Episode 6, Scene 5
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
At the Base Station
Due to miscommunication, Princess Leia (Chantelle Wong) reached the Bukit Aman Galaxy base station at 5.20am on Sunday (on unspecified date; anyway, it was a long time ago …) morning, instead of the usual 6am. She wanted to visit the far, far away Hartamas Galaxy station in order to gauge the extent of the Empire which she has not been there before
At 6.05am, Han Solo (Penguin-2) was still not in sight. At that moment, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker (Penguin-1), Penguin-3 (new character introduced in this new Star Wars saga) and Penguin-x (new character too; guest star by Marvin Lau) were waiting impatiently at the launching platform. They have already turbo-charged their fighter planes and were ready to take off.
Into the Wilderness
Han was finally sighted arriving in his silvery spaceship. At 6.10am, the entire Star Wars squadron was already in flying formation and immediately took off into the dark and cool wilderness. Leading the pack was Han while Luke was trailing behind Princess Leia. Penguin-3 and Penguin-x were flying on the left and right side respectively of Princess Leia in protective mode.
After flying for a distance of 5 million kilometers, Penguin-x was traveling far behind due to miscalculation of the fuel level requirement and was not suitable for long-haul traveling. Penguin-3 was also making a left exit into the Double-hill Galaxy and heading back to base station due to malfunctioning of the engine. According to Penguin-3, there was sign of leakage at the jet propulsion engine and the fighter plane was not able to travel at the optimal top speed.
That left Luke and Han to escort Princess Leia to continue the space exploration.
Since Princess Leia’s jet aircraft was of smaller capacity, she traveled at a slower speed. Luke’s and Han’s fighter planes though were of older models but were of bigger capacity and thus traveling at a higher speed. To overcome the disparity in speed, Luke and Han devised a truly ingenious invention -- loop back technique -- to overcome this problem.
How it works: When it was Luke’s turn to accompany Princess Leia, Han would surge forward with full-throttle ahead for a couple of minutes. He would then reverse direction, charge backward and went beyond. The further the distance, the harder and faster would be the chase. And when Han reached Princess Leia, the repeatable process of flying forward and backward was then performed by Luke.
According to the marathon training space-travel techniques, varies the speed does help to improve the performance of the jet aircraft.
When it was Han’s turn to loop back, he was speeding up and down the space like crazy; overtaking PK Chan’s fighter plane on the way. PK was in fact accompanying two other new fighter planes en route to the Hartamas Galaxy station. Suddenly, Han was seen making a U-turn almost causing a head-on collision with PK in space! And PK jokingly said, “You sure you have the flying license?”
When Luke looped back somewhere near the Hartamas Galaxy, there were a few other batches of fighters planes from the Pacesetters Empire trailing behind. While Luke was passing by one of the fighter planes piloted by Ms. Yap Wai Mun, she sent a message to Luke: “Hey, accompanying ‘leng lui’ (pretty girl) for space traveling (running)?”
Refilling Station
Finally, when reaching the Hartamas Galaxy station, the Star Wars squadron went to the service station for a quick pit stop. Luke and Han refilled their fighter planes with the hydrogen propellants (POWER GEL lah) and H2O (mineral water). Since Princess Leia’s jet is of newer model, refilling with H2O only was sufficed.
Returning Journey
It was amazing that Princess Leia was flying steadily and consistently throughout the entire journey. Her movements were so pleasing and graceful they seemed effortless. Even at the Laman Tunku uphill stretches, she was still flying non-stop while Luke took the opportunity to relax by doing the Galloway walk.
The looping was fun when the fighter planes were fully charged. But after looping for endless time with the total traveling distance estimated exceeding 25 million kilometers, the engine did show sign of weakness and sluggishness. Almost reaching the base station, Luke was seen even more tired compared to Princess Leia.
Back at the Base Station
From far, Luke immediately spotted Penguin-3 and Penguin-x relaxing at the base station with Teh Tarik drinks. And when Penguin-x sighted Luke, Penguin-x pointed to his watch signaling that the space travel time was far, far way overrun. The concern was that with the extended time in space travel, Princess Leia would be subjected to the harmful gamma radiation from other Galaxy which was unhealthy to her fair-skin complexion.
In order to impress Princess Leia, Luke offered to treat the team. However, he realized that he had left his cash in his spaceship. Luke got no choice but to borrow money from Penguin-x in the full view of Princess Leia. To make matter worst, Penguin-x revealed that was the 10th time Luke borrowed money from him while on other missions.
Congratulations to Princess Leia that she had successfully traveled 20 million kilometers to the Hartamas Galaxy station and back with the escort of Luke and Han. With the comfortable cruising speed, Princess Leia felt refresh even after traveling for 2 hours 40 minutes. Since the saga is to be continued, Princess Leia suggested another space travel the following Sunday, at 5.45am. Multiple training sessions for the jet aircrafts are required in preparation for the coming Dec 4 Singapore International Marathon space travel competition. We need new squadron to escort her for another critical mission -- the Empire Strikes Back.
By KC
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