<br/>Magistrate's Log Entry A1-<br/>Today  is our 5th day on LV-1875, and Karl Peterson (our resident company representative) has just informed me that I need to start keeping a log of the colony’s day to day events in order to keep Weyland-Yutani appraised of our situation. I’m recording this log orally and both a audio and text record will be kept.  The initial hab building is operating perfectly and the construction of our ATMO is on schedule.  Our current population is 100 people with all but 15 of us still in hypersleep. As per company policy they will be kept in hyper sleep until the automated construction units have finished the work on the ATMO and the main colony structure. Further log entries will follow<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, LV-1875 Colonial Magistrate<br/><br/><br/>-Magistrate’s Log Entry A94-<br/>Final construction of the ATMO and colony facilities is complete, we are now prepared to wake the other 85 of LV-1875’s colonial population. The ATMO is running smoothly as are all systems within the colony building itself. With green lights across the board I’d say things are going pretty smoothly. We even managed to complete construction 6 days ahead of the 100 day schedule. We are all looking forward to being able to talk with our loved ones again!<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, LV-1875 Colonial Magistrate<br/><br/><br/><br/>-Magistrate’s Log Entry A105-<br/><br/>The last of our sleepers have been reawakened and each family has been assigned it’s hab block. Our luck seems to be holding out quite well. As far as Doctor Groves can tell not a single colonist suffered any ill effects from their hyper sleep. We will be holding a town meeting tomorrow to make decisions on the issues of leadership, laws, and other such necessities. Also the preparations have been completed on the first set of prospecting drones. They will be sent out tomorrow to check the immediate area for the presence of any valuable materials that the orbital scans may have missed.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, LV-1875 Colonial Magistrate<br/><br/><br/>-Mayor’s Log Entry A106-<br/><br/>We have decided that the colony will be run by a single mayor, and that elections will be held every  three and a half years. Furthermore we have decided to name our colony “Jackie’s Hope” after our youngest citizen, 5 year old Jackie Baird. I have been elected to serve as our first Mayor and as such I will still be responsible for the colony’s log. Our prospecting drones have so far shown nothing unexpected.<br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>-Mayor’s Log Entry B57<br/><br/>After over a year’s worth of work and time I am pleased to report that Jackie’s Hope is now a 100% self sufficient colony,  as  I’m sure you know W/Y policy no longer requires us to purchase the ‘recommended supply loads’ that we have been purchasing for the past year. We ask that no more such loads be credited to the colony’s account. The final stages of the planetary prospecting have been completed. And they confirm that there are no significant amounts of any valuable ore on the planet.  In addition to this we have reached our current population cap and have enacted the standard population control procedures.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>-Mayor’s Log Entry C201-<br/><br/>It’s confirmed we have achieved breathable atmosphere! While the climate is still rough to say the least the air is now breathable for earth based life! We are all very excited about what this means for Jackie’s Hope. Plans are already under way to begin construction of several outer facilities in order to allow us to support larger amounts of life. The ATMO is still functioning perfectly and David(the colony’s maintenance chief ) tells me that we are operating well above the expected efficiency levels! With this in mind the decision has been made to lift the population cap. Given that we should be more than capable to support more life 9 months from now.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry D120<br/><br/>Elizabeth Bruens  is officially the first human to be born on LV-1875! All other operations are proceeding as normal.  Elections are coming up and I am preparing to run for the position of Mayor again.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry D 170<br/><br/>I have been re-elected as Mayor of Jackie’s Hope! It seems that several of my campaign promises, and our colony’s success so far is what pulled me through. In keeping with those promises I have the following requests to submit to corporate.<br/>1). I request that shipments of luxury goods begin as soon as possible.<br/>2). I request that a stronger transmitter/receiver be shipped to Jackie’s Hope along with the next shipment of building supplies.<br/>3). I request that we be considered as having full filled articles 8469-8476 of the Weyland/Yutani Colonial Contract which are required for the legal possession of domesticated animals.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log  Entry D350<br/><br/>The first shipment of livestock has arrived and all 10 cows and 20 hens are in perfect health, in addition to this we have received word that the shipment of canine puppies is on schedule for arrival tomorrow.  