Entry 40 - Day 20 (Part 2)

There's message from Alterra HQ! I can't believe it... after all this time.

[muted sounds of garbled radio transmission]

Okay, so it sounds like this might be the only communication I'm getting from them. Maybe the Platform is interferring with signals now that its active?

Fakk... They aren't sending a rescue ship.

[more muted sounds of garbled radio transmission]

Halfway? Wha- what do they mean halfway?

[even more muted sounds of garbled radio transmission]

[garbled radio transmission is played again]

I don't understand. What're they expecting me to do? Build a craft that's capable of reaching escape velocity and then navigate to a interstellar location.. from what? Sea shells and fakking coral!

I don't even fix vending machines or entertainment units, I oversee other people who do that stuff! I wouldn't even know where to begin... I knew it. I'm gonna die on this fakking rock.

[sounds of a storage compartment being aggressively opened and slammed shut]

[feet on ladder treads, followed by a hatch seal being released and the sound of Skyrays calling]

[several minutes of near silence, interrupted only by the cries of the Skyrays, and followed by the sounds of someone climbing back down the ladder again]

So... 

I should probably think about going back to The Aurora, seeing whether I can get on-board and at least take a look at these blueprints that HQ have sent, right?

I mean, they don't know who survived, so they'd have to plan for the worst, which is no engineering or technical crew making it. Whatever is on those blueprints, it would have to be something that can be fabricated by a layperson. That seems logical... I think? There's plenty of wreckage all around and who knows what equipment survived inside The Aurora. I owe it to the memory of the crew to at least try.

[a heavy sigh is heard]

Fakk it. I guess I'm going back to The Aurora.

...I feel sick.