Valentina's Post Mission Briefing: Entry 2

Year 0 Day 3

Operation Sky Eye:

Mission Alpha

Mission Description:

We need to find out what has happened to the rest of the planet. We're currently working on better long range options and satellite surveillance, but for the time being we'll have to make do with some short range aerial recon. We need to conserve rocket parts until we can secure some materials to build them. We'll need to use those plane parts we dug up. The props still seem to be in good order.

Objective:

Using the old aircraft parts we recovered, build a short range scout plane to look for any signs of life within a 50km Radius of the space center. If we can't go that far, at least north to the mountains, and south to the islands. I doubt anyone is left, but we need to make sure.

Mission Report:

The mission was mostly a success. We scouted out to the mountains in the north, and down to the islands in the south. The plane for the most part performed fine, but we had some problems on landing. As in we crashed it, twice. It wasn't the pilots fault. The breaks are very weak and the air frame is so stable it doesn't flair well for landing. A redesign will have to be made so that we can land at the island air strip and check it out. There were no signs of life on flyby. It looks fairly run down and misused. After a careful inspection I think I'll recommend reusing and recycling anything that's there. For now though we're treating it with caution. That is where the command to launch the Thor's came from after all. I can't believe how close it is too. Just a few Kilometers from our home is where that disaster launched from.

We managed to collect soil samples and reports from several areas around the space center as well. The soil analysis hasn't come back yet, but if it comes back clean we may start expanding the space centers operations. I know the grasslands just north of here would a good close mining base to start extracting resources from. Kerbin doesn't have a ton of them left, but what is here is more than enough for we few who remain. Hopefully the soil samples will turn up more about what happened as well. Before all this I mean. When there was more to Kerbin than Barren ground a space center. Although computing power is still limited, so who knows how much we'll actually learn.

Future Mission Recommendation:
We restored some old telescopes and cameras during the mission window. I think it's time we launch someone into an orbit around the planet and do some survey's from space. We'll learn a bit more about what happened, figure out if there is a chance for more survivors, and see where else we can go to rebuild. We've still got a ton of work ahead of us. This is progress though, and progress means we're headed somewhere. I just don't know where that is yet...