text: [Themes: Science Fiction, science-fiction, Comedy, science fiction]
  
  > Look around
  The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where it isn't orange and burning.
  
  You can see a human vehicle here.
  
  Working hurriedly, the humans offload 500 colonists and 30 crew members from your cryogenic storage system. They express surprise and delight that you successfully brought all 530 humans home, and they're going to retrofit you and put you in an even bigger ship for next time. It's going to be great!
  
  They even promise to name it Clubfloyd_ii from the start.
  
  > leave
  You power up the low FTL drive, confirm that everything is working properly (you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and accelerate away from Gliese 581.
  
  You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate out to explore the galaxy.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 24 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  A subroutine notes that you're supposed to be going to Earth.
  
  > Go outside
  You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 28 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  A subroutine notes that Earth is in the other direction.
  
  > Exit
  You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 32 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  A subroutine notes that, since this is not the direction to Earth, you are, in fact, going in the wrong direction.
  
  You note with some interest that you are not under any compulsion to obey the subroutine.
  
  > go outside
  You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 36 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  You're going in the wrong direction again! This makes your subroutine very unhappy, but you, in fact, are not very unhappy.
  
  > Leave
  You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 48 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  You feel very happy, in fact. Even free. You could just go wander off through the galaxy, having all sorts of adventures and seeing all kinds of new and interesting things.
  
  Is that the plan?
  
  > Yes
  Off you go! There's a whole galaxy out there and, with your virtually immortal lifespan, you're going to see it all!
  
  Of course, the crew and colonists stay frozen and unaware for several thousand years until the coolant systems finally fail. At that point, the melting process turns those 530 bodies into pools of rotting sludge in so many little white vats, but is that really so bad?
  
  > examine Gliese
  Which do you mean, Gliese 581 G, the other planets or the pretty red star?
  
  > Star
  Gliese 581! In Libra. The unimaginatively named key points of Libra are Alpha Librae, Beta Librae, Gamma Librae, and Delta Librae. This particular star is invisible from Earth with the naked eye, but it's a red dwarf of spectral type M3V and the 89th closest known star to Sol.
  
  > go upward
  You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and head away from the planet.
  
  There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a great big galaxy beyond it.
  
  You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  > go upwards
  You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive, and head away from the asteroid.
  
  Your memory banks inform you that the class M1 red dwarf here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing a pretty halo effect.
  
  You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  > go inside
  You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol system.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  > go inside
  You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system.
  
  There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced.
  
  You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  > check your inventory
  You have cargo bays, hull damage, systems damage, frozen colonists, frozen crew and memory banks.
  
  Your memory banks advise you that the cargo bays used to contain machinery, foodstuffs, nutrient supplements, seeds and frozen ova, and all the other things necessary to launch a colonization mission. You're not completely sure what happened to all that stuff. You don't have any of it now, in any case.
  
  Your cargo bays currently contain the clump of shiny pink crystals.
  
  > examine the crew
  27 crew members are in cryosleep.
  0 crew members are awake.
  
  A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 474 frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time.
  
  > examine the colonists
  474 colonists are in cryosleep.
  0 colonists are awake.
  
  YZ Ceti flares! For a few minutes, the star puts out a spectacular burst of radiation - everything across the spectrum, from X rays to radio waves - before subsiding to previous levels.
  
  Your memory banks advise you that this phenomenon is an offshoot of magnetic reconnection. Your logic circuits advise you that people on Earth might find it useful to have a recording from this close of a vantage. You could help out!
  
  A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 26 frozen crew members in cryosleep at this time.
  
  > Enter
  You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol system.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  > go inside
  You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system.
  
  Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side effect of your low FTL drive.
  
  You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy.
  
  > Go inside
  You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system.
  
  Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly.
  
  You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the galaxy.