Dear melvin, Sorry (really!) if this gets complicated, but here goes: Most of the Space Opera can be understood just by going back to the first posts on this thread, but some references are to individuals. If you Google 'Gherkin Building London England', you will get a row of 4 pictures...The second from the left is one that Ten had used as an avater. However, he had Photo-shopped it blasting off from Cape Canaveral, as a Saturn rocket. It was designed for a Swedish firm, and is smack in the middle of lovely, classical old London, where the people just LOVE the looks of it so much that they call it 'The Gherkin'. The story is that Ten and I, with kevinjh as navigator, stole it, blasted off, got lost in space, b9 sent his nasty, badly-trained baboons along, well, that's basically it. Except for the devil, the pizza delivery, the Shakespearean actors, ,the arguing, er, uh, discussing, I mean
; Sylkat