{"data":{"id":12680,"title":"2232: The First Push","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/12680-2232-The-First-Push","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/12680","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/12680","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Time Capsule","images":[{"id":28,"name":"ArtemisLaunch_FI.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/mh01k2npo9q11r\/source\/ArtemisLaunch_FI.jpg","alt":"","size":172992,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:30:27+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/28","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/28\/similar"}],"images_count":1,"translations":{"en_EN":"The Artemis was the manifestation of a dream. When the announcement came that a vessel was being constructed for a push to the nearest potentially habitable planet, the public flipped. Alien worlds and first contact was no longer the province of sci-fi, it was becoming a tantalizing reality.\n\nThe ship would be fitted with stasis couches (known as \u2018boots\u2019), terraforming equipment and supplies, and an AI Core at the helm. Maximum capacity: Five thousand.\n\nA call went out for volunteers.\n\nNo one downplayed the risks, of which there were many. On a slow-burn with the latest engines, the Artemis would take over two hundred years to reach its destination. A lot can happen in that time. Regardless, there were over a million volunteers. Committees filtered the list down, trying to balance the best combination of skills, trades, and disciplines.\n\nThe following are excerpts from Chariot to the Stars, the official companion piece to the launch, based on the compiled flight logs, personal journals, and witness accounts of the Artemis and its launch.\n\nTIME STAMP: Launch = -0d14h38m13s\n\nOn the eve of the Artemis\u2019 launch, Captain Lisa Danvers was checking circuit boards underneath the Comm station on the bridge\u2026 for the third time.\n\nArthur Kenlo, Engineering, sat on the arm of the Captain\u2019s chair. He\u2019d given up trying to figure out what she was looking for.\n\nLisa always had an issue with big ships. Sure, she\u2019d flown transports before but this was different. There were a thousand things that could go wrong which could, in turn, affect a million functions. It was maddening and she probably screwed herself by even starting down this path.\n\n\u201cAre you sure I can\u2019t assist you, Captain?\u201d A disembodied voice said, murmuring from dozens of hidden speakers throughout the bridge. It was the AI, helpful as always.\n\n\u201cNo, I\u2019m okay.\u201d She said, Kenlo mouthed along the words of what was clearly a familiar exchange. Lisa couldn\u2019t see anything wrong, out of place, or suspect in the myriad of circuit boards. She hated pre-flight anxiety. No matter what she did, it always hit her bad. So she made an executive decision, she cut herself off and replaced the panel. Kenlo perked up.\n\n\u201cYou good?\u201d\n\n\u201cYeah, I think so. Hey Janus?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes Captain?\u201d The disembodied voice replied.\n\n\u201cGenerate another set of contingency actions for the Stasis Boots.\u201d\n\n\u201cDo you have any specific parameters?\u201d\n\n\u201cNo, use your imagination.\u201d\n\n\u201cThat is a concept of which I only have a external understanding.\u201d\n\n\u201cOutside the box. Something that we haven\u2019t thought of.\u201d\n\n\u201cI will try, Captain.\u201d\n\nThat night, Janus, the AI Core, tried to imagine.\n\nTIME STAMP: Launch = -0d0h4m21s\n\nThe next morning, the world waited. The volunteer population was waiting on an Orbital Platform. The engineers felt it would be easier that way, save themselves the trouble of having to build launch seating for five thousand if they didn\u2019t have to. So they had been ferried up there in groups over the past few weeks.\n\nToday was the launch of the Artemis itself. Danvers and her core crew would take her up then dock with the Platform to pick up the Civilians and any last minute supplies. NewsOrgs from around the world were gathered, ready to capture the moment in every conceivable format and put it on anything with a screen.