Day ???: Entry ??: Eddy Sion history essay notes: My name is Eddy Sion and I’m doing an essay on the history of the Arksent. Teacher always taught me never to start an essay like this, but this isn’t an ordinary essay: I’m writing in the Commander’s log! Don’t tell teacher. Today is the two-hundred year anniversary of Neil Taylor’s death (birth date unknown, I already checked), the leader of the original Arksent. I’m writing in this log not because I’m a Commander (I’m not, I’m only eleven), but I’m writing a history essay for my class. My teacher says I’m one of the best students in the entire Department of Education, and that one day, I could join any Department I want. Teacher always tells me that I have too many questions to answer, and I need to start finding them for myself. So that’s what I’m doing.
Do you know how many people know why we are called the Arksent? I do: Just me. No one reads these logs anymore, but one quick glance will show you. In the year 2123, Commander Neil Taylor wrote in his Commander’s log: “The Ark sent us here”. I think it was likely that Neil or someone else strung those words together, and sooner or later the crew were referring to themselves as Arksent. I know it’s a crazy idea, but I am one of the best students, so think about it. I’m going off on tangents, but keep in mind that this isn’t my book report, just some notes I’m writing in the Commander’s log. No one checks these anyways because no one can work the Compute machine except a few of us. It took me weeks to learn how to type but Teacher said that’s twice as fast as other people. Most people have trouble remembering which keys go to what letter because they aren’t labeled. Teacher says they were labeled but they rubbed off, so the people who used to use the Compute machine had it really easy.
Did you know that when Neil and his crew got here, they only have one spaceship? I think that is very impressive because now we have many buildings and the population is growing so large that the Imperator is talking about a huge expansion that would give each Department its own outpost. I’m not sure I’d like that because then if I join the Department of Education I couldn’t be with my parents (who are in the Department of Engineering and Mining), but I guess that’s okay because then the engineers will stop taking apart the Compute machine to see how it works (they don’t know) and I can use it for History (more useful).
I was going through some of the really old records that someone must have deleted because they weren’t in the main folder, and the records mentioned something called a Hexcannon, which was built to destroy asteroids. I don’t know why Neil and his crew had it with them when they landed on Titan but I thought: “I better check this out, just for Historical purposes.” That’s all, not because it’s incredibly cool, but it is that also. It took weeks going through all the old stuff that had been put in storage. But then I found it. The Hexcannon. You wouldn’t believe how big it is, and next to it are these massive metal rods that are bigger than I am. I think that is historically very important because that must mean that Earth had a lot of metal, but no one really knows.