Dr. Campbell

And sometimes Mann :)

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[DR. CAMPBELL 10.26.25]

hello there! my name is dr. campbell, but you guys can call me wyatt. : -)

long story short, the earth is dying to some sort of fungus thats eating up the oxygen in the air and nutrients in the soil, and a few astronauts (including me!) were shipped off into a wormhole to find a new home before earth becomes uninhabitable. this whole thing is called "the lazarus mission." sounds hopeful. /sarc

three pairs of two were sent to the three planets we found on the other side of the wormhole, all orbiting a hugeee black hole that NASA calls "gargantua." me and a colleague of mine, dr. mann (as well as a recycled military robot), were sent to what seems to be a cold planet with a thick atmosphere? its hard to tell from up here. we just entered orbit a few days ago.

iuuhh, ,, about me.

my name is Dr. Wyatt Campbell. i am a 27 year old trans man and i like astrophysics and computers. i think im the first transgender person to travel outside of the solar system. i think im the first transgender person to do.... a lot LMAO. my favorite band is Will Wood and the Tapeworms. dr. mann thinks "will is a spazz." i think mann has bad taste /j.

my colleague, Dr. Jason Mann, is about 31. he was a botanist before he was an astronaut. his work was quite impressive! in terms of music, he likes anything that isnt country or disco. honestly real.

accompanying us on our little interstellar mission is a repurposed military robot/android/ai(?) thats called KIPP. hes quite a pleasure, actually. i didnt think i would like him, but over the course of 11 months on the ship, ive gotten to know both him and dr. mann better.

i guess this is probably just going to be my personal journal. so maybe, if i died, i wouldnt be forgotten. i would leave more than footprints on a planet no one will ever step foot on again. it will be a way to stay in touch with earth, too, i think. i miss it already. i know dr. mann does too.

credits to rmstitanics for the space dividers!

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[DR CAMPBELL 12.13.25]

oh. my. gosh.

okay. OKAY.

two hours ago, three people and two robots like KIPP came to our planet. they heard our broadcasts.

i didnt recognize them, and neither did jason. they told us that the blight had worsened. only corn grew in some areas. the population was smaller than when me and jason left.

their names are brand, romilly, cooper, case, and tars. brand is the only woman on board. shes about my height, short dark hair and a kind face. romilly is a bit taller, hes curious but kind of awkward. hes the oldest of the three (due to a time mishap iirc. things happened before they got to us) but not by a lot. cooper is the pilot i think. hes firm and has a good heart, i can tell. hes got a strong nose and hes a father. war vet too. case and tars are the robots. they look like kipp but a little.. Fresher. newer? case is less talkative than tars, but i think tars is a little funnier. his humor is similar to mine :)

anyways. we've been rescued and now we're aboard the endurance, but things got Messy iykwim before they let us up. jason had an argument with cooper. i knew they were going to as soon as we spilled the news of "oh btw our planet was never inhabitable we just made you waste fuel to come and get us lmao." so Theres That. things are still tense. like, between everyone. but especially them.

theyre letting us rest right now. i hear them talking in the other room about how much food theres left, and how things were scarce as is before two more mouths to feed came along. i mean they did have four though so theres food for me. dr mann can suck it lmfaoooo their dead crewmate's food is MINE

calling him dr mann is weird. hes jason. hes my jason. ew. hes not mine thats weird. but hes my jason! like do you understand. hes not MY jason but hes my jason. whatever. anyways. me and my jason are going to bed. brand let me sleep in her bed (we love you brand) and jason is in the dead guys bed. hes trying not to dwell on that too hard.

WE ARE GOING HOMEEEEE WE GOING HOMEEEEE YAYYYY NO MORE ICE HELLL NO MORE AMMONIA NO MORE FROST NO MORE EERIE WHITE LIGHT BULBS IN THE BASE YAYYYYYYYY

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[DR. CAMPBELL 11.24.25]

sorry for being silent. i guess i just had better things to do than disappoint you guys. theres no surface. theres no oxygen. theres no CHANCE. NO CHANCE at this planet being the one. NO CHANCE at us, dr. wyatt brighton campbelll and dr. jason taylor mann, being saved. we were sent to the other side of the observable universe to be left to DIE. and they knew. HE knew. dr. brand KNEW. he KNEW there was no chance at plan A. he led us to our death with nothing but a half baked equation and crossed fingers. and for what? for me and him to repopulate? where? in our tiny little pod that has a month left of life support? our tiny little pod that doesnt have any more cryosleep pods? we cant even sleep it out. we cant dream our lives away.

its ironic. we cant dream our lives away and yet the thing that sent us here WAS a dream. a dream that maybe, JUST maybe, humanity will live on. a dream that maybe we would find a new mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

maybe its just supposed to happen. memento mori. remember you must die, right? "you" can be taken personally, as in, you SPECIFICALLY must die. what if its "you" as in, "we." us. humanity. everything must die. its just a law. these are the last years for us. blight will kill us all. memento mori.

[DR. MANN 11.24.25]

I might as well send a message too. Um.. I'm scared. He's scared. This planet has nothing for us, and it has made that very clear. Wyatt summed it up pretty well, despite his.. sour attitude. I understand it though, I really do. He's talked to me about the "memento mori" thing. I think he's right, in a way. Maybe humanity will really just be a short event in the timeline of the universe. I just hope that we will be remembered. We, as in, me and Campbell. I love him, and he knows it. He loves me too. We're so scared.

