User blog:Victor1pda/Colonist Journal - Log 2

Log 2 : Landing (Crash Course)

Woke up from my bed, looking up at the ceiling that the very same ceiling in my room...... except for today it will be the last time for me to wake up like this. That's right, today I'm going to land on this planet. Not that I have a choice, supplies ran out anyway.

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After cleaned up and took a few lap excersive I headed to the control cabin.

"Oy, Toaster! How is the weather today, perfect fine for a land right?"

"Yes sir, but the main thruster is still out of order and you cant just depends on the gravity-counter balancing system (GBS) to land, it would not have enough power to maintain the ship and it would be squashed like a cockroach after being hit by a frying pan."

"Wah? That is a hell of a way to describe the circumstance. So got any suggestion to make this thing land?"

"I suggest you to direct the power input from the main thruster to the GBS and manual dive the ship to a save ground."

"Alright! Then you do it"

"My apologise sir but you have to manually do that."

"But I dunno how to do it. I'm not a Tech Engineer."

"*haizz* There is a user manual in the control desk that contain all function of the ship. What a useless captain."

"Okay I will take a loo..... wait, did you call me useless?"

"No sir, you must have imagined thing."

I take the book out of the desk, a small life boat ship but still have a giant-ass book like a history of mankind written in it. The title is "Ship manual for dummy". I feel like being insulted.

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After half a day tinkering with the power control I finally managed to direct the input source to GBS. Took longer than I thought.

"Phew... finally. If you told me about this I would have done it yesterday."

"You didnt ask."

"Eh? You are suppose to tell me that at the moment I decided to land this ship."

"It would only took a couple of hours to direct the source input if you have standard skill for an astronaut. I'm still cant understand how can you get picked for the Colonist Program."

"I feel like being insulted."

"You are imaging thing, sir."

By the way that lousy thing is Ship-base Artificial Lattice or S.A.I.L but I called it Toaster because I used to toast bread on the hot core of it. Maybe it hold a grugde for me because of that.

The power input for the main thruster seem like to be directed to the GBS so I headed to the control cabin. Finally the landing is delayed for half day.

Alright. Let's drop the bass. Turn off magnetic field counter, checked. The monitor show up some funny-looking number, there is somehing strange about this planet. Hmm.... the ship is losing the orbiting track and starting to be pulled down to the planet due to gravity. Start the GBS and active the manual ship diver.

"Oi Toaster! The left wing only run about 40% efficient and the right wing is not working at all. Whats wrong?"

"Due to this unusual planet geomagnetic field and you turned off the ship magnetic field counter so we got them go malfunction. The life boat ship wasnt design to land like this. Dont worry sir, you still can diver with the left wing."

"Dafuq? Is this somekind of sick joke? How the hell can I land with just 1 wing? You definitely should have told me this sooner."

"You didnt ask."

This damn thing. I'm going to dip your core to the waste pipe after this.

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''The beautiful blue sky was disrupted by the ship flying down like a meteor and landed into a forest. Leave a trail of dirt and destroyed tree.''

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"That was a perfect landing sir. I'm very satisfied with your landing skill."

"Are you kidding me? The whole ship is broken just like that. You should have told me that earlier. I almost died."

"Geez.... almost....."

"Wha? Are you really plotting to get killed?"

"You are imaging thing, sir. And I suggest you to be prepared. The landing may cause alert for the inhabitants. We are not confirm that this planet is safe. You should wear the breathing mask until I'm done checking the asmosphere."

Log entry 384: The land....... more like the crash is hellish. It wrecked the ship entirely. Luckily I havent eaten anything yet or else I would have vomit my stomach out. I havent got any plan yet but I think I will get some ration first. Cant make any plan with an empty stomach.