"Oh, plenty! There's Penacony, which is a sort of.. theme park inside a dream world, for example."

"To us Trailblazers, at least. All we do is travel around to worlds known and unknown."

"Grocery shopping. It's not often we find a planet not in the IPC's net. Yet. So grocery shopping, and exploring."

"... It's definitely its official name. As per 2.5 seconds ago."

Mhm. Nod. Nod nod.

"Pom-Pom is the conductor of the Astral Express."

Stated matter-of-factly. Like a train in space is the most normal thing in the world.

"It's my heroic baseball bat of absolute ownage."

astral express i had a brain aneurysm i guess

"The Stellar Express. Don't worry, we're the non invasive kind of aliens."

She clearly pondered her own sentence for a moment. With her baseball bat secured to her back, giving her a bit of delinquent vibe, she turned to face Jules.

"Except for.. maybe Pom-Pom."

+ parked in the planet's orbit. Stelle had touched down in advance, just outside of Jules' shop. She's gazing up at the train.

"Landed without falling, that's a job well done."

@advantagedsaves.bsky.social Next stop: Earth. One of the few civilized planets left uncharted for how far it lies away; neither gazed at by any of the Aeons, nor under the grasp of the IPC.

It does have fast food joints, and Stelle is hungry. Which is the reason why there is a MASSIVE train +

The gesture is, nonetheless, appreciated.

She CAN sit in chairs, you know.

It is me.

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