Log #184

October 13th. 75 days.
 
We’re cycling another round of testing today.. I can get the gate to generate this side but we’re struggling to maintain it and have it manifest on the other end. We’ll briefly amplify it’s power output to see if the extra kick is what’s missing; That’s my only assumption so far, given the increase in size of this thing. Could also just be miscalculations.. Or maybe it’s just damaged somewhere I didn’t catch during the recovery.
 
I’m not even sure what completing this fucking thing does for us anymore. Establishing trade routes across other planes? Relocating? The only place we have connections to is absolutely not somewhere I want to associate with. Not that their people did wrong by us, but.. It’s too close to them.
 
I’m still working on sleep. It’s been pretty hit or miss recently, which is an improvement I guess. Sanctity.. Helps. Between working on this, and aiding with reconstruction, it’s easy enough to just let exhaustion decide on when I sleep. It’s too wasteful to keep to a schedule.
 
… I still don’t want to use that dust. I can’t help but feel it’s the solution to the issues we’re having getting this thing to work, but after that message.. I don’t know what to think. Shit, I don’t even know if what they said was true. It could just be horeshit made up to stop me from using it for myself. If it is, then I guess they got what they wanted.. Again.
 
I’ll fill you in later after testing to let you know how things went.
 
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It’s later.
 
Tests failed. Again.
 
And we’ve blown another Fuse Array— It’ll be a bitch to salvage ones like those… Noting to self to stick to low power testing for now. Focus on increasing efficiency, not stability.