Calc Larklight - The Uncrushable flies to Jupiter

Larklight said:

'By the time the worst sensations had abated (or we had grown used to them enough to think and speak again) the sulphurous orange light of Jupiter was shining in brightly through the portholes, and I realised that we had ripped our way out of Io's atmosphere and were crossing the sea of space which separates her from her mother-planet. Captain Gruel anchored himself to the deck with a cunning magnet built into the end of his peg-leg, and bellowed orders at his hairy crew in pidgin Dweeb. They fired the Uncrushable's rockets, and the pressure-ship tore onwards, scattering vast shoals of Icthyomorphs and tearing through drifts of aether-weed, for the heavens around Jupiter teem with life.

Within a few hours we were plunging into the thin outer clouds of the storm-planet itself.

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