Wyatt shows his fear in anger towards Dr. Brand and the people at NASA we left behind. For me.. I'm just disappointed. I'm disappointed in Dr. Brand. He knew that we almost certainly were led to our deaths. He knew that and he was okay with it. I understand, but I'm disappointed. Disappointed, upset, and afraid.

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[DR. MANN 11.10.25]

Okay, here’s the plan. If Campbell says anything, I’ll tell him about my feelings. I’ve been told I’m not the most subtle, so it shouldn’t take long anyways. I want to tell him, I honestly do, but I don’t want to be the one to sit him down and tell him that I have a crush on him cause thats awkward. I’m pretty sure the feelings are mutual (He’s not subtle either) but just in case, I’d rather save a friendship with my possibly lifelong roommate than screw it up and never talk to him again.

The main thing I’m worried about is the no privacy thing. It was already a bit uncomfortable sharing a room because we are both pretty private people but I feel bad being especially awkward about it because he’s got lady bits? I don’t know. I know it doesn’t make a difference but I was raised by parents who had strong opinions about things like that which obviously doesn’t excuse the internalized transphobia but I think the fact it was all I knew growing up makes it hard for me to rewire my programming to be better. Y’know? I don’t know. Sorry for ranting.

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[DR. CAMPBELL 11.10.25]

sorry ive been quiet. not much has happened. we have crops, we are settled in, no new data except for the fact that the pocket under us that we thought was habitable is in fact NOT. so. yeah. im okay. thanks for asking, NASA.

nothing that matters to ground control (because its been made clear that we’re nothing more than cattle to them) but heres something new. dr mann seems to have been keeping a closer eye on me. i dont know if its because he thinks i cant handle myself on solo missions or if hes worried that im not fit for the job which would point to internalized transphobia because of my weaker female body but. im not getting those feelings from him. and i know he isnt transphobic. but something about him is off. its not a bad off, but its off.

[DR. MANN 11.10.25]

Oh my god. How did I let myself fall for him? How do I not make things awkward now? We don’t have privacy in our base, so its not like I can avoid him now.

We don’t have privacy in our base.

Fuck.

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[DR. CAMPBELL 10.31.25]

hello? is this reaching anyone? the comms system went offline for a few days i think. there was a bad storm. we lost half of the base, including the cryosleep chambers that we were GOING to sleep in if all of our scheduled planetary readings showed the same shitty data that its showing right now, but I GUESS WE CANT.

also, our crops are growing. they taste good.

[DR. MANN 10.31.25]

Wyatt is really angry. It's kind of.. weird? I don't think I've ever seen someone so pissed before, let alone Campbell. Like, I get it, I'm pissed too, but he's gone out of his way to kick every rock that he could find. To be honest, there aren't a lot of rocks. It's mostly ice and dust. I've got enough common sense to agree with him when he says we're fucked. I don't want him to be right, but I think he might be.

Personal note: I see it when he stares. I've been going out of my way to put on little shows for him. I think it's cute, watching him pretend he wasn't peeking when I'd, say, change my shirt. I don't know. I don't know if it's anything. We're friends. Like, he's hot, anyone could see that, but it's nothing more than that. I don't know. I mean, he is hot. But anyone could see that. Nothing more than common knowledge. Yep.

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[DR. MANN 10.28.25]

Hey there. I'm not quite sure what Wyatt's goal is with this thing, but I think its cool anyways. Didn't know we could contact earth. Almost makes me a little homesick. Wish you all well.

Personally, I suppose I've grown quite fond of him. And KIPP. They're both so great. KIPP likes to go out and preform atmospheric scans. ..None of the data he sends us looks good. I think I'm scared. I don't know if they'll come back for us. Not with how this planet looks.

[DR. CAMPBELL 10.28.25]

i made a little garden! so glad they sent us up prepared to live here for like. 5ever. nice soil, supplies for cultivating plants, the whole five yards. soo excited. excited because i get to watch jason tend to the crops? maybeee.. but im also excited to have a routine again that isnt "check the airlocks, calibrate the desired route." maybe ill finally feel human again.

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[DR. CAMPBELL 10.28.25]

heres a sketch i did of what i plan to make our new home look like! dr. mann insisted that i added another chair. ignore the smudge at the bottom, he grabbed the page earlier and his hands were gross :/

deep blue lighting cuz we have a night light on and hes already asleep (i made him do most of the base assembly so hes tired)

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[DR. CAMPBELL 10.28.25]

we finally set up base. there was a bad storm that passed through right after we arrived so we had to bolt the legs of the ship into the ground while we waited it out so it wouldnt tip over </3 but it was soo worth it cause i have a REAL bed now ugh

alsooo about the planet. we think theres another layer of land below us that might be habitable? honestly i doubt it but i dont see why not to at least check.

on a personal note: i think me and dr. mann have been getting along really well. its funny cause i actually didnt like him when we were back on earth. i thought he was always angry. i mean he is ,,,, but,, now that i know him better theres so much more to him. hes a little rough around the edges but i can tell that he really cares. its the little things, i think. i really enjoy spending time with him.

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[DR. CAMPBELL 10.27.25]

we just landed on the icy planet. so far.. not promising. dr. mann is being optimistic about it, but i can tell he's as scared as i am. ill update when we set up camp.