Home on the Belt Range

Home on the Belt Range

It took near six months to get back from Earth to Eureka on the poorly named freighter Dark Sea Express II - I wonder how slow the first one had been. To be fair, they were carrying a mighty heavy load out for us. After seventy years roaming the Belt, our systems, especially the biologicals, are getting a might bit rusty.

It’ll be good to get home. Them freighters don’t carry a big wheel like the liners do, so all they have for gravity is a spinning track at the back of the crew section. To get up to a full gravity they have to spin that sucker pretty quick – over eight times a minute, and the Coriolis makes me pretty dizzy when I’m working out. I can’t wait to get back to my little condo and garden patch where there’s at least a decent amount of sky above me and the spin rate is less than two per minute.

Yeap, back home again. I mean, Earth was nice and all, though the weather was a bit much. And I’m glad our parents were smart enough to leave behind all them stinging insects.

- Emilio Mackenzie, personal note, 4 March 2160