Welcome to my spaceship. You must have travelled a long way. Are you thirsty or hungry? You've come to a place, where all the friendly life forms of the universe are welcome..
- Victor! We have a guest. Bring us something to quench the thirst of our friend and prepare some food for us please.
Let me show you around. This spaceship has many windows. As we travel, each of them opens up into different and finite moments of time. They all come with a unique story...some we know, some we don't. Every individual looking through these windows would see, sense, remember, think, mold something different than you would, so what you make of it is entirely up to your imagination.
Throughout your journey with us, allow me to assist you with the windows. Look down. What do you see? Fish? Catch? Elegance? When I read the story next to it, it always reminds me how precious every living creature is.
Pelorus Jack
Pelorus Jack was a dolphin that swam about off French Pass, New Zealand between 1888 and 1912. He met all ships approaching the pass and piloted them through its maze of rocks.
One day, a passenger aboard a ship called Penguin pulled out a pistol and shot Pelorus Jack for sport. The dolphin was wounded but recovered.
He continued to meet ships off French Pass, with the sole exception of the ship that carried the passenger who shot him. Penguin shipwrecked in 1909.
You can even watch a captured footage of Pelorus Jack at this reliable link:
http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/video/4698/pelorus-jack-escorts-a-ship
Gerard Hutching. 'Dolphins - Humans and dolphins', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 9-Jan-15
- Thanks Victor!
Lets keep on walking in this direction, while we sip our refreshments. Victor, by the way, is a humanoid trained to please my friends and I. Depending on my demands of the moment, it always optimizes the amount of clones necessary to serve.
Do you want to visit some cool places on my home planet? I can take you to busy streets, vast canyons, high mountains, or blazing deserts. This is London. Depending on your imagination, you may want to see yourself driving this Rolls Royce, or sitting on the passenger seat and enjoying the view.
Or I can take you
to barren roads to nowhere on the American continent.
Or we can go east to the edge of Europe and beam ourselves into a slice of time in Istanbul.
Let's move to the other parts of the ship. This way please.
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