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[psykokow]

Getting Historical

The imperial museum of antiquities is spectacular with all Imperial history laid bare. Tour guides wander around answering patron’s questions.
Timmy was confused “So all Imperial’s wore capes?”
The tour guide grimaced “Yes, it was considered uniform and all workers had to wear one”
Timmy giggled “And they bought them out of machines like this in little pods?”
“Yes” the tour guide losing patience “As you can see it is empty now, a machine could store up to 1000 pods and we have over 10,000 machines in storage”
“Wow, so what did you do with all the ex cape pods?

 

[Darkoba]

The imperial museum of antiquities is spectacular with all Imperial history laid bare. Tour guides wander around answering patron’s questions....
.... so what did you do with all the ex cape pods?

Well done! A +6 groan on the Richter scale . (It could have been a +9 except it became a bit predictable.)

 

[Alien]

Prologue: Superman went on a tour of the universe, which lasted several centuries, and after seeing everything there was to see, decided to return back to Earth.

Superman was travelling through space, trying to get back to Earth, but was way off course.
Coming back into the Milky Way, he noticed some spacecraft at a star about 60,000 light years away from Earth on the other side of the galaxy, which he thought was strange.
Passing Sagittarius A*, he saw ships ejecting canisters of mugs and pushing them into the supermassive black hole.
Passing Maia, he detected a signal coming from unknown artifacts.
Arriving on Earth, things had changed. A passing citizen stopped their SRV, opened the door, saw his attire and remarked "An S cape? Odd."

 

[Simoof]

Well done! A +6 groan on the Richter scale . (It could have been a +9 except it became a bit predictable.)

Richter scale? I thought we always measured Kows drabbles on the rectum scale.

 

[Frank]

Well done! A +6 groan on the Richter scale . (It could have been a +9 except it became a bit predictable.)

The predictability of a pun adds to its groanworthiness. There should be an impending sense of doom when someone spots a weird name that looks like it could be part of a highly construed pun. Sometimes I announce a week in advance that my next Drabble is going to be a pun.

 

[RoyalHankey]

Title:- Mission number 1946842893566427615BTM

It was a tense time for Captain Rascon and Captain Winnard.
Their mission was to go and find a escape pod in a system near Sagitarius 'A' .
Rascon went in an Anaconda because he kept bumping into things.
Winnard went in a pink asp so he could be seen.
They plotted all the waypoints and scoop points.
They eventually arrived at the planet, which they then landed on.
Rascon plotted the search pattern with plenty of waypoints so he wouldn't collide with anything.
After a bit they found the escape pod.
When they opened it, it was a poopyhead alien.

 

[psykokow]

wow we are ever encroaching that 1000th post!! EEEK... what happens??

 

[Ian Phillips]

10,000.....

 

[Rascon]

The Pod That Broke The Python's Back

The SRV bounced and sent another pain up his Spine. Weeks spent recovering poor unfortunates who had been shot down.


Keep recovering them he was told, the people will love us for our humanitarianism and vote for us in the election.


Returning to his ship another painful bounce caused him to crack. He went to the hold and filled some pods with every bit of crap he could get his hands on. Biowaste, Chemical waste and scrap.
Flying back to Crampton’s he saw the purple python docked, he dropped down for a low pass.

“you want bloody pods!”

“Cargo Jettisoned”.

 

[Galactic Midden]

He Got Out

Escape pods they call them; the ultimate getaway from it all when times are tough. The designer ones are always manufactured in exclusive locations. Here in this luxurious waiting lounge high in the jungle canopy of Reorte I marvel at the customisations available as a beautiful customer services technician takes my measurements and prepares the capsule.

Aisha you were right, this beats the over the counter stuff in every way.

Aisha stares motionless across the room as science runs through us, making us Gods.

Aisha, my love, we'll soon meet again amongst the stars... Aisha, I'm confused... Aisha, I'm vibrating.

 

[Galactic Midden]

wow we are ever encroaching that 1000th post!! EEEK... what happens??

