© Jerod Underwood Park Mission 2   <-  home  -> As the viewpoint fades in, you find yourself at an older space station located at an outer point post. At the moment, your pod is located inside a launching tube while the ship is docked outside, latched up to an exterior flexi-bay. The sound outside the pod is rather quiet due to the privacy of the tube's steel structure. The only light outside the pod is provided by the light liners, lit up in a combination of soft white and red lights. The red indicates that the launchee is to stay in a stationary position until the order to launch by a flight controller officer is given. Seconds later, that order comes through and the lighting conditions change to blue and green. SAL (Systems Analysis Lutron) fires up the aft thrusters and the gunnery pod begins to lurch down the tube towards the space where a circular swivel door used to be. As you exit the tube, you can see the ship just being released from the docking arms of the flexi-bay out of the bottom of the wide view window. As SAL begins the approach towards pod support tower number 3, a brief message comes through the communications system from the captain. He reports on the mission in general and on the close fly by of the moon of Zippo-Ago, where a base run by the species known as the Skronts are rumored to be located. SAL links up the pod with the tower just as the main engines come on line. The ship makes a 72 degree angle turn to come about to face The Gravitron Ring.