We Shouldn't Be Needing A Course Correction

"2130, Day 547... Unscheduled course correction due at 2200. Pre-correction check, rotation axis plus three degrees. Nitrous-oxide pressure forty one hundred, rising to five thousand. Quad jets C and D on Pre-Select. Rotor ignition sequence beginning in three-zero. Thruster line reactors on standby."

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USS Palomino, one of the United States' Deep Space Exploration Vessels, cruises through the void on the slow return leg of its two year mission to discover life beyond the Solar System. Their careful calculations and alignments for their Space-Time Catapult drive have proven for naught, as their trajectory has taken them off their projected course. Only a great disturbance in the local space-time could have caused such a thing, but even the highly trained crew are not prepared for what they are about to discover.

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Modeled with Trimble SketchUp. Rendered with Kerkythea. Palomino concept courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures, 1979.