Logbook of Soras Valcoran

The Logbook of Soras Valcoran is a personal travel journal kept by the first Cadmeian, Soras Valcoran . It details and describes the expedition to the northern Milky Way Galaxy that would eventually discover and colonize the planet of Cadmeia. The original copy was kept in the Hall of Heroes in the Cadmeian city of Kiruna until the fall of Cadmeia, until the fall of Cadmeia, when the city, along with the hall of heroes, were destroyed.

Purpose

The document was written by Soras Valcoran, the greatest explorer to have ever lived in the history of the federation and also the first person to set foot on Cadmeia, to record the details of the expedition and the various planets and celestial bodies they visited in detail.

Document Structure

Clauses

The document is roughly divided into 5 years with many Divisions, each division telling their own part about the journey. Each yearly entry sums up all the events that happened in that year of the voyage. Some tell about a number of planets discovered during a certain period of time and the stages of their colonisation. Others detail the discovery of a particular planet or a space time anomaly. The divisions themselves are arranged into chapters that go deeper into detail about the topic of a specific division.

Historical Details

Background

The Logbook was written to provide a detailed description of one of the first and largest interstellar expeditions undertaken by mankind and to provide an account of such an expedition for the travellers in the future. In the years and decades following the publication of this logbook, many other expeditions would look to it for first hand guidance on venturing across the reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy.

History

The discovery

In the late 22nd century, mankind had discovered the existence of FTL travel with the help of the Aenarri race and had managed to invent a fully functioning void engine of their own. The sigma -Ludwig void Drive that first propelled mankind to the stars would serve for many more centuries, albeit with much modifications and modernizations. Within a few years of the discovery of the void engine, many expeditions were prepared to venture out into the unexplored parts of the Milky Way and colonize the planets there. Amongst these expeditions however, expedition FENRIS was the largest. And the logbook would preserve its legacy for centuries more.

Venture to the stars

The FENRIS expedition had left the planet of Bellerophon, a medium sized colony orbiting Alpha Centauri A in 2280. Over the next five years, the logbook would serve to detail the various planets , moons, rogue planets and other celestial objects the expedition came through.

Legacy

The legacy of the logbook is one of reverence and Respect. After the expedition was complete, Soras was widely hailed as the greatest explorer mankind had ever seen and the pioneer of building the gigantic Interstellar Civilization of mankind, going so far as to call him the Pathfinder of the stars.

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Logbook of Soras Valcoran

Launch day

"Well, today is the big day. We are going off to the Perseus and Sagittarius arms of the galaxy on mankind's largest voyage across the stars. I told my parents goodbye today, got ready for the journey of a lifetime and boarded the Ragnarök. This ship is huge! The gigantic hallways were decorated with the banners of the federation and each of the crew members have their own quarters. Brother Hans Jurgen Kürsch is also traveling with me here so i don't feel lonely at all! I look forward to the journey that is ahead of us for i am at the very forefront of a new chapter in mankinds history!

Year one of Voyage

"Its been a year since we left Bellerophon. Our first year went without much luck but we did find some interesting objects! One of these was apparently a small rogue planet that seemed to exhibit mysterious pulses of an unknown type of energy. It was jamming most of our equipment so we just left a few probes to observe the object. That being said, I am looking forward to what we have ahead of us in the upcoming years"!

Year two of voyage

"We discovered quite a bit of planets for the year, numbering in the hundreds if not thousands. Most of our colonized worlds were earth analogs but we did also colonize some desert worlds , ice worlds, volcano worlds and some other exotic types of planets for their mineral resources and some other purposes.The morale amongst the crew is high and I am excited and happy at the same time because not only have we achieved far more than we expected for, our race has begun to leave its mark upon the very stars themselves.

Year three of voyage

"We had our first and greatest defeat in this year. During a planetary prospection when we were trying to test a planet for its habitability, a detachment from the ISS Ventura came upon a strange, dilapidated alien temple. Our xenoarchaeologists aboard the Ventura decided to explore the temple but in the end , it would only bring ruin for us. During the dig, the xenoarchaeologists found a few strange statues of a masked being to which the temple was most probably dedicated to. After a few weeks in orbit above the planet, the crew involved in the dig began to exhibit strange behavior. They would speak in a gibberish language and frequently chant unknown phrases. Their condition deteriorated rapidly and they became more and more violent. Finally, they went insane and started attacking the other crew members on sight. After being killed however, they reanimated into monstrous and nightmarish creatures that cannot be described by mere words. As the number of the dead grew, the creatures got stronger till one day, a gigantic wormhole opened up above orbit and a terrifying creature came out of it. The being looked like a red skinned minotaur, its fiery eyes and gore flecked armor striking fear into the hearts of our crew. As soon as we could, we abandoned the entire system and left behind our corrupted and uncorrupted brethren to the mercy of those inhuman beings. To this day, i still have nightmares about the incident and hearing the screams of my crewmates . I just hope we can safely reach our next destination

Year four of voyage

" We are getting closer and closer to our goal. We finally came upon a single planet after a full year of passing through an interstellar void. Our preliminary scans shocked us however. Not only was the planet truly massive, being over 4 times the size of the Sun itself, it contained an insane amount of resources. Enough to make even the four terrestrial planets of the Sol system combined look small. The surface however is uninhabitable because of its thick atmosphere and the planet is very geologically unstable with gigantic cracks all over the surface due to its unstable core. We have to be very careful in colonizing it and it will be a hard task."

Final year of voyage

We did it. No matter how much damage we took from that attack during the third year, we managed to far outdo ourselves. We are getting regular reports from not just thousand but tens of thousands of colonies communicating with us! Moreover, we have just stumbled upon the most beautiful and unique planet in the milky way. It is even more gigantic than Ragnarok and is actually quite habitable! After a long debate in the main hall, we have decided to name it Cadmeia for now. Brother Hans had the honor of being the first human being to land on Cadmeias largest moon, Ecliptica . The most important thing other than that though, is that i had the honour of being the first ever human being on the surface of Cadmeia and dear god, it was beautiful. The air was fresh and breathable and I swear I could have walked around in a simple shirt at that time. It even seems to have a gigantic biosphere and i cant wait to study the flora and fauna here! There is also a gigantic anomaly that can be seen from the surface as well. We will have to research on that soon to but unfortunately, this has to be the end of this log though so whoever has read it, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Hominis Et Vincere!

Soras Valcoran

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Legal status

The document is completely valid under Imperial law and is even promoted and taught in most educational institutes as part of the curriculum

Publication status

Copies of the document are publicly availiable to almost everyone in the Imperial federation.

Type

Journal, Scientific

Medium

Digital Recording, Text

Authors

• Soras Valcoran

Signatories (Characters)

• Soras Valcoran

Signatories (Organizations)

• The Imperial Terran Federation