Star Ship Rollerprise
Mission Disposal of waste substances (episode 3)
by Annette Schwindt
Space... the final frontier... these are the voyages of star ship Rollerprise, its continuing mission, light-years away from integration: to bring Rollanians and Footonians closer together... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
First officer's logbook, stardate: Sundayevening 18.23h
Mission: Get rid of waste substances
18.24h: On the way through hyperspace. Captain reporting critical rise in pressure within his
concentration of waste substances created by in- and digestion of nutrition.
18.25h: Looking for suitable spacestation in this sector. Pressure rising continuingly and
approaching critical situation.
Yellow alarm!
18.30h: Five more lightyears until next possibility to dock at. Critical situation almost reached.
Orange alarm!
18.35h: Arriving in Footonian spacestation in the last second. Gladly noticing existance of special docking station for disposal of waste substances for Rollanians. Rollerprise has already been surrounded by poison gas but Captain saving the spaceship by starting disposal program for waste substances.
18.40h: Being the first officer I have taken position on the bridge in order to wait for the Captain's return. Inspecting docking station in the meantime from the orbit to get to know more about Footonian architecture.
19.03h: Incoming call for help from the Captain, terrible noises then connection to the inside
of the station ends abruptly.
Preparing saving team!
19.05h: Trying to regain connection to the Captain by sending accoustic signals to his last
known position.
In vain...
19.10h: Footonians answering my emergency call by sending a security expert in order to set the Captain free from the docking station. Finding the Captain in terrifying state. Apparently he has been the victim of a flood catastrophy with following heat wave!
Captain's report, stardate: Sundayevening 19.15h: Escaped from the danger in the last moment. After starting the disposal program for waste substances at stardate 18.35h everything went on as scheduled. Towards the end of the mission suddenly problems occurred. There is obviously a subspace distortion within the Footonian docking station causing the above mentioned phenomenon.
19.48h: Have been exploring the subspace-distortion after Footonian apology-ceremony. Security expert declared that Footonians only intend to help the Rollanians. Thus the slightest movement of the disposal agent in direction of gates leads to automatical two phase subspace distortion. Intention: facilitating the traditional Rollanian cleaning ceremony that is misunderstood as complicated by the Footonians by sending a directed cleaning cleaning-ray into the disposing Rollanian areas followed by a drying airstream with strong temperature rise.
Annotation: Getting to know that the Footonians even plan to construct fully automatical disposal stations for all species that are supposed to function only by temporal parameters anymore and to dissolve into a black hole after usage!
19.54h: Captain recognizes danger for Rollanian species. Admitting access for Footonian security expert to all relevant information about Rollanian disposal-system of waste substances. Asking for modification of disposal-automatism and forwarding to all other docking stations. Not sure though if our consulting will lead to permanent change of Footonian behaviour. Captain reminds of first directive: Be lenient toward them!
20.13h: Leaving Footonian station through general hyperspacegate. Intend to avoid such stations in the future. Sending a warning report to the Rollanian high council as soon as getting out of the range of the Fotonnian scanners and go on Warp... Engage!
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