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The Space Explorers - A Magic Library Adventure - A Bedtime Story · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime Stories. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to head back to a universe we haven't
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  Speaker 1: visited in a while unless you listen to the compilation
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  Speaker 1: episode on the weekend, of course, the Magic Library. I
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  Speaker 1: had a couple suggestions that made me think about this
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  Speaker 1: entire universe again, and that's why we're getting to it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's check out the first one here.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Hannah. I'm from Westminster, Colorado, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm eight years old, and I was like a story
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  Speaker 2: of suggestion for the Magic Library series, where did you
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  Speaker 2: go into a spacebook and you brought like a pencil
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  Speaker 2: and a raser with you and these alien guys they
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  Speaker 2: get your eraser from them from you, and they erase
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  Speaker 2: the pages of the story and then you have to
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  Speaker 2: stop them.
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  Speaker 3: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: I love your podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Hannah, thank you very much for that idea. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a great one and a great reason to
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  Speaker 1: get back into this series that I really haven't done
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  Speaker 1: in a while. But I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: liked at the time. I also want to give a
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  Speaker 1: big shout out to somebody else who wrote in and
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  Speaker 1: made me kind of want to do this episode. Amala.
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  Speaker 1: Amala wrote in asking for a spaceship episode where you
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  Speaker 1: go to a planet with books that kind of suck
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  Speaker 1: you in, and I thought that sounds a lot like
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  Speaker 1: the Magic Library. Why don't we just do a Magic
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  Speaker 1: Library episode? So, Amala, this one is for you as well.
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  Speaker 1: If you like the podcast and want it to continue,
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  Speaker 1: episodes free of like this possible one that helps support
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. Now it's time to close your eyes, get
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  Speaker 1: as comfy as you can in that bed, and imagine
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  Speaker 1: yourself doing what the kid in the story does. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you listen to the other Magic Library stories, then
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  Speaker 1: you already know how this works. Somewhere in your room,
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  Speaker 1: hidden in plain sight, is a very special key, a
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  Speaker 1: key that can open a doorway to a place full
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  Speaker 1: of endless books, endless adventures, and stories that don't just
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  Speaker 1: sit on the page. There, because in the Magic Library,
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  Speaker 1: the stories come to life. And tonight you're gonna step
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  Speaker 1: into one of them once again. You find yourself sitting
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  Speaker 1: in your very own room on a day that feels
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  Speaker 1: kind of slow. There's nothing wrong, exactly, but it's just
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  Speaker 1: one of those days where nothing seems exciting, the weather's
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  Speaker 1: not all that inviting, and you've already done most of
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  Speaker 1: the things you like doing. You look around your room
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  Speaker 1: wondering what should come next, and then you see it,
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  Speaker 1: resting right where you left It is the old key,
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  Speaker 1: the key to the magic library. You'd almost forgotten about it. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: your day starts to feel like it might be getting
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  Speaker 1: a little more interesting. You get up off of your bed,
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  Speaker 1: walk over to the key and pick it up in
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  Speaker 1: your hand. It feels cool and heavy, but important. You
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  Speaker 1: walk to a clear section of the wall in your
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  Speaker 1: room and hold the key out toward it. Just before
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  Speaker 1: the key touches the wall, a magical keyhole appears. Oh well,
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  Speaker 1: you say to yourself, that's still pretty amazing. You slide
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  Speaker 1: the key into the keyhole and turn it. There's a click,
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  Speaker 1: and at once a glowing outline of a door appears
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  Speaker 1: in the wall, along with a little doorknob. You grab
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  Speaker 1: a hold of the doorknob, pull it open and reveal
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  Speaker 1: a secret passageway, one that you know leads to the library.
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  Speaker 1: You grin and step inside. Down the stairs through a
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  Speaker 1: long stone hallway until you finally come to a great
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  Speaker 1: wooden door at the end. You grab the handle, pull
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  Speaker 1: it open, and step inside the magic Library. It's just
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  Speaker 1: as incredible as ever. Books lide in the walls in
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  Speaker 1: every direction, stacked on shelves that reach upward floor after floor,
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  Speaker 1: winding staircases, cozy reading nooks, railings overlooking lower sections, and
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  Speaker 1: of course books floating through the air using their own
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  Speaker 1: covers like little magical wings. Welcome back, says a familiar voice,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the librarian. You look around, though, of
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  Speaker 1: course you know by now that you're not actually going
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  Speaker 1: to see anybody. The voice simply seems to come from
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  Speaker 1: the library itself, or maybe it is the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the library itself. Hey, you say, I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: hoping for another adventure. I had a feeling you might be,
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  Speaker 1: says the librarian. And tonight I believe I have just
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  Speaker 1: the thing. You begin walking down the stairs toward the
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  Speaker 1: large reading area in the middle of the library, a
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  Speaker 1: huge circle of couches and pillows and blankets. The comfiest
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  Speaker 1: place imaginable to read a book, in fact. But before
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  Speaker 1: you get to the reading area, something catches your eye.