Nearly every family as expressed interest in owning at least puppy, since the shipment is nowhere near large enough to make that possible we will be holding a lottery in the town hall tonight for all families interested in adopting one of the puppies.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry E70<br/><br/>The dog population is doing very well, the first sets of new puppies have been born with minimal complications and most of the infants are in good health. We expect that the dog population will grow just as easily as the human one has. Sadly the same can’t be said for our other livestock.  For whatever reason our chickens have proven unable to reproduce, Doc Groves thinks it’s got something to do with the atmosphere or something…..our cows aren’t doing any better. We’ve decided to simply slaughter them rather than force them to die slowly.  LV-1875’s prospects as a possible agri world are currently going to need re-evaluation.<br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry E174<br/><br/>I’ve just received word that Article 948-H of our colonial contract has been activated….This  article dictates that in return for their sponsoring of our colonization efforts Weyland-Yutani has the authority to construct corporate facilities on the planet’s surface so long as they do not interfere with the colonization process. W/Y will be building an executive training facility here on LV-1875. I’ve already received assurances from both Karl and the facility’s future director that they have no intention of muscling in on us……..I hope that’s true.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry E230<br/><br/>Construction has started on the W/Y facility…. They’ve chosen a location far enough from us that we are unable to see what they are up to. As far as I’m concerned that’s for the best. The less contact we have with the W/Y personnel the better. I’m going to hold a town meeting tonight and ask that everyone steer clear of the facility….the last thing we need is a law suit for corporate espionage.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry E 257<br/><br/>They’ve finished construction on the facility!!! I have no idea how they managed to do it that fast… the damn thing is three stories high. I took one of the tractors out and had a look at it at the invite of Dr. Paxton,  the facility’s director, while I was out there looking at it he and I had a talk. It seems he’s of the same mind set as far as keeping our two populations separate. He doesn’t seem to think that the distractions of colony life will be a good influence on his executives in training. And I KNOW that his trainees won’t be a good influence on our sons and daughters. Since we can’t legally force anyone to stay away from each other within the walls of the colony we’ve agreed to ‘highly suggest’ to our respective groups that we keep contact with the other to a bare minimum….I’m hoping it will work<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log entry E 300<br/><br/>Well the plan for separation was a flop…..Seems that Dr. Paxton was able to keep his students, or cadets, or whatever the hell they call executives in training from heading for the colony on their down time. We haven’t seen hide or hair of anyone claiming to be an executive. But he doesn’t have as much control when it comes to their security force. Apparently he doesn’t have the authority to discipline them and the security chief, some guy named Mr.  Magby isn’t willing to cut his guards moral by punishing them for “Relaxing.”  I knew it was too good to be true! At least there haven’t been any real incidents yet. The guards mostly hang out at the local bar and then head back to the facility….That having been said the number of young women at the bar has skyrocketed….after all this time of only being able to choose between the colony’s young men they are practically drooling at the mouth over the guards and their uniforms…..heaven help us!<br/><br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F90<br/><br/>A large number of corporate landers came inbound today, apparently some new big wigs for the Weyland-Yutani facility hitched a ride along with our latest supply shipment, and their guard rotation. The facility is under new management…a Dr. Stetton is now in charge over there. I’ve talked with him a bit and he’s told me that as far as he’s concerned business between us and them should continue as it did under Dr. Paxton, which is just fine with me. I still have no idea what they’re up to over there but I doubt it’s training new recruits….the place just doesn’t seem like a training facility… either way I don’t know and sure as hell don’t want to know. We’ve gotten reports from the ATMO an d colony’s seismic sensors that seems to be a lot of activity taking place between the ATMO and the research facility. I’ve been instructed to mind my own business….the ATMO is automated and we don’t really have a reason to be there unless it breaks down. I’ve asked everyone to not go anywhere near there…whatever those company boys are doing we are better off keeping away from it.