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Orbiter screenshots - Grand Flagplanting Tour Chapter 4
Out and around the Red Devil, an expedition was packing up for departure.
Time was short.
| | The Main Star above Red Devil. It's going to be much darker further on. |
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| | Half way away from inner system to the outer, there is a time for one adjustment to their course. |
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| | A perfect time to put a flag on one more World. |
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| | A World that is as vast as can not be imagined. |
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| | A World that every other world inhabit. |
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| | This flag belongs to Space. |
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| | To fly along the Failure's pull. Away into the endless nothing. That makes us all exist. |
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| | But that far is not in their immediate way. Failure awaits. |
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| | Failure Of A Star, a world that is by size the second only to the Main Star. |
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| | To big to be a useful planet, to small to be a useful star. |
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| | No rings, no special shapes, no minerals, large gang of moons. |
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| | The Failure screams with death instead of what should have been starlight. |
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| | It would have been unwise to stay among these screams for long. |
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| | A Spikey Rock is nicely placed around. |
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| | It's depths providing perfect haven. |
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| | For the Deep Star to wait untill the same same job is done. |
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| | Starting, unsurprisingly, from the Spikey itself. |
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| | The Failure lurks behind the spikes, too thick to let it's screams to pass. It's time to set off. |
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| | The nearby Red Rock gets the same treatment as the Gloating Demon, but for different reasons. |
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| | The Sulfur Bath. Intimidating, hot, and cold. It's turn will not be next. |
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| | There is no way for flag to live below on the enormouse gas ball or to survive the down trip. |
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| | So it is set between the two - the Sulfur Bath and it's master. A place where it will stay for some longer time. |
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| | The Red-hot world above will be the next one. But, sweeping back among it's shadow, the unexpected happens. |
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| | The fuel is gone, the hull is sieved, it's glitter being a thing of past, the Ravenstar emerged into the light. |
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| | Whatever hit it was not very dense, or there will be nothing left. |
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| | No way to fix it, no way to improvise a drive. |
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| | No answer to the mayday calls being sent into the endless void. |
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| | In Space, noone can hear you scream. |
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| | Until the Spikey emerges from behind the Failure, that is. Before long, the help arrives. |
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| | One lander used as a tug boat to get the injured Star back to the whole one. |
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| | Another goes on to get the started job done. |
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| | Down, to the mix of molten rock and freezing cold. |
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| | To get on to the sulfurous surface without any problems. |
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| | The flag, once more, goes out. |
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| | And the tainted world is left behind. |
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| | There might be more than a Garden's spin of time to go, yet there is a ship to fix and a whole domain of moons to flag. He looked back at the inner worlds, where wasting time was the only thing to do. Regret and envy are worthless anyway. |
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To be continued... Some day... In another life... Quite likely never.
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