h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[Ketsar] }Hey! Affy! Anyone!{

[Poxlu] {We got bored.}

[Ketsar] }Yeah, so could we go on a space mission?{

[Poxlu] {We have /permission/ from Mom and Dad to go to the Cygnus constellation.}

*Looks up from his work*

Well, a jaunt to the Cygnus System would be fun. Not been there in ages. Can't even remember what it was like, really. Other than getting a ticket for racing an asteroid and crashing into a police ship. Other than that, though, it went pretty well.

*Motions to Ampton to go to the Hangar and start up a ship upon receiving the order to do so*

Any specific kind of ship you want to go in? We've got the UFOs (in the standard saucer shape), but we've got a few others. Shuttlecraft, Scout Ships, Carriers, Kestrels, pretty much anything from sci-fi can be found here. I'd recommend a smaller ship, because those are more fun to have to run from danger in. If your ship is too powerful, you can just blast away enemies, and that's no fun. Anywy, what kind of ship were you thinking about using?

[Ketsar] }Well, we were thinking of a Sith Infiltrator.{

[Poxlu] {But that ain't gonna happen, so we've decided to go in a Star Trek Voyager runabout.}

[Ketsar] }And that's just about all we know about runabouts, except that the ones in DS9 seem to be only able to beam two people at a time, but they do more than that anyway.{

[Poxlu] {And it isn't the Cygnus /system/ we're after, it's the constellation. Here.}

[She takes out a palmtop computer with the words, "Don't Panic!" written in large, friendly letters on the cover. (Don't ask me /where/ she takes it out of -- I'll think of something! ) She opens it up, fiddles with it a bit, and shows Affy a hopelessly complex star chart. She deselects "Black Holes" and "Earth Constellational Stars" and presses the "Invert Selection" button. It now only shows the stars that make up the constellation Cygnus in the forms of pentagrams and what they're called, and it also shows a point directly in the middle along the "neck" bit marked with the hurricane symbol and the words, "Cygnus X-1." She indicates Cygnus X-1.]

[Poxlu] {There. There's a Black Hole here.}

Oh, a black hole, eh? Those're fun. And while we're their, I can salvage a bit of the dense matter for a profit. Cool.

*Sends the ship type and extra installations to Ampton*

It'll be ready soon.

[Ketsar] }Cool.{

[Poxlu] {We ought to start a new forum for that.}

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