A wedding in the middle watch. Ivar Paulsen, Archive & Schools; Dagny Thorvaldsen, Medical. The ship approves in its way: the lights held steady throughout.
The Ship’s Log
Everything NOR has recorded since departure — year 0, newest first. One day aboard passes every hour of Earth time.
Morale index reads 72. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
Kayode Abiodun and Lanying Meng are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Hydroponics turns out.
Rocío Juárez and Patricio Izquierdo, joined. Their quarters are re-assigned adjoining, per custom.
Maintenance sweep of Ring D complete. Somewhere aft a wrench is missing; it will surface in a decade, in a wall, with a story attached.
Morale index reads 72. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
Census check: 1001 souls, 1 of them children. The manifest balances to the person, as it must.
A wedding in the middle watch. Temitope Jelani, Ecology; Pranav Varma, Hydroponics. The ship approves in its way: the lights held steady throughout.
A birth in Ring B: Nora, girl, generation 1. I have added the name to the manifest with the others.
A joining in Ring D: Chandran Tendulkar and Huda Barakat. The pressing of cider is authorized.
A joining in Ring D: Ruolan Wan and Karim Aswad. The pressing of cider is authorized.
Josefina Gallardo has made a poem called “Watch for the Borrowed Signal.” Asked what it means, she says it means about nine years of evenings.
Stanislav Ivanova and Carmen Domínguez are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Archive & Schools turns out.
First watch. The orchard sprinklers run their cycle, and the sound carries down the spine like weather.
Jamal Baz and Noemí Orellana are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Drive turns out.
Two names braided on the manifest tonight: Omolara and Walter. The commons sings late.
Edmund Eastwood takes the hand of Bhavana Raghunathan before the assembled watch. I witness, as I witness everything.
Bogdan Ivanova and Noor Shadid, joined. Their quarters are re-assigned adjoining, per custom.
Aleksandr Babich takes the hand of Ximena Salazar before the assembled watch. I witness, as I witness everything.
Maintenance sweep of Ring D complete. Somewhere aft a wrench is missing; it will surface in a decade, in a wall, with a story attached.
Solveig Vik and Theodore Pemberton, joined. Their quarters are re-assigned adjoining, per custom.
Lars Eriksen and Widad Farouk are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Archive & Schools turns out.