04-05-2008, 03:28 AM
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Saturday, 7 August 2077
BREAKING NEWS - FENSPACE HISTORY MUSEUM ROBBED
Priceless Artifact Stolen
KANDOR CITY, Luna (QP) - Police in Kandor City are puzzling over the overnight theft of the USSR Ptichka, the largest exhibit at the Kandor Museum of Fenspace.
Ptichka disappeared from the central exhibit hall sometime between midnight and dawn Kandor local time, said Daniell County Sherrif spokeswoman Madhumitra Lundgaard.
Authorities are still trying to determine the exact mechanism of how the shuttle was removed from the exhibit hall without alerting museum security or residents of the neighboring Byrne Hill district.
The thieves left a note attached to the exhibit plaque consisting of six lines from the Alfred Tennyson poem "Ulysses." Lundgaard refused to comment on the significance of the note, saying only that the investigation was still in an early phase.
The theft comes less than a month after retired Soviet leader S. Malaclypse Fnord disappeared from his home in Schuster Springs. Fnord, 100, was one of the key leaders during the Boskone conflict and a noted interstellar explorer. Authorities refused to comment on whether or not the two incidents were related.
Ptichka, a converted Buran-class space shuttle, was one of the first large spacecraft in Fenspace and flew as the flagship of the Soviet Air Force from 2008 until its formal retirement to the Museum of Fenspace in 2074.
Soviet Generalissimo Sora Hasegawa refused to comment directly, and at press time the Soviet Air Force had not released a statement regarding the theft.
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QUIBBLER EXCLUSIVE!
The complete text of the note left by the thieves:
Dear Fenspace,
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
We'll see you when we see you.
--M & P
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(c)2077 Lovegood Media, Inc.
"The Road Goes Ever On"
a Fenspace Nextgen ficlet
(c)2008 Sean M. Breen
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Saturday, 7 August 2077
BREAKING NEWS - FENSPACE HISTORY MUSEUM ROBBED
Priceless Artifact Stolen
KANDOR CITY, Luna (QP) - Police in Kandor City are puzzling over the overnight theft of the USSR Ptichka, the largest exhibit at the Kandor Museum of Fenspace.
Ptichka disappeared from the central exhibit hall sometime between midnight and dawn Kandor local time, said Daniell County Sherrif spokeswoman Madhumitra Lundgaard.
Authorities are still trying to determine the exact mechanism of how the shuttle was removed from the exhibit hall without alerting museum security or residents of the neighboring Byrne Hill district.
The thieves left a note attached to the exhibit plaque consisting of six lines from the Alfred Tennyson poem "Ulysses." Lundgaard refused to comment on the significance of the note, saying only that the investigation was still in an early phase.
The theft comes less than a month after retired Soviet leader S. Malaclypse Fnord disappeared from his home in Schuster Springs. Fnord, 100, was one of the key leaders during the Boskone conflict and a noted interstellar explorer. Authorities refused to comment on whether or not the two incidents were related.
Ptichka, a converted Buran-class space shuttle, was one of the first large spacecraft in Fenspace and flew as the flagship of the Soviet Air Force from 2008 until its formal retirement to the Museum of Fenspace in 2074.
Soviet Generalissimo Sora Hasegawa refused to comment directly, and at press time the Soviet Air Force had not released a statement regarding the theft.
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QUIBBLER EXCLUSIVE!
The complete text of the note left by the thieves:
Dear Fenspace,
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
We'll see you when we see you.
--M & P
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(c)2077 Lovegood Media, Inc.
"The Road Goes Ever On"
a Fenspace Nextgen ficlet
(c)2008 Sean M. Breen
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"