Eden Glider

05/23/1001

Walked away the molehill through which we entered the system. Have almost lost the ship! The negative mass was enough just for slipping through. A second later we would collapse together with the hole, a second earlier the expedition (and maybe the system) would blow to smithereens. After this, hypersleep technology and centuries-old drift in space seem very reliable.

06/01/1001

Docked to the station. It is huge! Even in virtual simulation it looked smaller! Now I will sort my stuff out and go to see my workplace.

06/10/1001

The station never fails to amaze me! What for to terraform the planets when we can build such monsters. This is an entire orbital planet, not a station. The result of millions people’s work during several centuries. Everything is here!

06/15/1001

Got in development of a new glider. The glider works using a new anti-gravity pillow technology. The principle is the same as that of the ekranoplans of the 20th century, having an air flow between the wing and the surface that holds the structure. The glider has the same thing but with antigravity field of a small order (instead of air stream) holding the structure 2-4 meters up the surface, regardless roughness and uplands of the planet. Traction is created by the standard reliable ramjet engine. It is interesting to see how it will look like in reality, because now it is all over in engineering design simulation. By the way, at the end of the working day I was lucky to see reservoirs of organic matter. It is beyond my words! Scientists experiment with the future filling of the planet. I’d like to see how it will look like when we finish terraforming.

10/17/1001

Finally, I got to you…Pressed for time due to the work. By the way, we have completed development of the new glider. In EDEN planet conditions, it must satisfy all the requirements of technical documentation. Compact, fast, autonomous. In general - true friend and a right hand of our biosphere experts such as me.

12/28/1001

First landing. Very unusual surface. Some more iterations of terraprocesses and we can start our main job.

02/01/1002

Already miss the planet. Life at the station is annoying. I want space, breath of wind, crunch of soil under my feet. Ehhh ... It’s hard to understand. Probably instincts and our connection with nature are unbreacable. Now I understand why we are engaged in terraforming.

07/03/1002

I can’t, nevertheless, keep the diary regularly… I’m head over heels my work again. The main part of my work is now. We live now on the planet, and I am extremely happy about this. Today I drove sector AZ-12. Decided to stop and took a couple of photos with the drone. You know what - there are no words to describe it! I want to send photos to Eve. She is beautiful, and she pleases me. I think she will like it very much.