Riga Landing Gear

 

Riga Landing Gear

Her flying saucer was parked under a cliff. The big overhang hid it from overhead view. Riga examined the three landing gear struts on her craft. Each was a single leg with a flat skid below. All were solid engineering. Not liable to break. Small squat solid functional. Just like her! They were made out of aerospace grade aluminium alloys. These were sourced on a far-off alien world. Alloy was alloy. Each with different properties. Ones on Earth were different. Each had different parameters. Including strength, resistance, melting point, breaking point and other important ones. Not all alloys could be used. Spaceship design took the best. Other than being metal there were extra properties. The metal had microscopic elements within its structure. These were alive. Not just in the landing gear. Within the entire hull of the vessel. Each craft was grown in a ship yard. Not produced by hand in a factory. It was all automated. Aliens oversaw the automated creation of the vessels. The biotic half alive/half machine ships. Riga’s flying saucer was just one, a flying saucer. Riga looked at the gear. It was familiar. The size, the components, the growing process, the way it was assembled, the everything about it. Why? It was she who had designed this. That was during her life time on the alien world in a different reality. Separate from this reality. She was fully aware in this reality. That shouldn’t have been possible. But it was. Riga here with her stationary vessel. Designed by her. How about that?

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