Yep, I was supposed to write ‘tomorrow’, that is 20 days ago, but a failed docking at the Mars departure station ended in three deaths and 34 people hospitalized, one of the lucky ones being me. It seems that I slept for 14 days, I started to feed normally just yesterday and today they finally removed all the things that prevented me from writing. Or speaking, for that matter.

So, no Mars race for me this year. Instead, it seems I’ll get 340.000 credits in damage compensation, at least this is what my lawyer is promising. Ah well, this means rather only 240.000 credits will land in my (virtual) pockets, but still…

I had a big head trauma, don’t ask me what’s it’s name, I cannot access the KS and I’m not so good at manual search through the sphere. They kept me into one of these huge metal tubes and slowly recreated parts of my tissue (brain included) from the scans I was inspired enough to make previous to this trip. This way, I lost only 4 days of my memory, which still sucks, but hey, I had a 3cm hole in my head and the skull had a 6cm fracture, lots of blood loss and more than 20 minutes in clinical death…

The three guys that died were mechanics on board of the shuttle, and their families will have to settle for their online counterparts on the Sphere Sim, as their bodies were destroyed in the fire that ensued. Unfortunately, there is still no technology available to insert the memory stocked in brain scans into a clone. That is… the technology exists, but it’s still forbidden to raise clones just to implant them with another people’s memory. And even if some droids using human memory are currently experimented with, they showed a disposition to suicide that doesn’t works fine. So, the Sphere Sim (or the Simulation) is all that works for everybody. Yet.

OK, I still have two painful recovery weeks before me, so I’ll try to write from time to time here, but I don’t know how often I’ll be able to. They still have to check and re-check that my brain was reconstructed at 100% as it was before the accident.