\n\nLisa was already strapped in, the nerves and jitters of the past few days melting away with each passing moment. She stared at the main projection screen, displaying the front view of the ship. Right now, it was just a sealed launch tube. She thought about what lay beyond it, the sky. The sky that she loved. It was waiting for her to come back.\n\nDanvers glided through her pre-flight checks. She was thorough and professional but couldn\u2019t get through them fast enough. Crew departments checked in, it was green across the board. A final check in with Flight Control. They were set.\n\nIt was time.\n\nKlaxons outside the ship began beeping. The massive metal gates of the flight tube unlocked with heavy thuds.\n\n\u201cCaptain Danvers, shall I assume launch control?\u201d Janus said.\n\n\u201cNo, I got it.\u201d\n\n\u201cAre you sure, Captain?\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m sure.\u201d\n\nThe gates started to move.\n\n\u201cBut Captain, I have a .002 error quotient to-\u201d\n\n\u201cJust show me that sky. I\u2019ll get us there.\u201d\n\nTIME STAMP: Launch = +9d5h12m57s\n\nJanus assumed control and circle for a week once the crew and civilians had entered stasis to check for any errors or anomalies. Effectively a dry run of how the ship would run once it started its Push. If there were any problems, Flight Control could abort and even remotely pilot the Artemis back if need be.\n\nFlight Control finished a final assessment of the checks. Everything looked good. Justin Cobb, the Mission Director, looked over the bays of technicians, scientists, and analysts.\n\n\u201cEveryone good.\u201d\n\nEveryone nodded.\n\n\u201cThis is our last chance. If anybody\u2019s got the slightest hesitation or concern, I don\u2019t care how it\u2019ll sound or how the people upstairs will flip, you better voice it.\u201d\n\nSilent. Cobb gave it a few moments then nodded to establish contact with the Artemis.\n\n\u201cGood afternoon.\u201d\n\n\u201cHow are you Janus?\u201d\n\n\u201cI have been running simulations. Contingency scenarios. Examples include; random Power fluctuation, impact with foreign body, contact with new uncategorized gas or element, contact with hostile organism, etc.\u201d\n\n\u201cAny conclusions?\u201d\n\n\u201cI think we\u2019ll be satisfactory.\u201d\n\nCobb glanced at the nearest Tech, slightly confused by the AI\u2019s language. \u201cYou think?\u201d\n\n\u201cI imagine we will be fine, Mr. Cobb.\u201d\n\nTwenty-two minutes later, the Artemis blasted its thrusters, starting a full-burn for a scheduled seventy minutes. It passed the edge of our solar system, into that great sea of space beyond, into that silent black that surrounds us.\n\nAnd so we wait, dreaming of the things that they will find, hoping that one day we will hear back from the brave men and women who boarded the Artemis, that chariot to the stars, and struck out as the first Ambassadors of this United Earth.","de_DE":"Die Artemis waren die Manifestation eines Traums. Als die Ank\u00fcndigung kam, dass ein Schiff f\u00fcr einen Schub zum n\u00e4chsten potenziell bewohnbaren Planeten gebaut wurde, drehte sich die \u00d6ffentlichkeit um. Fremde Welten und der erste Kontakt war nicht mehr die Provinz Sci-Fi, es wurde zu einer verlockenden Realit\u00e4t.\n\nDas Schiff w\u00fcrde mit Stasisliegen (bekannt als \"Stiefel\"), Terraforming-Ausr\u00fcstung und Zubeh\u00f6r sowie einem KI-Kern am Steuer ausgestattet sein. Maximale Kapazit\u00e4t: F\u00fcnftausend.\n\nEin Ruf nach Freiwilligen ging los.\n\nNiemand hat die Risiken, von denen es viele gab, heruntergespielt. Bei einer langsamen Verbrennung mit den neuesten Motoren w\u00fcrde die Artemis \u00fcber zweihundert Jahre brauchen, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen. In dieser Zeit kann viel passieren. Trotzdem gab es \u00fcber eine Million Freiwillige. Die Aussch\u00fcsse filterten die Liste nach unten und versuchten, die beste Kombination aus F\u00e4higkeiten, Gewerken und Disziplinen auszugleichen.\n\nNachfolgend finden Sie Ausz\u00fcge aus Chariot to the Stars, dem offiziellen Begleitst\u00fcck zum Start, basierend auf den erstellten Flugprotokollen, pers\u00f6nlichen Aufzeichnungen und Zeugenberichten \u00fcber die Artemis und ihren Start.