Starship 109

Diary Entry 4/6/3102
According to Captain Granger, Starship 109's navigation system has been affected by a transmitted computer virus that was drifting through space in the form of radio waves; some kind of alien weapon he thinks and so he says he'll have to make a forced landing on a planet called X-478, it being the nearest planet capable of sustaining human life.
(Update)
The landing on X-478 went successfully; none of the passengers or crew members were lost but the captain says that the virus has spread to the dimensional generator; the generator that fuels the ship by drawing power from the energy dimension and that, without the dimensional generator, Starship 109 will be incapable of faster than light spacetravel.
Diary Entry 5/6/3102
I spent most of the day in the leisure and recreation area of the ship playing photophobic table tennis with a robot-opponent called Claude; whacking about a photophobic ball with a beam of light.  I beat Claude 3 sets to 2 although he was playing on a beginners setting.
Captain Granger says we may be stranded on X-478 for a few days because the virus was of alien origin and the ships anti-virus software has to evolve to fight it.
(Update)
The Captain has ordered that all passengers are to stay on board the ship because X-478 is a largely unexplored planet and may contain many unknown dangers such as alien diseases that human beings have no immunity against or treatment for. The only ones being allowed off of the ship at present are robot crew members. Its a pity because I'm an avid fan of Xenozoology and would love to see some of the planets wildlife.
Diary Entry 6/6/3102
I rented a female robot companion from the ships robotshop. Well I was getting bored of playing ping-pong. Her name is Hillary and she's petite and blonde with greyey blue eyes. I was planning on taking her to an Artificial Imagination show on the leisure deck but apparently the ships imagination has been damaged by the alien computer virus; its been having some very bizarre and frightening dreams so we're just going to stay in my cabin.
(Update)
I took Hillary to see the ships Museum of Xenozoology. They have some remarkable virtual exhibits. We saw a creature there called a land-ray from Planet Linnaeus that uses its bioelectric field to levitate and travel across the ground like an electric monorail and a tiny creature called a Glub that floats around inside a helium filled bubble. I wonder what amazing creatures the robot crew have encountered on planet X-478.
Diary Entry 7/6/3102
Apparently the robot crew who went outside the ship have made contact with an intelligent species of alien being; it is hard to ascertain at present just how many of these creatures live upon the planet or how advanced they are but the most remarkable thing about them is that they seem to have technology yet possess no hands to make tools with. Perhaps the creatures are merely using the technology of another species.
(Update)
After observing some of the creatures in the process of a kind of oral birth. One of the robot crew members has suggested that the creatures have internal hands that manipulate materials that they have ingested before they regurgitate them as functioning tools. Apparently the creatures may also communicate, somewhat like Earths cuttlefish, by changing the colours and patterns on their skin. A robot language expert is currently hard at work trying to decipher the alien 'skin language'.
Diary Entry 8/6/3102
No more news about the alien creatures. I took Hillary back to the robot rental place and got a taller model with red hair and green eyes called Jennifer.
I took Jeniffer to the airpool and tried to teach her how to swim in zero gravity but she was much better at it than me, she airswims as gracefully as a fairy ballerina. Then we went to the dining area and I tried some alien cuisine in a language I couldn't pronounce, it was a kind of carnivorous vegetable from the outer Milky Way; first I fed it and then I ate it. It tasted pretty revolting, I have to say; perhaps more suited to alien tastebuds than to human ones. But then I went back to my cabin with Jennifer so the evening wasn't a complete washout.
(Update)
I've heard some rather troubling rumours that some passengers may have been fatally injured by malfunctioning machines. Apparently, a man was using the airpool when the zero-gravity generator cut out and he fell and broke his neck .
Diary Entry 9/6/3102
Captain Granger has informed all the passengers that the alien computer virus was something called an autoimmune virus. Apparently, the ships computer is convinced that the ships crew and passengers are attacking space pirates and has started using the ships security and defence systems against them. Atleast 20 of the passengers have been confirmed as casulaties.
(Update)
The Captain has ordered an immediate evacuation of all the ships human passengers and crew. He intends to take some of the all-terrain vehicles and set up camp out of range of the ships guns then activate the ships self-destruct mechanism.
Sadly, Jennifer along with all the other robots have been put on work detail, helping with the evacuation and building the camp.
But, fortunately, a distress call sent out after we first landed on X-478 was recieved a few days ago and a rescue mission is already on its way from one of Earths nearby colonies. The Captain says it should be here by tommorrow evening at the latest.
(Update)
The camp is all ready. I was amazed at how fast the robot crew managed to put it together but apparently all of the buildings are self-erecting. It really is quite impressive. If starship 109 was like a floating city, this is more like a small town but they've got all the ammenities that we need and everyone has a private room too which I like. A last chance to spend time with Jennifer before the rescue ship gets here.
(Update)
The aliens are attacking the camp. Everyone is on high alert. Jennifer's been drafted into the camps robot army. It seems the aliens were more advanced, technologically, than we had thought because they attacked with directed energy weapons and there's a rumour that the computer virus may have been created by them to bring down the ship. I've been moved out of my room and onto one of the all-terrain vehicles on which I'm presently sitting listening, like all the other passengers, to the explosions and screams going on outside. I hope that the rescue ship gets here soon and that, when it does, it is well armed.

 

Diary Entry 10/6/3102
Boy, that must have been the craziest 12 hours I have ever been through. The aliens used some kind of non-chemical hallucinogenic weapon on us. I heard some of the other passengers screaming and yelling that the aliens had boarded the ATV but it wasn't them, it was just some crazy, scary hallucination.
I kind of knew something was up when a purple cow strode through the vehicle, mooing and shaking its cowbell.
Thank god there were robots on board who weren't effected and they were able to sedate the passengers who were trying to leave the vehicle.
They had to pin one poor man to the floor.
It was for his own good though. If he had gone outside, he would only have been shot.
Fortunately, the rescue ship got here just as things were starting to seem hopeless for us and not only that it turns out that its an old decomissioned battle cruiser from the Black Hole War so it was able to lay down covering fire while it airlifted the ATV's with a tractor beam.
Sad news about Captain Granger though. Apparently he didn't survive the fighting. Its a pity because he was a real hero I thought; the way he dealt with the situation and considering he was just a civilian captain and not an army one. I really think he deserves a medal for how he saved us all.
But anyway, I'm finally on board the rescue ship and now we're all on our way to a place called Colony Ithaca. I'll have to book another starflight from there back to Earth somehow, preferably one that doesn't pass by any strange, hostile alien planets.