Dragonfly

Greetings, ladies and gentlemen of Earth And all native intelligences of the forty planets With contestants entered in the annual Grand Trex The only inter-universal race This year's event promises excitement to surpass all previous races As many of you fans know already The route or track of the race orbits and glides Has been increased by five thousand million kilometers Thus enabling Grand Trex to include the B-Arc15 system Dragonfly Dragonfly Satellite Strike and fight Laser light Shot tonight Target nullified Gyro subdivide Latitude Longitude Satellite Solid substitute Dragonfly Are revise What's a drag race? Can't you see? Those dragons speeding up the street But I learned they weren't real Pigments of the ancients' fear Rapid scan Radiance For the chance To win the Grand Manoeuvres Pre-program Windage Won't operate Negative Bearing swell Dragons fly, they symbolize In myth and saga breathing fire Look up there's one flying higher Faster than the SSC Is science hiding witchery? Grand Trex fans throughout the universe Are well informed on the risks the pilots take in entering this race Re-entry into some of the alien atmospheres is tricky business Which can cause a craft to implode, explode, melt Lose atomic structure and so forth Adding to the interstellar debris that on its own Is a terrific danger to the ships en route Service craft scheduled to launch at 0700 Flyport Greenwich Mean Time Have assembled on one of our very own stars before the cheers begin And the excitement is at a fever pitch as the countdown approaches zero Dragonfly Gracious glide In free fall slide Systems nullified Satellite Dragonfly Surface launch Radio silence Hover high Level off The time-space tactics saved us then Display, report, present, urgent Sequence counting, surface launch Dragonfly destroying all Science claiming newest findings Chanting, calling flying dragons Aboard all systems optimum Nova scheduled war continue Half the continental shelf Burned by Interval Interval We have retained, as an added feature For daring thrills and excitement in this race A feature which I'm sure you're going to like A computer override lasting three and half and hours or two gens When pilots and co-pilots manually control Free fall, latitude, longitude, protract gravity Revise dimensional equations, run program checks Submerge in the wild oceans of Jaspin 22 And photograph as much territory and terrain as they can In addition to the requisite three thousand automatic shots The postulate for a mischance runs high But not as high as the tension and competitive spirit Right here and all over the galaxies Dragonfly Dragonfly Beacons aim Space game Satellite Computerised (Good luck to all the entrants) (And especially to our own ship, Dragonfly) Hypersonic glide Win the race Calibrate Re-entry place Failsafe