Lucas yawned as the crew of the Goban came into final approach to the Kyoto Military Base. The last five hours had been slow, boring, and without incident...and Lucas loved it. After he had brought back the bland, tasteless nutrient rations for everyone to "enjoy" next to starvation, he had leaned back in the cockpit and fallen fast asleep. The past 27 hours had been a nightmare since he stepped foot on the Goban's shuttle bay. He'd been blown up, knocked around, thrown, shot at, cut, bruised, battered, and damn near killed on several occasions...so any peace and quit was utter bliss. Even the horrible re-occurring dreams of home were acceptable, just this once.
That was five hours ago. Now, Lucas sat in muted pain from broken ribs as he guided the tiny shuttle to landing pad 12. Tractor beams and guiding programs took over and Lucas leaned back to mess with the bandage wrapped around his head. The injury was a nice three inch slice slanting upwards on the right side of his forehead. He let his hands fall into his lap as soon as he felt that the dressing was comfortable and swiveled his chair around to look at the exhausted crew. Lucas grinned as he activated the in-flight speakers and slipped the headset over his bandages.
His voice carried softly over the intercom. "Attention passangers," He started as he saw eyes pop open and glance in his direction, "This is your captain speaking. We'd like to take this moment to bring to your awareness that we are now on final approach to Kyoto Military base on the good planet Yamatai. We are now about 5000 feet up and decending. Our total flight time today was six hours and forty minutes. The current time is 1:30 pm on Kyoto field. If you look out to your left and right, you'll see clear skies, green grass, and lack of imminent demise. I'd like to ask that you go ahead and thank whatever deity that you worship that we made it home in one piece. We hope you enjoyed flying with us here on the stolen shuttle Uriel and hope to see you again real soon. Thanks." he said chuckling, for that was all his ribs allowed him to do.