Riga Nined

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Riga Nined

Riga. Tell me little Riga. Why is there always a transport? A ship taking you somewhere. Often to a place of danger and strife? Is it because you are Holy Riga? You work for God or the Great Creator or Mother Goddess or whatever you call it? Riga. Get in the fucking transport. Listen to those engines spooling over. They're a cool sound. You have to admit. That spinning whistling turbine spooling over. Whoever invented jets deserves a beer. Riga. Do you miss me? Think of me? Even if you left me and met another? You left me and met Pedro. Now he's your number two in battle and number one in bed. He even got you pregnant! Why did you only have gals Riga? We had three and you and Pedro had one. Why are you a soldier and leader? Is it because you never had a boy? You wanted to go to war and battle and combat and fight and make history? Be one of the guys with your uniform and rifle and grenades and boots. Even if your feet are small and your moods are tall. And your critical thinking equals any general. Little Riga. Loved by all. Even the enemies. Where you are going the enemies are what? Green coloured. Covered in chitin. Have six legs. And two heads. And move either forwards or backwards. And take a direct hit to kill. Depleted uranium rounds. Pedro will protect you. I know he loves you more than I ever could. You had this effect on him. Like you did me but different. Why is that? What do you do to people? I saw you eating together when both on leave. I was in the cafe. You both have a chemistry. I never approached you then. Even if I'm still your legal husband. I talked to you weeks later when I saw our daughters. I knew then what you never needed to tell me. That you and him really clicked. Just take care and do not get killed on that far off stinking bug filled world. Nuke it from orbit. You can fly the ship. Why inhabit an unstable world? All this talk of terraforming, making it a new Earth, building cities and all that. Why send in the soldiers of this place is so nice? It's full of bugs and you're going on a bug hunt. Take care my dear. And Pedro too. He seems a good guy. Message me and all that. I know 

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Riga Nined

Riga. Tell me little Riga. Why is there always a transport? A ship taking you somewhere. Often to a place of danger and strife? Is it because you are Holy Riga? You work for God or the Great Creator or Mother Goddess or whatever you call it? Riga. Get in the fucking transport. Listen to those engines spooling over. They're a cool sound. You have to admit. That spinning whistling turbine spooling over. Whoever invented jets deserves a beer. Riga. Do you miss me? Think of me? Even if you left me and met another? You left me and met Pedro. Now he's your number two in battle and number one in bed. He even got you pregnant! Why did you only have gals Riga? We had three and you and Pedro had one. Why are you a soldier and leader? Is it because you never had a boy? You wanted to go to war and battle and combat and fight and make history? Be one of the guys with your uniform and rifle and grenades and boots. Even if your feet are small and your moods are tall. And your critical thinking equals any general. Little Riga. Loved by all. Even the enemies. Where you are going the enemies are what? Green coloured. Covered in chitin. Have six legs. And two heads. And move either forwards or backwards. And take a direct hit to kill. Depleted uranium rounds. Pedro will protect you. I know he loves you more than I ever could. You had this effect on him. Like you did me but different. Why is that? What do you do to people? I saw you eating together when both on leave. I was in the cafe. You both have a chemistry. I never approached you then. Even if I'm still your legal husband. I talked to you weeks later when I saw our daughters. I knew then what you never needed to tell me. That you and him really clicked. Just take care and do not get killed on that far off stinking bug filled world. Nuke it from orbit. You can fly the ship. Why inhabit an unstable world? All this talk of terraforming, making it a new Earth, building cities and all that. Why send in the soldiers of this place is so nice? It's full of bugs and you're going on a bug hunt. Take care my dear. And Pedro too. He seems a good guy. Message me and all that. I know comms there are bad. The distance. Like the distance between you and me. Once we never had that. You almost had that same distance with Pedro. I sensed it. Don't hurt him again. The pair of you take care. We here on Earth need you to win this war. Safe trip now. Love.

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 there are bad. The distance. Like the distance between you and me. Once we never had that. You almost had that same distance with Pedro. I sensed it. Don't hurt him again. The pair of you take care. We here on Earth need you to win this war. Safe trip now. Love.

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Riga Command

 

Riga Command

It was flight time. Riga wore a black and yellow sports top with dark green combat trousers. Riga flew her craft in a straight line to see what the maximum speed was. She advanced the large single silver throttle forwards. It had a large degree of movement and was shaped like a big cock. Her viewing window was open. Outside was black space. A void of nothing. Stars glittered in clear form. Not inhibited or enhanced by any atmosphere. They were as they were. Of course, they were old. If a star was five light years away then that was what she was seeing now. How it looked five light years ago. Her flying disc advanced rapidly. The stars moved on by increasing speed. Her craft was propelled by a fusion reactor drive. The control was all the way forward. A simple display of numbers hovered in front of Riga. Like a fancy hologram. It was the velocity calibrated to miles per hour. The numbers were light blue. Different coloured stars were shifting along. Like marbles brushed away. On and on the craft went. Was there no top speed? She was at half-light speed now! Riga shrieked and clapped her hands. This was awesome! The stars were now like lines. White red yellow even green lines on the blackness of space. She needed to be careful not to hit any debris. Imagine hitting a comet or asteroid! Her protective shields were up but they were not bullet proof. Meaning not one hundred percent protective. No system was. A sense of velocity was now there. There was no acceleration. Just lights whizzing past. That was enough. Riga crossed light speed and kept on going. She was far away from Earth. The Sun was smaller. How much faster could she go? Should she wait and see or was this enough? Well Riga? How fast is fast enough? Just a bit more…

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