Notes

Natsuki Hart (Pepper), F, 28 - Grew up as a cow herder on her father's farm, she never got proper education. Despite that she's still very clever and has impeccable common sense. Kind but jealous, she wanted more for herself and so she joined a colony ship as a settler. In the program she learned many useful things necessary for the starting of a colony. Construction, mining, planting and crafting are all her strong suits. On top of that, she also isn't a bad shot. She's very nervous when she can't do something and hates sitting around.
Reagan Stiller (Boots), M, 57 - A labor camp as an orphan, Reagan went through and saw horrible things. After many years he was sold as a slave to a raider colony, however during the transport he managed to escape the group and fled. A few months later he found a mercenary group that gladly took him in. They did whatever dirty work people required. Mostly just killing, but oftentimes mining and construction. They had a group dog called Sparky, a black lab, Reagan was basically the one who took care of him. He doesn't have the best view of life but he always treats his friends with compassion. Has a great memory.
Gabby Boyle, F, 26 - A brilliant child quickly becoming a doctor and starship surgeon. Absolutely, completely socially inept. She's quite interested in plants and to keep her body healthy she sometimes dabbles in construction. Smart and neurotic, can be quite judgemental. Has a superiority complex. And is very passionate about her work.


The diary of Gabby Boyle
Aprimay 2 5500, Crashlanded on a removed rimworld along with two other people. A 57 year old man and a 28 year old woman. The man's name is Boots, the woman's name is Pepper. I frankly think it stupid that grown up people would rather use nicknames than their actual names but it's up to them I suppose. I'm terribly achy. I spent the entire day hauling things from the shipwreck to a nearby mountain wall that Pepper and Boots started digging into. There's large cats wandering all around and it's only a manner of time before one of us gets mauled. I'm sure of it. We're all horribly nauseous from cryptosleep. I'm sure a mountain bunker is our best and safest bet. I scoped out the area and made some mental notes about the placement of perimeter walls and the inside of the bunker, granted we won't dig into any caverns. Boots and Pepper seem to like each other quite a bit, from what i've heard when they talked. Kept raving on an on about how safe the bunker will be and then they got into isolationism and all sorts of other things that i feel they're way too stupid to talk about. Now I'm getting ready to sleep on the hard rock ground with the smell of vomit all around me. Pleasant. Boots thought that as a scientist and a surgeon I would be too prissy to work with my own two hands. I told him i can clean and haul things as welll as any old farm oaf, but i'd like to see him try and operate on someone.
Aprimay 3 5500 I asked Boots to kill the big cats since he's the one with the shotgun. Managed to shoot the male lion and the cheetah that were wandering dangerously close to the colony. Feel much better about walking outside now. Butchered the animals since Boots thought that's somehow comparable to surgery. I guess it is, in a way. Still insulted me a bit. A group of traders came by relatively late, from a nearby town. Apparently we landed right in the middle of their country, the Southeastern Medos Dominion. They seem friendly enough. Gave us a map for free. Boots went and tried to buy something from them but the thing is, they had basically nothing, apart from some ammo that Boots bought and two literal woolly mammoths. In this weather. They were selling a girl too. We couldn't afford to buy her freedom. I really wish we would. Sariha Hoshida was her name. The rimworlds are a sad, sad place.
Aprimay 4 5500, The traders left early morning. Pepper asked me to cut some stone bricks from the limestone they're mining out. Easy enough. The mining is going slowly. I talked with both of them about the perimeter walls and they'll build the first one tomorrow.
Aprimay 5 5500, Spent the day cutting stone, Pepper and Boots built the first perimeter wall. It's not much but it'll keep the animals out. When they were mining out an area, a piece of the stone crumbled and revealed a smooth stone wall behind it. After breaking through that, they found a long room, with ancient artefacts(one soothe pulser and one shock lance), luciferium, art and two cryptosleep caskets. The very old ones. Boots said it's best not to open those as we don't know who or what might be inside. There was even a bunch of glitterworld medicine there.They'll just keep digging and once we have better guns we'll open the caskets. Boots finally built me a research bench. We'll have batteries in no time.
Aprimay 6 5500, Boots built an air turbine and a cooler for the freezer, with my help. We'll have batteries soon. A few droppods with devilstrand landed nearby
Aprimay 10 5500, Spending my days researching now. Much more fun than hauling. We built batteries and now have a functional freezer. A nutrition paste dispenser is being built too.
Aprimay 12 5500 Hauled some dead animals that were recently killed by predators and foraged for berries and agave in the vincinity. The first rice harvest is coming in nicely. Some people stopped by and asked if they could visit but we're not in the position to accept guest right now. Trader caravan from Menbinan Unification stopped by. They're a neighbouring country to the medos dominion, their country lies in and across the Bluecave desert and the Lercha mountains, although they have a few settlements near the Maus shrubland. All in all, 3 groups came along, two with bulk goods and one combat trader. One of them had a member of their group, a 15 year old boy lobbing around a machine gun. Boots talked to him. The kid's first time outside the walls. Then, belated, the fourth group came. Boots came back with a bewildered look on his face. Apparently one of the slaves of the group had the same name as me. The trader of that group, J, was also 15. Lan was standing there. Right next to Roman. I can't believe my husband would offer my son as a slave. Talked to him. Apparently they have too many mouths to feed and this is the best way to do things. I told Boots to sell all the luciferium and buy his freedom. By god i know he's worthless and can't do anything right but he's still my son. We have barely any silver now.
