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Re: Captain Ahab seeks carnage (Tank Stream 11788)
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Tue, 9 May 2000 09:58:11 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, Richard Parsons writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, Peter White writes:
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> > I'll provide the battlefield, you warriors supply the troops and weaponry,
> > that way every warrior is on the same unlevel playing field.
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> Mmmmm. As I type, The Saucy Sue (which until recently was called Sea
> Princess) is casting off her moorings and easing out of spacedock at one
> quarter impulse, heading out above the ecliptic before engaging her stardrive
> for her trials and shakedown.
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> Captain Ahab, descendant of the brother of the great mariner (and early
> submariner) Captain Ahab, having destroyed all the whales on Earth without
> finding the white whale, seeks whaly types on other planets, on the basis that
> the white whale must have left Earth and gone to some other planet. And while
> he's about it, he's more than happy to obliterate any species/society/anarchic
> collective that's been at all sloppy about exterminating whaly types
> themselves. Actually, the whole whale thing has gotten a bit passé, so to be
> frank, Captain Ahab simply seeks carnage.
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> So he, his two tanker babes, his black guard, and his horde (well thirty-odd)
> of especially cross piratical space dudes are a'comin'.
Will the good Captain be wanting some blue baseplate like landing pond very
close to the action, does he expect a maritime engagement or while attempting
a dry landing may he exclaim "we shall bite them on the features!"
> Be afraid.
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> Oh, and pop out a keg of rum, will you?
Maybe I should build a small bar/saloon as the focus for all this Brickensian
frolic...
Its earth year 11788, some demented forces are planning a 1000th anniversary
of the first fleet landing in some far off land in some far off time....
any excuse for some imbibing, but things have changed....
Earth 11788 has changed a little bit, or a little bit has changed earth...
The meteor Larry has ploughed into earth at full throttle kicking up some
dust, but that was a couple of thousand Earth years ago.
A few frontier types have visited again, a bit of mining is happening and it's
associated activities.
What to expect ? Maybe a picnic ? Some other forces might have something else
in mind.
Just lucky the travellers come prepared, the natives may be wrestlers.
pete.w
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