Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 12

This planet… is brilliant.

I mean that in a visual brightness sense, as well as in a pleased-with-the-landing sense. The planet is nearly neon, the land green but the sort of green you expect to be advertising in a bar, the water actually pink. The land appears to be one giant landmass that swooshes and swirls across the planet.

It makes me giggle to look at it.

I hope Team 4 can stop giggling long enough to explore.
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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 12

We’ve come across the most technologically-advanced planet yet in Sec. 7-by a long shot.

This planet is so surrounded in satellites that it glimmers like a disco ball from space. 1/3 of its land mass is covered in what appear to be mega-structures covered in light tunnels, reflectors, and what might be solar panels. The rest is what we assume is farmland.

We stayed well away from the satellites but did send down a greeting probe.
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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 13

On 1st look, everything about this planet was perfect. Green, warm, reasonable ratio of water:land. We had a survey team suited up & ready to go down when Goja picked the alarm we’d all missed.

It LOOKS like a humanoid-habitable planet. It ticks all the boxes.

But the 1st probe shows such high levels of toxins in the plants that, if we didn’t all swell up and die, we’d be itching constantly.

We named it Poison Ivy & moved on quickly.
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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 13

We came upon a lovely system-2 planets in our search parameters, orbiting close together.

The further one sported vast ruins, but only around the equator. They were taller than anything back home, almost belting the planet-but no radio signals, no signs of current occupancy. We sent several probes. We may send a team when we loop back around.

The closer planet showed life just above stone-age. We sent a stealth probe, nothing else.

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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 14

We came out of superspace almost in front of this planet, and from the looks of it, we were not the only ones who had. Circling the planet, we counted at least ten landing stations, flying all sorts of colors, in all sorts of styles. None looked like Home, but several looked like we could probably fit in with minimal effort.

We made a note to visit on the way back. Sailors always enjoy a bit of shore leave, after all.

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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 14

We explored more of this subsection than originally planned: it was surprising to find so many uninhabited planets so close to Spaceport-planet. Or maybe not: nobody wants the campsite next to the bathroom.

3 days’ travel from Spaceport, we found a small, habitable planet. By small I mean tiny, approaching Little Prince status.

We sent down a…small team. If they have not explored the entire planet by the time we return, I will be surprised.
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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 15

We moved on to a new subsection happily; Sub14 felt claustrophobic, crammed with other ships.

By contrast, Sub15 is so empty, we wonder if everyone else knows something we don’t.

It took us days to find a worthwhile planet, and when we did…

…There are people down there, but they appear to be locked in endless war. Bombs were going off all over the planet, land & water alike.

We did not send down a probe. We marked it to visit in 15 years.

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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 16
We almost missed this planet, hidden as it was behind its much larger brother-planet. The brother was barren, a frozen gas giant. The smaller sibling we resisted the urge to name Eden, if only because fiction has taught that’s a way to jinx it.

Its landmasses are small, barely bigger than islands, but many of them are so close together you can hop from one to the next.

We sent down several probes & will come back with a team on our return.

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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 16

This planet, with its green seas & its golden lands, would look appealing if not for the strange rambling line of ruins. It is as if whenever something awful happens, the entire-if small-civilization just moves.

At least, the oldest ruins were crumbled almost to nothing, while the newest ones were quite recent, & they trailed in a line across the continent.

There is a lot of unruined land, but the people appear almost civilized, so we moved on.
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Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 16

We haven’t left this subsector yet: if any of the inhabited planets here develop space travel, they’ll find they have many neighbors.

At 1st I thought this planet was another-like 7-12-1-smeared in brilliant color-but a closer look revealed that 90% of the color is rooftops!

Almost the entire planet-poles to equator-is covered in buildings, all of them painted. Spectrography reveals colors there we can’t even see. Fascinating-& clearly occupied. #tootplanet

Star Log, Sec. 7, Sub. 16 (still)

This planet is chaos & fire personified.

There’s volcanic activity on 4 different islands on the equator, while an earthquake shakes the northern polar sea.

There appears to be a forest fire raging over 1 continent, & over another, it seems to be monsoon season.

We found 1 island, about a mile across, which was at peace.

We sent down several probes, but it does not seem particularly habitable. Perhaps we’ll check back on the way out.
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