\n\nZEITSTEMPEL: Start = -0d14h38m13s\n\nAm Vorabend des Starts der Artemis \u00fcberpr\u00fcfte Captain Lisa Danvers zum dritten Mal Leiterplatten unter der Kommandostation auf der Br\u00fccke.......\n\nArthur Kenlo, Ingenieur, sa\u00df auf dem Arm des Kapit\u00e4nsstuhls. Er hatte es aufgegeben, herauszufinden, was sie suchte.\n\nLisa hatte immer ein Problem mit gro\u00dfen Schiffen. Sicher, sie hatte schon einmal Transporte geflogen, aber das war anders. Es gab tausend Dinge, die schief gehen konnten, die wiederum eine Million Funktionen betreffen konnten. Es war unertr\u00e4glich und sie hat sich wahrscheinlich selbst gefickt, indem sie sogar diesen Weg eingeschlagen hat.\n\n\"Sind Sie sicher, dass ich Ihnen nicht helfen kann, Captain?\" sagte eine k\u00f6rperlose Stimme und murmelte aus Dutzenden von versteckten Lautsprechern auf der gesamten Br\u00fccke. Es war die KI, hilfreich wie immer.\n\n\"Nein, mir geht es gut.\" Sie sagte, Kenlo mundete mit den Worten eines offensichtlich vertrauten Austauschs. Lisa konnte nichts Falsches sehen, weder fehl am Platz noch verd\u00e4chtig in der Vielzahl der Leiterplatten. Sie hasste die Angst vor dem Flug. Egal, was sie getan hat, es hat sie immer schwer getroffen. Also traf sie eine leitende Entscheidung, sie schnitt sich selbst ab und ersetzte das Panel. Kenlo lebte auf.\n\n\"Alles in Ordnung?\"\n\n\"Ja, ich glaube schon. Hey Janus?\"\n\n\" Ja, Captain?\" Die k\u00f6rperlose Stimme antwortete.\n\n\"Generiere einen weiteren Satz von Notfall-Aktionen f\u00fcr die Stasis-Stiefel.\"\n\n\"Hast du irgendwelche spezifischen Parameter?\"\n\n\"Nein, benutze deine Fantasie.\"\n\n\"Das ist ein Konzept, von dem ich nur ein \u00e4u\u00dferes Verst\u00e4ndnis habe.\"\n\n\"\u00dcber den Tellerrand hinaus. Etwas, woran wir noch nicht gedacht haben.\"\n\n\"Ich werde es versuchen, Captain.\"\n\nIn dieser Nacht versuchte Janus, der KI-Kern, sich das vorzustellen.\n\nZEITSTEMPEL: Start = -0d0h4m21s\n\nAm n\u00e4chsten Morgen wartete die Welt. Die freiwillige Bev\u00f6lkerung wartete auf eine Orbitalplattform. Die Ingenieure waren der Meinung, dass es so einfacher w\u00e4re, sich die M\u00fche zu ersparen, f\u00fcnftausend Startsitze bauen zu m\u00fcssen, wenn sie es nicht m\u00fcssten. So waren sie in den letzten Wochen in Gruppen dorthin gebracht worden.\n\nHeute war der Launch des Artemis selbst. Danvers und ihre Kernmannschaft w\u00fcrden sie mitnehmen und dann an die Plattform andocken, um die Zivilisten und alle Vorr\u00e4te in letzter Minute abzuholen. NewsOrgs aus der ganzen Welt waren versammelt, bereit, den Moment in jedem erdenklichen Format festzuhalten und auf alles mit einem Bildschirm zu bringen.\n\nLisa war bereits angeschnallt, die Nerven und Bammel der letzten Tage schmelzen mit jedem Moment weg. Sie starrte auf die Hauptprojektionsfl\u00e4che und zeigte die Frontansicht des Schiffes. Im Moment war es nur eine versiegelte Startrohr. Sie dachte dar\u00fcber nach, was dahinter lag, der Himmel. Den Himmel, den sie liebte. Es wartete darauf, dass sie zur\u00fcckkam.\n\nDanvers gleitet durch ihre Vorflugkontrolle. Sie war gr\u00fcndlich und professionell, konnte aber nicht schnell genug durchkommen. Die Crew-Abteilungen checkten ein, es war gr\u00fcn auf der ganzen Linie. Ein letzter Check-in bei der Flugsicherung. Sie wurden festgelegt.\n\nEs war Zeit.\n\nKlaxons vor dem Schiff begann zu piepen. Die massiven Metallgatter des Flugrohres wurden mit schweren St\u00f6\u00dfen entriegelt.\n\n\"Captain Danvers, soll ich die Startkontrolle \u00fcbernehmen?\" sagte Janus.\n\n\"Nein, ich habe es verstanden.\"\n\n\"Sind Sie sicher, Captain?\"\n\n\"Ich bin mir sicher.\"\n\nDie Tore begannen sich zu bewegen.\n\n\"Aber Captain, ich habe eine Fehlerquote von .002 zu--\"\n\n\"Zeig mir einfach den Himmel. Ich bringe uns hin.\"\n\nZEITSTEMPEL: Start = +9d5h12m57s\n\nJanus \u00fcbernahm die Kontrolle und kreiste eine Woche lang, nachdem die Besatzung und die Zivilisten in die Stasis eingetreten waren, um nach Fehlern oder Anomalien zu suchen. Eigentlich ein Trockenlauf, wie das Schiff laufen w\u00fcrde, sobald es seinen Schub gestartet hat. Bei Problemen konnte die Flugsicherung die Artemis bei Bedarf abbrechen und sogar aus der Ferne zur\u00fcckf\u00fchren.