The Cthulu

We finally got to see the ship! Well, we saw a picture of the ship; like I said yesterday it's docked in the Kennedy Space Station way up there in orbit. At least we know where it is. I'd have supplied a picture but that would mean that I would have to draw it. I suck at drawing. Perhaps I could convince Elizabeth to do that for me...

It's a pretty big ship though, which was a good part of the reason it was constructed up there and not down here. There was enough space to hold the entire crew, two labs, two storage rooms, the spare parts room back near the engines, and an extra room or two for...stuff. The area in the center of the entire ship housed our native plant life so that we could have a continuous source of oxygen as well as a food garden.

The front end of the ship was made of domed super glass, and that was where the cockpit was located. The body was long and tapered out at the end. The two engines were massive and sort of just sat on either side of the top half of the ship. You know, with hundreds of years of science fiction to work with, and the Cthulu looked relatively...boring? Where's the disk? Pointy edges and curved...things? Pizza slices, dammit! I think they should have resurrected George Lucas or Gene Roddenberry to design what the ship looked like.

Oh well, beggars can't be choosers, and none of us really cared what the ship looked like because we would always be known as the crew of the very first hyperdriven, galactic space exploration ship. On Earth anyway.

We also ran some more dummy tests. The Cthulu is insanely easy to fly. While older models of space ships had all sorts of switches and levers and things, the Cthulu runs on a lot of buttons. Press this button, engines on! Press this button, hyperdrive activate! Press this button, get coffee! There was still a steering wheel, however. It'll take a long time before we can make the Enterprise reality.

But for now, baby steps. Tomorrow is the last day for dry runs, and then we get the real deal. Nobody can wait.

This is Jack Babylon, signing off.