NationStates Jolt Archive


ROYCESTAR IX Launched

Roycelandia
05-11-2004, 07:13
Colonial Space Centre, Roycelandian East Africa

Jubilation today as Roycelandia successfully launched the ROYCESTAR IX Satellite and managed to get it into orbit without anything exploding, falling off, or otherwise going astray.

"I think we can all agree that this is a resounding success for Roycelandia, and naturally we're going to be VERY upset if we don't see truckloads of money thrown at the Space Programme now" said a spokeswoman for the Roycelandian Space Agency today, waving a bottle of Dom Perignon '62 around and getting drunk with the rest of the Mission Control Team.

His Imperial Majesty Emperor Royce I was also full of praise for the Space Agency. "They've done a great job, especially after the ROYCESTAR VIII incident, and I'm personally going to see to it that we throw truckloads of money at the Space Programme so we can build lots of really funky Rockets and Space Shuttles and generally show those Lusakans and anyone else who's paying attention how great we really are!"

Plans are already underway for the construction of the Space Shuttle Starbug, and the Roycelandian Space Agency is denying the existence of an Orbital Weapons Array codenamed the "Jupiter Cannon"

"Who told you that?" the same Spokeswoman said. "We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an Orbital Weapons Array firing Depleted Uranium Slugs, and anyone who says different is clearly a spy."

The reporter who brought up the subject in the first place found himself having a discreet chat with some gentlemen in suits and sunglasses with poorly concealed handguns, but was released after satisfactorily answering their questions.

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Al Khals
05-11-2004, 19:20
With the usual round of low-key international congratulations over, a few spacehead communities within the Democratic Republic have again started to hope at a revival of the Al Khali space programme. With a population of four million, Al Khals has never been able to support a full native space programme, but its enthusiasts again start to hope that the Roycelandian space programme might one day be seen as far enough from dangerously incompetent that satellites with Al Khali components or missions may be launched on Roycelandian rockets.
Roycelandia
06-11-2004, 12:34
There are further rumours that Roycelandia intends to put a dog in extended orbit in the next few weeks.

Unlike "Laika", the Soviet Wunderdog, Roycelandia intends to bring the Dog back to earth in one piece...