Estergebirge: Welcome to Hell [RP Thread]

[Jack_Henderson]

Diary Entry of Rebecca Jameson (IMG Engineer):

Hell is an understatement. Today we had a record of ash falling from the atmosphere. Incredible 3,5 meters in the course of 24 hours. The volcanic eruption about 400 miles to our southwest was of the explosive kind, that's why some traits of water is to be expected to trigger such an explosive eruption, should be phreatomagmatic in nature, but who knows. Hell has its own rules. Basalitc lava flows are useless for resources, but at least they are far enough away from us to endanger us. Thank God we chose not to build the camps in the valleys.

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The People's Assistance Brigades managed to clear enough of the ash to keep the buildings from collapsing. We are lucky that humidity is low, or else the weight would have crushed some of the hastily built baracks. Heaps of ash are being pushed down the slopes. If this goes on, we will fill the valleys in the course of the next years. Working in the hazard suits is horrible, however we are getting somewhere as our surveys. Planetary surveys will be concluded the next week.

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Commander Rykov is still an asshole, however I have to admit he is capable. We clashed yesterday again over his orders to restrict our survey team's movement radius. I would have slapt him, if we were not stuffed into these suits. Today they refurbished some of the APCs with large metal sheets in front to move the ash. Pioneer material is also being put to use, and the shield generators will at some point hopefully work. About 30 % of our work force is bound by this Syssiphos task every day, and with the eruption intensifying, more is headed our way.

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Baldie Rykoc's guard and my team of geologists did a flight to the volcano to install some sesimic equipment to evaluate the volcanic activity. James Ilman was hit by pyroclastica in the head and died before he could be med-evaced to the sickbay when an eruption blew off parts of the southern crater. That's the area before the surprising explosion. And what looks like snow, is volcanic ash so fine I have never seen it before.

Six more were injured, partially severely, three light injuries in my team. I am currently being treated for 2nd degree burns on my right arm. Remind me never to curse about the protection suit any more. Our equipment is lost, we are glad to have made it out with our lives. So much for researching the volcano. That equipment was unique. Writing the letter to James' parents was horrible. This planet is cursed. The Coalition is crazy to keep pushing, it's true what they say about their determination.