The sands of 2017 trickle down to the end and the hourglass of 2018 comes to life. Gatchamania is up, then it's down, leaving the Gatchamania Diaspora to wander back and forth between sites. These eons-old Cycles continue on. Please bring in the new year by continuing the cycle of responses!

Now I have Queen's Bicycle Song stuck in my head.

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I should probably explain the sci-fi elements in the preceding post: I have this idea that in the Battleverse, military vessels such as the Phoenix and some of the more expensive civilian starships have their own time-warp (it's canon, sorry, and it has nothing to do with pelvic thrusting... well, you can write what you like in your own stories, naturally) engines for traversing the vast distances between inhabitable planets, where the mathematics are just awful. Astrogration is pretty tricky stuff, so what a lot of civilian vessels do is make use of any number of hypergates (think Babylon 5) where wormhole generators take the place of time-warp engines and establish a stable hyperspace vector - or "hyperchute" (yes, I know, I'm continuing the grand BotP tradition of production in-jokes, thank you) which a vessel without a time drive can then travel along, enabling them to journey to far distant planets. That way, nobody needs to build launch engines into crumbling gothic mansions. Isn't that nice?

Time to start filling out that application for Sainthood, Mark.