The Moon is wax­ing gib­bous as seen from Earth.

The morn­ing ter­mi­na­tor has reached Con­rad Station.

The Sun has just risen at Con­rad Sta­tion. The long lunar day is beginning.

Out­side, hard gold­en light is return­ing to the regolith. After two weeks of Earth­light and vac­u­um black, the sur­face is bright again. Sys­tems that spent the night on stored pow­er can recov­er. Life still moves care­ful­ly — the lag has not changed — but the sta­tion is no longer liv­ing entire­ly indoors under arti­fi­cial light.

Coot­er is not a prospec­tor in the Nils Carmike mold, but the sur­face still sees him when some­thing needs fetch­ing, return­ing, or qui­et­ly not talked about in the offi­cial log.

Moon base hard sci­ence fic­tion: air, water, pow­er, and the nar­row buffers that keep the Habs alive.

Today on the Site

Life on the Fron­tier – When the Alarm Sounds
A CME alarm in the bar, eight min­utes to Hab D, and who still stops for the radi­a­tion monitor.
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Recent

• Lunar Sig­nals – The Joy­ful Moon
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• Hard Tech & Sci­ence – Retriev­ing the Rover
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• Char­ac­ter Spot­light – Mil­ton Johnson
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Coming This Week

• Tues­day: Nin­ja Cranston
• Wednes­day: The Mountain
• Thurs­day: Sur­vive

Recommended Reading Order

• The Luna­dyne Inci­dent → https://www.amazon.com/Lunadyne-Incident-Other-Stories-Fabulae-ebook/dp/B0D5F7L3QS
• Thun­der Moon Tus­sle → https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Moon-Tussle-Torn-MacAlester-ebook/dp/B095BXX6YC
• Mask of the Joy­ful Moon → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G16F7MQW

All three books remain available:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G16F7MQW

The Joy­ful Moon is still watching…
and eight min­utes still count.

— Torn MacAlester
Still rid­ing the trails with Nils, Gen, and the whole Fab­u­lae Lunae crew
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Stories The sto­ries of Torn MacAlester are sci­ence fic­tion, where the sci­ence is well-ground­ed. I inten­tion­al­ly made any devi­a­tions for spec­u­la­tive pur­pos­es. To main­tain max­i­mum real­ism, I restrict the scope of these deviations. Read More

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