I Love to Loot Cargo Pods

Barely squirming through
The Oman measure wisdom
in crates of weasels.

In logarithmic time,
scattered colors becomes a nebula,
a point of light a stellar mass,
a crosshair a gas giant.

In Newtonian time,
a nebula masks a point of light,
masses detach in scattered colors,
a crosshair on a freighter.

In real time,
scattered thoughts inside a nebula,
collected in a tiny mass,
a bored pilot plays among the pretty colors,
and waits for Jafs.

Originally posted by UglyAngel

Lagrange's Latrine

The orbit stable
round virtual gravity
sewage in the void

forever flushing
round and round and round and round ...
Jiggle the handle!


Too bad the L-points in I-War 2 aren't "stable", that is they don't have those overlapping gravitational fields which cause objects to orbit them, but it makes for a better haiku if we fudge that a little. (The leading and trailing L-points are the "stable" ones and the in-line L-points unstable.)

"Sewage" of course refers to that favorite cargo type -- favorite to leave behind, that is. All those pods of raw sewage would fall into orbit 'round a stable L-point.

sewage ? leave it behind? you must be joshing I blow up everyship that comes through the L point and queues up for the L point you get lots of pods , lots of worthless cargo but saves plenty of time you can always recycle the crud you get though not with future trader ,

say anybody know where I can get some diseased sewage from? its probably the only thing I don't have

There's a pod in the L-point! Ring the alarm!
The pirates have rigged it for maximum harm!

Atomic, explosive, antimatter, or what,
are those sinister globs of brown and green snot?

Closer and closer ... "Get the capsule drive lit!"
then the viewport is splattered in decompressed sh*t.

The crew is relieved, although some start to gag,
a pirate swoops, mocking, and scoops up our swag.

"Jafs sold all my bombs, then went on to say,
'Block the L-point with sewage ... it's cheaper that way!'"