PIRATES! PIRATES BOARDING THE STARSHIP FLYBRARY!
THEY APPEAR TO BE USING A COMBINATION OF QUICK, TRADITIONAL SHIPS & SLOW, REINFORCED TANKS THAT BLEND IN WITH THE SURROUNDING ROCK DEBRIS. SHOULD HAVE SEEN THEM YESTERDAY THROUGH THE BARNACLE - THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ANOTHER ASTEROID.
CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS ALREADY WON. FLYBRARIANS TO BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY. ENERGY IS BEING CUT OFF TO ALL ORGANS TO CRIPPLE OUR DEFENSES. NEED SOMEWHERE TO HIDE, SOMEWHERE WHERE NOBODY WILL FIND ME. SAID I WOULD NEVER GO BACK, BUT I AM BEING FORCED TO FLEE INTO THE HALF-GLOOM OF THE BOOK STA-
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SINCE, after tomorrow, I don't expect to see anything out the portholes except empty space for a long time, I thought I'd draw you guys a picture while there was still something out there to see up-close.
As you can see, our portholes are shaped like ship's wheels, but the central connector is pushed out into space to afford better views. We call our portholes "barnacles" because they look like little bumps hitching a ride on the whale's side. The default emblem for barnacles is a decorative anchor, but that changes near interesting locations.
The Whale's Liver has a pint instead of an anchor. Our reading area has an open book & the Baleen Plates Observation Deck sports a telescope. These symbols help us Flybrarians navigate the belly of the beast. As you all know, blue whales are large. Starships shaped like blue whales are gigantic.
HERE we are at Kuiper Belt's edge. It's been 15 long days, but it's almost over. I hope this also spells the end of noisy ice pinging the whale's hull!
We've crossed 55 astronomical units (AU) in five weeks; that's nearly 1 billion miles travelled every seven days. I actually did the math: we're 5,112,573,820 miles from the sun.
That number will skyrocket once we break free into open space. It should be soon, too; the captain is determined to get us there by Thursday.
