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more adventures in dreamland
Sep. 2nd, 2007 10:19 amLast night, I was aboard a deep-space exploration vessel. We were in the farthest reaches of the galaxy, running low on energy, far from base. A cold anxiety pervaded the crew as we mentally prepared ourselves for the possibility that we would die without ever seeing another human face again.
We tried a radical shift in tactics, giving ourselves one last chance at finding a place where we could replenish our resources. It worked! We found a system that seemed to have some natural resources we could use to re-stock our supplies. We formed a landing party and set down to explore. The planet was rocky and rough; there weren't any trees but there was abundant vegetation, most of it a thick fibrous ground cover. I remarked to a colleague that it looked like it could be used to make ropes or coarse fabric. He agreed, and we set out to explore more of the landscape.
We were becoming more excited as we explored more of the planet's surface. There was water, different types of vegetation, even small animals. We were cataloging items as we encountered them. As I walked back to the group from recording information about some of the native flora, I looked down. There at my feet, woven from the coarse fibers of the native plants, was a frayed section of rope...
"Oh my god. This planet is inhabited!"
We tried a radical shift in tactics, giving ourselves one last chance at finding a place where we could replenish our resources. It worked! We found a system that seemed to have some natural resources we could use to re-stock our supplies. We formed a landing party and set down to explore. The planet was rocky and rough; there weren't any trees but there was abundant vegetation, most of it a thick fibrous ground cover. I remarked to a colleague that it looked like it could be used to make ropes or coarse fabric. He agreed, and we set out to explore more of the landscape.
We were becoming more excited as we explored more of the planet's surface. There was water, different types of vegetation, even small animals. We were cataloging items as we encountered them. As I walked back to the group from recording information about some of the native flora, I looked down. There at my feet, woven from the coarse fibers of the native plants, was a frayed section of rope...
"Oh my god. This planet is inhabited!"
