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|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | |main character = [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] | ||
|featuring = [[Ruth]] | |featuring = [[Ruth]], [[Irving Braxiatel|Irving]], [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]], [[Jack (The Kraken's Lament)|Jack]] | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Carol Bauer|Dr Bauer]] | ||
|setting = [[Xanadu Tower]], [[2616]] | |setting = [[Xanadu Tower]], [[2616]] | ||
|writer = [[David Llewellyn]] | |writer = [[David Llewellyn]] | ||
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After being kicked off of the medical ship because of [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] arguing with a [[robot]] whilst [[inebriation|drunk]] on [[mescal]], Benny and [[Ruth]] continue their journey to [[Legion (planet)|Legion]] with [[Ray (Paradise Frost)|Ray]], a [[taxi driver]]. The taxi is pulled to [[Kaff Zarnak]] by a [[tractor beam]] and explodes because of the damage, after which Benny, Ruth and Ray find sanctuary from a [[sand roach]] in [[Xanadu Tower]]. [[Physicist]] [[Carol Bauer|Dr Carol Bauer]] and [[Yukon 9]], a [[Killoran]], explain that they have been stuck in the tower for years, under siege from the sand roaches, and brought Ray's taxi down in the hope that they could escape with them. | After being kicked off of the medical ship because of [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] arguing with a [[robot]] whilst [[inebriation|drunk]] on [[mescal]], Benny and [[Ruth]] continue their journey to [[Legion (planet)|Legion]] with [[Ray (Paradise Frost)|Ray]], a [[taxi driver]]. The taxi is pulled to [[Kaff Zarnak]] by a [[tractor beam]] and explodes because of the damage, after which Benny, Ruth and Ray find sanctuary from a [[sand roach]] in [[Xanadu Tower]]. [[Physicist]] [[Carol Bauer|Dr Carol Bauer]] and [[Yukon 9]], a [[Killoran]], explain that they have been stuck in the tower for years, under siege from the sand roaches, and brought Ray's taxi down in the hope that they could escape with them. | ||
Kaff Zarnak was once a tropical [[planet]], but [[Belenus (moon)|the largest moon]] of [[Dagda|the neighbouring planet]] was knocked out of its [[orbit]] and pulled Kaff Zarnak away from the [[star|sun]] and it is now freezing. [[Jared Jones|Dr Jared Jones]], [[genetic engineering|genetic engineer]] and founder of [[J-Netics Industries]], closed the resort when a [[virus]] spread around Xanadu Tower, killing a hundred thousand people and leaving only | Kaff Zarnak was once a tropical [[planet]], but [[Belenus (moon)|the largest moon]] of [[Dagda|the neighbouring planet]] was knocked out of its [[orbit]] and pulled Kaff Zarnak away from the [[star|sun]] and it is now freezing. [[Jared Jones|Dr Jared Jones]], [[genetic engineering|genetic engineer]] and founder of [[J-Netics Industries]], closed the resort when a [[virus]] spread around Xanadu Tower, killing a hundred thousand people and leaving only Dr Bauer, Yukon and, possibly, Dr Jones himself. Dr Jones's apartment is at the top of the tower and is the location of the tower's sole [[shuttle]] and Benny suggests that they go there after [[lunch]]. | ||
Based on the tower being in the shape of a [[double helix]], Benny deduces that there is a hidden tunnel that leads to the tower's unmapped internal area. | Based on the tower being in the shape of a [[double helix]], Benny deduces that there is a hidden tunnel that leads to the tower's unmapped internal area. In the [[canteen]], Ray eats half of a ten-year-old [[Zanabix]] [[snack bar]] and Dr Bauer takes him away, ostensibly to the [[medical bay]]. She tells the group that he was killed by a sand roach and they journey through the tunnel, with Yukon being attacked by a sand roach who has a scrap of Ray's [[clothes]]. He kills it and summons [[Xanadu Express|Dr Jones's private train]] to the [[station]]; Benny, Ruth and Dr Bauer get aboard and head to to Level 305, with Yukon fending off sand roaches and only just managing to get aboard. | ||
Benny and Dr Bauer work out Dr Jones's [[password]] based on the train's route through the double helix and the group enter the [[penthouse]]. Dr Jones is part-sand roach and Dr Bauer explains that the lower-level workers became the sand roaches after eating the Zanabix bars, which were designed to increase productivity and contained genetic material from roaches; when Dr Jones did nothing, Dr Bauer infected the [[water]] supply in order to force him into action, believing that it was only for the upper levels, but she accidentally infected everybody in the building. He managed to create an [[antidote]] which kept him from being completely transformed. | |||
The shuttle is surrounded by hundreds of sand roaches and Dr Jones refuses to open the door. Having conditioned Yukon with a [[control word]], Dr Bauer has Yukon hand her his [[gun]] and shoots Dr Jones. She uses his control word again to make him carry her out to the shuttle, but the sand roaches kill her, leaving Benny, Ruth, Yukon and Dr Jones be. Dr Jones warns Benny with his dying breath not to trust anybody on Legion and she and Ruth leave in the shuttle with Yukon, intending on dropping him off on a nearby world. | |||
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* Ray claims that he kept [[jalapeño]]-flavoured [[KitKat]]s on the shelves with a letter campaign at the age of eight. | * Ray claims that he kept [[jalapeño]]-flavoured [[KitKat]]s on the shelves with a letter campaign at the age of eight. | ||
* The [[Tvashtar Paterae]] are the [[volcano|volcanic]] plains of [[Io]]. | * The [[Tvashtar Paterae]] are the [[volcano|volcanic]] plains of [[Io]]. | ||
* ''[[The Hollow Men]]'' by [[T. S. Eliot]] is Yukon's favourite [[poem]]. | |||
* Ray and [[Ray's wife (Paradise Frost)|his wife]] [[honeymoon]]ed on Kaff Zarnak. | |||
* [[Gregory XXIII|Pope Gregory XXIII]] was a [[lizard]]. | |||
* Yukon hates [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]]. | |||
* [[Gazillion]] is not a real [[number]]. | |||
* Yukon mentions the planets Dagda and [[Killora Prime]] as places where he and Carol might wind up after leaving Kaff Zarnak. | * Yukon mentions the planets Dagda and [[Killora Prime]] as places where he and Carol might wind up after leaving Kaff Zarnak. | ||
* Yukon quotes poetry as part of a way to reduce, some of the quotations come from: | * Yukon quotes poetry as part of a way to reduce, some of the quotations come from: | ||