Star Date – 1035.10.22

 Location – B4,RQ – Grave

The junkers have setup a robot fighting arena.  Terranova thinks it is terrible and we don’t check it out.  The others range from indifferent to in agreement.  Surprisingly, Yeratel is particularly forceful on it being awful.

Since we’re going to need food to see us to Cog and back I bought up a load of raffle tickets.  It took 400 nubucks to get 70 veggie packs, 50 bamboo packs, and 40 tasty rocks.  It cost another 40 to get the hull patched from the nasty ice storms.  Still, that should be plenty.

As we were packing up and preparing to leave a rather harried Federation admin let us know that they had orders for another research job, and we can’t leave until the system gets installed for it.

After that I took Bo to check the boards to see if there was other work to add to the list.

Now we have a mission from the Federation to test a proton torpedo.  At the moment they want us to test the accuracy of the torpedoes with 22 rounds.  However, they reserve the right to change what they’re looking for.  We also have to wait for them to install it, and we have to pick something to get pulled.  After a brief discussion we agreed to store the arms.

The other research is smaller, but more our speed.  The Institute of Advanced Ship Design wants someone to crunch 26 reports on the ecology of dead ships on Grave.  We’ll get started on that while the Federation pays for the new torpedo system installed.