Catastrophe. What a catastrophe.
One of our supply ships on its way into this planet’s atmosphere had to be blown-up last night.
It had been playing up for a considerable time and so had been forced to remain in orbit whilst repairs were attempted over the last couple of years. Its orbit eventually started to decay and it continued on its original path towards our docking facility just under Arctic sea.
Although it would have probably slung-shot itself towards our base perfectly fine and maybe we could have undertaken a sea based recovery, it had lost its cloaking abilities and so was out of ‘stealth’ mode.
It would have probably been tracked by human beings who would have then mounted a search for it, which would have compromised our docking facilities and the entire system under the sea. They were already swarming over the area looking at and confused by the rapidly reduced level of sea ice that we had had to create to allow for the incoming in the first place.
We don’t expect another shipment for a decade or two, so we have taken the decision to rapidly re-freeze everything in the Arctic and to enhance the inclemency in order to get the humans out of the area as much as we can over the next few years. It’s bad enough that we constantly have to duck and hide from their drones and ‘explorers’ all over the Arctic this century. It was a lot better when humanity was a lot less developed and so a lot less mobile and we were able to function a lot more openly without fearing them popping up to see us every five minutes. They really are a strain on the local environment too.
Some humans did see the explosion and breakup enter the atmosphere. Media is full of reports, mainly suggesting it was a meteor shower. Some are calling it ‘space junk’, and those with the biggest egos are assuming it was something to do with human manufactured space debris. Yeah, like anything they’ve produced could look like that, eh? The more astute did notice the range of different colours as fuel and other larger items burned up, compared to the colours they’d normally see from a bit of rock or standard debris. Luckily most of those ‘differences’ are being lost in the noise to signal ratio of the chatter, and will soon be forgotten.
What they didn’t realise was how they were witnessing the most expensive firework display ever, since most of the supplies on board weren’t able to be saved. We did shuttle down a bit, but the larger containers couldn’t be unhooked or removed or accessed whilst in space transit, so they had to be blown up just ahead of entry into the planet’s atmosphere. Yeah, lovely firework display, glad you enjoyed it. Just wait until you a sprinkled with some of it!
Needless to say we are gutted by our losses. Having to refine the materials available on this planet isn’t easy. Neither is having to still use of lot of the technology we arrived with rather than upgrading to the more current developments on the supply ship. However, this is what we’ll do. We’ll adapt, and our work won’t be hampered.
My final concern is how the humans will deal with the ‘bounce’ effects on their mentality that the peppered remains of ‘certain things’ from the supply ship that are now integrated into the planet’s atmosphere. The next six months are going to be the most interesting yet in human development. We have no way to control or dilute the effect, and I’m not sure it’s going to be pretty or without incident. Ho hum.
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