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Not entirely sure what explicitly I'm supposed to write at this point, but our

crew has agreed to compulsory personal logs for major events and coming out of

stasis certainly qualifies as a major event. Our medic warned us that coming out

of stasis would be somewhat jarring, but what I didn't expect was this brain

fog. Guess that's what prolonged artificial sleep will do to you. Laurie Jaynie

reporting for duty, aboard the exploratory jumpship "Gazellier". It's a small

ship, even for small ships. Currently there are 15 souls on board, 16 if you

count the on-board system AI. I'm no philosopher, I can't say what counts as a

"soul" in this world of advanced AI and cryonic sleep, but I digress.

Let me provide background on our mission and our ship. That seems appropriate

for an archivist.

The Gazellier was comissioned by the Municipalist People's Coalition as a social

research and exploration ship, with express goals to record and relay the

experiences of working people across the reachable galaxy. Perhaps that seems

arbitrary as a mission statement for such an expensive undertaking. However, the

MPC has always stuck by the power of words. As one of the multitude of preceding

ideologically aligned movements once put it, "Our Word is Our Weapon" (Ref:

Zapatista National Liberation Army).

Our crew is comprised of:

2 Pilots

2 Medical Specialists (1 researcher, 1 physician)

1 Ecological Researcher

1 Mechanical Engineer

1 Electrical Engineer

1 Software Engineer

1 Archivist (yours truly)

1 Horticulturist

1 Navigational Engineer

1 Chef

3 MPC-PDC Gaurds (Municipalist People's Coalition - People's Defense Council)

1 Ship-integrated AI (the AI has told us its name is Eri)

We're approaching our first community, a mining outpost on the minor planet

AFZ118-28. Once we have docked I will begin interviews with the mining crews and

families, to be logged into our archiving system. Until then, I'm on general

duties helping around the ship. Today I'm assigned to aid the Chef. Tonight's

dinner will be a vegetable gumbo. I haven't had that in practically a millenia.

Look I've been in stasis for a long time, allow me a few jokes here and there

okay?

Signing off,

Laurie Jaynie

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