Captain Star-trooper - Chapter Two

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   He lent back and looked out over the cosmos in all of their vibrant glory. They went on for what seemed like forever... till time seemed to stand still and the stars there, well one could only guess, were so fine a being could flow them away like gold dust. 3

The captain began to wonder exactly how many stars he \had\ been past - and how many black hole's reaches he had narrowly missed - 'two million?' he thought, but his thought was only a mere guess; the real answer to his question was much much more.4

"Five minutes till landing at Graxion Space Station at current speed nineteen"5

"Right" he said pleased. He turned the direction lever a quarter to the right and he was heading directly for Graxion to his delight. 6

He noticed that the Grax technicians had built onto the station in all directions even from his distance. The shape of the Graxion space station couldn't be called a square or a triangular shape because the station wasn't built as one shape; the Graxion station had iron pillars, domes, spikes and what-not coming out in all direction for what ever reason that were built to serve for and it looked quite extraordinary indeed. 7

'Oh, the good days' thought he deeply wishing that he could spend more of his life at Graxion like he had done in his childhood, 'Oh the good old days'.8

"We should come here more often" said Dana thoughtfully, "a very nice place indeed"9

Sometimes he did like the fact Dana could see everything he could see - that being everything in eyes view through the glass in his helm - she was a great observer. "Indeed it is"10

"Reducing speed to five, sir, prepare to use break button captain"11

As he hovered his index finger over the brake button the sudden thought of succulent roast meat: pig, gragathons, sheep, trasmos and other such meat swam through his brain and his mouth began to water; he was getting tired of swallowing the same old same old 'vitamin and mineral' tablets he had taken from his space bases larder before take of in his pod.12

He began to press the buttons in front of him - each one preparing the ship one little step closer for a safe landing; the front wheel was easing its way out from the pod's body and as too where the two located at the back.13

Star-trooper let out one great-big-sigh for the station was a mere one-hundred meters away and he could almost smell the scent of cooking food inside...or was that just his mind and stomach playing tricks?14

As he neared to the landing dock, located outside of the station, he could see the shapes of maintenance men sweeping the docks clean from fallen bits of space debree into a great big mulchior to the side of the dock. A martial waves him over to his bay; in a short slice of time Star-trooper had the SPACETREKKER 2000 landed and ready to vacate. He began to hoist himself out of the hatch in the roof but his departure was cut short because he realised, at that one moment, his legs would no longer work for him.15

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