Recollection 1
I rather enjoy the silence out here, having no distractions.
Can think a little clearer now. Looking out into the blackness. Seeing those distant stars that seem just hours away to reach. In a strange way, I feel more apart of this system in this little form. This small mass of flesh floating amongst the rest of the bodies making the system. Descendant of the Sun that seems much more of a father to all of us. Bound by his great power and made by his very fundamental make up. Still guiding us and still providing us life, purpose in this great body living within the universe ecosystem.
But even the father can be just as misguiding and immature as the son.
Seeing one of his children just to my right, his own great body and power, that provides its own unique protection. Taking away the dangers of foreign things that could infect, bring harm to the life within this system. A fitting name of a god to be given to this giant. Jupiter removing the most common and dangerous invading things but even he can’t do it all. Not even for the things formed within.
“Stop staring into the stars and focus”.
My ISMC calling into my ears. I simply send back a notification through my wrist pad. Giving the green signal with two blips. I reel myself back to the side of our protectors. The Memphis 139MBAM station 17-O. Replacing the diverter control component for the chemical transfer of the ordinance segment of the firing system.
I place the QD Sealant around the device to stop the escape of vital fluids.
The control spins and snaps in. I open the valve to suck back in the lost liquid as the system pressurizes and close the valve before it reaches dangerous levels still exposed. Take back the QD Sealant and watch the pad on my wrist. Seeing the signs reactivate and stabilize. Life running through the system and all green once more. Playing my role to keep alive our big body of network explorers.
“Our protectors running once more”, I said.
“Strange dude. Alright, time to head back to your station on Europa 7LB. Need their pilot back”.
I again send back a green signal and detach my umbilical. Leaving my protector and floating to my friend, waiting for me in the IST 8. Watching the 20 Memphis stations orbiting Jupiter. All functioning and ready to remove the dangers of this universe. Keeping us healthy and alive, to one day reach those distant suns. Connect the great and vast bodies of life and stars all living together.
I slow my suit’s speed to land safely on the vessel.
The two-man vehicle opens on the back end for me to enter. Wait to pressurize and enter the cockpit. Taking off the helmet and activating the NAS to take my place within the pilot seat. The suit removing and changing the key aspects of the outer skin to make it adapt to this atmosphere and not open space. My copilot looking at me with the odd purple eyes she made years ago.
“Strange choice for those eyes. Could have improved the level of eye sight”.
“Already perfectly fine and it is my favorite color”.
I give a smile to her little charm. A sense of humor that makes my rather dry senses feel a bit complimented. She was always pretty and highly intelligent, even with these rather useless ideas of such vanity. But it does make her more appealing to watch her. I think she might be the one to stay with me. Sometimes imagined us flying to those stars and our descendants creating life in those new systems. Humanity becoming one with the universe to either join life or spread it to those places.
“We the next exploration team for Europa S5?”
“Yes sir, our turn to meet with Deep Sea Europa 1 and take a DOV-M77 into the new region. See what might be there after searching the last segment. They think this place is an entrance to a deep cavern leading into the moon’s crust. Readings have been very interesting”.
My imagination runs wild of such things down there.
We have found so much water under that little world and even some life. Since we arrived, we tried adding life, other than ourselves there. Seeing what it would take to make it work and surprised by how much heat was underneath the ice surface.
“Any signs of larger organisms?”
“One possibility, but still, something even more going on there”.
I really want to be there now. But being crammed into that small exploration vessel and have a hard time seeing anything will be a bit irritating. But being close to her will be great too. Really want to see them, whatever lives down inside of that ice body. What creations it has made and held within its own system. We have been going here quite often for a time, feeling it is the best place to plant our seed. And move forward deep into the worlds beyond.