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  Speaker 1: On a small table. Beside one of the couches are
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  Speaker 1: two objects sitting side by side, a pencil and an eraser.
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  Speaker 1: You walk toward them. The pencil looks kind of normal
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  Speaker 1: at first glance, but when you get closer you can
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  Speaker 1: see a faint, little swirl of light moving underneath its surface,
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  Speaker 1: changing color every few seconds. The eraser is white, perfectly clean,
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  Speaker 1: and giving off a sort of little glow. You pause,
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  Speaker 1: What are these doing here? You ask, Those, says the librarian,
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  Speaker 1: are magical editing tools. The pencil can draw, restore, and
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  Speaker 1: rewrite parts of a story. The eraser can remove them.
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  Speaker 1: You narrow your eyes at the eraser. That sounds useful,
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  Speaker 1: you say, it can be in the right hands, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the librarian responds. You think back to some of your
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  Speaker 1: earlier adventures in the librarian. How things have well had
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a tendency to get a bit out
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  Speaker 1: of control when books are left open, Well, you say,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I should bring them with me, just in case.
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  Speaker 1: A cautious choice. The librarian says, I approve.
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  Speaker 4: You pick up the.
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  Speaker 1: Pencil and tuck it safely into one pocket. Then you
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  Speaker 1: pick up the erase, sir, and place it in another. There,
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  Speaker 1: you say, prepared, hopefully, says the librarian. You continue down
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  Speaker 1: into the reading area and settle into one of the
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  Speaker 1: big cozy couches. Then a book begins to float over
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  Speaker 1: towards you. It glides downwards, turns neatly, and lands in
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  Speaker 1: your hands. The title on the cover reads Star Explorers.
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  Speaker 1: The cover art shows a sleek silver starship drifting among
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  Speaker 1: bright stars and colorful planets. Near the ship, flashes of
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  Speaker 1: blue and red light suggest laser fire. Something like it
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  Speaker 1: ow looks cool, you say.
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  Speaker 4: It is one of our Betta space adventures. A future
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  Speaker 4: where humanity has solved many of the old troubles and
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  Speaker 4: now tuns its attention to the star discovery, diplomacy, danger, exploration,
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  Speaker 4: and lots of lies of battles, all the good things.
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  Speaker 1: Any dragons, You ask, No, not in this case, Eh,
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  Speaker 1: still sounds pretty cool. You open up the book. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of ordinary pages, a swirling blue portal shimmers just inside
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  Speaker 1: the cover. You take a breath, clutch the book, and
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  Speaker 1: then lean toward the portal. At once you feel the
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  Speaker 1: familiar pulling sensation as your whole body is being gently
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  Speaker 1: sucked through the tunnel made of light. Then you're somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: When you open your eyes, you're standing on the bridge
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  Speaker 1: of an enormous starship. Lights glow softly from the walls.
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  Speaker 1: A giant front window reveals the stars spread out before you,
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  Speaker 1: like built diamonds across black velvet. Crew Members in sleek
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  Speaker 1: futuristic uniforms move quickly around the room, pressing all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of buttons that you can't really determine the purpose of,
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  Speaker 1: but they look very important and official doing it, And
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  Speaker 1: directly in front of you is a large captain's chair.
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  Speaker 1: You look down at yourself and see that you're no
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  Speaker 1: longer wearing your regular clothes. Instead, you're dressed in a sharp,
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  Speaker 1: dark uniform with silver details and some sort of glowing
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  Speaker 1: insignia on the chest. The starship Horizon, says the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the librarian, now narrating the story. All around you
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  Speaker 1: one of humanity's proudest exploration vessels, a ship built not
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  Speaker 1: for war but for discovery, and tonight it's captain was
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  Speaker 1: about to have a very difficult evening. You blink, Captain.
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  Speaker 1: A crew member turns toward you immediately. Captain, the unidentified
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  Speaker 1: vessel is still on approach. He says, no response to
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  Speaker 1: our signals. Another voice calls out from across the room.
