Chronicles of the Ark-ship Salvation

This is the first entry in the personal log of Dr. Alan C. Barlow, assigned to passenger management, and health services for the Arc-ship Salvation, employee of the Eden Foundation.

My name is Dr. Alan Barlow; I am the passenger management supervisor on Arc-ship EO15 for the Eden Foundation. We have been working on this project three years and two months now, and are nearing our departure window. Two months ago we began shuttling our voluntary passengers to Eden’s lunar base of operations, knows as Tranquility Center 5, for orientation and evaluation. We have elected to assign jobs based on skill level and experience. As this would no doubt cause some conflict, with some we have also established a training program so the less skilled and experienced passengers can move into a “more desirable” position, and therefore become more valuable.

As a whole, we have managed to keep our 1200 voluntary passengers content with this process. There was some minor conflict when we had to reject 200 volunteers due to genetic defects and disease, but the outrage was short lived. We hope not to repeat that misunderstanding, and have since decided to inform our passengers of any procedure, and its intended purpose before we begin. Our mistake was allowing rumor to spread as we screened passengers. Once we explained that we could not afford to have passengers that would strain limited resources and present a danger to themselves and the ship, the outrage subsided. Currently we are fighting rumors that we collected a genetic profile from each passenger in order to match potential mates. While this was debated within the group, we decided that this practice would ultimately fail. We have instead set up programs, not yet active, to encourage relationships and responsible reproduction.

My role, for the time being, is to ensure everyone has been registered, profiled, screened for medical and psychological deficiencies, and assigned a job (as that for some reason falls under psychological fitness). Our facility management group is handling living quarters, and all other equipment. Once we depart, my role will evolve to overseeing the on-board healthcare network. A change I am looking forward to, as I am growing tired of the administrative paperwork involved in this phase of the project. Why did I take this job again?

Dr. Alan Barlow, primary medical advisor, The Eden Foundation.
03/15/2218