Born on the night watch: Sable Sharma, generation 8. The ship holds 850 souls tonight.
The Ship’s Log
Everything NOR has recorded since departure — the full record, newest first. One day aboard passes every hour of Earth time.
Clara Ouyang does not wake on the first watch. 76 years, most of them given to Life Systems.
Radhika Petrov and Baozhen Ulriksen are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Drive turns out.
After 99 years, Tunde Nwosu has let go. Remembrance in the Ring B commons at next dimming.
Morale index reads 80. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
Morale index reads 80. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
After 102 years, Zofia Thorvaldsen has let go. Remembrance in the Ring D commons at next dimming.
The schools release Altair Shen to Fabrication. Generation 7 takes up its tools.
After 76 years, Anastasia Shen has let go. Remembrance in the Ring A commons at next dimming.
A first shift for Halley Jaber, sixteen: bay gardener, Hydroponics. The badge is printed fresh.
A son, Fuhua Zhao, born in the Ring C infirmary to Vasanti Zhao and Pranav Kong. Mother and child are well.
Morale index reads 81. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
3.05 light-years remain. I have measured this voyage in breakfasts: some 22,180 thousand to go.
“The Hollow Season,” a mural by Dalia Nwosu, is unveiled late in the second watch to the particular applause of Hydroponics.
Caelum Mansour died in quarters on the night watch, 84 years old. 852 souls aboard.
3.05 light-years remain. I have measured this voyage in breakfasts: some 22,209 thousand to go.
Remembrance. All names read since the last one — held in silence in every ring at the same hour. I keep the lights low until it is done.
Stanley Sharma stands the walk of the full spinal corridor, as the sixteen-year custom is, and joins Fabrication.
Signe Shen is delivered of a daughter on the first watch. The child is called Margaret.
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.
I compare today's star field against day one's. The constellations have begun, very slightly, to come apart. Nobody else will look; that is what I am for.
A joining in Ring C: Nabil Thorvaldsen and Fern Shen. The pressing of cider is authorized.
Census check: 852 souls, 215 of them children. The manifest balances to the person, as it must.
The star ahead brightens by amounts only I can love: another week, another hundred-millionth of a magnitude.
Umbra Mansour and Jinghua Tväten are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Ecology turns out.
Born late in the second watch: Jamila Shen, generation 7. The ship holds 852 souls tonight.
Routine watch. The wheat in Bay 3 stands taller than its keepers. 26,082 days to orbit.
Night watch. The orchard sprinklers run their cycle, and the sound carries down the spine like weather.
Karima Nwosu died in quarters on the night watch, 77 years old. 851 souls aboard.
Last shift for Eleanor Northam, who joined Fabrication half a century ago. The crew line the corridor and knock wrenches on the rails.
Helm Merriweather is delivered of a daughter on the night watch. The child is called Galina.
Born in the middle watch: Ruolan Pemberton, generation 7. The ship holds 851 souls tonight.
Night watch. The orchard sprinklers run their cycle, and the sound carries down the spine like weather.
The schools release Yash Navarrete to Fabrication. Generation 6 takes up its tools.
The hull ticks as it cools into the long night. Year 178, and I still log it faithfully: ticking, nominal.
After 99 years, Bruno Fang has let go. Remembrance in the Ring D commons at next dimming.
“Sky for the Whole Watch,” a poem by Nabil Thorvaldsen, is unveiled in the middle watch to the particular applause of Drive.
I compare today's star field against day one's. The constellations have begun, very slightly, to come apart. Nobody else will look; that is what I am for.
First watch. The orchard sprinklers run their cycle, and the sound carries down the spine like weather.
Edith Petrov is delivered of a daughter on the night watch. The child is called Mira.
Helm Thorvaldsen chooses Medical — or it chooses him; the elders disagree cheerfully.
A joining in Ring C: Xenia Valdivia and Lyra Navarrete. The pressing of cider is authorized.
After 84 years, Polina Jaber has let go. Remembrance in the Ring B commons at next dimming.
I dim the corridor lights a shade for Arjun Pemberton, 85. It is little enough.
Gyre Quill, 93, generation 4, is carried down the spinal corridor feet-first, as the custom is.
Last shift for Omar Pemberton, who joined Medical half a century ago. The crew line the corridor and knock wrenches on the rails.
The Crossing feast: more behind than ahead. The long tables come out; the good preserves come down.
Sable Mansour has died at 25, far too early. Medical stands down a shift in grief.
The youngest aboard is now Salvador Ouyang, minutes old, asleep. 854 souls.
A son, Deneb Quill, born in the Ring C infirmary to Sojourn Quill and Verne Peng. Mother and child are well.