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F203<br/>Old man Rosco said he saw what looked like bright blue flashes and a few explosions off in the direction of the facility when he was out checking his tractor. It’s late so I’ll be calling the facility tomorrow to ask Stetton if everything is alright with them. Rosco has been known to see a few things that aren’t always there so I’m not too worried but I still need to check…….There’s a storm headed our way it should hit within the hour. Looks like it’s going to be a bad one. I’ve ordered that we start locking the colony down hopefully nothing too important breaks tonight.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F204<br/><br/>The freaking transmitter broke!!! Just got torn off in the wind and went flying away. There wasn’t a single thing any of us could do to save it. We still have our receiver online so we can hear if anyone signals us but we won’t be able to signal back…..The storm is still going but it’s died down a bit. I haven’t heard anything from the corporate facility. Which is perfectly normal….I figure they would have called for help if something was wrong.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F210<br/><br/>We’ve sedated old man Rosco, he was ranting about a heard of dragons running out last night! Can you believe it dragons for God’s sake! He went on and on about how they were black and scary and they were led by a “ REALLY fucking big one”  and how he ran off before they could grab him. We asked him to give it a rest but he wouldn’t stop, just kept going on and on scaring some of the little kids. It was actually kind of sad….So we finally just sedated him. He’s asleep in his place right now. Doc Groves is watching over him we are going to keep him constantly sedated until we can get him off planet. There isn’t anything physically wrong with him. The old timer just finally lost it….and to think I was actually a little worried about his whole explosions in the night story a while back! We tried repairing the transmitter but it’s not going to happen we will just have to wait until the next supply ship comes. It’s going to be a while but it’s not like we have any pressing news anyways. I’ve been debating sending someone out to the facility to ask them to send word to corporate about our transmitter. And on top of everything else the Calderon family’s dog is missing.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F215<br/><br/>Almost all of our dogs are gone!! We’ve been letting them run around outside since they were first old enough to so that they wouldn’t take a crap in side and so that they could stay fit and healthy. But now they are all just gone. Every single dog that’s gone outside without its owner and has run out of sight of the colony hasn’t come back….Me, Doc Groves, and David think that it might be those assholes over at the W/Y facility taking them. But why??  Groves suggested that it might not be a training facility at all, that it might be some sort of lab and they are grabbing the dogs for testing. I guess that makes a little sense. It also makes for unhappy children. Which makes for VERY unhappy parents, they actually got a petition together and want me to do something or risk being voted out. I’m going to send Doc Groves over to have a talk with Stetton.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F216<br/><br/>Doc Groves got back from the facility about 15 minutes ago…I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man look that scared. He said that the facility looked like it had been attacked. There were a lot of broken windows and the front lobby was open. He says that there was no one inside the lobby and the place just scared the shit out of him. I talked with Jack Whittaker, who’s the current head of the town watch,  he’s going to open up our armory and take a few guys out there tomorrow to investigate….maybe some rival corporation hit the facility??<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F217<br/><br/>Dan and the guys left today. They managed to fit 8 of them into Dan’s crawler. Each one of them was carrying a shotgun a flashlight and one hell of a scared look on his face….I wish I was out there with them….I don’t like being stuck here while my friends risk their lives.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F219<br/>It’s early morning, Dan and his group haven’t come back…It’s been two days, we haven’t even gotten a message from them. The last we heard they’d made it to the facility and were heading on in to check it out, they were supposed to contact us again an hour after that but they never did…I’m taking a second group of guys out to look for them. Hopefully something just went wrong with the crawler.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log F219<br/><br/>Almost midnight now. We made it back about 10 hours ago….God I wish I could forget what happened….We made it to the facility without any trouble. Once we got there we saw Dan’s crawler sitting there just fine. We checked it out and there was nothing wrong with it…nothing except for the fact that we found Dan inside with some…..some thing on his face…..it looked like a big spider with a tail. It had its arms or legs or whatever wrapped around his head and its tail around his neck. We tried pulling it off but the fucking thing was holding on tight!! We had no choice but to leave him there  while we checked the building. We went into the lobby and looked around…the place was quite like a tomb. And I think that’s just what it was…a big tomb…we found the other guys inside the lobby….what was left of them anyways, they all had their…………God….they had holes in