On Farmolis's Famous Octan Olympic Arena, where all the best and brightest athletes have come to train! Including none other than Dr. Danielle Long, who was surprised to wake up to a holo-mail from CEO Pombe, requesting her presence at the games... on penalty of forfeiture of shares...
Octan Olympics! by Danny-Longlegs, on Flickr
Dr. Long: "this looks like and engine attached to a cockpit with two wings. Is this even a boat?"
Engineer: "Yup! Class 1, F. Speed class 2, $ 1, C 0, W 0."
Dr. Long: "What?"
Engineer: "Do you disagree with my classification? I mean, it's clearly a catamaran."
Dr. Long: "I don't know what that means."
Engineer: "I thought you liked boats! Isn't that why you insisted on using the Cog? I mean, apart from the fact that "Cog" is the name of a medieval ship, I can't see why you would have loyal to the brand name."
Dr. Long: "Cog is a type of boat?"
Engineer: "yes. From the medieval Era of European history."
Dr. Long: "and was that before or after the Egyptians?"
Engineer: "After."
Dr. Long: "huh. I'm not a history expert."
Engineer: "yeah, Let's stick to sci-fi."
Dr. Long: "Sci-fi?"
Engineer: "I meant science."
Dr. Long: "So, this thing doesn't have controls. How do I pilot it?"
Engineer: "the AI pilots for you, but you can override and control it with your helmet."
Dr. Long. "Thank the stars. I despise pointless self endangerment like this, so it'd be best if the AI took care of that. Also I've never pilotted a boat."
Octan Olympics! by Danny-Longlegs, on Flickr