\n\nDie Flugsicherung beendete eine abschlie\u00dfende Bewertung der Kontrollen. Alles sah gut aus. Justin Cobb, der Mission Director, blickte \u00fcber die Buchten der Techniker, Wissenschaftler und Analysten.\n\n\" Alle gut.\"\n\nAlle nickten.\n\n\"Das ist unsere letzte Chance. Wenn jemand auch nur das geringste Z\u00f6gern oder Besorgnis hat, ist es mir egal, wie es klingen wird oder wie die Leute oben umkippen werden, du solltest es besser sagen.\"\n\nLautlos. Cobb gab ihm einige Augenblicke, dann nickte er, um Kontakt mit den Artemis aufzunehmen.\n\n\"Guten Tag.\"\n\n\"Wie geht es dir, Janus?\"\n\n\"Ich habe Simulationen durchgef\u00fchrt. Notfallszenarien. Beispiele sind: zuf\u00e4llige Stromschwankungen, Auswirkungen auf Fremdk\u00f6rper, Kontakt mit neuen, nicht kategorisierten Gasen oder Elementen, Kontakt mit feindlichen Organismen, etc.\n\n\"Irgendwelche Schlussfolgerungen?\"\n\n\"Ich denke, wir werden zufrieden sein.\"\n\nCobb blickte auf die n\u00e4chste Tech, leicht verwirrt von der Sprache der KI. \"Denkst du?\"\n\n\"Ich denke, es wird uns gut gehen, Mr. Cobb.\"\n\nZweiundzwanzig Minuten sp\u00e4ter sprengten die Artemis ihre Triebwerke und starteten f\u00fcr 70 Minuten eine vollst\u00e4ndige Verbrennung. Sie ging am Rande unseres Sonnensystems vorbei, in das gro\u00dfe Meer des Weltraums dahinter, in das stille Schwarz, das uns umgibt.\n\nUnd so warten wir, tr\u00e4umend von den Dingen, die sie finden werden, in der Hoffnung, dass wir eines Tages von den tapferen M\u00e4nnern und Frauen h\u00f6ren werden, die an Bord der Artemis waren, diesem Wagen zu den Sternen, und als die ersten Botschafter dieser Vereinigten Erde ausstiegen.","zh_CN":"The Artemis was the manifestation of a dream. When the announcement came that a vessel was being constructed for a push to the nearest potentially habitable planet, the public flipped. Alien worlds and first contact was no longer the province of sci-fi, it was becoming a tantalizing reality.\n\nThe ship would be fitted with stasis couches (known as \u2018boots\u2019), terraforming equipment and supplies, and an AI Core at the helm. Maximum capacity: Five thousand.\n\nA call went out for volunteers.\n\nNo one downplayed the risks, of which there were many. On a slow-burn with the latest engines, the Artemis would take over two hundred years to reach its destination. A lot can happen in that time. Regardless, there were over a million volunteers. Committees filtered the list down, trying to balance the best combination of skills, trades, and disciplines.\n\nThe following are excerpts from Chariot to the Stars, the official companion piece to the launch, based on the compiled flight logs, personal journals, and witness accounts of the Artemis and its launch.\n\nTIME STAMP: Launch = -0d14h38m13s\n\nOn the eve of the Artemis\u2019 launch, Captain Lisa Danvers was checking circuit boards underneath the Comm station on the bridge\u2026 for the third time.\n\nArthur Kenlo, Engineering, sat on the arm of the Captain\u2019s chair. He\u2019d given up trying to figure out what she was looking for.\n\nLisa always had an issue with big ships. Sure, she\u2019d flown transports before but this was different. There were a thousand things that could go wrong which could, in turn, affect a million functions. It was maddening and she probably screwed herself by even starting down this path.\n\n\u201cAre you sure I can\u2019t assist you, Captain?\u201d A disembodied voice said, murmuring from dozens of hidden speakers throughout the bridge. It was the AI, helpful as always.\n\n\u201cNo, I\u2019m okay.\u201d She said, Kenlo mouthed along the words of what was clearly a familiar exchange. Lisa couldn\u2019t see anything wrong, out of place, or suspect in the myriad of circuit boards. She hated pre-flight anxiety. No matter what she did, it always hit her bad. So she made an executive decision, she cut herself off and replaced the panel. Kenlo perked up.\n\n\u201cYou good?\u201d\n\n\u201cYeah, I think so. Hey Janus?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes Captain?\u201d The disembodied voice replied.\n\n\u201cGenerate another set of contingency actions for the Stasis Boots.