their chests with the bones bent outwards. Like, like something was pushing OUT from INSIDE. I don’t know what kind of animal or gun could do that to someone. We decided to haul ass back to the colony. So we loaded up half of us in my crawler and half in Dan’s as soon as we got back we rushed Dan into Doc Groves’ office and told Groves we needed to get the thing off him….Groves did his best, he used to be a doctor for the military he even served in combat before he retired, but he couldn’t pull it off or pry it off, so he decided to just cut the thing off Dan. Dan’s wife gave him the ok... So….so Groves started to cut. He said he was going to cut along what looked like it’s spine in the hopes of causing it’s nerves to relax. It looked like it was going fine until the thing started bleeding. It’s blood was acidic!! And not just a little…it was dangerously acidic. Groves got some on his hand and lost two fingers. Dan….it ran down the creature’s back and tail onto Dan’s neck…we couldn’t save him…He’s dead. We don’t know what kind of disease the body might have so we incinerated it along with the creature which was still attached. The supply ship is scheduled to arrive the day after tomorrow. We are going to put the colony under full lock down until then. There are probably more of these things out there….what the hell were they doing over at that facility, experimenting with spiders?!?!<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F223<br/>The ship didn’t show up yesterday, it should have been here by now. I get the feeling that it’s been stopped or rerouted or something.  We’re still on lock down and we can stay that way indefinitely, thank goodness we are self sufficient. I fully intend to keep us locked down until someone shows up. Everyone’s a little jumpy but considering everything they are doing well. The general thought process is that it sucks that Dan and the others are dead but with the colony on lock down those spider things can’t get in and at least no more of us will die.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F225<br/><br/>We saw one of them! Not one of the spider things but something else, something big and black! One of those ‘dragons’ that Old Man Rosco was talking about…the old bastard was right all along. We got a look at it on one of the outer security cameras Doc Groves spent a good hour playing the tape over and over making notes and mumbling to himself. When he was done I took him aside and asked him what he thought….his answer was pretty simple “we’re fucked” those were his exact words. He says whatever it is it’s taller than a man when it stands up, it has an exoskeleton, it’s definitely a predator, and it seems to be intelligent. He looks worried, and so am I….We are going to permanently close the storm covers for the windows and rely on the outer cameras. We have no idea how high those things can jump and I don’t want one of them breaking through the glass.<br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F226<br/>There’s more than one of them, there’s a lot and they are friendly with one another. So far we’ve counted at least 20 of the black bastards. And there’s a new kind to…they are brown and smaller but they move so fast the cameras can barely track them! They’ve been crawling all over the building for the past few hours. Everyone is scared…We’ve locked all the doors. I hope we will be safe….<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F227<br/><br/>It’s early morning there are 28 people missing, they’re just gone, everyone saw them go to bed last night and then this morning they were all just gone. No one even heard it happen! The creatures are gone too I’ve got a few teams checking the rest of the colony trying to see if they managed to break in. There was this….slime….. all over the walls of the homes of the missing people….Doc Groves thinks it was the creatures. He says that they were testing our defenses and that they probably aren’t scared of us anymore…if they ever even were.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F227<br/><br/>Afternoon, we found how they broke in. They got in through the side hatch out by the vehicle garage. Even though the door was closed and locked! The power for that door is supplied by a line that runs along the side of the building. The creatures cut the power! How did they know to do that?? Once they cut the power they just slid the damn thing open like it wasn’t even there. Then I guess they went inside found the hab block and grabbed our missing people. Everyone’s almost at a panic. They don’t want to stay in the hab block and I don’t blame them!! I’ve got the entire maintenance team working right now they are welding that door shut along with any other that can be opened like that. Every other door that can’t have its power killed from the outside is being locked. Every weapon we have has been issued out to someone. I’ve decided to allow anyone who wants to sleep on the 2nd floor instead of in the hab block to do so. Almost everyone has decided to sleep in the control room with the blast doors closed.