Adneil, letter 1

Dear Adneil,

          Hello old friend, I hope this letter finds you well, as promised you are the first person I am writing. It may have taken a month, but I have finally arrived on Silenus Station, and it is good to be making home in a place both so familiar and foreign, but enough with the pleasantries, I have much to tell you and very little time.  

 

          The trip to the station was like nothing I had ever experienced before. I had never left the Milky Way before, nor had I traveled on an Krilo ship, have you? I had seen Kri before of course, but I had never been to one of those great cylinders they call home. They are astounding things that boggle the mind Adneil, The ship I was on had a permanent population of fourteen million and held nearly as many passengers. The whole structure seemed to be a cross between a great metropolis and a rain forest, with artificial lights, natural vines and heavy air being constant. I do not know how all these plants manage to grow, but then again I have no idea how that ship managed to get me to my new home.

         Silenus Station is both smaller and larger than you may think, with a large amount of the area being used for business, and housing. It has a population of 182,544 people, self included. The majority of the population is human, but a sizable number of Zondar, Kipli and Usaqwa make live and work here. Before you ask, yes a small community of Ysing do live here, I have yet to meet any of them. The population of the station has a rather large generational gap. It seems that every child born on the station wants to leave, and all of their children want to live here,in a cycle that has continued for centuries. I suspect that my recruitment may have been part of an effort to partially break this cycle, as the station seems to be a little empty. Even my quarters are clearly made to hold multiple people. 

       My quarters remind me vaguely of our dormitory our third year of university.  It has a large room which you enter into, which serves as kitchen, dinning room and parlor. Six rooms extend from this central room, three on each side, with both sides being identical. Two rooms are relatively large, two are rather small and the last two are used for washing. I have converted the larger room on the right into my bedroom and the smaller room on the same side into my office, which I am currently in. 

      I am sadly out of time to write today, this has to be aboard a ship leaving in twelve minutes or it will not arrive for a fortnight.

May you nights be short

Theodous