Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson

Author:Leonard Richardson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: near future, aliens, video games, Fiction, alien, Science fiction, first contact
ISBN: 9781936460243
Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam
Published: 2012-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

Blog post, August 29, early morning

The Mars expedition is go! It's just not as exciting as we thought. Instead of a big expensive spaceship with cool liftoff explosions, we're attaching a port to an unmanned probe the size of an pickup truck, and landing the probe on Mars. And instead of being stuck in that expensive spaceship stewing in their own shit for a year and a half, the astronauts will live in (relative) luxury on Ring City and in about six weeks they'll just walk through the port.

I'm super excited about this mission because it means NASA is releasing a lot of video from Ring City, and some of the video features my girlfriend, Dr. Tammy Miram. She's so dreamy! (Especially now that she's resumed showering.) You'll notice I've dropped her blog pseudonym—it's a convention that makes a lot of sense when I'm dating a short-order cook or a copy editor, but NASA only has so many cute blonde astronauts.

This particular cute blonde astronaut is not in the official press conference video. Tammy's not one of the Mars colonists, due to an aversion to living on planets. But as one of the people responsible for making the colonists look like heroes instead of sellouts looking to claim Mars for the Constellation, she's front and center in the star-draw.

The star-draw video is nine minutes long, and I've been watching it every ninety minutes as a break from coding, which means I get to see Tammy about 14% of the time. At this point I'm pretty good at watching this video, so I'll walk you through it.

It's pretty similar to the star-draw we did with Curic on the Fourth. What we got (0:05) is a bunch of human astronauts and Gaijin scientists, gathered around a Very Serious Airlock in Gaijin Ring. Behind the airlock is one end of a port, and on the other end is EMPTY FUCKING SPACE. Thus the airlock. You're looking down the length of the unmanned probe, which is pointed at where Mars will be in six weeks. Ignore the NASA Public Affairs narrator. He's useless, he won't give you this information until (1:09).

I'm in the middle of an all-nighter and more or less insane, but man. All the humans are in clingy transparent Constellation spacesuits (since Gaijin Ring is more or less the same as Mars), and Tammy (0:22) looks great. She's torn off the long sleeves of her NASA flight suit and she's got a string of overlay patches running up and across her chest like a sash. It's a look I can get into.

The first time I met Tammy, she wore the standard RC-001 NASA mission patch on the shoulder of her flight suit. At some point, the Gaijin on the Mars mission figured out that human astronauts use patches on their clothes to signal group affiliation. Now the Gaijin and the astronatus produce a patch for every single fluid overlay they form. Which means a complete record of each person's work for the past month on his/her/kis/kes body.

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