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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 4954156" data-attributes="member: 1225">Re: Rush & his glasses -- yeah, when he was looking at the roster of people onboard, he was holding it so he could see it properly. IIRC, it was down low, so he's farsighted, apparently.I think the ship's story is that it was set up by the Ancients as a long-term, long-range exploration project. They sent out unmanned robotic probes across the universe to find habitable planets and seed Stargates. Then they sent out the Destiny, with a special long-range gate. When Destiny got to the far galaxies, they planned to dial it up, gate in, and explore the universe beyond their normal range.However, they ascended before the Destiny got there, so they never signed on for the tour. And for all the eons since, the Destiny has been touring the universe, like an automated express train with no passengers. The humans happened to catch it, but the gate home is kablooey, and now they're stuck on the train. They can hop off at the stops, but they have no control over the course.(In other words, the adventure's a real railroad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)Part of that is conjecture, and part is hazy memory of stuff I read about it months ago. No idea how much is memory, and how much is made up by me.</blockquote>

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