Insertion point inversion, and then we cook the potato

 

[Alien]

01 - Frank - It's a conspiracy I tells ya!
02 - Edith_The_Hutt - Welcome aboard
03 - Simoof - Ex-caped Mods
- Cmdr FluffyBun - Phylum under "E" - Not entered yet, but if entered, is in this position in the list
04 - Insanephoton - The Uncomfortable Truth
05 - Psykokow - Getting Historical
06 - Alien - Prologue: Superman went on a tour of the universe, which lasted several centuries, and after seeing everything there was to see, decided to return back to Earth.
07 - RoyalHankey - Mission number 1946842893566427615BTM
08 - Rascon - The Pod That Broke The Python's Back
09 - Galatic Midden - He Got Out

That's half the permitted number of entries (incl FluffyBun). You have about 48 hours to enter a drabble. That's about 2,880 minutes or 172,800 seconds. Unfortunately Erik Marcaigh will need exactly 10 seconds more than that to write a winning drabble and will rush it and thus not win.

Don't be Erik! Get it written, get it entered. The power of PotatoKow compels you!

 

[DaddyHoggy]

Dumped

He had survived the ambush from the two Imperial Eagles in what was supposed to be a safe, dark system. His Viper, however, was in a bad way. Hull integrity was non-existent and he was venting atmosphere from a dozen ruptures. His drive was almost charged despite the damaged power couplings. He eyed the countdown on his emergency life support. He was going to make it. The ship juddered violently as the drive engaged, warning klaxons screamed. His perception lurched with brain crushing acceleration. The ship had jumped but had spat him out in the escape pod, alive but doomed.

 

[moose666]

Crowbaring it in, for science!

"Arcturan scientific, this is Librarian flight one, approaching target zone"
The dropship skimmed over the ice world, heading towards a steep mountain.

"Confirmed, our observer has you on radar"
"This is occulus seven, now deploying flare, you should see us approximately two zero degrees starboard"

A red flare shot upwards.
"We see you, 2 clicks to drop"

The dropship turned towards the flare, it opened its cargo hatch.
"Package ready, deploying now"

A capsule dropped out, and fell gently down.

The capsule burst open, revealing an orang-outang in a space suit, and skis.
The ski ape pod was a success.

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

Hard Reset

"It's right here in the Guinness Book of Galactic Records! 'Most people in a standard Faulcon deLacy Escape Pod' is seventeen. We can beat that!"

Alien rolled her eyes and crawled in, shoving her foot in the middle of Simoof's neck, breaking it and killing him. He let out some gas and everyone yelled at him to stop stinking the place up.

"That's Alien in now with Kow, Midden, Moof, Frank, Insanephoton, Hutt, Rascon, RoyalHankey, Steph, MrMogadon, moose666, Darkoba, FluffyBun, Coutts, FelixBast, Winnard, and Splendour! Eighteen!"

Erik slammed the door shut and programmed the pod's flight course into the star.

 

[Darkoba]

"That's Alien in now with Kow, Midden, Moof, Frank, Insanephoton, Hutt, Rascon, RoyalHankey, Steph, MrMogadon, moose666, Darkoba, FluffyBun, Coutts, FelixBast, Winnard, and Splendour! Eighteen!"

Erik slammed the door shut and programmed the pod's flight course into the star.

Kept us alive???!!! To then send us into a star??!! That, Sir, is weelly weely cwuel!

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

Kept us alive???!!! To then send us into a star??!! That, Sir, is weelly weely cwuel!

I didn't keep you alive.

I kept AliJax alive though.
And T.j.
And Ventura_.
And rootsrat.
And.... etc.

 

[Darkoba]

I didn't keep you alive.

I kept AliJax alive though.
And T.j.
And Ventura_.
And rootsrat.
And.... etc.

Who, relieved at having been spared the horrible experience of being flung into a star, will undoubtedly vote for your drabble and make you winner! A dastardly scheme, Sir, if I may say so... and quite clever, really

 

[Galactic Midden]

Who, relieved at having been spared the horrible experience of being flung into a star, will undoubtedly vote for your drabble and make you winner! A dastardly scheme, Sir, if I may say so... and quite clever, really

Except that there's eighteen of us who have long memories and won't vote his way because of such manipulation.

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

Except that there's eighteen of us who have long memories and won't vote his way because of such manipulation.

I don't get voted unless I steal, er, plagaraiz... um, recycle a previous drabble anyway.

So where are the rest of the drabbles this week? Or did I kill off everyone too quickly?