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  Speaker 1: Energy spike detected. Then a loud alarm begins to sound.
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  Speaker 1: Red lights flash, and through the front window you see it,
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  Speaker 1: a dark alien ship swinging around from behind an asteroid field,
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  Speaker 1: its jagged metal hull lit by strange red markings. The
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  Speaker 1: entire bridge seems to turn toward you at once, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for orders. A calm, robotic voice overhead announces battle stations,
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  Speaker 1: Battle stations. You grip the arms of the captain's for
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  Speaker 1: just a second, and then something clicks into place inside
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Just like in the other books, you suddenly
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  Speaker 1: know things you didn't know before. You know how the
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  Speaker 1: ship works. You know what the glowing display means. You
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  Speaker 1: know what it means when an officer says the shields
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  Speaker 1: are charging or the engines are spooling for a turn.
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  Speaker 1: You move toward the captain's chair, sit down and look
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  Speaker 1: out at the stars. Status report. You say, clicking in
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  Speaker 1: to your role. The words come out firmly and confidently,
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  Speaker 1: like you are, in fact the captain of the ship
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  Speaker 1: unknown vest rocking weapons. Captain, their shields are up, their
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  Speaker 1: engines are unstable, but they're closing in fast. Another officer
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  Speaker 1: glances down at a bright blue display. Our long range
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  Speaker 1: scans suggest pack construction. Their ship appears damaged in several places,
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  Speaker 1: like it's been repaired over and over again. A third
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  Speaker 1: crew member turns in her chair, hailing frequencies remain unanswered. Captain,
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  Speaker 1: You narrow your eyes and stare out at the alien ship.
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  Speaker 1: It looks dangerous, malls, sharp bangles, and like little glowing
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  Speaker 1: red cracks along its hull. Raised shields. You order at once.
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  Speaker 1: A faint shimmer passes over the front window. She helds online.
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  Speaker 1: Someone says, full power to defensive systems. You say, defensive
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  Speaker 1: systems at maximum. The alien ship suddenly flashes red. Incoming
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  Speaker 1: shouts one of the officers. A beam of crackling energy
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  Speaker 1: streaks across space and slams into your ship. The whole
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  Speaker 1: bridge shakes, consoles flicker. A few crew members grab hold
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  Speaker 1: of their stations. Shields holding at ninety two percent, says
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  Speaker 1: the tactical officer. You sit forward, return fire target their weapons,
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  Speaker 1: leave their life support alone, Hi, Captain. Two bright blue
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  Speaker 1: laser beams fire from the front of your ship, flashing
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  Speaker 1: across the darkness and striking the alien vessel sparks leap
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  Speaker 1: from its outer hull. The alien ship banks hard to
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  Speaker 1: the side, then releases a spread of glowing projectiles. Multipu
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  Speaker 1: torpedoes incoming. One of the officers announces you point toward
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  Speaker 1: the main screen evasive pattern three. Roll us below them.
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  Speaker 1: The helmsman moves both hands over a glowing control surface.
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  Speaker 1: The stars outside the front window tilt sharply as the
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  Speaker 1: entire ship dips down word and rolls onto what looks
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  Speaker 1: like it's back. The torpedoes streak overhead and explode. A
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  Speaker 1: few crew members cheer. A little bit nice flying, You say,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Captain. The alien ship swings back around and accelerates.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to get behind us, says the tactical officer.
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  Speaker 1: Not happening, you reply, cut main engines for two seconds,
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  Speaker 1: then boost hard to port. The helmsman obeys instantly. Your
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  Speaker 1: ship slows for a moment. The alien ship over shoots slightly,
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  Speaker 1: expecting you to keep moving forward. Then your ship bursts
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  Speaker 1: sideways in a big curve, putting you at the exact
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  Speaker 1: right place for another blast of weapons. Now you say,
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  Speaker 1: firing twin laser blast slammed the alien ship again, followed
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  Speaker 1: by a bright silver torque that streaks across the darkness
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  Speaker 1: and bursts near its engine direct hit. The tactical officer says,
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  Speaker 1: the engine's off failing. The alien ship lurches badly, spinning
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  Speaker 1: once before stabilizing. Captain says the science officer. Their weapons
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  Speaker 1: are still powered, but only barely take them offline. You
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  Speaker 1: order another shut and the last visible cannon on the
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  Speaker 1: alien ship sputters and goes dark. Tactical update, you ask, Mannie, me,
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  Speaker 1: vessel is disabled, shields collapsing, weapons offline, Life signs still present. Good.
