I had a quick look at the night sky -- nothing I recognize off hand so I'd say we took a REALLY long jump... another galaxy most likely. I'll need some better equipment to get a closer look, but for now my time will be best spent understanding the contents of this planet rather than its relative position to our home.
There's a single yellow sun in the day, and it looks like a single moon rotating around us. Blue, oxygen-filled skies, clouds, and green plants getting power from the sun, so nothing too crazy so far. It's cold here -- nothing too bad, and our host uses mechanical heating, so we can work with it. Not sure what their water resources are yet, since they need to use pipes to bring it to them. The plant life is also pretty sparse from a first glance. This is definitely an urban area of sorts, but not overly large. Most dwellings here are only a few stories tall, but there are lots of them. Hopefully there is more water and nature outside the main city.
Snarki has taken up feeding on some small local invertebrates and seems no worse for the matter, so maybe we can harvest the same source if we can't metabolize any of our host's foodstuffs (the few samples it provided us did not seem overly palatable to Gimble, so we're sticking with the resources Didge brought with him for now). Gimble mentioned the food tasted "processed" so perhaps we just need to try some fresh produce. I didn't notice any gardens off hand so maybe they need their food piped in like the water.
A few notes on our host. The subject is a biped, towering over us at twice our height! Its skin is a pink/tan color, with a mane of dark hair on the top of its head. There is also a sparse coating of hairs on its extremities, so chances are the hair is a natural part of its anatomy. It has two arms and two legs, and its head is small compared to its body. Two eyes, a single mouth with the equivalent of our teeth and tongue. it has external ears similar to Gimble's decor, and two holes above its mouth that it takes air in and out with. It seems to do the same with its mouth, so the redundancy is not clear yet. Five fingers on each hand -- I bet Treacle will find some important use from that fact.
It wears multiple pieces of clothing, and we've seen a few different styles in our short time here. This cold probably prompted them to develop some unique clothes for thermoregulation, but Nudnik seems to think there might be a cultural aspect to it as well -- form as well as function. We're going to need to make some of our own ponchos soon.
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