Dysonworld

Hughes felt it too but channeled his enthusiasm elsewhere. He was not going to hug her after all that had happend 'No one! No one has had that high a NIL number.'

'They found more solar systems.'

He finished her thought: 'But, we found the greatest population or concentration of life! Ha, that means we're in first place.' He had a huge smile on his face and clearly was not thinking straight.

'Something's not right,' she said to herself above a whisper.

'What? Whatnotright?' The captain came down from his euphoric state.

The doctor sat back down and asked the computer: Life spread out over how many planets are we talking about here? The instant response gave confused readings.

'What..not..right?'

'No, no, don't worry, these numbers are right. But, doesn't something strike you as strange? It's the smallest known star, yet it has the largest number of inhabtants?'

'Oh, that. It didn't occur to me.' He referred to the scanner screen. 'How many planets in the system?'

'Ah, ha...one.'

'One?'

'See..one. But.it must be one, mother-flubbin, huge planet.'

'Those are still not the usual types of readings.'

'I know you're dying to call her up.go ahead. I don't care. Just as long as I send the report back to CC. I'll go do that in.and relay updates to my compartment. I can continue scanning from there.' Dr. Reece began to leave the bridge.

'So you can.celebrate with your Guru?'

'No, so you can be alone with your little playmate. Hank, you know, they're not real. I'm talking about her BOOBS. In fact, none of her is real,' was the last thing she said before she left.

The captain was alone and did not hesitate. He pushed the 'activate' button on his watch. There was that electric 'pop' that always preceded her. Mary appeared. She was a beautiful redhead in a tight, silver jumpsuit. Her incredible, fake body always excited the captain and made him feel young and alive.

Mary was immediately aware of the discovery and jumped into action at her science station. She barely acknowledged the captain. He leaned down and smelled her hair.

'I remember telling you it would happen. The odds were indeed in our favor,' said the hologram.

'I missed you.'

The redhead smiled and asked: 'Orders, captain?'

Captain Henry came down from the clouds, unsmiled and commanded: 'Take us in. Get as close as you can to the pink sun. Do we have a name for the star, yet?'

'I will check.' Mary hit a few buttons which displayed a small window of old, Star Catalog names. 'I think this is another first.'

'Whatchamean?'

'It's the first time one of your Starxplorers ever reached a personalized sun. Some one, long ago, purchased the rights of naming it.'

The captain moved closer to Mary and viewed the name of the pink dwarf. 'Hmm. Rosestar. That's a nice name.' He turned his head and she also turned her head. Their lips were an inch away from each other. He gave another order: 'Take us closer.' They both smiled after that innuendo.