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  Speaker 1: That puts an end to that. Any idea why they attacked?
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  Speaker 1: You ask, No clear answer, Captain says the science officer.
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  Speaker 1: But their ship's power systems are unstable and I'm detecting
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  Speaker 1: strange energy fluctuations. Hail them again, you say. The communications
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  Speaker 1: officer presses a glowing panel and waits no response. You
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  Speaker 1: think for a moment, well, if they won't talk from
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  Speaker 1: over here, maybe we go ask them in person. You
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  Speaker 1: want to board the alien vessel, Captain, I do you
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  Speaker 1: say we disable to shift. We're not just gonna leave
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  Speaker 1: it here floating in space. Your first officer nods once.
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  Speaker 1: That is a very captainy thing to say. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You reply, Prepare an away team right away, secure docking clamps.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare short range transport link scanning for safe entry points. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: you stand from the captain's chair, and somebody please tell
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  Speaker 1: me there's a cool armor suit on this ship or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. The first officer gives you a smile.
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  Speaker 1: There always as captain. A few minutes later, you're walking
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  Speaker 1: through a sleek metallic cordor it towards the boarding bay.
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  Speaker 1: The first officer beside you, along with two security officers
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  Speaker 1: and a science specialist carrying some sort of scanning device.
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  Speaker 1: The walls glow with soft white lines. Ahead, a pair
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  Speaker 1: of doors slide open. You walk into a room full
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  Speaker 1: of high tech equipment. Armor suits and laser rifles line
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  Speaker 1: the walls, each one with glowing blue edges. Oh this
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  Speaker 1: is excellent, you say. I thought you might enjoy it,
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  Speaker 1: says the first officer. You step toward one of the
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  Speaker 1: armor suits. As soon as you stand on the circular platform,
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  Speaker 1: the suit activates. Pieces of light metal fold around your legs,
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  Speaker 1: your arms, your chest, your shoulders. The armor locks into
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  Speaker 1: place with soft clicks. A helmet rises, folds around your
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  Speaker 1: head and seals with a little hissing sound. A blue
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  Speaker 1: display appears across the inside of the visor. You flex
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  Speaker 1: your fingers, your arms, your legs. The suit fits perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: A stun blaster is placed in your hands, sleek and
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  Speaker 1: silver and humming with energy. This weapon is set to
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  Speaker 1: stun only, says your first officer, high setting if needed
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  Speaker 1: perfect You say, no unaliving, just stopping. The science officer
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  Speaker 1: picks up a portable scanner. The first officer arms herself
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  Speaker 1: as well, and then you remember something. You reach into
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  Speaker 1: your regular pocket area beneath the armor and make sure
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  Speaker 1: the magic pencil and a racer are still there. Luckily
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  Speaker 1: both are just in case. The first officer notices Captain
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  Speaker 1: Ah just checking my emergency supplies, you say. The doors
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  Speaker 1: at the far end of the room open up, revealing
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  Speaker 1: a short docking corridor. Away team. You say, let's go
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on. You move across the docking corridor
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  Speaker 1: and through the airlock into the alien ship. Immediately everything
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  Speaker 1: feels different. The inside of this vessel is dim and
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  Speaker 1: well lit with red. The walls are uneven and patched together.
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  Speaker 1: For mismatched metal pieces. Pipes run along the ceiling, some
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  Speaker 1: of them are sparking. The doors slopes lightly in places.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it's been put together out of other
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  Speaker 1: ships at a scrap yard. You lead your team down
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  Speaker 1: the corridor. At first, while you hear is the sound
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  Speaker 1: of your own boots, and then a blast of red
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  Speaker 1: energy slams into the wall beside you. Contact, says one
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  Speaker 1: of the officers. You dive behind a thick support beam
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  Speaker 1: as another shot passes overhead, not noticing something slipping out
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  Speaker 1: of your pocket. The corridor fills with bright, flashing beams
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  Speaker 1: of light. At the far end, you catch your first
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  Speaker 1: clear look at the aliens. They're tall and narrow, with
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  Speaker 1: smooth gray blue skin and large eyes. Their armor looks
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  Speaker 1: like it was also pieced together out of scavenged parts. Advance,
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  Speaker 1: you shout, Your team responds. One security officer leans out
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  Speaker 1: and fires a blue pulse. It strikes the wall near
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  Speaker 1: one of the aliens and sparks fly out. You pop
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  Speaker 1: out next, fire once and hit an alien square in
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  Speaker 1: the chest. Its armor flashes and it drops to the floor, stunned. Nice,
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  Speaker 1: you say. More aliens appear further down the corridor more
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  Speaker 1: red flashes of light. There are more coming from the
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  Speaker 1: side passage. Your first officer says, you turn fire twice
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  Speaker 1: and force two aliens back behind a corridor. Captain, if
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  Speaker 1: we can reach the command section, we may be able
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  Speaker 1: to shut down the ship and end the fight. You
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  Speaker 1: charge forward through the corridor. Aliens pop out, one after
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  Speaker 1: the other, and they meet blasts of blue laser fire.
