The History of the Quag pt.1
by Colin Bardwell Grade 7 Ms Maher’s advisory
What you are about to see are the journals of Naaq’ Mir. These journals are unabridged
and are declassified as of year 6274. Much government research has been done based on
this. The journals are now used for entertainment purposes.
Naaq’ Day 1These are the journals I keep for use. A translator is
typing these words so Earth People can see. I not know
good English, so they say it will sound happy. I do not
understand that. My name is Naaq’ Mir. I came from the
planet of Mecatch’kul. We found a planet that the Earth
People not see, so I come to show them. My people have
seen mysterious planet. This translator make me angry, he
do not know good talk.
Naaq’ Day 2We are going fast in Earth People container. We are going
to mysterious planet. Earth Person will type by himself
now and I will help go to mysterious planet.
Director Roberts Journal entry
Voyage day: 2The alien is cooperating well. He has been arguing with
our translator quite a bit, apparently about their
language. It seems that all unmanned exploration to the
planet fails, so his cooperation is quite necessary.
Speaking of the alien, he is quite interesting. He seems
to be robotically enhanced. He is also quite intelligent.
We let him explore the ship, regretfully. He immediately
hacked into the artificial gravity system with ease. We
were all in zero gravity for a few minutes until we figured
out what happened. It’s about time I got back to
navigating with the alien, which for all who are curious is
a very unique experience.
Naaq’ Day 3I have a new translator now. She understands my language
very well. I can know speak without being interrupted,
which is quite relieving. So now on to the good news! I
have successfully led the Earth People to the mysterious
planet. They saw it, and immediately did something that
perplexed me. They did this thing with their mouths that I
don’t understand. They said that it was a sign of much
joy. The bad news is that the Earth People want to
approach the planet. I must try and warn them to use an
unmanned vehicle to explore first. Goodbye.
Director Roberts Journal entry
Voyage day: 3I have decided that I will write these journal entries as
part of the alien’s journal, for future reference. But on
to business. The alien is telling us that our ship will be
destroyed if we come near the planet. This theory is
interesting, and I just might look into it. The reason is
because our radar gets fried if we get within 10,000 miles
of the planet. Not jammed, but completely shut down. It
also seems that other electronic devices are affected, and
that some people even pass out. We have retreated to
15,000 miles away, and are coming up with ideas. I will
record my ideas later.
Naaq’ Day 5The Earth People have listened to my idea. They couldn’t
think of anything else to do. I watched on the screen as
the machine was sent out into outer space. They used a
computer to control it. As soon as it got close enough to
see the planet, the screen went black. The Earth People
said that they couldn’t see the planet using the radar
because there were crazy gravimagnetic pulses coming from
the planet.
(Entries missing)
Director Roberts Journal entry
Voyage day: 157IT’S ABOUT TIME WE GOT THROUGH TO THAT DANG PLANET! We’ve
thrown everything we could at it. Missiles, trash, even
our old translator (that guy was a jerk; at least we gave
him a space suit though). Somehow, we got the alien to
float down completely naked, survive the float to the
planet, and bring back news. It was a miracle. Well, the
alien was a little shaken, but this is what we got out of
them. There are creatures on that planet, which, by the
way, is a living thing. These creatures can control the
flow of the extremely powerful gravi-magnetic pulses
constantly pulsing from the planet. If these creatures
leave the planet, the planet will basically explode, and if
the creatures are exposed to anything other than the flow
of magnetic pulses and gravity they are used to, something
interesting happens. I will explain it all later, I must
conduct research now.
Director Roberts Journal entry
Voyage day: 160So, apparently these creatures (which we will now call the
Quag [kw-awg]) use the gravi-magnetic waves of their planet
to communicate, to move, everything! They don’t have limbs
or sensory organs, but they have extremely weak eyes that
only sense brightness of light. Thinking about it, if the
planet’s untamed pulses can destroy an entire ship, these
creatures could be devastatingly powerful. It’s a good
thing they aren’t sentient.
END
The following journals have been found in pieces. Once we determine what they say,
they will be used for official research. Unfortunately, this is all we know of the Quag,
considering the ship has been lost with no communication for 125 years now.