“Space farming ain’t like jumping through hyperspace boy! You got have patience, lots of water and thousands of kilometers of tubing.”

A 100-word piece of Sci-fi minutia

Bucky Batteries: when you need batteries to last a long long long time

A 100 piece of sci-fi minutia

'Sivver is the common name given to crystalline parasites, which interact with the nervous systems of carbon based Chordate life forms.'

Definition of the word Sivver provided by the Galactic Scouting Guild's Almanac

'The Sivvers are an alien weapon that turns people into murderous glass sweating zombies.'

Uwell Ofmobile, retired Galactic Scout

Unpowered and unmanned, the gliders provide a graceful and silent means for delivering death. Once again the engineers found that you didn't need to reinvent the wheel. . .