This is it. I thought. After we're through here there's no going back... If that was ever an option anyways.

I looked over to my two friends, who looked just as nervous as me. Conner saw my look and gave me a smile, which was probably meant to reassure me but did quite the opposite. It made me realise just how tired and worked up he looked.
How tired and worked up we all probably looked. Dark eyebags and dirt everywhere on our cloths. Not to mention the injuries we've taken from our last fight for food. We couldn't really gain much but hey, we survived for now. Which is already something.

A throat clearing beside me snapped me out of my thoughts: "Okay so, all systems are online. Everything's waiting for us now." I nodded Meila, our mechanic, and reassured myself that I got everything I needed on me. "Datapad, communicator, my vibroblade, as well as my breathing mask..." I counted silently. I nodded again. "Got everything?", Conner asked and when I hummed Meila turned around and pushed a few buttons and levers before she came to us onto our losely build teleportation surface. "If everything goes well we're gonna be off this scrap planet in a few moments."

There was no verbal answer. Everyone was tense. We knew the risk this would bring with it. Either we succeeded and were off in a matter of minutes now, onto a whole new planet that could only be better than the current one or we were dying in the cosmos trying to teleport away.
Standing beside me, Meila, Conner and I formed a line on the teleportation surface. All putting on their breathing masks, my grip tightened around the sling of my bag. I heared how Conner took a deep breath while Meila looked for all of our confirmation, pressing a modified detonator when she got it. After that, everything got bright. To bright to keep my eyes open.

The impact was pretty harsh. As soon as the white points from infront my eyes faded and I could see something again, I looked around quickly and scanned the surroundings. No enemys. Thats one thing. Looking onto the ground reavealed there were no traps either. I could relax. With that I exhaled the breath I unconciesly had been holding - and grabbed immediently onto my throat. Even through the breathing mask the air felt cold.

What is this?! Its no normal air!

Meila, who must have seen my reaction brought out her measuring device. Just a moment later she spoke up again: "Dont worry, the air is clear. No toxics gases or so." Standing to her feet she took off her mask and so did I. Taking in a deeper breath the sensation then came in first. The air was cold, thin and ... light? It was so strange. Turning around to my friend I wanted to share my thoughts when I heard hasty moves and somebody running away before vomiting somewhere nearby. With a cocked head, not turning around I asked: "Conner?" A hum was all I got. The girl didn't bother looking up, to focused on analysing the new data she just got.

"That can't be!" My comrade gasped after a few moments that I took to look around. My focus immediently being on her, I was prepared for any danger. Luckily there wasn't any. No instead I was faced with a wide eyed, onto her device staring comrade. Relieved that we weren't in danger I relaxed and walked up to her curiously.
"These values... they're so incredibly - clear." "Clear?" "Yeah, look!" With that I got a display almost shoved into my face. "The Co2 value here is almost 78% lesser than at home!" Surprised I took a closer look myself. And indeed, there was 77.6% less Co2 in the atmosphere. "Wow."

Our heads snapped up at the sound of footsteps coming our direction and we got tense. Relaxed tho, the moment we saw the sound belonged to Conner. "You guys! You won't belive what I found!" "Therefore that you just puked a few minutes ago you're doing really well." was the blunt answer from the girl next to me. "Not to hard with this environment." the boy said with a motion pointing to our surroundings. Only then I realised it myself.
Besidse the air, it was also alot more green here. Trees, those things from the holograms, looked so real here. They even sounded real. Although I never imagened them to make such a - rusteling sound. It sounded good tho. Calming in a way.

"Com'on I have to show you something!", an with that Conner was already diving into the greenery again. Meila and I exchanged a quick look before we both shrugged and followed him. So now we were walking thought this - strange stuff on the ground, which was rusteling with every step. Everyone was excitedly talking. Meila was running around with her meassuring device in hand. The things she mumbled while that didn't really make any sense to me but oh well. It was better so, than seeing her on alert every minute of the day.

While I was watching her running around I noticed something. "Hey Meila!"
"Hm?"
"Aren't you mechanic originally? How do you know so much about plants?"
"Yeah I am, but in school I originally started an apprenticesship as biologist." She explained, still focused on analysing data.
"...you mean before the school got burned down?"
"Yep."
"You know.. there wren't many plants that you could research on at home right?" Conner chimed in.
"Yes I figured that out really quickly aswell. Which is why I retrained as mechanic."
I laughed 'retrained'.
"What?"
"Nothing, nothing all good."

Not that you could really call it retrain with all the violence at home. Or learn a lot in the first place. But even biology? Pfff- what do you even want to researe on? The plants that are still alive in our polluted enviroment have already been researed to full detail and every plant else was long gone extinct.

Looking around the greenery here reminded mo of the pictures my grandma used to show me. You could tell that our homeplanet couldn't have been to different from the current one. The pictures were passed down since a long while tho, so who knows how old they actually were or how long it has been since they've been taken? In any case, looking more and more onto the trees gave me an idea.

Can I walk through the trees here aswell like back home?

I tried it out right after thinking it. Which I'm not gonna do again because as I've learned, those trees here are real. They're physically existing. Not just hologramms.

After I recovered physically from my new bruise now, and my friends stopped laughing about me, we finally reached the destination from which Conner had spoken earlier of: a natural waterflow.
They were called river as Meila explained short after. I can recall that we carefully stepped onto the shore, and how everyone was amazed by the clarity of the water. I think I scared my friends when I suddenly pointed into the water and called "Fish!". But there was one! A real one.

It swam quickly away after my sudden movement, but it was a living, real fish! In the natural wa- river.
The water, you should mention here, was drinkable. At home all the waterflows were artificially made and the natural ones that we had were full of chemicals and other stuff. If you were to drink from that you would have been brought into the hospital at once. But even then, the chances that you were gonna survive wouldn't have been to big.

Later that day we've found a wide surface with strange looking, big creatures. It took a bit of time but we eventually found out that those creatures were called Horses (Thank god for our scanners and the connected archives they held).

They were passive towards us and for whatever reason liked to eat the green stuff that was growing all over the ground. We gave them some of that and in return we were allowed to pet them. A nice change to the half mechnic creatures at home that tried to kill you as soon as they saw you.

In the early evening hours then, we got the idea to search for a place to sleep. Just maybe we could get some actual sleep here and didn't had to fear a possible ambush or attack.
So after we found a safe place to sleep Conner and I started building a small camp while Meila went off to find something eatable and to scout out the area for potential danger. Even if there wasn't any danger Conner and I agreed on me taking the first nightshift. Just to be sure. But apparently out assumption was right because Meila returned a bit later with berrys and colourful weed and no news of possible danger.

Conner identified the weed as flowers. I have to say, the really look pretty. Apperently they sadly die tho, once you plugged them from the ground. What a shame.

One thing that has to get added here tho, you can see the stars clearly. I've always loved the stars but at home there was barely enough time to look at them for long between the constant surviving and fighting. On top of that there also weren't many places where you could see them well since most the buildings covered the sky.
But here, where you only have the trees and their rusteling sound, and on top no big dangers you had to be on look out for, I could finally watch them. And they were far more beautiful than those I've seen at home.

And with that I'm ending this Logbook entry. So; Logbook entry 1 Place and time unknown. Finley out.