a11-5a7a-4d28-a5c9-069a0bf9e9ba WARNING: SIGNATURE CORRUPTED OR INVALID. PLEASE CONTACT THE OWNER ------------------------------------------