The Skylost

Copperfox

Copperfox

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Think of "generation ships":-- slower-than-light starships which need to provide the means for generations of pioneering populations to stay alive during centuries of isolation from the universe as a whole. The third or fourth generation might forget that there even WAS any universe outside their hull. Keir Dullea of "Space Odyssey" fame, and Walter Koenig from "Babylon Five," both delivered their usual excellent performances in "The Starlost." Nothing about my parody here implies disapproval of the premise or the actors. But the series was canceled before Dullea's character could figure out how to correct the ship's course before it flew directly into a star.

Hence our premise. We'll start where Keir Dullea started in the show; thinking there wasn't anything outside the hull to be discovered.
 
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Fiddles and bongo drums urged the six-couple dancing circles to swing and swirl even faster. The newlyweds wavered between enjoyment of the dancing and impatience to trot away down the honeymoon tunnel.

A yellow-skirted girl knocked the hat from Truck Borden's head; a brown-skirted girl retrieved it for him. Not interested in either girl, Truck beckoned a third girl, steering her in a direction opposite from the newlyweds. Ipp


{{ Kaldur Sodalburg is the villain, but I still need to decide why someone having a faster-than-light ship needs to hijack a generation ship; where he GOT his own starship; and if he actually WANTS the ship to be incinerated. }} vvvvvv
 
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EveningStar said:
Quick Question...in the post above, are those zeroes or Oh's? ;-)
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EveningStar said:
Quick Question...in the post above, are those zeroes or Oh's? ;-)
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They are zeroes. The reason why I put _any_ alphanumerics in a post waiting to be used is in order to have a type font selected in advance. I _hate_ using the default sans- serif, because it is _blah!_ Using diverse fonts enables me to differentiate stories, chapters and "major sections."

Before I get back to bed, a footnote. For some time, I've been thinking about how to counteract the _staggering_ existential despondency of Jack Vance's novel "The Dying Earth." It rivals H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" for gloom and doom. Stories like this are _why_ I first imagined Hopecrusher Central. Thus, I probably shall cause the generation ship to be a McGuffin for the revival of a perishing world. Refer to "Deteriorating Earth," which I depicted as existing in the Triangulum Galaxy.
 
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