Transmission #42 - Repairs, risks
Transmission from: Karam Glinchy Shanti (26), Maintenance Operative C, Relay Wharf 6, Orbit of Mars
Earth Received Time: 2 February 2326 19:45:59 UT
Repairs, risks
A toolkit, bright white. In an atmosphere of jeopardy secure the instruments. You pack a scraper and a grease gun. Dust clogs the joints in stellar engineering. Invisible supply chain: here you are in the universe. Add mere kilometres for perspective, planet-circling is training for anti-vertigo. Say “above” though above could be beyond or beneath or by the by.
Repairs, risks
You are glad of ties, don’t think about it, radiation in a good way. Tethered includes human operative, so forget yourself. Pangs help you notice.
Repairs, risks
A space suit is a glitch away from body bag. Just get on with things.
Repairs, risks
Gravity is sorcery in a vocabulary of awe. Gravity is certainty on squared paper. All creation stuffed inside a bag of sacreds, hold all.
Repairs, risks
Sincere epiphany is cut with purest strategy for work in progress, don’t linger, and it is progress, snort it, your eyes widen, there will be planet landings, it’s all in the planning, equals facts + faith (includes Faiths, includes no faith, includes help each other).
Repairs, risks
“I got it, I don’t got it”: a tool bag, bright white, out of grasp sashay, is beyond armslength, beyond Beyond, one small slip for humankind and now it’s flying, it’s above the New Himalaya, app’d to track.
Repairs, risks
Six months free and high – delirium between home-space and space-home – and the little escapee, toolbox aflame, homes in, down.
Repairs, risks
(“Re-entry” is optimistic before the real firewall, the flame cordon, love your aura. Hyphens and dashes, there is a difference: connections, leaps.)
Repairs, risks
“I got it, I don’t got it”: a tool bag, bright white beyond armslength. (Welder’s gauntlets drop the Sunday roast, tradition copied from a copy from a copy from the old country. An auger fumbled.) Miss you, equipment.
Karam Glinchy Shanti was born on the Earth-Mars shuttle and grew up in Jaffa, Mars. They are an external repairs operative in the CleanFix division of Trips, and is based on Relay Wharf 6.
Transmission received via Richard Price