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Continuing on the Storytelling thing from yesterday, a quick scene from inside that dream about the Starship Alexandria:

Manu (the man who is chosen to pilot the Alexandria) and Celeste (The friend he asks to come along) are seeing each other for the first time in two weeks) and getting ready to sit down for a dinner.

Manu: Alexandria, dinner please.
He gets a block of what looks like processed cheese.
Manu: I know this stuff is protein and nanites and it will keep me alive and fit for as long as I want...but I may not want to last very long. This crap tastes like an iron pipe.
Celeste: This ship is 45 miles long, and I just spent two weeks exploring some of it. Have you just been eating those blocks all that time?
Manu: And I'm already very tired of it.
Celeste: Oh, for Pete's sake. This ship contains the whole of Earth's public knowledge as of three weeks ago! IT KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR WORLD. Alexandria, Duck L'Orange, Version Number 9971214Beta. Oh, and a Pinot Noir. Version number...I don't know...surprise me.

She gets a beautiful plate of Duck L'Orange.

Manu: Is that....
Celeste: Protein and nanites, made to look, taste and smell like the Duck L'Orange and Pinot Nior...although now that I think about it, I probably should have said an Earth Wine? Could be something from...Melmac or Vulcan. Wherever ALF is from.
Manu: I...I didn't know it could do that. Can I just have a small bite?
Celeste: Eat your lead pipe first, Manu, then we'll talk.

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Some more Alexandria notes, this time thunked up while I was doing something else.

There were 64 of these ships scouring the Universe. 61 are in service. One disappeared after it planned to investigate a black hole. One is functional but not moving as it's pilot and backup died as thier health gained faster than the ship/nanites could repair them. One is on its way to that ship to deliver a new pilot and backup, but will take two hundred years to get there at top speed. And it is the closest to that derelict ship. They all "keep in touch" with each other by transmitting updates and contents, but each update can take hundreds of years to reach the other ships.

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I've decided to go ahead and develop the Alexandria story, but really have no intention of "doing anything" with it. Between the comics, the musical, the novel - I simply don't have time for it (although apparently the energy).

Still willing to give it to anyone who can Do Something With It.