The good ship Glenn Shepherd slid right through the planet Mortalia.
They all knew what that meant,the planet Mortalia was actually a mirage caused by the light from a near by red star
bouncing off a black hole and reappearing light years away on the other side of
the black hole in the image of the planet.a mirage planet.
There was nothing here but reflected light.
Jack Stonewall began to giggle nervously as he realized he'd just wasted the last 15 years of his life in a sublight deep space nuclear plasma powered state of the art space ship to
go to some bounced off starlight.
Kira began to catch the same giggle disease whilst a furious Jessica headed to the galley
to fetch a stiff drink.
Captain Jones however just stared impassively at the view screen at the various light patterns
the mirage planet was composed of.
Finally Captain Jones said" Well we can scratch Mortalia off the
starmap"
He looked down at his starmap scope and noticed the
nearest next destination seemed to be a Amusement Planet called Aragorn
that had been
off limits to his race for centuries.
However he figured with the tale of woe he'd be able to tell with a straight
face,the Therans,a shapecrafty race of dragons,knights and damsels in distress
would accept the crew of the Glenn Shepherd as customers.
It was half a years journey away.
And so with Jack and Kira still giggling away and his wife pissed out drank in her cabin,
Captain Jones headed to the planet of Aragorn...