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SPACE ENGINE Exploration 40: Only Friend, the END

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SAINT LEONARD
System:        LBS 470 (KSR 99425 B) (T0V)
Dist:             1515 LY
Class:           Temperate Desert
Radius:         1566 km (0.2455 Re)
Mass:            0.005740 Me
Axial Tilt        00.00°
ESI:              0.545
sma:             10.32 M km
Day Length:  947.7 hrs (tidal lock)
Gravity:         0.09524 g
atm:             353.4 kPa
GAT:             254 K

I enter in the science data...why? Is it out of habit? Some misplaced hope that everything will fix itself? I cannot say for certain, but I know that we won't be headed anywhere anytime soon. Four nights ago, amidst the anticipation of mutiny, the majority of engine works personnel sized weapons and attempted to storm the bridge. Thanks in part to insider information, our five military police, fully equipped in combat gear, halted their advance. In short order they drove the mutineers back to the engine works where they barricaded themselves in. Knowing time to be against them they threatened to compromise the reactors unless command of the supramarine was handed over to them within five days. 
    So it was that, seven hours ago, the five MP's and twenty crew members turned-militia assaulted the engine works. Tired and hungry, most of the mutineers surrendered before any real damage could be done to the engines. Unfortunately, casualties were inevitable and we lost one MP and two militia; the mutineers suffered six fatalities all told.  
    And now we wait. Shima-Van Horne is still quite far and we now lack the crew to safely run the engines for anything other than altitude control. In the darkened gloom of a brown dwarf we wait for rescue to take us home; our ship, the Frobisher-Tanaka, is old and will most likely be left here to orbit Saint Leonard where, down on the surface, bizarre coral-like life dominates and creeps across the land. 

This the end and now I find myself losing motivation to carry on with the science mission. Perhaps it's for the best because maybe, like the crew, I'm just tired. Maybe I should just stop and say good-bye. 

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