It was right outside a galaxy, one of the cameras had transmitted this really nice picture of a galaxy seen from slightly above the plane of its ecliptic. Eventually they'd even be able to figure out WHICH galaxy, but all they knew at the moment was that it was an elliptical galaxy and appeared to be old stars.
The planet the probe was falling towards before transmission was cut was a rogue planet. Some interesting ice formations on it, but otherwise nothing of interest of course. The temperature of such a planet would be as close to absolute zero as it was possible to measure with current instruments. No, it was a shame, but there couldn't be anything interesting about such a rogue worldlet.
Ranma would have, if he could have, pointed out that this world had an atmosphere (if thin and not exactly what he would find useful) and a little white dwarf sun still putting out a faint amount of heat and light. Nor was it precisely uninteresting. Even without the knowledge that he was going to hit it as a very unfortunate meteor, he found the ancient city spanning an entire continent to be somewhat fascinating.
Then he could tell his ship was in the process of making like a meteor, including a blazing trail through the atmosphere, and Ranma found himself bracing against the wall and gritting his teeth even though he KNEW that wouldn't help in the slightest. Rather like finding your plane crashing to the ground and fumbling to put a seatbelt on.
Then:
(Posted Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:03)
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