ENTRY 002
TRAVEL LOG FOR SELDEN CENTER CONFERENCE ON XENOBIOLOGY
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Ana ... I don't know if this will ever reach you, but I have to try ... I reached the waypoint for my trip home to Eden, and had laid in the hyper path when my board went haywire. Every warning klaxon in the ship went off.
At first, I couldn't see anything wrong and then ... then ... Ana, it looked like all the space around me -- the stars, the planet beneath me, everything -- faded to nothingness. It was like it just winked out of existence. For an instant or two, all I could see was void. Even the ship and my hand in front of me seemed to fade to nothingness. Then, it seemed as if the whole universe poured back in ... my hand was back, the ship around me was back, and my view screen was filled with stars that seemed to be rushing at me.
But after a moment, everything went still. The ship was holding position above a planet, just as it had been before. But now the planet seemed ... well, different. My ship seemed different. The same in some ways, but changed in others. There were unfamiliar menus in the shipboard computer. There were instruments I hadn't noticed before. My cargo manifest was altered, some of the basic materials for flight and repair were gone and replaced with substances I've never seen or heard of before.
What's happened, Ana? I'd hoped I was just hallucinating and would awake in a moment or two, but time has dragged on.
It's as if the universe has altered somehow. Or I've fallen into some sort of dimensional slipstream and come out in a new galaxy ... or maybe the same galaxy, but changed.
I ... I don't really know what to do. I fear entering hyper drive without some kind of answer, so my current plan is to try landing on the planet below and taking a good look at the ship to see if everything is OK.
If this reaches you, know that I love you and will try everything in my power to get home.
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