ON THIS QAY IN QISTORY Subject: The Magrathea Suite Date: 17:02, Harday the 21st of Splod, 123 RE Message: We hear that the Magrathea Suite has been commandeered by someone named Harry. A passenger called Aggravata the Obese filed some sort of lawsuit against StarStruct last queek, a little towel told us. Something about a booking from six quonths ago. Perhaps Lord Ronald would care to stay in the duplicate Magrathea Suite on the theme park Starship? The Magrathea Suite is an area of the Ship that pre-dates the vessels construction. Through some form of temporal anomaly, the Suite was built either in the near future or the nearish past by Kenegan Shreen's grandfather - or possibly his grandson if time shifts have anything to do with it. Compared to the luxurious suites that make up the First Class compartments, the Magrathea Suite goes above and beyond by a considerable distance in terms of its standards of construction. While it consumes as much space as the other suites, the interior is several times larger due to the use of a quadro-gravitically contained para-dimensional hyper-bubble. Technology unearthed from one of the moons of Magrathea was, apparently, employed to create this hyper-bubble - though no information exists on who found the device, who worked out what the heck it did and how many people were wiped from existence in the process of installing it. The Suite includes a grand piano, a fully-stocked bar, numerous easy-chairs finished in finest quality leathers, intra-time beamed Real-View Window plates (providing almost any view that the inhabitant might care to request from the birth of the stars to the collapse of civilisation on Eroticon VI), sauna, jacuzzi, mini-swimming pool, drive-thru wardrobe, master bedroom (with a Pan-Galactic Emperor-sized bed), several guest rooms, mini-kitchen and master dining room, private ballroom, observation balcony and library. While Kenegan Shreen lays claim to the Suite by right of birth or genetics (or something), there are others who have supposedly booked the room or resided there since the Suite's existence came to light. Aggravata the Obese stayed in the apartment for several weeks, at times resorting to violence to keep possession of the room. Her lawsuit, lodged against StarStruct Inc. in 123 RE, still remains in the midst of administrative, legalese and bureaucratic processes some three years later. The room has also been used by Harry, ex-Senior Executive with the Very Big Company of Everywhen, as well as other occasional passersby who have seen fit to spend the sleep-cycle there. No doubt others will pass through in the future. When the Starship Titanic Theme Park was constructed a replica of the Magrathea Suite was made, but without the hyper-bubble - leading to a somewhat larger exterior volume that was accommodated with some careful readjustment of space. Next Message: Nothing to Declare - ??? [ PREVIOUS ENTRY | POST A COMMENT ] [ BACK TO THE FORUM INDEX ]