Signals Command - Public Duty Log 1/2

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This is Martin. Now I am but a humble Signal-man, tending to my Signal-chores—so tell me to go to hell if you want—but we are almost out of probes.

Per the established procedures—which I am apparently the only one still following, looking in your direction Jenner —I'm recording all outgoing probes and their trajectories here in the public log. I sent another batch of four out last night: see attached for vectors and tracking numbers.

Now since our genius ancestors in provisioning only saw fit to buy ten probes, I've had to spread them pretty thin. One went to the Zorica stellar body (obviously). Two went to opposite ends of that ominous-looking nebula at the far edge of the system. One went to the juiciest-looking planet.

We've got less than 15% coverage of the system so far, and blind spots a-plenty, so cross your fingers and toes that the last probe finds a viable landing site. Honestly, I'll be amazed if it makes landfall. The thing's got to be half plastic-composite, and the onboard intelligence is not, shall we say, the sharpest knife in the drawer. It kept asking me if we were &quot;going on an adventure&quot; and if I was it's &quot;friend.&quot; I couldn't figure out any of the console commands, so I had to program it entirely by voice. Let's just say that there is now one VERY excited probe heading for that planet, and it is VERY much looking forward to finding new friends to play with.

They need to make them a lot smarter, or a lot dumber. It's just too creepy the way they are now, all eager and child-like.

Anyways, like I said: cross your fingers. We're going to have a whole lot of angry passengers if we run out of probes and have to search all these planets by hand.

Probe Trajectories, for the record:
 * P005-VFT: 4.652 by 56.443 at 06:31:04.034UTC (Zorica close approach)
 * P006-VFT: 67.22345555 by 7.772 at 06:32:22.744UTC (Nebula X-axis)
 * P007-VFT: 67.22345555 by -34.7755 at 06:34:56.583UTC (Nebula Y-axis)
 * P008-VFT: 23.556 by 26.22228 at 07:20:41.001UTC (The big blue planetary body on the far end…I forget the designation. Calculate the trajectory yourself if you care so much.)