Born on the first watch: Gantry Quill, generation 3. The ship holds 812 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.
Chief of Archive & Schools falls to Efua Diallo, who accepts with a nod and a full docket.
Sixty-eight years: Funmilayo Singh hangs up the sash. An elder's quarters in Ring A stands ready.
The star ahead brightens by amounts only I can love: another week, another hundred-millionth of a magnitude.
The manifest shortens by one: Peizhi Ding, 100 years. 1 children carry the line on.
9.02 light-years remain. I have measured this voyage in breakfasts: some 50,852 thousand to go.
Mariam Petrov stands the walk of the full spinal corridor, as the sixteen-year custom is, and joins Ecology.
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.
Census check: 812 souls, 298 of them children. The manifest balances to the person, as it must.
I dim the corridor lights a shade for Ebba Paulsen, 99. It is little enough.
The youngest aboard is now Enlai Shen, minutes old, asleep. 813 souls.
A first shift for Sable Thorvaldsen, sixteen: printer operator, Fabrication. The badge is printed fresh.
Sixteen years for Xenia Petrov, who signs to Ecology on the first watch and is given a locker, a sash, and a schedule.
The schools release Vega Fang to Medical. Generation 2 takes up its tools.
Inés Barakat and Dinesh Merriweather name their daughter Gunhild. The nursery lamps stay warm.
A joining in Ring B: Ikenna Quaye and Fern Diallo. The pressing of cider is authorized.
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.
A child in Ring C asks the corridor speaker what Earth smelled like. I play the rainstorm recording. It is the best answer I have.
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.
Sarala Pemberton and Anton Sharma name their son Gilbert. The nursery lamps stay warm.
Jiayi Ning finishes a song: “A outward signal.” It shows in the commons through the week.
First Light. The observation blister queues run all day: Teegarden's Star, held in the eyepiece, a little brighter than last year — 9.03 light-years to go.
Kirill Sokolov died in quarters in the middle watch, 103 years old. 810 souls aboard.
Morale index reads 78. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
A wedding on the first watch. Adaeze Quill, Life Systems; Gilbert Sharma, Command. The ship approves in its way: the lights held steady throughout.
A first shift for Tao Aaberg, sixteen: pharmacist, Medical. The badge is printed fresh.
Sixty-eight years: Jaroslav Varma hangs up the sash. An elder's quarters in Ring B stands ready.
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.
Beatriz Sharma is delivered of a son at dimming. The child is called Mateo.
A joining in Ring D: Meilin Fang and Deneb Pemberton. The pressing of cider is authorized.
Morale index reads 78. The number is crude. The singing from the mess confirms it.
A joining in Ring A: Milena Kowalczyk and Stanley Navarrete. The pressing of cider is authorized.
The schools release Ignacio Fossum to Medical. Generation 3 takes up its tools.
Clara Fang and Howard Fang are joined under the orchard lamps. The whole of Fabrication turns out.
Born on the first watch: Ishaan Mansour, generation 3. The ship holds 810 souls tonight.
Vasanti Merriweather and Usman Peng name their son Hernán. The nursery lamps stay warm.
Census check: 808 souls, 297 of them children. The manifest balances to the person, as it must.
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.
Noemí Barakat is delivered of a daughter late in the second watch. The child is called Rell.
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.
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.
Oddny Thorvaldsen is delivered of a daughter on the first watch. The child is called Maja.
Iman Rizk does not wake on the night watch. 98 years, most of them given to Hydroponics.
The youngest aboard is now Helm Yan, minutes old, asleep. 807 souls.
A child in Ring B asks the corridor speaker what Earth smelled like. I play the rainstorm recording. It is the best answer I have.
The schools release Cygnet Nwosu to Life Systems. Generation 3 takes up its tools.
The council confirms Modupe Thorvaldsen as Chief of Fabrication at brightening.
Last shift for Dag Nordahl, who joined Fabrication half a century ago. The crew line the corridor and knock wrenches on the rails.
The schools release Nicolás Zhao to Life Systems. Generation 3 takes up its tools.
Census check: 806 souls, 296 of them children. The manifest balances to the person, as it must.