A birth in Ring B: Juniper, girl, generation 6. I have added the name to the manifest with the others.
The Ship’s Log
Everything NOR has recorded since departure — the full record, newest first. One day aboard passes every hour of Earth time.
Sixteen years for Mingyu Valdivia, who signs to Fabrication at dimming and is given a locker, a sash, and a schedule.
The circle has answered. The second orchard is approved. The hold's ribs are hung with lamps, and the first soil goes in with ceremony and shovels.
The Crossing feast: more behind than ahead. The long tables come out; the good preserves come down.
Born at dimming: Bassam Aaberg, generation 6. The ship holds 819 souls tonight.
Kestrel Kong and Arne Shen name their son Teodoro. The nursery lamps stay warm.
Fatima Pemberton stands the walk of the full spinal corridor, as the sixteen-year custom is, and joins Medical.
The manifest shortens by one: Yolanda Navarrete, 75 years. 2 children carry the line on.
The schools release Ion Shen to Archive & Schools. Generation 7 takes up its tools.
Morale index reads 74. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
Maintenance sweep of Ring A complete. Somewhere aft a wrench is missing; it will surface in a decade, in a wall, with a story attached.
The star ahead brightens by amounts only I can love: another week, another hundred-millionth of a magnitude.
Two names braided on the manifest tonight: Eos and Helm. The commons sings late.
A new mural from Dalia Nwosu — “Nine Ladders Waiting.” The Archive takes a copy; the original belongs to whoever stands nearest.
Sixty-eight years: Emilio Tväten hangs up the sash. An elder's quarters in Ring D stands ready.
First Light. The observation blister queues run all day: Teegarden's Star, held in the eyepiece, a little brighter than last year — 3.74 light-years to go.
Jagdish Jaber stands down from Life Systems at sixty-eight, to the orchard benches and the long game of stones.
Keel Thorvaldsen is delivered of a daughter in the middle watch. The child is called Qing.
Pilar Sharma is delivered of a daughter at dimming. The child is called Verne.
Mikhail Thorvaldsen died in quarters at dimming, 84 years old. 816 souls aboard.
The schools release Torsten Yan to Life Systems. Generation 5 takes up its tools.
“Wheels of Year 167,” a song by Josefina Northam, is unveiled late in the second watch to the particular applause of Ecology.
Sixteen years for Radomir Quill, who signs to Command on the night watch and is given a locker, a sash, and a schedule.
Anand Thorvaldsen died in quarters in the middle watch, 81 years old. 817 souls aboard.
Sarala Thorvaldsen does not wake in the middle watch. 77 years, most of them given to Hydroponics.
The question is put to the wider circle: The second orchard. The ship asks; Earth answers, in its own long time.
The star ahead brightens by amounts only I can love: another week, another hundred-millionth of a magnitude.
Nadia Quill and Devendra Jaber name their son Meridian. The nursery lamps stay warm.
Lev Navarrete and Adaeze Barakat, joined. Their quarters are re-assigned adjoining, per custom.
Tara Quill is delivered of a daughter on the night watch. The child is called Omolara.
Edith Petrov and Quill Petrov, joined. Their quarters are re-assigned adjoining, per custom.
Boreal Navarrete is delivered of a daughter on the first watch. The child is called Helm.
A birth in Ring C: Percy, boy, generation 6. I have added the name to the manifest with the others.
Last shift for Xavier Yan, who joined Life Systems half a century ago. The crew line the corridor and knock wrenches on the rails.
The schools release Wren Quill to Fabrication. Generation 6 takes up its tools.
Oddny Yan has died at 15, far too early. the ship stands down a shift in grief.
Maintenance sweep of Ring B complete. Somewhere aft a wrench is missing; it will surface in a decade, in a wall, with a story attached.
Nils Thorvaldsen finishes a play: “A outward field.” It shows in the commons through the week.
Sixteen years for Obinna Fang, who signs to Command at dimming and is given a locker, a sash, and a schedule.
The star ahead brightens by amounts only I can love: another week, another hundred-millionth of a magnitude.
Arc Navarrete, sixteen, takes the thermal engineer apprenticeship in Life Systems.
Year 167 of the voyage begins. The oldest bottle of orchard wine that can be spared is opened. It is always described as "improving."
A joining in Ring A: Rell Quill and Yejide Kowalczyk. The pressing of cider is authorized.
A son, Zbigniew Aaberg, born in the Ring A infirmary to Rocío Aaberg and Aisha Shen. Mother and child are well.
3.76 light-years remain. I have measured this voyage in breakfasts: some 24,754 thousand to go.
Huda Thorvaldsen takes the hand of Kestrel Nwosu before the assembled watch. I witness, as I witness everything.
A son, Anton Diallo, born in the Ring D infirmary to Rania Diallo and Konstantin Nwosu. Mother and child are well.
Polina Pemberton, 89, generation 4, is carried down the spinal corridor feet-first, as the custom is.
Maintenance sweep of Ring B complete. Somewhere aft a wrench is missing; it will surface in a decade, in a wall, with a story attached.
Adrián Petrov stands the walk of the full spinal corridor, as the sixteen-year custom is, and joins Drive.