By POW
Unical date: 3752.563.22 (nineteen days until scheduled arrival at Kappa Redulans)
It was a bit strange to adjust to living in the simspace. Sam was accustomed to moving from place to place to handle the various aspects of his day. Wake up in the sleeping space, move to the bathroom space, then the eating space, then the working space, then the playing space or the relaxing space, and end up back at the sleeping space at the end of the day. Here, instead, his body stayed still and the space around him changed to supply whatever he wanted. Need the toilet? Make one, use it, then dismiss it. Conjure a restaurant into being long enough to enjoy breakfast, then send it packing.
There were only two things he needed to leave the simspace for. One was to check the ship’s progress. He headed for the command bridge, feeling a bit strange about padding around the ship in the buff but really there was no reason not to. There he spent about twenty minutes in all doing his “job”. All status lights were green, all reports from the navigation AI indicated systems were operating normally. That part was done in two minutes but he stretched it out to almost ten, double- and triple-checking things that didn’t need to be double- and triple-checked.
Continue reading Captain Jack and the Race to Redula – Chapter 03: Deeper In
