run I

run I

Captain Verdana sat in his big Captain’s Chair and wondered what he should do about the prisoners, much less their planet that he was ordered to devastate.  He had pleaded so as not to have to blow it up, and the council relented so long as he devastated their world enough to remove the threat of the Cane.

The little girl was pretty.  He wouldn’t have minded a bit of her, but he was sure that the strange creature that was obviously a bag of chips was her lover.  “What strange lovers these earth females keep,” he mused to himself.

“Pardon, Captain?” Giq asked.

“Oh, sorry,” Verdana said.  “Just talking to myself.”

“The planet is before us,” Giq said, rolling his eyes at his Captain’s musings.  “What are your orders?”

Captain Verdana was about to order Giq to fire upon the defenseless planet when an alarm went off.