You try 'Using the Force' with a moggy on your shoulder

[major_clanger]

I haven't posted much about Elite:Dangerous lately. I continue to play it on and off, and have now traded in my Cobra Mk.3 for a Vulture, less an all-purpose craft and more one fit for bounty-hunting. My game play has been very much of the form of unwinding by blasting pirates to smithereens and spending the resulting bounty payments on upgrades, to the point that I still only have a few million credits in the bank but now have a ship that can single-handedly take out a Python.

Anyway, yesterday I was having a play and I found myself with a passenger. I don't recall Luke Skywalker or Starbuck having this problem; maybe Mira thought she was Nimitz from the Honor Harrington books.



I think I have a case of Back Seat Space Pilot Cat:

Comments

[legionseagle]

Your mention of Nimitz reminds me of my entry in the #BaenAwardStories "Richard of Manticore scowled at his lop-sided reflection.Why'd no-one warned him carrying 14kg of tree-cat could warp young shoulder-bones?"

[major_clanger]

Manitcoran Acquired Scoloisis must be a significant cause of medical discharges in the RMN!

[major_clanger]

Having just mentioned scoliosis, and prompted by yesterday's SCOTUS decision (and the dissents) I am inclined to propose a new medical syndrome:

Scaliasis: A disease of older judges, characterised by progressively worsening replacement of judicial reasoning with angry ranting.