A haunting human voice spoke, a voice from a man who was no longer of this universe. As the sounds came, the words filled the screen.
Mission day 11205
I'm through, I'm alive. That has to be one of the greatest and worst experiences possible. It's like a g-force machine gone into overload. The difference in gravitational pull between my feet and my head was slowly stretching me. I felt my legs being pulled away from my torso, my head spinning due to lack of oxygen, I felt weak, I couldn't move, my mind was slowly going, I could feel it slipping away into an un-controlled coma. I knew I would die. I had to do something. But slowly I realised that there is nothing I can do. I am powerless. I glance at the computers, their showing rubbish, the only assumption I can make is that either the gravitaional pull is so great it's stopping the electronics, or I'm near the singularity. Then with a feeling that can only be compared to the point where, while drunk, you stop asking if you're going to die, and wish you were; there was a sudden light, intense and blinding, I would imagine (I couldn't tell, without any windows I only saw the computer screens showing whiteness). Then it was over. Here I am sitting in a vast area of space, not a planet nearby, not a ship, not a soul. I've set the navigation software going, the equipment has suffered no ill effects. The medical unit still works, so I've set it working as well. I can last forty years, if I don't find a planet while I'm alive, but someone finds me, understand this - I did what I wanted. There is little point mourning for happiness and fulfilling a dream.
Entry ends
Despite knowing that their captain was alive, or at least, wasn't dead, or should that be he was, will be, is alive ('was' because he's dead now, 'will be' because of the coma he is in means he is virtually dead, and 'is' because he is physically alive). Despite that fact one or two of the crew could feel that slight uncomfortable lump growing in their throats. Without a sound they continued. Even Simon, though despising him, respected the silence.