Status: Success

Operation

Down By The Old Mill Stream...

Mission Objectives

Visit Old Schwam Mill in the Arlington System
watch old belt drive systems make oval picture frames
Don't get fried by the day star

Mission Summary

There's a saying in SCUL: Day missions stink. Well not this time, sucka!
Conditions were favorable for space travel (whatever that means), and
all souls reported posi times. Our destination and mission objective is
classified, but I'll tell you anyway. To the Old Schwamb Mill in the
Arlington System; a pre-OSHA mill that's been continuously operating
since civil war times! DANGER!




The mission launched at the appointed hour, but what was with all that
solar radiation? We stumbled into some part of the universe that was
ultimately a lot brighter than we're used to in space. Note for day
missions: avoid crispy crispy pilots and take proper precautions.
Despite sirens and the arrival of unfashionably red flame security
vehicles, Walt0r led us on a fabulous mission.




On the way we robbed a lemonade stand (which actually only had water),
taught the proprietrixes about advertising and complex intracies of
the chain of supply and demand in a capitalistic society, and ate at
the five star resturaunt at the end of the wormhole knows as "Chez
Trader Joes". The spandex-clad locals had many questions about our
ships. We lied as much was we could and moved on.




Pilots were perplexed and amazed by the lathe and other tools of
wonder from planet earth's early industrial practices, and no one lost
any fingers while poking and prodding the machinery, though one air
release hatch sent Mars on a search for medibag. There was a great
poem found on an ad pasted to the walls upstairs in the mill that
deserves sharing, from the now defunct Highland Spring Brewery:


When I'm perplexed, worn out and vexed,

And earthly joys seem few,

I take a glass of STERLING ALE,

And so my friend, should you.





Other than Pywacket dropping out of warp we were maechnical free. His
driveplate alignment may have been out of phase, causing the
propulsion transfer conduit to lose containment. What3v4.,

Pilot Ship Points Promotion
dillweed Circus Peanut 505.29   Chief Petty Officer
Diva Incineraider 597.965   Lieutenant
eHawk Anger 216.148   Chief Petty Officer
Frenchy El Guapo 156.314   Aviator First Class
GRIMLOCKE Doctor Love 572.225   Chief Petty Officer
Hapto Basquiat 759.176   Commander
Mars Phobos 311.004   Ensign
Masokist Toxic Shock 205.791   Senior Chief Petty Officer
MegaSeth Night Fever 222.986   Master Chief Petty Officer
moose Loki Ducker 314.893   Master Chief Petty Officer
pecan Sugardaddy 168.972   Senior Chief Petty Officer
Percentin Pale Horse   
pywaket Skylab 674.026   Lieutenant Commander
Rubbish Darkendank 217.421   Petty Officer First Class
Skunk Cloudbuster 1642.55   Commodore
Threespeed Iron Butterfly 441.993   Lieutenant Junior Grade
Trisignata Shprocketz 141.818   Petty Officer First Class
WalTor Singularity 351.564   Lieutenant
Pilots must be logged in to see the briefing.
Taskforce Pilot
Mission Leader Skunk
Deck Officer Diva
Navigator WalTor
Tailgunner Diva
Tool Bag Hapto
Flat Bag pecan
Medi Bag moose
Ambassador Hapto
Chalk Bag pecan
Still Cam Skunk
Airlock Skunk
Life Support 1 Skunk
Damage Control Threespeed
Mission Debriefer Skunk
Mission Reporter eHawk
Filmer dillweed
Food Wrangler GRIMLOCKE
Radio Wrangler Rubbish

Mission Parameters

DivisionMAD
Date2007.04.21
Mission LeaderSkunk
Mission Size 18 pilots
OriginFort Summer
DestinationScwhamb Mill
Light Years14.340
G-Well Activity0.902
Technical Rating1.740