session each of them had drinks and snacks on their tables and for the moment they were engaging in friendly chit chat which continued until Captain Daniels joined them and bought the meeting to order.
“For a first outing I think we have had a highly successful day, however, reviewing the data and watching the playback from both cameras there is one major area of concern that we need to address. In this region there seems to be a people who to all intent and purpose seem to be the indigenous inhabitants of this land. From Mary’s experience and the general outlook of things observed by J.D. they seem to be a peaceful, pre industrial race, with no signs of any technology whatsoever. The general consensus among the crew is that these people, if we do no provoke them, will cause us no problems. But the other ones that you nearly fell foul of J.D. are a bit of a mystery at the moment. They seem to be the law givers of this nation, their uniform type of dress would indicate either some form of police or military organisation exists here and so we all need to be on our guard when we are interacting with anyone here. Don’t forget we do not know the laws here and I don’t want any one falling foul of them. Worst case scenario would be being taken into custody and missing our departure. We only have one chance and we can’t afford to wait for anybody.
Both Mr Hatch and Mr Watkins have now deployed the signal booster dish which is now floating sub surface directly above us and now we have direct contact with home. The signal is not as good at the moment as we would have hoped but Mr Hatch assures me that it is possible to further boost the signal and will resume work on this problem after this meeting.
Mr Watkins you have been working closely with the translation banks what is the status at the moment.”
The captain then handed the meeting over to Travis.
“Well, we have had a great day and we have a forty five percent working translation base but not quite enough for the computer to go automatic yet. I have it set at seventy five percent. The translations are not yet perfect but the computer has extrapolated enough of the local language to give us a working structure, obviously the more we hear the better things will get. There were a few anomalies and these occurred when we encountered the military type guys, there were a few odd words that did not fit in with the language structure that is being used by most of the inhabitants. We will keep our eye on these but early theories include the fact that this is a people from an entirely different region which means that with their air of authority, it is entirely possible that they are, or once in recent history, were an invading force and that they form part of some sort of military rule in this area. But this at the moment is only a theory. I believe that our next visit ashore will give us enough for the translations to become automated.”
It also seems that our arrival did no go completely unnoticed. From the conversations that were overheard when JD was outside the inn it would seem that one individual witnessed our arrival. However, we have been lucky on this occasion because his story has been ridiculed by the locals and we do not expect any repercussions from this unfortunate incident”.
“Thank you Mr Watkins, any questions anyone.” Asked the captain and when no one offered any he continued.
“Whilst john was ashore I asked Anne to take over the geology station and I think she has some findings, Anne”
Although Anne homer was the medic for this mission she was also a fine geologist and taking over the geology duties was almost second nature to her. She cleared her throat and addressed the rest of the crew. “Thank you sir, I’ve been examining the topography of the area we are now in. The ledge on which we are now resting is a solid bedrock and as such is quite stable, however the cliff face which rises to the port side of the shuttle has several large
“For a first outing I think we have had a highly successful day, however, reviewing the data and watching the playback from both cameras there is one major area of concern that we need to address. In this region there seems to be a people who to all intent and purpose seem to be the indigenous inhabitants of this land. From Mary’s experience and the general outlook of things observed by J.D. they seem to be a peaceful, pre industrial race, with no signs of any technology whatsoever. The general consensus among the crew is that these people, if we do no provoke them, will cause us no problems. But the other ones that you nearly fell foul of J.D. are a bit of a mystery at the moment. They seem to be the law givers of this nation, their uniform type of dress would indicate either some form of police or military organisation exists here and so we all need to be on our guard when we are interacting with anyone here. Don’t forget we do not know the laws here and I don’t want any one falling foul of them. Worst case scenario would be being taken into custody and missing our departure. We only have one chance and we can’t afford to wait for anybody.
Both Mr Hatch and Mr Watkins have now deployed the signal booster dish which is now floating sub surface directly above us and now we have direct contact with home. The signal is not as good at the moment as we would have hoped but Mr Hatch assures me that it is possible to further boost the signal and will resume work on this problem after this meeting.
Mr Watkins you have been working closely with the translation banks what is the status at the moment.”
The captain then handed the meeting over to Travis.
“Well, we have had a great day and we have a forty five percent working translation base but not quite enough for the computer to go automatic yet. I have it set at seventy five percent. The translations are not yet perfect but the computer has extrapolated enough of the local language to give us a working structure, obviously the more we hear the better things will get. There were a few anomalies and these occurred when we encountered the military type guys, there were a few odd words that did not fit in with the language structure that is being used by most of the inhabitants. We will keep our eye on these but early theories include the fact that this is a people from an entirely different region which means that with their air of authority, it is entirely possible that they are, or once in recent history, were an invading force and that they form part of some sort of military rule in this area. But this at the moment is only a theory. I believe that our next visit ashore will give us enough for the translations to become automated.”
It also seems that our arrival did no go completely unnoticed. From the conversations that were overheard when JD was outside the inn it would seem that one individual witnessed our arrival. However, we have been lucky on this occasion because his story has been ridiculed by the locals and we do not expect any repercussions from this unfortunate incident”.
“Thank you Mr Watkins, any questions anyone.” Asked the captain and when no one offered any he continued.
“Whilst john was ashore I asked Anne to take over the geology station and I think she has some findings, Anne”
Although Anne homer was the medic for this mission she was also a fine geologist and taking over the geology duties was almost second nature to her. She cleared her throat and addressed the rest of the crew. “Thank you sir, I’ve been examining the topography of the area we are now in. The ledge on which we are now resting is a solid bedrock and as such is quite stable, however the cliff face which rises to the port side of the shuttle has several large
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