All, right, it's working. Uh, hi, I guess, I'm Connor Smith and this is day one of my new life on Rhea. Um, so it took the shuttle like six 'er seven years, two months, and I think twenty days to get here. Man, cryo is weird; it ain't like your normal anesth-sleep. You don't feel like you're asleep in cryo, years go by and it feels like you blinked. God, seven goddamn years just in transit. Anyways, I got here... uh, lemme look... five hours ago; took the drop ship from the shuttle down to Elysium's Gate, the forward base here on Rhea and Marine garrison for the settlements. Oh yeah, the shuttle that brought me here was the, uh, UESS Yamazaki. It's big man, I think it's like the flagship in the transpo fleet; oh and its got like these ion-plasma jet engines that like cause these explosions that propel the ship forward at like 1% the speed of light or somethin', Dr. Oxfield tried to explain it to me when I arrived. So I'm all checked in and in my room here in Elysium– see you can see it behind me– pretty simple, just how I like it. There ain't too much luxury here on Rhea. So when I was all cleared in, me and the other new arrivals were given a briefing by the commander of the Colonial Marines, Col. Shepherd. Man, it was kinda like the old days with a good old-fashioned ops speech. Shepherd's a cool guy; brisk, hardy, demands respect. Tomorrow at o-seven hundred I'm being sent to, uh, a lab some two klicks from here to meet the science team that I'll accompany out in an expedition in three days. Hopefully I'll see my brother, Michael, he shipped out here as a science guy in the shipment before me. Oh yeah, about me, said my name earlier I think; Smith, Connor Smith. I'm a Marine sergeant from the UE Corps, uh... saw action in China, Bulgaria, and Chile; did a space-op durin' the conflict in Chile. I was born just about thirty years ago in the Boston quarter of New York City... um, grew up in a little apartment near Jamaica Plains– 'ts a little neighborhood in the Big City. And yeah, now I'm here. All right, I'm gonna shut off, it's like eleven forty-five right now and I'm wiped, I'll probably have time tomorrow for another video log. Oh yeah, I almost forgot: happy New Year back on Earth! All right, logging off.
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