<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F227<br/><br/>Night, they’re here again! They killed the cameras this time! Every outer camera has been smashed by them and we can hear them shrieking and crawling around out there….The last we saw there was a large number of them at the outer North East door…I can hear pounding now I need to go see what’s happening. Everyone who has a gun is coming along, counting the personal hand guns and hunting rifles that’s more than half of our colony’s population, assuming those who can’t fight let someone else use their gun. Hopefully we can end this tonight, they look tough as hell but there’s no way some animals are going to stand up to gunfire.<br/><br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F228<br/><br/>It’s morning, last night we tried to stop them at the North East door, they were pounding away at it and we all had time to get set up. They finally broke through it just before midnight. We opened fire on them and they just kept coming even the ones we shot just kept moving towards us until they were dead. We were torn apart. Almost everyone who was down there was either killed or dragged away. Me and one or two others made it….we….we ran. Forgive me but I ran as fast as I could. We managed to get upstairs where David had the blast door open for us he closed it right behind us. The creatures left before morning hit…maybe they don’t like the sun?? Some of the colonists are clinging onto that hope Doc Groves told me it’s probably because they have a nest somewhere and were taking back the bodies to it. After having seen these things up front I think he’s right….I can’t imagine them being afraid of anything. We are going to have a vote in the town hall today…we could just have it here but I think it’s best to do it in the hall. The vote is going to be over whether we should stay in the colony or use the crawlers to get the hell out of here and hopefully outrun those things.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log entry F228<br/>It’s mid afternoon we held the vote…it was almost unanimously in favor of leaving the colony, right now the crawlers are being prepped and loaded with everything we have. A few of the maintenance guys are collecting supplies from the different workshops and sorting them out. Almost everyone else is in the hab block grabbing whatever they think they can use. I’ve decided to stay behind and keep track of their progress over the radio…I told everyone after the vote was held. They asked why and I told them that someone has to be here when help arrives so that the help can find everyone else.  What I didn’t tell them is that if I’m here I might be able to act as bait and distract the creatures to give the others a head start. David, God bless his soul, is currently working on building a few barricades around the colony to slow the creatures down if they come after me. He’s going to permanently seal the blast doors as well. Whoever tries to get in will have to have military hardware or better to get through. God help us all.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F228<br/><br/>The last crawler just left, I wasn’t able to watch it go. It was David and his family and a few others. I did manage to bid every other group fair well though. I’m now the only one left inside the colony. The different crawlers have been keeping in contact with me. Even though I can’t transmit back it makes me feel better about this to hear them on their way.  Most of them have split up and started moving in different directions. I’m going to give it another 20 minutes then I’m going to activate the colony’s alarm system. I figure the noise will attract the animals tonight.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log EntryF229<br/><br/>They didn’t come last night…at least not for me. More than half of the crawlers didn’t check in this morning…I wish I could be hopeful that it’s just something with the radios. Maybe the creatures knew what was going on. Either way the rest of the crawlers have no idea what’s going on and I can’t warn them David and his group are still alive and have been moving almost non-stop. He’s a smart guy and he doesn’t seem to want to give the creatures time to catch up. I turned off the alarms, the creatures aren’t coming for me…maybe they don’t think it’s worth the time just yet?<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Mayor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log Entry F230<br/><br/>The last crawler was over run last night. It was David….they made it pretty far before they saw some of those monsters in their rear view mirror. He tried to outrun them but crawlers can only go so fast. I wish he had turned off that damn radio before they hit them! I heard….everything……it’s quiet now…calm and quiet….God rest their souls….what did Weyland-Yutani do….what the hell did they do?!?! They’ve managed to wipe us out.<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov, Last Survivor of Jackie’s Hope<br/><br/><br/>Mayor’s Log  Entry F237<br/><br/>They haven’t come back for me….the monsters..they have been leaving me alone, maybe they forgot about me? Maybe they are just waiting? I don’t know. And I don’t care anymore. I’ve had to see and hear all of my friends die around me. And now I’m just tired, I want to rest…I NEED to rest….I’ve got a single pistol here. David gave it to me before he sealed the doors. There’s only one clip but it’s more than enough for what I need…..If you’re reading or listening to this then for the love of God run! Get off planet now while you still can!<br/><br/>-  Carthag Vankatov,