Palistade-9

Planetary Explorers

Photo by Guillaume Issaly on Unsplash

“Happy, there is a fluctuation in the power runners on the port side, what is going on,” I asked my Engineer.

The ship, knowing who Happy was and where he was, channeled my inquiry through the Communications Platform to Happy Joe Dertzey’s, in engineering.

Why did we call him happy? No clue, he is actually a grumpy old, ornery cuss.