[SITH WAR 2002]: _Endor's Revenge_
Policraticus: The Real McEwok
screens on the _Sing_'s recently-repaired bridge. "Whit's gangin oan?
Ah cannae see onything frae Ponte, and ah hive nae idea quhit the
Porkinites are daein' an' aw. Am ah the anely ane quha is sae lost wi'
aw this?"
"Not exactly," demured the ship.
"Aye?" asked McEwok, cocking a furry eyebrow. "Weel. Deploy the
Luddite Star. It's time tae teach these Porkinites the quhit weir is
aw aboot."
The ship nodded.
"Action!" it said
In Odessa, Marlene Deitrich, who had been recruited on the Sith
Warriors' Berlin sojourn and anachronistically cast as Catherine the
Great, stepped onto the podium, draped with somewhat incongruous
Soviet Flags, and lifted the bottle of Ukranian champagne out of its
basket.
For a moment, she peered at the subspace field sitting in the drydock,
then shrugged.
"I name this Luddite Star," she said, giving the bottle a hearty
shove. "_Endor's Revenge_!"
The bottle spun forwards, passed through the subspace field, and
smashed perfectly on the bows of the _Endor's Revenge_.
The crowds cheered, the orchestra struck up the Soveit National
Anthem, and with a slow rumble that the music could not quite drown
out, a massive spherical shape was discharged from the subspace field,
and rose skywards. For a moment, it hung in the air above the
terraformed upperworks of the GSV, allowing the watching crewmembers,
Equity members, boyars, kulaks, serfs and dockyard workers a
spectacular view of its black-caulked hull
The _Sing_ had had to use high-strength polymers in some of the
structural frames and ceramic compounds in the caulking tar, and the
casing of the hypermatter reactor was constructed from non-ferrous
stone, but the basic principle had been exhaustively proved with
prototypes and computer modeling.
The Counterculture's first wooden Death Star was fully operational.
On the overbridge of the _Endor's Revenge_, the Man with the Golden
Lightsaber listened to the creak of the deck beneath his feet, and the
song of the solar wind in the rigging, and glanced across the dials on
the brass gauges of the command repeater array.
Then, with a flicker of pseudomotion, the Luddite Star _Endor's
Revenge_ leapt into hyperspace, bound for the RASS* System.
Daniel O. Miller
> The Counterculture's first wooden Death Star was fully operational.
Har! I wish I was into the present Sith War, my all-analog Maltesium
Falcon would be a perfect match for this... But I have nothing against the
people you're up agin'.
Daniel O. Miller
"Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Neither do I! I made
it last night in my sleep. Apparently I used gindrogac - highly unstable!
I put a button on it, yes? I wish to press it, but I'm not sure what will
happen if I do..." - Gune
WWYD?
Policraticus: The Real McEwok
> On 9 Jun 2002, Policraticus: The Real McEwok wrote:
>
> > The Counterculture's first wooden Death Star was fully operational.
>
> Har! I wish I was into the present Sith War, my all-analog Maltesium
> Falcon would be a perfect match for this... But I have nothing against the
> people you're up agin'.
There's a logical flaw in that sentence.
And ye're lapsin' intae Scottis agin'...
> Daniel O. Miller
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