MegaSeth Day

Mission Summary

In honor of Iron Cog MegaSeth (2002) we set out to do as many "non-MegaSeth-like" things as possible--not to spite the Great One, but to appease his will instead. These "non-MegaSeth-like" tasks included drinking mass quantities of Earth Beer, wearing our insignia, knowing what rank we were, winning derbies, piloting tall ships, removing our space suits, bragging about the ships we were going to build, telling Skunk what kind of ships he should build, listening to Waltor, and taking turns pretending to feel sorry for Skunk. (Each of us had a MegaSethDay checklist device, to gauge our progress and rank ourselves against the other piliots.) The fleet got off to a fairly organized start thanks in part to sympathetic feeling toward Skunk and numerous pilots' attempts to pretend to feel sorry for him. We proceeded quickly to Central System to rendezvous with Moose and made for the outskirts of the Porter System to Chez BarFly to celebrate the first thirty orbitals of his existence and fraternize with food. (May he have many more tri-decadial celebrations.) The first derby at Luna Market Basket was decided, somewhat anti-climatically, by an attack of quadropedal androids. Moose won the second derby by steamrolling USB Catastrophe in a spectacular display of Valor and Chutzpah. Then we returned to base where many pilots displayed themselves without their space suits. Happy MegaSeth Day