\u201d\n\n\u201cDo you have any specific parameters?\u201d\n\n\u201cNo, use your imagination.\u201d\n\n\u201cThat is a concept of which I only have a external understanding.\u201d\n\n\u201cOutside the box. Something that we haven\u2019t thought of.\u201d\n\n\u201cI will try, Captain.\u201d\n\nThat night, Janus, the AI Core, tried to imagine.\n\nTIME STAMP: Launch = -0d0h4m21s\n\nThe next morning, the world waited. The volunteer population was waiting on an Orbital Platform. The engineers felt it would be easier that way, save themselves the trouble of having to build launch seating for five thousand if they didn\u2019t have to. So they had been ferried up there in groups over the past few weeks.\n\nToday was the launch of the Artemis itself. Danvers and her core crew would take her up then dock with the Platform to pick up the Civilians and any last minute supplies. NewsOrgs from around the world were gathered, ready to capture the moment in every conceivable format and put it on anything with a screen.\n\nLisa was already strapped in, the nerves and jitters of the past few days melting away with each passing moment. She stared at the main projection screen, displaying the front view of the ship. Right now, it was just a sealed launch tube. She thought about what lay beyond it, the sky. The sky that she loved. It was waiting for her to come back.\n\nDanvers glided through her pre-flight checks. She was thorough and professional but couldn\u2019t get through them fast enough. Crew departments checked in, it was green across the board. A final check in with Flight Control. They were set.\n\nIt was time.\n\nKlaxons outside the ship began beeping. The massive metal gates of the flight tube unlocked with heavy thuds.\n\n\u201cCaptain Danvers, shall I assume launch control?\u201d Janus said.\n\n\u201cNo, I got it.\u201d\n\n\u201cAre you sure, Captain?\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m sure.\u201d\n\nThe gates started to move.\n\n\u201cBut Captain, I have a .002 error quotient to-\u201d\n\n\u201cJust show me that sky. I\u2019ll get us there.\u201d\n\nTIME STAMP: Launch = +9d5h12m57s\n\nJanus assumed control and circle for a week once the crew and civilians had entered stasis to check for any errors or anomalies. Effectively a dry run of how the ship would run once it started its Push. If there were any problems, Flight Control could abort and even remotely pilot the Artemis back if need be.\n\nFlight Control finished a final assessment of the checks. Everything looked good. Justin Cobb, the Mission Director, looked over the bays of technicians, scientists, and analysts.\n\n\u201cEveryone good.\u201d\n\nEveryone nodded.\n\n\u201cThis is our last chance. If anybody\u2019s got the slightest hesitation or concern, I don\u2019t care how it\u2019ll sound or how the people upstairs will flip, you better voice it.\u201d\n\nSilent. Cobb gave it a few moments then nodded to establish contact with the Artemis.\n\n\u201cGood afternoon.\u201d\n\n\u201cHow are you Janus?\u201d\n\n\u201cI have been running simulations. Contingency scenarios. Examples include; random Power fluctuation, impact with foreign body, contact with new uncategorized gas or element, contact with hostile organism, etc.\u201d\n\n\u201cAny conclusions?\u201d\n\n\u201cI think we\u2019ll be satisfactory.\u201d\n\nCobb glanced at the nearest Tech, slightly confused by the AI\u2019s language. \u201cYou think?\u201d\n\n\u201cI imagine we will be fine, Mr. Cobb.\u201d\n\nTwenty-two minutes later, the Artemis blasted its thrusters, starting a full-burn for a scheduled seventy minutes. It passed the edge of our solar system, into that great sea of space beyond, into that silent black that surrounds us.\n\nAnd so we wait, dreaming of the things that they will find, hoping that one day we will hear back from the brave men and women who boarded the Artemis, that chariot to the stars, and struck out as the first Ambassadors of this United Earth."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":69,"created_at":"2012-09-17T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"13 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-29 19:15:59","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":12679,"next_id":12681}}