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Dear Condor,
It’s okay that Pascal won’t be able to write for a while. Honestly—and you
don’t need to tell him this—it’s a little awkward. These are just letters,
but I still felt like I was on a blind double date, which I know is a weird
way to look at it. I suppose we could always speak through you if we really
needed to. That’s great news about reaching your rendezvous point. How long
will/did it take? By the time you read this letter, you may be well on your
way back out into sea. Make sure you choose the right path, though. It
sounds like the weather is pretty dangerous out there. I never thought about
that, about how the toxins in the atmosphere could make things even more
dangerous. We learned about climate breakdown in school. Things were already
not as safe as they were a couple hundred years prior. Humans were evidently
damaging Earth before they started to do it intentionally to harm each
other! I just hope your leaders always exercise caution. Vacuus does have
weather. It’s not nearly as bad as it is for you guys, it’s just different.
We experience infrequent, and rather weak, dust storms. These can still
damage our instrumentation, though, and our permanently outdoors equipment
needs constant cleaning. Or rather, they don’t. We’ve incorporated
state-of-the-art onboard self-cleaning technology into nearly everything.
You have windshield wipers on your cars with wiper fluid? We do too, but for
cameras and other sensors. Instead of going out to clean every day, our
field maintenance workers go out periodically to refill the fluid, or maybe
repair or replace a blade. It’s much easier, and the infrequency of the task
lowers the risk of something happening to them while they’re exposed like
that. They’re also at risk of running into electrical storms. These things
happen all the time. Our habitats are riddled with lightning rods. They both
protect us from the strikes, and help power our habitats. That’s something
else we’ve developed out of necessity, ultracapacitors which capture the
short, energetic burst of raw power, and store it safely for future use. I
keep using words like we, but I obviously had no hand in any of this.
As I’ve said, I’m not cut out for field work, and I have no interest in it.
I didn’t choose where to break ground on our settlement either, which was
not chosen at random. Other parts of the planet experience volcanic
activity. Some of these are even cryovolcanoes, which release nasty
chemicals like ammonia and methane. Thankfully, we’re really far from those
things, but I have a friend who operates a drone array which studies the
nearest spots. So yeah, it’s dangerous here, but not worse than Earth. At
least no one did it on purpose.
Again, stay safe,
Corinthia
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