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Dear Condor,
Thank you for the sentiment regarding my job. I’m okay whether it’s
important or not. It gives me something to do, and besides, it’s not like I
have to sit and stare at the alarm for hours on end. There are other tasks,
like making sure communications are running smoothly. I mean the
communications between various outposts on Vacuus, not to other planets. It
would give me a lot more freedom if I had full access to those systems. I
would probably know more about Earth than you! Speaking of interplanetary
communications, I should have said earlier that they’re going to be down for
the next couple of weeks or so. They’re overhauling the entire system, which
is something they do every three Earthan years. We’re still on your
schedule, which I’m sure you’ve noticed since I’m dating these messages
according to your calendar. That’s not just for your benefit. There are
certainly no local periodic astronomical phenomena to base anything off of.
Anyway, back to the explanation about the systems. Obviously, they update
the software about once per month to make it faster, more efficient, and
just better overall. But at the end of what they call a Research Cycle, they
also upgrade the hardware, because those software updates stop being enough
to keep up with advancing technologies, and operational needs. We have all
sorts of anniversaries here. The day we launched, the day we landed, the day
the first baby was born on Vacuus. One of these “anniversaries” only happens
every three years, because we were on this planet for that long before
people finally felt like we weren’t just trying to survive, but actively
starting to conduct stable daily research as true Vacuans. I dunno, it seems
kind of arbitrary to me. No one day marked the end of survival mode, and the
beginning of thriving mode, but it’s a pretty big deal. It doesn’t actually
happen until the end of October, but that’s when we celebrate it, so they
always want the big overhaul to be finished by then. I definitely won’t be
able to send you any messages, but it’s a two-way street as far as the
transceiver goes, so your messages to me won’t come through either,
and in fact, may not even be waiting on a server somewhere for me to read
later. I may not ever be able to read a message that tried to come through
during the upgrades. If you do try to send something—as people used to say
in the olden days—it could get lost in the mail. I’ll hit you back when
systems are up and running again. I apologize for not warning you about this
sooner. I just forgot about it, because I have to do so much to prepare as
part of my job, and I’ve never spoken to anyone who doesn’t already know
everything about it.
Until we can talk again,
Corinthia
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