The Good Captain
Internal Copies
ELL-W-20-2
Copy published by Jay Bushman on Print in 2008.
"In the year 2143, Tyler Monroe Lockham captained a small entrepreneurial trading ship, the Skipstone. Captain Lockham was a Shareholder, Third Class, in the Namerican Branch of the Mercantile Empire of Greater Eather. The Skipstone had completed a voyage among the worlds at the edge of his Empire's reach. Now he was on his way home with valuable cargo. At the outskirts of the solar system, in the darkness between the Kuiper Belt and Neptune, he stopped to replenish his supplies. Orbiting a small ice ball, a planetoid called Dioretsa, he sent some of his engineers down to mine water and minerals. On their second day there, a strange ship approached. It was not broadcasting its identification, as was required. Far from home and aware of the kinds of stories that follow the sudden appearance of silent ships, he might have been uneasy or afraid. But Captain Lockham was a man of a singularly undistrustful good nature. He was not liable, except on extraordinary and repeated provocation, and hardly even then, to think the worst of others. This good nature even extended to the strange customs of the various alien races that were part of the Empire, or at least its customers. Despite what humanity is capable of, Ty Lockham was a businessman of unusual generosity and good spirit. Whether such traits imply, along with a benevolence of heart, quickness and accuracy of perception, is up to wiser heads to decide."
ELL-W-20-3
Copy published by Jay Bushman on Print in 2008.
"In the year 2143, Tyler Monroe Lockham captained a small entrepreneurial trading ship, the Skipstone. Captain Lockham was a Shareholder, Third Class, in the Namerican Branch of the Mercantile Empire of Greater Eather. The Skipstone had completed a voyage among the worlds at the edge of his Empire's reach. Now he was on his way home with valuable cargo. At the outskirts of the solar system, in the darkness between the Kuiper Belt and Neptune, he stopped to replenish his supplies. Orbiting a small ice ball, a planetoid called Dioretsa, he sent some of his engineers down to mine water and minerals. On their second day there, a strange ship approached. It was not broadcasting its identification, as was required. Far from home and aware of the kinds of stories that follow the sudden appearance of silent ships, he might have been uneasy or afraid. But Captain Lockham was a man of a singularly undistrustful good nature. He was not liable, except on extraordinary and repeated provocation, and hardly even then, to think the worst of others. This good nature even extended to the strange customs of the various alien races that were part of the Empire, or at least its customers. Despite what humanity is capable of, Ty Lockham was a businessman of unusual generosity and good spirit. Whether such traits imply, along with a benevolence of heart, quickness and accuracy of perception, is up to wiser heads to decide."
ELL-W-20-1
Copy published by Jay Bushman on CD-R in 2008.
This copy contains a video file that goes through the Sci-Fi twitter adventure version of this work, and was made for the Media Arts Show.
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