Sidereal Fusion: Epilogue
Things have gotten really tough. Ansgar Station is gone. I recovered what hardware I could to sell off on the market, but we’ve had to halt the Sidereal Fusion project for now. I’ve temporarily moved my research operations to Gulfonodi, but they mostly consist of ship and drone research in NER facilities.
Joron took his failure personally and resigned from the corporation. I think he prefers staying on the run, to be honest. Maybe he’ll end up back with those Guristas or something.
Raimo didn’t die, oddly, despite the EM blast that burned out most of the hardware we’d custom-built into him. But he doesn’t seem like himself, either. Before, he always had lots of ideas and an insatiable curiosity, but now he just processes the projects I assign him. No performance complaints or anything, but he’s lost his spark. If he leaves, too, it won’t really surprise me.
I did hire on one more research assistant today, but she doesn’t have anything like Raimo’s skill. She’ll probably just end up doing some project management and maybe some BPC processing. As far as I can tell, though, she lacks any ambition whatsoever. No real piloting abilities beyond basic shuttle flight and enough astrogation to get around, but she does know her way around the labs.
Maybe Ecliptic Rift works best as a small organization to support my own research. Maybe I need to stop relying so much on other pod pilots to help out and just establish relationships for specific projects or operations.
I should send Vikarion a note; maybe I can work out some sort of research deal with the White Rose Society.
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Date: 2009-03-03
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