Welcome to another edition of the Rocket Stove Chronicles! As usual, there are lots of pictures, so to keep the thread coherent, please wait to comment until everything's posted! Thanks! The last time we saw Pierre Affin Steauxvie, our intrepid hero had just lifted off from the French gAstronomy Program's Charles de Gaulle launch pad. Today, we join him on an unwelcoming distant planet, where he's crash landed onto the craggy surface. The unconscious Steauxvie doesn't see the unscrupulous Scrap Brass Monkey haul off his valuable ship to the alien's salvage yard! Awaking to find his ship gone, Pierre sets off across the forbidden planet. In a deep crevasse, he's unaware of the danger lurking behind him! But being an uncultured Philistine, the creature finds French cuisine unpalatable, and spits out our hero.
Steauxvie crawls out of the crevasse and stumbles upon the Scrap Brass Monkey's salvage yard. He finds strange alien ships, robbed of their fuel supplies. He finds tiny ships, tethered to this distant solar system by their small tanks. This Portuguese ship may be able to get him back to the Orion–Cygnus Arm of the galaxy, but the tank isn't large enough to get him all the way to Earth. He continues the search for his ship. BUT WAIT!!! Could it be?!!! It's an Optimus 516! With eight burners, it's the most powerful stove they ever produced! Able to boil four gallons of water in just 3.5 minutes!!! With a new leather and NRV service, he should be able to get it pressurized. There have been some soldering repairs in the ship's past, but they didn't make a huge mess of it. Four of the burners look ok from here. He will have to scrounge up some new jets though. He'll have to find four more burners as well to escape the planet's gravitational pull. The missing burners were cut and brazed into these block-off plugs. Pierre Affin Steauxvie has his work cut out for him, but it looks promising! Will he escape this terrible planet and find his way back home? For more adventures, stay tuned for future posts with our undaunted gAstronaut and his new rocket ship!
Crazy ... yet strangely compelling read ... yup, I'm hooked and want more. The Times Best thriller since 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Daily Telegraph That monkey's no Samaritan John
G,,day you have a twisted / warped sense of humour, i love it!!!!!!!!! keep it coming. for the longer the better. cheers kerry
Whats the lizard. I had thought after the reference to another NZ based member it might of been a Tuatara but its not
Someone has clearly too much time on their hands. Now I will sit here quietly and wait for the next installment.
Thanks gang! I thought it up while sitting in traffic on the grinding commute home. Only took 20-30 minutes to photograph, and a good portion of that was spent unpacking the external bottle stoves from their stuff sacks. I laughed out loud at that back cover review John! Maybe your Sigg Firejet should make an appearance! Since it needs four burners, this one's low on the fettle pile, but I hope to have it operational in time for apple butter season. None of my spare jets fit, so I'll need to special order some. Geeves, the lizard is my partner's very ill-tempered bearded dragon, but was not meant to reference any CCS member. Perhaps my capitalization was incorrect? If handled when young, they're supposedly pretty docile, but by the time this orphaned lizard came to our home, he was pretty nasty. I didn't expect him to attack Pierre though! Usually he never leaves his log! I cut up an apple as a peace offering, but he's a curmudgeon.
How much is left in the Jack Daniels Bottle then & you can never find an "Eagle" transporter when you need one Lets keep Gerry Anderson's memory alive 8) Stu
Hi all Stumbled upon this Old post deserving another look. Gave me a laugh and a smile Have a great day all Regards Scott B