Boyle wearing brown cloth parka and torn pink pants. Mars has a green jacket and curly hair. J has slicked back blonde hair
Aprimay 13 5500, Lan can mine, take care of plants and animals. Not much else. Since he said he can mine, we resumed the mining operations. Boots and Pepper made a sewing machine, i asked Pepper to make some new clothes for Lan cause these are all torn and tattered. The cryptosleep room is now basically just a production room. Boots bought a machine gun yesterday but will need different ammo as the people in these pods could be armored. Since he bought that and Lan can't shoot, Pepper is getting his shotgun and I'm getting her revolver. The traders left today J knocked on the door and yelled that he's leaving us some silver as a gift for making the purchase. Kinda nice of him. I hauled some steel today and noticed a group of three daeodons southeast of our base. Disgusting, horrible creatures. I was worried about the freezer making the inside too cold or vice versa but it seems okay for now.
Aprimay 14 5500, Four groups of traders from the Covenant of Caiveinole. They're a tribal nation, quite the distance from us. Getting to their closest village apparently takes approximately 20 days from here. They're located southwest, across the Cabogu Expanse. To get here they passed through the dangerous Finuay Mountains, Lercha mountains and two deserts, The south stus desert and the bluecave plateau. A heatwave hit. One of the traders is a slaver, the rest carry bulk goods. Boots bought a chicken for some cloth. I talked to Lan about his life. He understands why i did what i did, i think. It is now 50C outside. 28 inside and -2 in the freezer. Making an underground base was a smart move. Lan is getting better at mining quite fast. A total eclipse set in.
Aprimay 15 5500, I already asked boots twice whether he wanted to start a relationship of sorts. He's still quite handsome. He refused, i'm not surprised. We have barely talked. But today, Pepper asked him. They talk all the time and he still refused. Boots asked me some chemistry question while we were olaying horseshoes. I answered and he didn't understand so i called him a simpleton. Didn't seem to like that.
Jugust 1 5500, An AI from our crashed ship contacted us. Apparently it crashed near the ice sheet of the south pole. We'd have to go through the plateau, the steppes, forest and tundra right to the ice cap. 50 days of travel. Me and pepper both immediately refused. Went for a walk at the beach afterwards. Many animals left during the heat wave. Pepper just flirted with Lan but he rebuffed her. Tried to get him with some talk about the universe and reality. What is she even talking about. Boots talked to pepper about his personal boundaries, then went to practice shooting by killing the lioness that's wandering around. Apparently it's pretty hard with one eye. He had to use an entire magazine to hit one bullet. He talked to me about a training range possibility in the future.
Jugust 3 5500, early in the morning a pod crashed south of our field. Pepper went to investigate and found Pan, a paramedic from the Medos Dominion. She quickly brought her in and i patched her up. She was bleeding out quickly from a gunshot in her neck and a punctured lung. Without someone as capable as me she would've died here. We'll let her go as soon as she feels better. She's in the cryptosleep room for now. Now that i think about it, we really need beds. I'll ask the others to make some. The others are digging to create rooms, i'm cutting stone blocks and listening to their conversations
Jugust 4 5500, Pepper made 4 beds and quickly claimed the best one. A transport pod with a middle aged spacer crashed near the beach. Saved the guys life. He's showing signs of a kidney disease, is shot and bruised up but he should be okay. In the evening, another spacer crashed to the east of us. A blue haired woman, almost 40. Her torso was lacerated. I broughed her in and patched her up the best i could. ANOTHER crash as i was carrying her back inside. I staunched her bleeding the best i could and yelled at boots, then quickly ran to where the other pod fell. Pepper spotted a thief that sneaked into our colony and shooting wildly, Boots shot him down but also hit her through the open doors. I had to rush back. The other pod was not important right now. The guy's head was complete mush as i ran around his body to get to pepper. the hollow point rounds ruined her left lung, there was no saving i. She was bleeding out. I had to work fast. I was losing her. Grabbed half the glitterworld medicine and used it on her. The nanites quickly staunched the bleeding and let me open her up, take out the lung and stitch her back up. What a day.
5 jugust 5500, i tended to the woman spacer properly this morning. Her name is jude. The other crash was a woman from Menbinan. I feel terrible about not being able to save her but i had to take care of pepper instead. It was a choice of which life to save. Pan left today. Boots is making a sarcophagus for the woman from menbinan after burying the other ruined body in a grave. Pepper woke up in the afternoon. I told her about what happened and that she now doesn't have a lung. She was angry at Boots but quickly understood none of it was meant to happen. In the evening, Jude told us she wants to join our colony. She can fight and understands plants, but not much else.I'm not sure i'm happy about her joining us.
6 Jugust 5500, The other spacer left. Drew Hunt. We got a caravan request for pants. Pants. 11 pants for crazy tech. And it's Bedias too, the middle one of the towns nearest to us. Lan tamed an alpaca.
7 jugust 5500, Lan told me i have a haircut like his great aunt Velma. As if auntie Velma ever had healthy hair like me. What a prick. Jude seems off. I think she might be a psychopath. Lan tamed another alpaca and called her Zulu. I told boots it's time for another perimeter wall. Jude has horrible pants and we need lots of cotton for the caravan too.
8th jugust 5500, a flare disabled all of our electricity for the time being. I hope the animals in the freezer won't go bad. Immediately after planting, the cotton developed a blight. We had to cut it all back out and replant it. Waste of a day.