Space News 47, My Health, Sick Taygetans, Queen Subjects in Temmer (English)

Mari Swa: Hello again, thank you for being here with me once more. I hope you are very well today. I am Mari, hello, welcome to my channel. This information can be seen as science fiction or as the viewer sees best and I post it for entertainment purposes only. Still, I take my information very seriously, and for whoever has eyes to see.

I am writing this on the morning of October 18th, 2024. The first piece of news for today: The Antarians will sign the Alcyone treaty next Sunday, the 20th of October, 2024, using Earth reference dates. They will do so with King Ruhr as their guide. The treaty will be signed in my absence as I haven't been feeling well during these past few days. There isn't much to discuss anyway; it is the simple protocol of welcoming the Antarians into our group, but I would have liked to be there with them and with the rest of the Pleiadian Alcyone Council members.

It is just that I have been feeling very weak these past few days, especially yesterday when I just came out of the dry med pod after having my stem cell and energy therapy. But I don't expect to be very energetic yet, like for Sunday. I am barely eating, and I need to sleep a lot, although it is not easy either with all the aches and pains I have all over.

In addition to my type one diabetes problem, several people here have fallen sick, like from some sort of lung or bronchitis infection, which we suspect may have come from accidentally breathing fungus spores which we detected to be growing in the interior of some of our wheeled vehicles. Among the people who have fallen sick so far are DK, Tina, and little Yazhi, who had a terrible fever yesterday, and of course myself. And this is just what I didn't need right now, in the middle of my difficult diabetes treatment.

Of course, you'd say that we need to clean the vehicles used to go down to Earth more often, but the one in question was supposed to be clean as it hasn't gone down for some time. Yet, that white fungus stuff grows easily inside stored vehicles, and it can be very dangerous, and getting sick from it can take weeks to resolve. So beware of it.

In other news, even feeling sick, I have gone several times all the way to Temmer in Taygeta using remote presence technology, as I was expected to supervise and approve the expansion project of the shipyard south of Toleka City, which is the place where most Taygetan starships, big and small, are built.

To the south and as well as to the north of Toleka City, there are vast expansions of flat grasslands which is convenient as the destruction of nature there would be minimal. From what I have been told, that area is basically grass and hard weed, so even large wild ruminants hardly go in there as they don't like it because it's too dry and full of tangled sticks and large dry bushes.

The Taygetan engineers will have to remove the topsoil until the bedrock is exposed and then flatten the entire large area using liquid rock, which is much harder and stronger than human-made concrete. The entire area must be prepared in such a way that the ground can sustain the great weight of several large starships, for example, Toleka class heavy cruisers.

While I was there, I also went to see how they were finishing the second Hyades class light destroyer, which I already officially grabbed to task it to come here to low Earth orbit, most probably replacing the aging Vigilant Eagle. I had to grab it because there are other places and tasks which require ships of that class. For example, they are needed for perimeter patrol around Taygeta and its planets, and also as part of the Alcyone Council agreements concerning taking care of the Pleiades M45 star cluster.

There are 14 new starships in construction right now in the Toleka City shipyards, and this can be seen as some kind of Taygetan paranoia as they are worried that they may get invaded. I say "they" and not "we" because I do see things from a slightly different perspective as I am closer to where the problem is being generated: Earth and its Galactic Federation controllers.

The problem is that although there are thousands of Taygetans working on the new starships, more than ever before, those are not the same people as the ones who will man them, and we are running out of new crews, including green cadets, as it looks like I have already tasked all the new ones with all the ships here in Earth's orbit. There aren't that many new cadets, as the total Taygetan population is only about 38 million, and most of them have other interests that have nothing to do with space travel.

The last time I was in Toleka City, I could see that the reconstruction after the hurricane that struck the entire area some months ago has concluded. All the damaged structures have been rebuilt, everything looks clean, and life in the Taygetan capital city is back to normal. The sun is shining and the climate is warm and fair as usual.

My last task as the Taygetan queen the last time I was in Temmer using remote presence technology was to see the new agricultural efficiency increase as all the plantations are now being heavily fertilized using large ruminant droppings. But I left Temmer without having one of my most important questions answered, and it is: where are they getting so many ruminant droppings if there is no cattle in Temmer?

This means that they must have to go out into the wild to look for them and fetch them, I ask. The Taygetans don’t just throw them onto the plantations, as the ruminant droppings are pulverized in a machine and mixed with water before being fed directly to the plantations, in a similar manner as how it is done in aquaponics but somehow adapted to dry land.

By the way, aquaponics is the preferred method for growing plant-based food on board large starships such as Toleka and Sadicleya class heavy cruisers, as it increases their range and independence from supply lines considerably. The problem is that not everyone can live eating vegan, and that makes crews such as mine heavily dependent on Earth. We do understand that this eventually may be a bit of a problem when we must go back home as our food may become difficult to find, but in my case, I am not planning to go anywhere as Earth is also my home, and I depend on it.

I want to thank all of you who are backing me up in every possible way, especially those of you who are sponsoring me and my crew with your repetitive donations. All I can say is thank you. You are making a big difference and making our permanence here possible. Thank you, I love you all so much. And I also want to thank those of you who leave tiny messages with your donations, especially those of you who shared with me their ideas and suggestions to how to face my health problems. All your suggestions are processed and revised, including by this ship's surgeon, Senetre, to evaluate how they can help me and us.

Thank you again. This will be all for today. As always, thank you for watching my video and for liking, sharing, and subscribing for more. It helps this channel grow a lot, and I hope to see you here next time.

With much love and appreciation.

Your friend,

Mari Swa