THE AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, MIND-BOGGLING ADVENTURES OF TABLE-HEADED SERVICE DRONE BOB!
Part Twenty-three: Trauma
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 001: KRAKIN HISTORY A: 5000-3000BG. FIRST EMERGENCE OF ANCIENT PLANET-BASED EMPIRES. FIRST EMERGENCE OF WRITING. PRIMARY POLITICAL BODIES: KORMINS APPROX. 5000-4181BG. TERANARIANS APPROX. 5000-3945BG. GANSARDINS 4473-4244BG. KARALACHINS 4302-3307BG. HARPLITES 3945-2661BG.
They were in love ever since they met. They had so many common interests, common predicaments, common foes. They had a passion that would have taken a deity to seperate. They changed their surroundings as they saw fit. They could not see past each other's eyes. The future seemed endless. Then, Bob and Lenn boarded the Massive...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 002: KRAKIN HISTORY B: 3000-1BG. FIRST EMERGENCE OF COMPLEX TECHNOLOGIES AND POLITICAL GROUPINGS. PRIMARY POLITICAL BODIES: TORMIK IMPERIUM 2922-1628BG. SERCLAK KINGDOM 2661-1582BG. DARMIN CONCLAVE 2242-1394BG. LIRAL CONFEDERACY 1626-342BG. FIRKIN CONGLOMERATE 1616-284BG. KRAKIN ALLIANCE 1582-PRESENT. DRARNIN COALITION 342-1BG.
They danced in the bowels of the ship to the tune of the engines, making their own tune from the humming and throbbing of the fusion reactors. But then Lenn abruptly asked to leave. Bob was distraught, as he was every time she was so much as out of his sight. But he controlled his fear and let her leave that time. He was getting suspicious. She was staying out later and later and came back with money. She kept saying it was from extra shifts, but it seemed a bit too much for comfort...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 003: KRAKIN HISTORY C: 1-3343YG. UNIFICATION OF PLANET UNDER KRAKIN ALLIANCE AFTER GREAT WAR. EXPANSION INTO SPACE. DEVELOPMENT OF FUSION INHIBITOR. KRAKIN-(PLANET JACKER) WAR 343YG. DECLARATION OF ERA OF "GLORIOUS ISOLATION". KRAKIN SUN NEARS END OF LIFE FROM 3341YG. DEVELOPMENT OF FUSION ENHANCER 3343YG. TEST SUCCESSFUL. PRACTICAL APPLICATION RESULTS IN KRAKIN SUN GOING NOVA. END OF KRAKIN RACE.
Playing the jealous boyfriend he swore to himself he'd never become, Bob followed Lenn to the sleeping quarters normally reserved for higher officers of the Massive. He saw her enter one of the more ornate doors to one of the sleeping quarters. Daring to take a small peek in, Bob saw his entire world collapse around him as he saw Lenn in bed with Tallest Purple...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 004: THE FUSION INHIBITOR, DESCRIPTION. DEVELOPED DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF SPACE TRAVEL, THE FUSION INHIBITOR CEASES ALL FUSION WITHIN A STAR, CAUSING IT TO IMPLODE ON ITSELF AND GO NOVA, DESTROYING AN ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH IT. CAN BE FINE-TUNED FOR IMMEDIATE OR EXPONENTIAL EFFECT. USED IN KRAKIN-(PLANET JACKER) WAR TO DESTABILISE (PLANET JACKER) STAR.
Bob returned to his hard-floored service drone sleeping quarters completely shell-shocked. She had been his everything, almost his only reason for living for the last few years. And she had cheated on him. Lied to him. Shared her passions with another Irken. He was inflamed, and enraged. He was straddling through the dark corridors of the ship with thoughts of death and murder in his head. Somehow he managed to rip off a metal pole from the top of one of the engines as he passed it. He stopped, looked at the pole, and began to think truly evil thoughts...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 005: THE FUSION INHIBITOR, THEORY. THE FUSION INHIBITOR USES A NARROW, 200 TERAWATTS BEAM TO BE EMITTED INTO THE CENTRE OF THE STAR. THE BEAM TRANSMITS A SMALL AMOUNT OF FISSION MATERIAL TO BREAK APART THE MOLECULES IN THE CENTRE OF THE SUN, DISRUPTING THE FUSION PROCESS AND BEGINNING A GRADUAL IMPLOSION THAT DESTABILISES THE REST OF THE STAR.
Bob waited patiently for Lenn to return. She entered and moved towards Bob to engage in their usual, passionate kiss, but Bob stayed solid. When Lenn asked what was wrong, Bob asked her where she'd been. As usual, she said she had been working extra shifts. Bob lost his nerve and called her liar, revealing that he had followed her to Purple's bedroom. She hung her head in shame, and revealed that she had been working extra shifts...as a prostitute.
