MAROONED ON 4546b

After deciding not to risk using the alien archway a second time, I'm going to swim back to my escape pod. I figured that if I was careful, then I should have enough battery power to use the Seaglide and get back before before dark. I turned to look back at this island before starting the swim, and noticed something glowing underneath. This island isn't an island at all! It wasn't even connected to any other landmass or to the ocean floor. It was just like a huge plateau of rock which was being kept afloat by these giant bouyant things attached to the surface underneath the water. I got close enough to scan one of them and the readings suggested that they were the same as the small Floaters that I've seen before, but massive and ancient as fakk!   This planet really is amazing.  All this scan data would be worth an absolute mint, if anyone else ever got to see it.  Ryley out.

I can't believe it.  I thought I was alone here.  Except for the sealife, obviously. And maybe the aliens. Unless they count as sealife too?   Anyway, I thought I was the only living human being on this rock, but I found habitation pods!  I mean, they're abandoned and haven't been maintained in a while, but it's evidence that other people have been here and maybe they still are... I need to sit down. I think I'm having a panic attack.  [sounds of rapid breathing and indistinct mumbling for several minutes] Okay... okay. I'm good. Everything's good. Just got a bit overwhelmed, that's all.  It's a lot.  On top of everything else, I mean.  I-I should probably start at the beginning. So, I left the cave before dawn and, keeping one hand on the cliff face, I started to follow a rough trail down. Which was when I saw the cargo pod. My first thought was that maybe it was from The Aurora, or had somehow survived what happened to the Sunbeam, but the...