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  Speaker 1: Stun after stun, the aliens go down until you arrive
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  Speaker 1: at the other side of the corridor. A large door
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  Speaker 1: opens and you find standing on the bridge of the
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  Speaker 1: alien ship. The aliens, noticing you've just made it onto
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  Speaker 1: their bridge, turn and begin firing. You dive off to
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  Speaker 1: the side behind a control panel, firing your blaster as
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  Speaker 1: you go through the air, hitting one of the aliens
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  Speaker 1: square in the chest, causing them to pass out. Your
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  Speaker 1: first officer takes out another, and the two security officers
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  Speaker 1: roll in behind, firing blue laser beams again and again
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  Speaker 1: until the entire bridge is clear. All right, somebody give
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  Speaker 1: me a report about what's going on. The science officer
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  Speaker 1: begins scanning the bridge. When the door opens behind you
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  Speaker 1: once again, two aliens are standing there, and one of
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  Speaker 1: them seems to be holding you're a racer. Oh no.
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  Speaker 1: The alien turns the strange white object over in his
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  Speaker 1: fingers and then gestures down towards a crate on the bridge. Instantly,
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  Speaker 1: there's a flash of white light in the crate disappears.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't break or burn, It just disappears, turning into
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  Speaker 1: floating white dust and then nothing at all. The alien
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  Speaker 1: holding the eraser freezes and then stares at it in amazement.
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  Speaker 1: Realizing that he's holding a very powerful weapon. He points
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  Speaker 1: it at you and unleashes another blast. This time it
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  Speaker 1: hits your ray gun, which immediately disappears from existence. He
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  Speaker 1: continues to blast the bridge around you, and well. Things
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  Speaker 1: continue to disappear. Consoles evaporate, floor panels disappear into white nothingness.
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  Speaker 1: When we have to get out here here quick, you say.
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  Speaker 1: Your first officer blasts at the aliens, causing them to
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  Speaker 1: duck for cover, and at the same time you run
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  Speaker 1: for the door. You pick up one of the alien
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  Speaker 1: blasters as you run, and you begin firing at the
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  Speaker 1: two aliens keeping them under cover. Everyone get out, you yell.
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  Speaker 1: You continue to fire as your away team slips out
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  Speaker 1: behind you and through the door. When they're all safely through.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: You turn and run as well down the corridor and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: back to your ship as quickly as you can. There's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: no telling what kind of damage they can do with
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that eraser. You look behind and the two aliens pop
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: back out into the corridor, pointing the eraser towards you. Down.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: You yell just in time as the eraser beam blasts
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: above you and takes out the ceiling of the corridor.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: You scramble back to your feet and run through onto
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: your ship. You attempt to close the doors as quickly
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: as you can right alert, everyone, go, go go. The
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: doors close on time, and you and the crew continues
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to run through your own ship and up to the bridge.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: A voice from one of your bridge officers appears on
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: your intercom. Captain, you seem to be losing sections of
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the ship quickly. What exactly is going.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: On down there?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Nothing? Just a bit of a problem. Get us out
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of here quick, I can't Captain. It seems the right
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: engine has disappeared, right, I can see how that would
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: be a problem. All right, well, plan B. You stop
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: running towards the bridge and turn around once again, and
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: realizing that the only way out of this is well
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to take the eraser back bridge, give me a report
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: on what sections of the ship are being disappeared, or
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: whatever you command. Yes, captain, they are coming up your
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: corridor now, all right, then we hold here, you say,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: gesturing for the rest of the away team to tuck
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: over into one of the corridors that goes in another direction.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: You press your back up against the wall and wait.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: You peek around the corridor, back in the direction you
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: came from, and you see them, the aliens, making their
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: way through the ship and erasing everything behind them. Luckily
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: for you, it's not simply erasing it into space. It's
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: just erasing everything into white, nothing new. You gesture over
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to your first officer, using hand signals to indicate that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: you will go low and they should go high. You
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: count down using your fingers three, two, one, and at
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: once you dive out into the corridor along the ground.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: As your first officer jumps out above you, and the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: two security officers pop around the corner. At once, you
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: all unleash blasts of laser, three blue beams and one
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: red beam coming from your weapon. Of course, the beams
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: luckily surprise the intruders, hitting both of them square in
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the chest and causing them to fall to the floor.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: You quickly run over to the two passed out aliens
