Okay, this time I did my research... And I think it's going to be a
fusion/altiverse instead of a mere cross-over.
As always, bonus points to anyone who correctly predicts the stories that
will go into this. :-)
Extra bonus points to anyone with better title suggestions. :-)
Double-special extra bonus points to any offers of pre-readership.
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Guardians
Here There Be Dragons
Geology Station 6, The Moon
1972 December 14 03:05:50 GMT (Mission time 165:32:50)
Apollo 17 Corrected Transcript and Commentary Copyright � 1995
by Eric M. Jones.
Eugene Cernan, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt and Robert Parker belong to
themselves. All other characters belong to their respective authors.
165:32:50 Schmitt: Hey, get uphill a little bit, if you can, for the
pan, so that you don't...so you see my other pan station.
165:32:59 Cernan: Where was it?
165:33:00 Schmitt: It was over there in that crater, just uphill from
the Rover.
165:33:03 Cernan: I'm going up there.
165:33:05 Parker: Hey, and, 17, we aren't all that gung-ho about that
particular crater, if it's that much of a job to get down to it and
back up. We just need a decent place for a rake soil sample and a
single core.
165:33:18 Schmitt: Okay.
165:33:19 Cernan: Bob, we don't move around from here too much. I tell
you, these slopes are something else.
165:33:23 Parker: Yeah. We agree with that, from what we see on the
television. So use your judgment, and get them where it's the best
place.
165:33:30 Cernan: Well, you might take a look at me walking up. But I
don't think I can get to the top. (Pause)
165:33:38 Cernan: I just got to get a place I can get a pan from.
(Pause) Just a bit longer. (Pause) Jack, you have got to see this.
165:33:59 Schmitt: What, where?
165:34:01 Cernan: Up here. (Pause) I think I'll go and save some
water, back on Intermediate. Okay.
165:34:14 Parker: Copy that.
165:34:16 Schmitt: What did you find?
165:34:21 Cernan: A puzzle.
165:35:57 Schmitt: Hey! (Pause) It's regular!
165:36:04 Cernan: That too. (Pause) Okay. I just ran out of film at
160. And I'm about four pictures short of the pan, and they're
upslope. I think I can cover most of that with the 500. (Pause)
165:36:40 Parker: Okay, Gene. You going to go to the Rover and change
your mag now?
165:36:47 Schmitt: Get some shots of this from other angles.
165:36:51 Cernan: Yes. (Pause) So, what do you make of it? (Pause)
165:36:59 Parker: What are you looking at? The terrain is in the way.
165:37:04 Schmitt: Bob, I'm looking at a flat, circular slab of
blue-gray rock on the anorthositic gabbro, it's about seven or eight
meters across. The shape is very similar to a pancake, including the
rounded edges. It looks like a boulder dropped here while hot enough
to flow flat. (Pause) There are five tan-gray stones on the slab, each
about 10 to 20 centimeters in from the edge, spaced evenly from each
other and forming a regular pentagon. The stones are all conical and
about one meter tall. (Pause) The slab is bare aside from the stones;
there's little dust.
165:37:48 Cernan: I'm going to go get the gnomon while I'm down here.
165:37:52 Schmitt: Okay. (Pause) I'm taking a closer look at the
blue-gray rock... It does get some vesicles in it, tan-gray like the
stones. I think they'll show up in Gene's pictures.
165:38:01 Parker: Okay. We have that, Jack. (Pause)
165:38:18 Schmitt: I'm on- whoof! I'm not on the slab. (Pause) Hey!
Oh, man. What's with the dust, too? (Pause) Oh.
165:38:26 Parker: Dust? (Pause)
165:38:33 Cernan: Jack?
165:38:35 Schmitt: This is not normal behavior here.
165:38:38 Cernan: What? (Pause)
165:38:44 Schmitt: It'll wait. (Pause) This is all breccia, in and on
the slab.
165:38:53 Parker: Copy that.
165:38:54 Schmitt: No sign of intrusion into, or enclosure by, the
slab... No sign of melting around the contacts, but the five stones
are immobile.
165:39:18 Parker: Schedule's getting tight.
165:39:20 Cernan: Holy Smoley! Oh me, oh my! What have we here?
165:39:24 Schmitt: You see what I mean?
165:39:27 Cernan: Yeah, it's certainly unusual.
165:39:32 Parker: The dust?
165:39:33 Schmitt: And not just that, watch this!
165:39:36 Cernan: Oh. Oh, no. It shouldn't do that, no.
165:39:41 Parker: What? 17, what is going on?
165:39:46 Cernan: The slab has a... has a... Um.
165:39:50 Schmitt: Air bubble.
165:39:51 Cernan: Yes. Air bubble.
165:39:54 Parker: Say again?
165:39:56 Cernan: Okay... How... thick is the surface?
165:40:04 Schmitt: Feels about like 10 to 20 centimeters. I think the
pressure tops out at the outer edge of the standing stones.
165:40:11 Cernan: Need to leave slow...
165:40:14 Schmitt: And don't run into it (garbled).
165:40:18 Cernan: Go for it. (Pause) Bob, Jack has just entered the,
um, air bubble over the slab.
165:40:26 Schmitt: Feels like about 10 PSI.
165:40:27 Parker: Say again. Gene?
165:40:30 Cernan: Jack is standing inside the air bubble over the
slab.
165:40:34 Schmitt: Should we move the Rover up here so this is in view
of the television?
165:40:39 Cernan: I think... Yes.
165:40:43 Schmitt: Okay... Just so I only have to leave once...
Standing Stone One... looks weathered.
165:40:55 Parker: Weathered?
165:40:57 Schmitt: Weathered, like with wind, rain and the whole ball
of wax.
165:41:02 Cernan: Where'd you get the wax?
165:41:09 Schmitt: Standing Stone Two... same thing. (Pause) Stone
Three is identical. (Pause) As is Stone Four. (Pause) And Five.
(Pause) Double checking one... Yes, identical.
165:41:38 Cernan: There's a breeze in there.
165:41:41 Parker: Say again?
165:41:44 Cernan: There's a breeze in the air bubble stirring up dust
into a dust-devil.
165:41:48 Schmitt: Definite air moveme-
165:41:53 Parker: Jack! Gene, what happened to Jack!
165:42:00 Cernan: Jack... vanished.
People, Places and Things
Apollo 17
Last Apollo mission to the moon. Launched 1972 December 7,
returned to Earth 1972 December 19.
Challenger
Lunar Module of Apollo 17, piloted by Harrison "Jack" Schmitt.
CMDR Eugene Cernan
Apollo 17 mission commander.
Dr. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt.
Geologist-Astronaut and pilot of the Challenger.
Dr. Robert Parker
Mission scientist and EVA CapCom. One of three individuals to
serve as Apollo 17's primary radio contact in Houston.