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Expedition to PL21-13 is an original album about unpaid interns searching a swampy alien planet for a robot sent by their ancestors hundreds of years ago. It’s also the second in a series about fruit in space. Check it out on Bandcamp!

https://lemonectric.bandcamp.com/albu...

Clementine's Log 01
We’ve just awoken from our crisper pods. Hard to believe it’s been several months since we left planet Orange, but my body IS feeling pretty stiff, and the ship IS decelerating. According to the computer, we should be entering orbit around PL21-13 in a few hours. Zestavius, Citrella, and Valencia are all checking on their assigned equipment. I’ll be examining the data from the nuclear power core, but first I want to review the mission.

We’ve come here to look for a robot - specifically VES-0463, one of the Vessy probes launched from planet Grapefruit during the Plague just shy of 350 years ago. An astrohistorian recently dredged up an old report about this robot, finding that it lost contact in orbit around PL21-13 after sending just enough data to determine that the planet was incapable of supporting life. Of course, we now know that our ancestors were a little too strict about how they defined life.

The report also briefly mentions that the robot “may have initiated Project Seed,” a term nobody has ever seen referenced anywhere else. So there’s some historical value in our expedition, but I’m really in it for the possibility that we could discover life. Our stated mission is twofold: determine what happened to the robot and gather environmental data about the planet.