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

*looks up*
look
*points as space ship roars over head*
that is an arthurlina ship, what the hell is an arthulian battle ship doing in 19th century earth?!?!!
and tell me its not going to stop where i think its going to stop

Is there a guide entry on the arthurlians? I could do with reading up, glad some one's up on his spacecraft recognition.
Just out of intrest, was the schooner in bound?

yes look its stopped over the schooner

Are they going to beam it up, or sink it??

they'er beaming it up!

I have had a search of the guide and can't find Arthurlians in there, also googled it so going on my interpretation of their name:
They are a race of seekers often very inquisitive, various sects are scattered across the Galaxy searching for their version of the Holy Grail. Their home system sounds pretty stable for them to send out war ships, If they get in trouble they usually invoke project Excalibur which they have done in the past to sort out civil unrest, they are constantly on the look out for a Guy called Merlin who was once one of their Shaman believed to have discovered time travel an disappeared one day long ago.

Are these the same guys?

yes but this ship shows time damage its as if they were trapped in the vortex and gone mad!

O.K. so you're doing your God thing, picking up the vibe on the alien space ship. I get the idea that they were highly telepathic too, hence it'd be easier for you to do that. Do you recon they'll make it back home or will they need to land to make repairs?

i dont think they're going home as they have just taken the schooner and therefore are outlaws

But if this Shami Rham or whoever was on the schooner, turns out to be the 1854 incarnation of Merlin, then they'll be welcomed home as heroes. Yes I know it's against Galactic Law to interfere with emerging species, but maybe the earth at the time wouldn't understand extradition. They were discrete in carrying out the abduction at night over water,

Did you see the film the Dark Knight, where Batman abducted a guy from Hong Kong. Still you've got the nod to judge it as you see it, they might actually have done Victorian Britain a favour.

quick back to the ship they've started up their time rotors

Now that is a bit naughty, they aren't supposed to do that within 100 clics of any populated area lets go then.

*CLICKS WATCH*

*and is teleported back to the ship*
computer activatie time drive

O.K. that was interesting, are we going to have debriefing now or have I got ten minutes to run a time lapse algorythm on this ale sample in the replicator.You wouldn't want a flat beer would you. Should we have debrief in the mess in 10 minutes then, I'm having fish supper and a pint, any one else got any requests. Of course if you want to keep it more formal I'm easy.

we need to leave as soon as possible before we lose the trace

What! You're going to follow the Arthurlians? Almost getting caught in their temporal wake wasn't scary enough for you? Oh well Venture Adventure I suppose, is there anything I can do to help, or should I just stay quiet for a bit?

arghh
*hits monitor*
it'll take 24 hours for the time drive to power up

OK professor Johansen at starfleet wrote a paper on this, all theoretical at the time of course but, if we record the Time rotors temporal signature now, we can follow them in space by tracking the temporal wake, then when our own Time Drive comes on line we can be when they are too.

I hope these watches are water proof... I don't mind a channel swim, I can do it my sleep, but putting together a time device with 19th century materials can be tedious. Hat floats? ...hat floats. What kind of transporter device are these Arthurlians using anyway? One can get serious radiation burns if they don't evacuate the locus one is to emerge in ahead of one on account of seredipitous nuclear fusion accidents and I may not be able to get aloe vera salad locally... Let alone anything more modern. They'll probably be an apothecary or herbalist in town with St. John's Wort though.