~~Journal of Starlight Eclipse~~
Date: 22nd of Intus, 5493 CR
Alright this is gonna be a big one
I finally got into the Fleet! And my posting is with the Mothership, BONUS!! I got assigned as part of a 3 ship Heavy Corvette squad as a wing pony. Our Lead is a mare called Rainbow Dash, she finished at the academy one year ahead of me with the second highest flight score ever seen there, I was only 4 points below her. She started as a wing for the number 1 student of the school: Lightning Dust, but apparently Lightning was too reckless and caused an accident that injured several other students and numerous bystanders, as a result she was dishonourably discharged and Dash took her place as lead. The only other thing I know about her is that there is a filly who she considers to be like a sister to her still planet side. The other wing is a crazy as fuck Pegasus stallion who only lets us call him by his callsign: Maelstrom, I don’t even know his real name. All I’ve been able to get out of him is, his father and mother are planet side, and his younger sister is on Cryogenic Tray 5. He also seems to idolise Dash for some reason but he won’t get into it.
Apart from Dash and Maelstrom, the only other pony I fly with is my gunner, a blond Pegasus with a grey coat called Ditsy Doo, but everypony calls her Depry cus of her eyes which look in different directions, it was weird at first but eventually I found it made her look cute. She can’t fly for fuck, and she even admits it, but then she doesn’t need to, that’s my job, what she can do however is shoot a fly of an Interceptor under full throttle 2km away while performing evasive manoeuvres. Personally I feel her nickname should be Deadeye, cus fuck she is good with guns.
Tomorrow the Mothership launches and we run final trials before testing the Hyperspace core and jump to the Kar’Selim. I can’t wait to see Stormchaser again, I haven’t spoken to him in 3 years as I’m always too busy with training. Does this make me a terrible sister?
~~End of entry~~
>> This is Fleet Command reporting Mothership pre launch status.
>> Command: ONLINE...
>> Resourcing: ONLINE...
>> Construction: ONLINE...
>> Cryogenics: ONLINE...
>> Checking Scaffold Orbital alignment.
>>...
>> Orbital alignment confirmed.
>> Stand by Release Control.
>> Main Drives: ONLINE...
>> Main drives functioning at 30%
>>...
>> The Mothership has cleared the Scaffold, We are away.
>> Stand by for Command line testing...
~~Journal of Starlight Eclipse~~
Date: 23rd of Intus, 5493 CR
Final trials went off without any problems, and everything is looking good. Ditsy was a crack shot as always in the combat trials, our squad of course set the fastest time in destroying the drones, but as Commander Spitfire always says, “Drones don’t fire back, whatever we find out there will”, still it felt good to be able to claim to be the fastest in the trials, Dash kept going on about being able to do it in 10 seconds flat, and Maelstrom just creeped us out with his maniacal laughter, I think he enjoys destroying stuff a bit too much, like I said, crazy as fuck.
According to a ship wide notification that just came on we will be jumping to hyperspace in about ten minutes.
In two days I’ll get to see my brother in the flesh for the first time in 10 years. I still find it hard to believe that this ship will travel the same distance the Kar’Selim did in two days while it took them 10 years.
See you soon bro.
~~End of entry~~
>> Hyperspace core fully charged.
>> Initiated.
>> Quantum waveform has stabilised.
>> Proceeding with jump...