A Trip To Planet S.

© 1999 Marion Kelt

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How unusual!

Instead of the usual high-pitched screaming of the retro-thrusters there was only a muffled thump. The surface of this planet must be vegetated or perhaps covered in a dry sandy topsoil.

Captain Alan Tomney of the Galactic Expeditionary Force rearranged himself in the pilot's chair of the one-person SpaceMap craft and reached for the exterior viewer controls.

He began the preliminary scan on visual mode, then cursed softly under his breath and hit the console a mighty wallop. The display on screen in front of him wobbled a bit, but became no clearer.

All it showed was a fuzzy view of a rolling landscape of blue-grey hillocks. Sighing to himself, he switched on the AudioCapture facility in his suit. He was glad that he had remembered to keep it switched off during landing and his first sight of this new territory.

Especially after the embarrassing stubbed toe incident in which his whole vocabulary of colourful space curses had somehow got played back to the entire corps. Alan grinned ruefully - at least some of the younger troopers had found it educational.

'Preliminary visual scan shows indistinct uneven planetary surface of blue-grey colour. The edges of the surface appear fuzzy, as if the surface is covered by some type of dry loose matter'.

 

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