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and look out into the white nothingness beyond them. A captain,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: what exactly has haden? And here they ask you grab
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the eraser out of the alien's hand. Ah, well, kind
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of hard to explain, but I think I might be
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: able to fix it, you say, reaching into your pocket
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and pulling out the pencil. Librarian, A little help here, understood,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the librarian says, and a glowing portal appears besides you
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: once again. You jump through the portal and find yourself
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: sitting on the comfortable couch back in the library once again.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Any ideas how I can fix this book, you ask.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: As you flip through the pages, you see that large
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: portions of the pictures and even the story you've gone missing. Well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I recommend just using your imagination, the librarian responds, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: so you do. You begin filling in the pictures. Lines
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: flow out of the pencil, almost magically, filling in the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: empty spaces with whatever you can imagine, much better than
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you'd normally be able to draw. You read through the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: missing words and you start to make up the rest,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: filling in the blanks about how the ship was returned
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to the Galactic Police Federation, you guess, and how the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: crew was praised and lived happily ever after. With the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: words back on the page and well the pictures filled
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: in to the best of your ability, you announce to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the librarian, I think I'm ready to go back in. Understood,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Just find the pot where you left off and you
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: can fit the story. You flip through the pages to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: near the end, after the away mission had successfully figured
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: out what had gone on, and a portal appears. You
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: leaned towards it and you're instantly sucked inside, finding yourself
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: on the bridge again. But now everything is calm, the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: ship is fully restored, and all of the people seem
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: to have forgotten about the whole eraser thing. Captain says
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the first officer. The Galactic Police Federation ships are arriving.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Now you look through the front window. Three patrol cruisers
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: glide into view from warp. They look sleek and elegant,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: but a little more like traditional police cars than well
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: they may have been in the first place. You did
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: your best to imagine what Galactic Police Federation vehicles would
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: look like. After all, most of them were erased. They're
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: hailing us. Put them on screen, you say. A face
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: appears on the viewscreen. It's an officer from the Galactic
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Police Federation, wearing a very crisp looking uniform and an
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: expression that looks as though rules are one of his
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: favorite things in the universe. Captain of the Horizon, he says,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: this is Commander Veil of the Galactic Police Federation. We
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: understand your vessel disabled the unidentified radar craft and is
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: preventing father danger in the section. Ah, that's right, you say.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: We also understand that you manage the situation without unnecessary destruction,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and for that you have our thanks. You smile, happy
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to help, you say, we will take custody of the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: alien crew and escort their vessel for full investigation and assistance.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Your report suggests this may have been an act of
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: desperation rather than conquest.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was thinking too, you say. A
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: wise conclusion, says Vail. The galaxy would be better if
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: ships had more captains like you. The screen shifts off.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Nicely done, Captain. The first officer says, Aunt lucks like
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the alien vessel is being towed away awaiting your orders. Captain,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you step toward the captain's chair. But before you said
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: you take one last look out at the stars. Set
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: a course for the next unexplored sector, you say. The
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: helmsman grins.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: I Captain.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: The engines hum more deeply. The stars brighten, and you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: suddenly jump to warp speed. A portal appears in front
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: of you, once again, indicating that this particular story is over.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You look around you and step through the portal until
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: you're instantly transported back to the very comfortable couch inside
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the magic library. Welcome back, the librarian says. Your new
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: ending certainly went well. Is there anything else I could
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: find you to read? He asks? H No, but I
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: really could use a sleep, understood, Feel free to lay
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: your head down right there. You lift your legs up
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: onto the very comfortable couch. A blanket flies down over
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: top of you and pulls itself up to your chin.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: All at once, the lights in the library dim down
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: to just the perfect amount of illumination, and you close
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: your eyes. With each breath. Your body relaxes a little
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: bit more and sinks down into the couch, and your
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: mind begins to wander off to thoughts of new dreams
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and new adventures. To come good night everyone.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: In New Yor no more Union, no mo of thing.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Mo.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: M m long one on many