Daily Moon Dispatch – 3 September 2026 Last Quarter stands over Earth tonight. Sunset at Conrad comes after Last Quarter, on the western near side. The long lunar day continues […]
Daily Moon Dispatch — 3 September 2026
Author: Torn
Lunar Signals — The Story Nils Tells Tourists
Case I of First Contact
Case I of First Contact The first door is detection. We hear them, or we find something they left. Leakage. Beacons. Artifacts. And the scientific limits that decide whether any […]
Daily Moon Dispatch — 2 Sep 2026
Daily Moon Dispatch – 2 September 2026 The Moon is waning gibbous as seen from Earth. The long lunar day continues at Conrad Station. Hard golden light stretches across the […]
Hard Tech & Science — Eight Minutes
A CME alarm, a cellar under Hab D, and the water stacked over your head while 100 MeV protons arrive.
First Contact Revisited
First Contact Revisited The five ways a story can meet the other. A map I still use. Science of stories: Fermi, Kardashev, Drake, and the light-speed bubble that always leaves […]
Character Spotlight — Jim Ross (Cooter)
The station regular who put the Lunokhod back — and who still knows which conversations belong in Doc’s doorway.
Daily Moon Dispatch — 1 Sep 2026
Daily Moon Dispatch – 1 September 2026 The Moon is waning gibbous as seen from Earth. The long lunar day continues at Conrad Station. Hard golden light stretches across the […]
Daily Moon Dispatch — 31 Aug 2026
Daily Moon Dispatch – 31 August 2026 The Moon is waning gibbous as seen from Earth. The Sun is riding high over Conrad Station. The regolith is brightly lit with […]
Frontier Foundations — Dark Craters
Permanent shadow, a stuck rover, and the first polar descent Nils was actually qualified to fly.