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Quantum Enta?

We were hit by meteroids 2 hours and 55 minutes ago (the #549 attack). Will

report back on that a bit more later once I get the hang of this quantum enta

thing...

Darcy was doing some ship maintainence in Elect when I screamed and found a

spider-looking creature in my cabinet, the strange thing is that it wasn't

really moving... at all. How in space did this freakish get in there? At the

time of transmission it still is, in fact, sitting quite still a few

lactoinches away from my door handle. (lactoinches is a metric unit me and

Darcy made just for fun, joking at Earthlings not being able to settle on a

single, shared metric system). We would have to check the cams, do a scan in

med, and get a bio sample of it later, after I figure out this transmission

thing. Getting help is our first priority! We used to have Lieutenant Kevuq

always in Sec on cams but unfortunately he passed from an accident which I will

explain with the #549 meteroid strike...

Darcy rushed over to my quaters and took no notice in what I said about the

spider thing, and says she found something that could help us. There it was,

she held up the quantum enta thing and gave it to me. I flipped it over and saw

"Quantum Enta" written and a few blank spaces of nothingness after it.

We searched old dictionaries but could not figure what "enta" meant, so I

decide to open this thing and see what happens, and here I am, sending a

message! I don't know where it would go, or how it does its thing, but I'm sure

it should work I just know it.

The dictator seems to only support voice or thoughts (as I put it), but I

managed to connect my K-25 to one of its legged wirings, I honestly don't know

if my tiny keyboard is going work, but I shall hope for the best. The keyboard

layout of course, as Earthlings call it, is a colemak-inspired custom layout.

With the enter key at the middle top and the escape key at the immediate left.

The downside to the keyboard approach is, of course, is the extreme lag,

however I'm quite good with touch typing so I can just type really fast without

needing it to show up immediately. I still have to test out voice and thought

dictation, that's one more thing on my list, right after finding out what in

space "Enta" means, which in turn, is after finding out about the spider

creature. Darcy thinks Enta the name of the person who invented it, but if it

was the case, shouldn't it be something along the lines of "Entian Quantum

Communicator"?

--- Human Written Supply Report ---

[ there is, of course, a partial or full, automated system report, but I still

have to figure out how to have it automatically get logged here ]

. food and nutrients to last for 256 Earth days

. drinkable water to last for 244 Earth days

. other water to last for 7 Earth years

. core energy (reactor, elect, engines, nav, comms) to last for 3,093,458

Earth years

. utility energy (weapons, sec, med) to last for 74,397,220,901 Earth years

. Miscellaneous supplies to last for 881,234,927,059,538,586,734,845,837,563

Earth years

. 6 (reusable) ice beds, with three spare, and one in med (emergency only)

I guess we're obviously doomed, with food and water able to last less than a

single tiny Earth year, there is no way to reach the Alpha in time. Speaking of

time, I've lost track of date around 4 suns ago, but this quantum enta thing

may be able to save us, which is why I need some ship or outpost to send us

supplies! Please, we don't want to fail our captain... Captain Leo, Lieutenant

Kevuq, Officer Luciana, and two others I do not want to talk about suffered

from an explosion that destroyed most of our supplies, why, they were

originally able to last for millennials! Oh Albert Einstein-- Now it's only me,

a few robots, and poor Darcy left on the ship. She's only a college student!

Of course, I still don't really know if this thing is going to work, but as I

said above, I shall hope for the best. The Proxima is currently travelling at

4/5 light speed, 2 light years away from Alpha Centauri. Yes, we weren't able to

fix our steering system, so we are, basically, blindly moving in space, which

my captain used to say, is the last thing you'd ever want to do.

That's all for now, more in about 21 hours.

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