43: Stardrive
May 31, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min · 11 segments
After some ill-advised joy-riding from Avon, the Scorpio is in dire need of an overhaul. !https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/373058/MP43_artwork.jpg Luckily, some psychopathic clowns fly by…
May 31, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min · 11 segments
After some ill-advised joy-riding from Avon, the Scorpio is in dire need of an overhaul. !https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/373058/MP43_artwork.jpg Luckily, some psychopathic clowns fly by…
[instrumental music] Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Mutoid Podcast, episode 43, Stardrive.
From its movement across the frames, it's possible to calculate its velocity.
About standard by 12 at a guess.
In real time? That's not possible.
Standard by 12 decimal 6 to be precise.
Well, as Vila says, nothing can travel at that speed in real time.
It is impossible.
Nothing could, and it was impossible.
It is necessary for your statement to be rephrased using the past tense.
So whatever it is, it fired three bolts at those ships before it passed in front of our sensors.
And at standard by 12, they never knew what hit them.
Just as well it left us alone.
So what is it?
A single seater space chopper.
They were a teenager's craze two centuries back until the Federation outlawed them.
Not surprising if they could do standard by 12.
They couldn't, which means that that one has been fitted with a new form of main drive unit.
Which also means that the photonic space drive has been finally perfected by Dr. Plaxton.
Who? But Orac, Dr.
Plaxton was head of the Federation Space Drive Research Center.
At the time of the Federation's collapse, the doctor was developing a new space drive system that used light to exert thrust instead of plasma.
The photonic drive or the Stardrive machine as it's known.
Was the prototype small enough to be fitted into a space chopper?
Certainly.
Hey, just think, if we can get a hold of one of those drives and swap it for the clapped out unit on our ship-
That will be our immediate objective.
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[instrumental music] Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Mutoid Podcast, episode 43, Stardrive.
From its movement across the frames, it's possible to calculate its velocity.
About standard by 12 at a guess.
In real time? That's not possible.
Standard by 12 decimal 6 to be precise.
Well, as Vila says, nothing can travel at that speed in real time.
It is impossible.
Nothing could, and it was impossible.
It is necessary for your statement to be rephrased using the past tense.
So whatever it is, it fired three bolts at those ships before it passed in front of our sensors.
And at standard by 12, they never knew what hit them.
Just as well it left us alone.
So what is it?
A single seater space chopper.
They were a teenager's craze two centuries back until the Federation outlawed them.
Not surprising if they could do standard by 12.
They couldn't, which means that that one has been fitted with a new form of main drive unit.
Which also means that the photonic space drive has been finally perfected by Dr. Plaxton.
Who? But Orac, Dr.
Plaxton was head of the Federation Space Drive Research Center.
At the time of the Federation's collapse, the doctor was developing a new space drive system that used light to exert thrust instead of plasma.
The photonic drive or the Stardrive machine as it's known.
Was the prototype small enough to be fitted into a space chopper?
Certainly.
Hey, just think, if we can get a hold of one of those drives and swap it for the clapped out unit on our ship-
That will be our immediate objective.
