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saw chairs, desks and many panels of flickering lights on the walls all round the command deck but he could not find the controls.
    “Captain, where are all the computer consoles, I mean the controls for navigation, communication, weapon, life-support and …?” Chen Wei asked.
    “Be patient, young man. This spaceship is very special and possesses powerful capabilities. Its daily operation is run by a master-computer.”
    “DATA, tell us more,” Captain Baldwin ordered.
    The master-computer interface, DATA, is a hologram of a stunning beauty, standing right in the centre of the command deck. She resembled Miss Italy, the runner-up to the Miss Universe 1987 beauty pageant.
    “This spaceship belongs to the BURGER series model number 123. It’s warp engine is an advanced prototype developed from Alcubierre’s Drive. This latest prototype works on the principle of contracting space in front and expanding space at the back of a spaceship. This enables it to break warp speed of 400 light-years per hour, which is the critical bottleneck for inter-stellar travel. The propulsion engine has a hydrogen ignitor to generate a large magnetic field to capture the limitless supply of hydrogen atoms in space. These hydrogen atoms are then channelled into a thermonuclear reactor to bring about nuclear fusion. The heat generated will break up matter into quarks and anti-quarks. Alcubierre’s equation was manipulated to produce more anti-quarks than quarks. The anti-quarks, having negative mass are then expelled in high-volume at the back of the spaceship, thus expanding space behind it. Low-volume quarks produced at the front, will contract space thus moving the spaceship forward many times faster than the speed of light. This spacecraft can reach ultra-warp speed and maintain it indefinitely,” DATA elaborated.
    “Excuse my interruption, is this something like a leaf being pushed along by a ripple in a still pond? I mean the leaf is the spaceship and the distortion of space creates the ripple,” Chen Wei drew a crude analogy.
    “Affirmative. The weapon system is the most powerful using revolutionary technology. It has a defence shield, an anti-gravity shield and a radiation shield. The navigation system uses artificial intelligence algorithm to map its travel co-ordinates and runs on auto-pilot mode,” DATA reported.
    “Amazing. I did not know they could do that,” Chen Wei expressed his admiration.
    “All right DATA, that’s enough for now,” Captain Baldwin ordered.
    Turning to Mrs. Andersen, he said, “I believe the kids are tired.” Mrs. Andersen smiled knowingly at him. She was tired out herself, she always did, when she had to listen to all these technological explanations. She thought to herself, “just tell me where are the buttons, and when to push which buttons, simple as that. No need for all this technology stuff. Put me to sleep.” Just at this moment, true to her thoughts, she yawned right in front of the Captain!
    "Excuse me, I'm sorry. Technology is not my cup of tea." She apologised and yawned again!
    “DATA, let’s take off,” Captain Baldwin ordered.
    “Affirmative. Please fasten your safety seat belts. Initialising navigation system, computing travel co-ordinates, logging the co-ordinates into permanent memory. Navigation system activated. Engine ignition in five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one.” The spaceship propulsion engine slowly came to life. It began to generate a tremendous amount of power. The space-station dome quickly opened up above and the vast expanse of space was laid bare. BURGER123 took off gracefully into space with amazing stability. For this group of students, travelling in a star-ship with their language professor was like a dream came true. Everybody was looking forward to a world of strange encounters and adventures.
    Once Captain Baldwin assigned the kids to their quarters, all the guys in one cabin and the girls in another, he showed Mrs. Andersen to her cabin.
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