Mysterious Logbook



The Mysterious Logbook is the journal of Clovis Bray I, included in the Beyond Light Collector's Edition. It contains entries on a variety of topics, including Europa and information relating to the moon, as well as Exos. Based on the appearance of the pages, the journal is in decent condition, despite its likely age. There are at least 46 pages within the journal, with the final pages seemingly ripped out.

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PERSONAL LOG

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A new start. A clean page for a most important story.

Hannu II is aerobraking around Jupiter. The lord of planets thunders his greeting to me. As I record this, I am blasting Aivanti-3's "Siegfried in the Storm Wall" over the radio howl of the Jovian magnetosphere. It galvanized me. I am with the gods.

Ask Aivanti's trainers how they settled on the 1/2/3 suffixes. Numbers are perfectly defined, therefore inhuman. Is this suffix meant to mark the Aivanti AI as nonhuman?


 * Objective: construct long-term scientific outpost for study of indigenous Europan life.


 * Resources: eight prefab starter habitats,
 * 600 shielded heavy work frames, and VISCNU)
 * and B-RA/MA cytomachines with backup
 * replication chambers aboard Hannu. The best
 * hazardous-environment engineers money can't
 * buy. SMILE support for extended duration.
 * Two of Elisabeth's Eon-type platforms for
 * radar, Lidar, and deep ice mapping.
 * Hazards: Lethal radiation environment (heavy
 * ion bombardment from Jovian magnetosphere).
 * Unshielded crew half-Life is 24 hours.



The most expensive lie in human history. I am not here for a safari. All of Europa's life will soon be known, mapped, and exhausted of wonder. Bound by the tedious constraints of physics and biology. I know these things too well. They are already killing me.

The Kl artifact promised me an offering. A gateway to the secret of immortality. I call it Clarity.

It is waiting on Europa.

I am still dying, but not fast enough to kill me.


 * CORPOREAL STATUS:
 * Body at 35.9 C. Pulse 25 BPM, strength
 * good. BP 75 over 50. Resp 6 breaths/
 * minute. Pulse ox 210%. Today's blood mix is
 * perfluorocarbon with stem slurry.
 * Avoid hyperfocus with alpha-wave brain wash
 * for 10 min/hr.
 * New kidneys are growing in Whitford the deli
 * pig for next transplants.



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Must find a good pork recipe so Whitford will not go to waste. Medical team insists I accept cytomachine injections. No! Nothing enters my body that does not share my genetic self-interest. Instead I will grow an upgraded monocyte strain.

Elisabeth's birthday approaches. A good gift would be an olive branch. Never let her say I do not try. Hannu, please identify a gift that only could come from my own intimate and personal knowledge of my granddaughter.


 * GIFT SUGGESTIONS:
 * Antique weapon, or Twin Eagle replica.
 * Professional pilot trained on Eon-series ship.
 * Bespoke AI writer of personalized novels.
 * Fruit basket, Titan farmed.
 * Humanitarian investment (minefield
 * clearance, long-term reparations, anti-
 * traumatic medicine).



These are pathetic, Hannu.


 * REVISED GIFT SUGGESTIONS:
 * Research endowment, medical (prion diseases
 * in persons with immune resistence to
 * recombinant gene therapy).
 * Research endowment, medical (sporadic
 * fatal insomnia). • Research endowment,
 * psychological (loss of father, family
 * trauma).
 * Research endowment, psychological
 * (reconstruction of trust after Loss).
 * Personal apology, unpracticed (death of
 * patient in physician's care).
 * Statement of grief, unpracticed (death of
 * son).



Never mind, Hannu. Buy a few doghives for a soil reclaimation project somewhere. Honeybees, whatever strain is best. And big friendly Newfoundlands for the hives. Everyone loves doghives.

-04-

 * Ongoing projects:
 * Exomind: blocked
 * Contact ICoV for their trick: failed
 * Hire Duane McNiadh away from ICOV: failed
 * Raid ICoV for Vex data: in planning
 * Europa/Clarity: in progress
 * Be a good man and a good grandfather:
 * in progress
 * Become LUCA of future human thought:
 * in progress



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