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 006: THE FUSION INHIBITOR, DESIGN. THE NARROW BEAM OF THE FUSION INHIBITOR USES A VERY SPECIFIC FREQUENCY THAT MUST BE MODIFIED ACCORDING TO THE PRECISE PROPORTIONS OF THE STAR TO A RANGE OF 0.001 HERTZ. THE MEANS BY WHICH THE BEAM PENETRATES THE SURFACE OF THE STAR VARIES FROM UNIT TO UNIT, AND CAN REQUIRE CONSIDERABLE EXPERIMENTATION BEFORE SUCCEEDING. PRECISE INFORMATION FOLLOWS TO SAVE PEOPLE THE TROUBLE...
Bob yelled with rage. She was his own, his everthing, yet somehow she had become used by other people for money. She tried to excuse herself, claiming poor income for a reason. But Bob wouldn't listen. Love was not something you bartered away for pennies. Love was forever. He engaged in a heated engagement. Lenn tried to calm him down, but he swung the metal pole in response, smashing her head against the wall. She slumped to floor, blood seeping out every orifice in her head.
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 007: FUSION INHIBITOR, RISKS. THEORETICALLY, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE FUSION INHIBITOR TO BE USED TO PROLONG A STAR'S LIFE. USING THE PROCESS OF SLOWING DOWN THE FUSION PROCESS TO CREATE MORE FUSABLE ELEMENTS IN THE STAR'S CENTRE. BUT THIS PROCESS IS MUCH MORE PRECISE THAN THE PROCESS OF CEASING ALL FUSION, AND HAS A VERY SLIM CHANCE OF SUCCEEDING AT BEST. WE TRIED, WE FAILED, LEARN FROM OUR EXAMPLE YOU MORONS...
Bob's heart melted. He ran towards Lenn's side, apologizing for all the cruel things he said, and promising that things would be all better. But she was already dead. By his own hand. He couldn't recognize the fact, dragging Lenn's lifeless corpse across the bowels of the ship, trying to find something to 'make her better'. But it was no use. He began developing a headache, and staggered away from the body, eventually even forgetting of it's existence. And no one missed a service drone.
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 008: "THE SELKJORN". ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS KRAKIN OPERAS. COMPOSED IN 737BG, IT IS A TRAGEDY CONCERNING TWO DENIZENS OF THE LABOURING CLASS WHO FALL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER, BUT ARE TORN APART BY THE FEMALE DEALING IN PROSTITUTION WITHOUT THE MALE'S KNOWING, LEADING TO THE FEMALE'S ACCIDENTAL DEATH. IN THE FINAL ACT, THE MALE GOES INSANE FROM GRIEF, BELIEVING THE FEMALE TO STILL BE ALIVE. THIS ACT HAS DIVIDED CRITICS SOMEWHAT...
TO BE CONTINUED...
Part Twenty-three: Trauma
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 001: KRAKIN HISTORY A: 5000-3000BG. FIRST EMERGENCE OF ANCIENT PLANET-BASED EMPIRES. FIRST EMERGENCE OF WRITING. PRIMARY POLITICAL BODIES: KORMINS APPROX. 5000-4181BG. TERANARIANS APPROX. 5000-3945BG. GANSARDINS 4473-4244BG. KARALACHINS 4302-3307BG. HARPLITES 3945-2661BG.
They were in love ever since they met. They had so many common interests, common predicaments, common foes. They had a passion that would have taken a deity to seperate. They changed their surroundings as they saw fit. They could not see past each other's eyes. The future seemed endless. Then, Bob and Lenn boarded the Massive...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 002: KRAKIN HISTORY B: 3000-1BG. FIRST EMERGENCE OF COMPLEX TECHNOLOGIES AND POLITICAL GROUPINGS. PRIMARY POLITICAL BODIES: TORMIK IMPERIUM 2922-1628BG. SERCLAK KINGDOM 2661-1582BG. DARMIN CONCLAVE 2242-1394BG. LIRAL CONFEDERACY 1626-342BG. FIRKIN CONGLOMERATE 1616-284BG. KRAKIN ALLIANCE 1582-PRESENT. DRARNIN COALITION 342-1BG.
They danced in the bowels of the ship to the tune of the engines, making their own tune from the humming and throbbing of the fusion reactors. But then Lenn abruptly asked to leave. Bob was distraught, as he was every time she was so much as out of his sight. But he controlled his fear and let her leave that time. He was getting suspicious. She was staying out later and later and came back with money. She kept saying it was from extra shifts, but it seemed a bit too much for comfort...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 003: KRAKIN HISTORY C: 1-3343YG. UNIFICATION OF PLANET UNDER KRAKIN ALLIANCE AFTER GREAT WAR. EXPANSION INTO SPACE. DEVELOPMENT OF FUSION INHIBITOR. KRAKIN-(PLANET JACKER) WAR 343YG. DECLARATION OF ERA OF "GLORIOUS ISOLATION". KRAKIN SUN NEARS END OF LIFE FROM 3341YG. DEVELOPMENT OF FUSION ENHANCER 3343YG. TEST SUCCESSFUL. PRACTICAL APPLICATION RESULTS IN KRAKIN SUN GOING NOVA. END OF KRAKIN RACE.
