We all love Star Wars.
It's like, the best movie ever.
The second one, even better than the first. We all love it, but we never thought that
watching it would be a practical investment of our time moving forward in our
lives.
But you did. So you
watched it. You watched it over and over
and over, until the memory of it was worn smooth in your mind like a well
polished stone. You watched it with such
vigor and aplomb that your family, your friends, your co-workers all abandoned
you. They all thought you were crazy.
Then those aliens came to earth and imprisoned most of the
planet's intellectuals on an asteroid spinning through space.
The asteroid isn't terrible: it has air, and a weird kind of
algae grows there that you and your buddies can eat. But it isn't home, and you really don't want
to die on a space asteroid, so today you're going to use your Star Wars know
how and, using a combination of mining gear (the aliens are forcing you to mine
the asteroid) and know how (you also spent a lot of time reading technical
manuals from the Star Wars universe) you're going to construct a small,
spaceworthy pod, fasten it to the side of the space worm which inhabits the
asteroid (every asteroid has one!) using a set of tools you derived from
repeated viewings and readings of Dune (you have diverse interests) and then
propel it off the asteroid, using a combination of The Force and some basic
space flight know how you picked up in high school.
The end result will be a living spaceship, piloted with a
set of hooks that you'll use to turn it through the substrate of space. It'll move fast, alarmingly fast, propelling
you through the void, towards home. What
you plan to do there remains indeterminate, but with plenty of worm innards to
eat and months to plan, you're confident that you'll figure something out.
Congratulations on Riding That Giant Worm to Freedom!
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