Site Survey R-04
I say this with all due respect coming up the Chain - Professor Warren Harmon can take his romanticized vision of Elderbone and stuff it in his rear waste disposal unit. Naming his dream destination the Valley of the Horses is only accurate if we take an ancient Terran myth of 4 Horsemen into consideration. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Little chainlink as I may be, I can't help but congratulate myself for having picked Suther and Koan for my techs. I almost don't regret the whole lot of time that we spent banging our heads from door to door, trying to gain a permit for the Muskrat in place of the regular ordnance. Those old Construction APCs wouldn't last a week on this planet, let alone eight. Certainly, none of them could traverse the riverbed.
Our unsung hero of a vehicle has, since my last entry, braved more than 900 klicks, quadrupling the distance we managed to do on land in the same amount of time. Way easier on the crew too. Of course, it took some careful maneuvering here and there in order not to fall too deep and share the fate of Marek Suther. Muskrat is expected to withstand the pressure of depths up to 200 meters which means that here, on Elderbone, anything deeper than 65 meters could crush us. It would have been an issue if not for the unusual density of the planet's air, as well as some hyperbaric capabilities of the Muskrat. Not only were we safe to descend up to 100 meters, but it actually brough us some relief.
