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Captain Quinn has broadcast another message.  Apparently they're looking for somewhere to park, so they must not be far out now.  I don't know if there's any land nearby, but there's still lots of these Skyray birds around, so they must be roosting somewhere.  Hopefully the Sunbeam will send me some co-ordinates once they find a suitable location and I'll be able to get there with the seaglide.  If not, then I don't know how I'm going to meet up with them.  I guess I'll have to keep scavenging and see if I can salvage enough materials to fabricate something bigger. If the Aurora was carrying Cyclops parts, then maybe they had some other undersea vehicles.  Even one of the Tech crew's P.R.A.W.N. suits would be better than nothing right now, not that I've ever piloted one. I just don't want to get left behind again.

There's so much wreckage over near the Aurora, and it's more complete than I originally thought.  There are whole compartments that must've broken away from the ship and are still mostly intact.  The bulkheads on the wreck I found still seem to be sealed, so maybe I can cut my way inside.  I'll have to remember where this area is and come back another time. There were also some sealed containers on the sea bed, which I guess must've spilled from the cargo bay.  Maybe they've got some of the phasegate tech we were transporting inside.  That's got to have some value to Alterra if I can get recovered and transported back to Earth.  Okay, it contained a battery.  That was a major disappointment, but I did also find some furniture and parts from a Cyclops submarine, which is kinda weird in itself.  We were out here to travel to The Ariadne Arm and  build a phasegate , so why would the Aurora be carrying parts to build a submarine?  Seems like...

I've decided to swim closer to the Aurora wreckage today and explore that area some more.  I figured that I might find some viable salvage that would be recoverable by the Sunbeam when it arrives.

Emotionally and mentally drained today.  Finding Ozzy's lifepod and hearing his last messages has left me so depressed that I don't want to do anything, so I'm not going to.  Tomorrow I'll force myself to do things, but I'm giving myself today. I did fabricate a rebreather, so I can dive deeper and explore more.  I've got limited time before the Sunbeam gets here, so I should probably gather what information I can on this planet before I leave. Tomorrow.  I'll do it tomorrow. 

I've been taking it easy today.  Finding Ozzy's lifepod yesterday really hit me hard, so I've not been pushing myself.  I have enough food and water in storage for a couple of days, so I can afford to give myself a day or two just to process everything.  I feel like I've been operating on super tense mode since I got here, so I really need to take some time to breathe. I swam with Reefback today.  They're these huge, peaceful creatures that just drift through the ocean here like living islands.  They have these deep calls they make to each other that reminds me of whale song.  Actually, the Reefbacks kinda look like a cross between turtles and whales, cos they have this shell on their backs where some of the local plant life grows, adding to their appearance of islands.  Also, I managed to drop my survival knife and lose it.  I was able to fabricate another, but still... not impressed. Ryley out.

I found Lifepod 17 and Ozzy's PDA was inside.  He was like me.  Ozzy wasn't an engineer of any kind and he wasn't command material.  He was just a really good chef who helped to maintain a sense of normality on-board a captial ship travelling through deep space. And now he's gone.   In the distress message, Ozzy said that something snake-like was trying to eat through the hull of the lifepod.  Looking at the state of it, I can only assume that whatever it was, it succeeded.  It was a two-man lifepod, Ozzy shouldn't have been on his own.  He shouldn't have died alone and scared in the dark.  I hope the Sunbeam comes for me soon.

I received another pre-recorded distress call.  It was from Ozzy, who was one of the non-essential staff on the Aurora that I supervised.  He ran the SnapBlu café on-board the ship where I ate breakfast most mornings.  Ozzy had this ridiculous moustache and an infectious laugh, plus he made the best hash browns from nutrient blocks and Chinese potatoes. On the distress call he sounded confused and desperate and afraid.  I've got the co-ordinates for lifepod 17 and I think I've got enough daylight to get there.  I need to see if he's alive or look for some sign of what's happened to him.