Chapter 1: What kind of name is Mutsuhito?
Begin Log 34-2400
This is actually my first log since number 31. I am pretty sure of that. 32 and 33 must've been written by the auto-logger because I really don't remember writing them myself. They just contain boring ship and fleet overviews that don't belong in my personal log at all. I would remember if I put that kind of nonsense here. Right?
Oh well. Anyway, Kyo, I'm happy you've shown such interest in documenting the colonisation of Mutsuhito IV. The transmissions we've been exchanging over the past few days have made me confident that if anyone writes down our tale, it should be you. That's why I've granted you access to some of my personal logs. Please treat them confidential, and don't publish anything without my permission.
I know we've spoken about this already, but I am afraid I really have to recite the events of the past few days again. A lot has happened since we first heard about Mutsuhito, which is where my last log ended. For starters, why it is named Mutsuhito? I'll get to it.
So anyway, the deep space scanner array confirmed that there is indeed a planet revolving around the unnamed star that is almost identical to Xeron III in environment. It is the fourth planet from the star and not the third, the days and years are a bit longer, and it has a bigger moon, but that's all. A few days later we locked our blue-space drives on the star and jumped there.
Now, in those few days, our own astro-topographers went through the databanks on Xeron III in an attempt to find more information about this region of space, and this is what they found: the entire area was actually bought by some megacorporation during the great war, who began terraforming every decent planet according to the Terra standard. That's why Xeron III and Mutsuhito IV are so similar: they were artificially moulded into it.
The database also revealed that the name of the star was Mutsuhito. Apparently the name goes way back in Nipponian history, to even before the Age of Space Travel. We held a fleet-wide referendum about it, and the name stuck. My own suggestion "Kashyk" got only one vote. I blame the stupid tyyypo I made while entering the name in the computer.
Surface scans revealed a nice valley in the tropical zone that is proving to be perfect for a new colony. (I wanted to include a picture but the file got corrupted and I can't be bothered to redo the calculations for the orbital camera right now.) We sent an orbital ferry down with a bunch of geologist, planners, engineers and tourists to check the area. Here's a picture of the ferry on the surface (this one didn't get corrupted, but you don't see a lot):
This is taken moments before they crash the damn thing into the ground. The engineers are baffled and have no idea how to fix the problems (apparently a tree got stuck in an exhaust or something?) so we've just left the ferry where it is and marked the site as the starting point for the colony. It's a nice location, bordering on a river that flows into the ocean nearby. I promise I'll include a big overview picture of the area in my next log. Kaiba out.
Log Entry recorded by Kaiba Yakota, admiral of the Nippon V Evacuation Fleet
End Log
Author Notes:
Second entry immediately after the first one. I just want to get this stuff out of the way so I can start with the actual city journal. Hope you enjoyed, next update will contain actual pictures of the colony!
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