Dragonfly

Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen of Earth and all native intelligences
Of the forty planets, satellites, moons, stars,
And any other inhabited orbs
With contestants entered in the annual Grande Trex,
The only inter-galactic race
This year's event promises excitement to surpass all previous races
As many of you fans already know the route or track of the orbits, glides, etc
Has been increased by 5,000 million kilometers
Thus enabling Grande Trex to include the B'Arc System
In our present event and for all succeeding GT races
Dragonfly Dragonfly
Satellite
Strike and fight.

Laser light shot tonight
Target nullified
Gyro subdivide.

Latitude longitude
Satellite
Solid substitute.

What's a drag race? Can't you see those dragons
Speeding up the street
But I learned they weren't real
Figments of the ancient fear.

Rapid scan radians
For the chance
To win the Grande.

Maneuvers preprogramme
Windage
Won't operate.

Negative bearing swell.

Dragons fly they symbolize in myth and saga breathing fire
Look up there's one flying higher
Faster than the SCC
Is science hiding witchery?

Grande Trex fans throughout the universe are well informed
On the risks pilots take in entering this race, i.e
Re-entry into some of the alien atmospheres is tricky business
Which can cause a craft to implode, explode, melt
Lose automatic structure, etc., while en route
The craft are scheduled to surface launch 0700.5100
Greenwich time and are assembled on one of our very own stars
Neutron Einstar EV 9
The excitement is at a fevered pitch as the countdown approaches zero
These hypersonic inertial transition ships
Can calculate the negligible quantity of spherical differential for tight orbit
Are sonar-radar balanced and translate windage occurrence
Offset verniers, retrieve, execute prepare
Delay code and report astrogational error in a micro-second
Naturally these specialized craft are equipped with apparatus capable
Of highly sensitive maneuverability
They can dive, sweep, run random parallel paths
Alternate axes, circumnavigate for rapid survey, spin
Count milibaricly while simultaneously displaying an accurate diagram grid
For safety measures, not to mention the quanta limitation fixtures for sea level
Ground level, level off, and hover bearings
We have retained as an added feature to stimulate more thrills
The computer over-ride for a three and one half hours to two gens during
Which pilots and co-pilots manually control free-fall, latitude
Longitude, protact gravity, revise dimensional equations
Run programme checks, submerge in the wild oceans of Jonrin 22
To photograph as much territory as they can in addition
To the requisite three thousand automatic shots
The postulate for mischance runs high but not as high as the tension
And competitive spirit right here on Earth and all over
The 4 galaxies represented in this Seventh Grande Trex.

Dragonfly rations glide
In free fall slide
System nullify.

Satellite dragonfly
Surface launch
Radio silence.

Hover high level off.

The time space tactics saved us then
Display report present, urgent
Sequence counting surface launch
Dragonfly destroying all.

Science claiming newest findings
Chanting calling flying dragons
Aboard all systems optimum
Nova scheduled war continued
Half the continental shelf burned by interval
Interval.

Dragonfly Dragonfly
Beacons aim
Space game.

Satellite computerized
Mighty flight
Hypersonic glide.

The countdown is minus two hundred (-200)
And I am turning you over to the control room
At command central Sia Lan for the launch
Good luck to all the racers and especially to our ship Dragonfly
Onward to victory
(Remember comdirect and radio silence will temporarily be in effect.)

Win the race calibrate
Re-entry place
Multi fail safe.