Playing the jealous boyfriend he swore to himself he'd never become, Bob followed Lenn to the sleeping quarters normally reserved for higher officers of the Massive. He saw her enter one of the more ornate doors to one of the sleeping quarters. Daring to take a small peek in, Bob saw his entire world collapse around him as he saw Lenn in bed with Tallest Purple...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 004: THE FUSION INHIBITOR, DESCRIPTION. DEVELOPED DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF SPACE TRAVEL, THE FUSION INHIBITOR CEASES ALL FUSION WITHIN A STAR, CAUSING IT TO IMPLODE ON ITSELF AND GO NOVA, DESTROYING AN ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH IT. CAN BE FINE-TUNED FOR IMMEDIATE OR EXPONENTIAL EFFECT. USED IN KRAKIN-(PLANET JACKER) WAR TO DESTABILISE (PLANET JACKER) STAR.
Bob returned to his hard-floored service drone sleeping quarters completely shell-shocked. She had been his everything, almost his only reason for living for the last few years. And she had cheated on him. Lied to him. Shared her passions with another Irken. He was inflamed, and enraged. He was straddling through the dark corridors of the ship with thoughts of death and murder in his head. Somehow he managed to rip off a metal pole from the top of one of the engines as he passed it. He stopped, looked at the pole, and began to think truly evil thoughts...
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 005: THE FUSION INHIBITOR, THEORY. THE FUSION INHIBITOR USES A NARROW, 200 TERAWATTS BEAM TO BE EMITTED INTO THE CENTRE OF THE STAR. THE BEAM TRANSMITS A SMALL AMOUNT OF FISSION MATERIAL TO BREAK APART THE MOLECULES IN THE CENTRE OF THE SUN, DISRUPTING THE FUSION PROCESS AND BEGINNING A GRADUAL IMPLOSION THAT DESTABILISES THE REST OF THE STAR.
Bob waited patiently for Lenn to return. She entered and moved towards Bob to engage in their usual, passionate kiss, but Bob stayed solid. When Lenn asked what was wrong, Bob asked her where she'd been. As usual, she said she had been working extra shifts. Bob lost his nerve and called her liar, revealing that he had followed her to Purple's bedroom. She hung her head in shame, and revealed that she had been working extra shifts...as a prostitute.
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 006: THE FUSION INHIBITOR, DESIGN. THE NARROW BEAM OF THE FUSION INHIBITOR USES A VERY SPECIFIC FREQUENCY THAT MUST BE MODIFIED ACCORDING TO THE PRECISE PROPORTIONS OF THE STAR TO A RANGE OF 0.001 HERTZ. THE MEANS BY WHICH THE BEAM PENETRATES THE SURFACE OF THE STAR VARIES FROM UNIT TO UNIT, AND CAN REQUIRE CONSIDERABLE EXPERIMENTATION BEFORE SUCCEEDING. PRECISE INFORMATION FOLLOWS TO SAVE PEOPLE THE TROUBLE...
Bob yelled with rage. She was his own, his everthing, yet somehow she had become used by other people for money. She tried to excuse herself, claiming poor income for a reason. But Bob wouldn't listen. Love was not something you bartered away for pennies. Love was forever. He engaged in a heated engagement. Lenn tried to calm him down, but he swung the metal pole in response, smashing her head against the wall. She slumped to floor, blood seeping out every orifice in her head.
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 007: FUSION INHIBITOR, RISKS. THEORETICALLY, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE FUSION INHIBITOR TO BE USED TO PROLONG A STAR'S LIFE. USING THE PROCESS OF SLOWING DOWN THE FUSION PROCESS TO CREATE MORE FUSABLE ELEMENTS IN THE STAR'S CENTRE. BUT THIS PROCESS IS MUCH MORE PRECISE THAN THE PROCESS OF CEASING ALL FUSION, AND HAS A VERY SLIM CHANCE OF SUCCEEDING AT BEST. WE TRIED, WE FAILED, LEARN FROM OUR EXAMPLE YOU MORONS...
Bob's heart melted. He ran towards Lenn's side, apologizing for all the cruel things he said, and promising that things would be all better. But she was already dead. By his own hand. He couldn't recognize the fact, dragging Lenn's lifeless corpse across the bowels of the ship, trying to find something to 'make her better'. But it was no use. He began developing a headache, and staggered away from the body, eventually even forgetting of it's existence. And no one missed a service drone.
KRAKIN LIBRARY ENTRY 008: "THE SELKJORN". ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS KRAKIN OPERAS. COMPOSED IN 737BG, IT IS A TRAGEDY CONCERNING TWO DENIZENS OF THE LABOURING CLASS WHO FALL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER, BUT ARE TORN APART BY THE FEMALE DEALING IN PROSTITUTION WITHOUT THE MALE'S KNOWING, LEADING TO THE FEMALE'S ACCIDENTAL DEATH. IN THE FINAL ACT, THE MALE GOES INSANE FROM GRIEF, BELIEVING THE FEMALE TO STILL BE ALIVE. THIS ACT HAS DIVIDED CRITICS SOMEWHAT...
TO BE CONTINUED...