Escape Pod Pilot
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I was seduced by a glossy brochure promising exciting employment opportunities exploring idyllic blue-green worlds and studying the peaceful, compassionate inhabitants. I'd planned for the money earned from this temp job to allow me to return to my preferred occupation as an inter-galactic space gypsy.
It wasn't long before I realized the brochure's description had been somewhat misleading.
While this planet is truly a blue-green paradise, I've found that many of the most advanced species living here have resigned themselves to spend unhappy lives traveling through windowless gray corridors, unaware of the joy that lies beyond. Many were neither peaceful or compassionate.
Study of the dominate life-form on this planet has often left me confused and concerned. Sadly, the loyalty, selflessness, and non-judgmental welcome I'd hope to find in humans, I've found to be more common in lesser life-forms routinely abused by humans for pleasure or for profit.
I suspect that I was sent here by mistake, and believe it will be impossible for me to fulfill the commitments of my employment. Therefore, I have begun construction of a transport vehicle – an “Escape Pod”, to enable my early departure.
Cleverly, I've designed my Escape Pod to look exactly like a 2008 Pleasure-Way Lexor Class B recreational vehicle. While I continue to modify the vehicle for interstellar travel, no one will ever by able to guess its real purpose (other than those, of course, who take the time to phonetically read my California vanity license plate, which says, basically, “Escape Pod”).
Co-incident to building my “RV”, I discovered the website CheapRVLiving. While originally interested in information about modifications of vehicles similar to my own (although, presumably, not for the same purpose), I've found the the perspective common here to be what I'd hoped to find when I arrived on this planet. Here are people who have chosen, or been forced, to explore beyond their windowless gray corridors. People bonded by their independence and their resilience. People with pets.
I hope to meet a few of you at the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous next month. I'm particularly interested in talking to someone with experience in converting a General Motors Vortec internal combustion engine into an antimatter fueled propulsion source.
I also might need a solar panel.
See you soon,
Escape Pod Pilot
Dog is my co-pilot (but she only gets to steer if I've been drinking)
P.S.
I'll bring fruit.
It wasn't long before I realized the brochure's description had been somewhat misleading.
While this planet is truly a blue-green paradise, I've found that many of the most advanced species living here have resigned themselves to spend unhappy lives traveling through windowless gray corridors, unaware of the joy that lies beyond. Many were neither peaceful or compassionate.
Study of the dominate life-form on this planet has often left me confused and concerned. Sadly, the loyalty, selflessness, and non-judgmental welcome I'd hope to find in humans, I've found to be more common in lesser life-forms routinely abused by humans for pleasure or for profit.
I suspect that I was sent here by mistake, and believe it will be impossible for me to fulfill the commitments of my employment. Therefore, I have begun construction of a transport vehicle – an “Escape Pod”, to enable my early departure.
Cleverly, I've designed my Escape Pod to look exactly like a 2008 Pleasure-Way Lexor Class B recreational vehicle. While I continue to modify the vehicle for interstellar travel, no one will ever by able to guess its real purpose (other than those, of course, who take the time to phonetically read my California vanity license plate, which says, basically, “Escape Pod”).
Co-incident to building my “RV”, I discovered the website CheapRVLiving. While originally interested in information about modifications of vehicles similar to my own (although, presumably, not for the same purpose), I've found the the perspective common here to be what I'd hoped to find when I arrived on this planet. Here are people who have chosen, or been forced, to explore beyond their windowless gray corridors. People bonded by their independence and their resilience. People with pets.
I hope to meet a few of you at the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous next month. I'm particularly interested in talking to someone with experience in converting a General Motors Vortec internal combustion engine into an antimatter fueled propulsion source.
I also might need a solar panel.
See you soon,
Escape Pod Pilot
Dog is my co-pilot (but she only gets to steer if I've been drinking)
P.S.
I'll bring fruit.
