Log 1, 8-15-2827, The Beginning
[LT. Sonny]
I am Lieutenant Fredrick Sonny, the captain of the ASISET Forward to Infinity shuttle 001. I have been partnered with three other astronauts, and we create the first unit of humans to explore beyond the reaches of the solar system. We are known as the ASISET-SET1, Aka, ASISET, Aperture Science Industries Space Exploration Team-Solar Exploration Team 1. These documents are a large collection of our captain's and crew's logs. I will write these daily, along with my crew.
These missions are going to be the base of the Aperture Scientific Industries space exploration and colonization plan. This will take normal, lifeless, rocky planets, like mars, and colonize them, and eventually terraform them into the perfect home for the chosen people, including farmers, wealthy people, and various civilians.
This log is the last before we fly from the earth, and head on our way to the moon base to collect supplies to start up mars base 1. The shuttle we are using has been equipped with chloroplast fueled engines, meaning that we have a ship that is part plant, the solar energy becomes sugar in the plant, then it is mixed with… human waste, and used as fuel.
The first stage of the shuttle is a regular rocket-fuel stage; the second is a little more interesting. The earth has been covered with a special shell, to protect it from the harmful solar radiation, because the atmosphere has been damaged, but this shell isn't physical, it's electronic. The shell has a bit of a disadvantage though, it has extremely powerful gravity field that prevents aircraft, and spacecraft from easily passing through because it will pull the ship to the ground, unless you use a special device that takes 100N of force and turns it into roughly 1570N of force. This device is called a super-thruster. This device uses a lot of energy though, so this stage involves twelve mini-stages. All of the mini-stages are alternating types of engine, the super-thruster, and a nuclear engine.
The third stage is the final stage; it is what the shuttle is attached to. This stage is the longest running stage of all of them. The first part is a simple rocket engine, made to insure that the shuttle is beyond the gravity field. Then, after the engine runs out of fuel, the wings that contain the living plant material start to pop out of the shuttle and soak up solar energy, and turn it into fuel. The final engine blasts from the rocket that insured that we left the gravity field. The final engine is a weird looking engine, that is made of about twenty little jet-engine like turbines that combine the fuel with oxygen, then the fuel is combusted and a hot gaseous chemical spews out of the engines. This gas propels the shuttle, and also is entirely safe for most lifeforms.
The launch will be happening at 1800 hours [in military time] in civilian time 6:00 PM. The time is now 0700 and I am being called by the system-controller-AI GLaDOS. I must leave now;
LT. Sonny signing off.
[COMPUTER STATUS LOG]
'~Sonny log1-complete~'
Computer135912 Shutting down. ERROR! SYSTEM MALFUNCTION! EMERGENCY SHUT-DOWN
MESSAGE!
'GOODBYE- LT. SONNY!'
A/N Hello Allies, this is my first Fan Fiction, and i hope you enjoyed this first chapter. Their are plenty more chapters coming soon to a computer near you! Until then This is DJTyo signing off.