Dragonfly

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Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen of Earth and all native intelligences of the forty planets with contestants entered in the annual Grande Trex, the only inter-universal race. This year's event promises excitement to surpass all previous races. As many of you fans know already the route or track of the race, orbits and glides has been increased by 5,000 million kilometres, thus enabling Grande Trex to include the B'Arc 15 system.

Dragonfly, dragonfly, satellite, strike and fight
laser light shot tonight, target nullified, gyro subdivide
Latitude, longitude, satellite, solid substitute
Dragonfly, arc revise

What's a drag race? Can't you see those dragons speeding up the street?
But I learned they weren't real, figments of the ancients' fear

Rapid scan radians for the chance to win the Grande
Manoeuvres, pre-program, windage won't operate
Negative bearing swell

Dragons fly, they symbolise in myth and saga breathing fire
Look up, there's one flying higher, faster than the SSC
Is science hiding witchery?

Grande Trex fans throughout the universe are well informed on the risks the pilots take in entering this race. Re-entry into some of the alien atmospheres is tricky business, which can cause a craft to implode, explode, melt, lose atomic structure and so forth, adding to the interstellar degree that is, on its own, a terrific danger to the ships en route. Surface craft are scheduled to launch at 0700.51 Greenwich Mean Time and are assembled on one of our very own stars in this year's event. And the excitement is at a fever pitch as the countdown approaches zero.

Dragonfly, rations glide, in free-fall slide, systems nullify
Satellite, Dragonfly, surface launch, radio silence
Hover high, level off

The time space tactics saved us then, display, report, present, urgent
Sequence counting surface launch, Dragonfly destroying all
Science claiming newest findings, chanting, calling flying dragons
All aboard, systems optimum, nova scheduled, war continued
Half the continental shelf burned by interval
Interval

We have retained as an added feature of daring thrills and excitement of this race, a feature which I'm sure you're going to like - the computer override lasting three and a half hours to two gens during which pilots and co-pilots manually control free-fall, latitude, longitude, protract gravity, revise dimensional equations, run program checks, submerge in the wild oceans of Jonrin 22 to photograph as much territory and terrain as they can, in addition to the requisite three thousand automatic shots. The postulate for mischance runs high but not as high as the tension and competitive spirit right here and all over the galaxies.

Dragonfly, Dragonfly, beacons aim, space game
Satellite, computerised, Dragonfly, hypersonic glide
Win the race, calibrate, re-entry place, fail safe

The countdown is -200 and I am turning you over to the control room at command central for the launch. Good luck to all the entrants and especially to our own ship Dragonfly!

Beacons, lasers, quasars, guns mounted on deck, rapid survey reactor, fail safe radians. Extra points awarded for city salvage delivered at the finish line [preferably retaining molecular identity].

 

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