ATTENTION CITIZENS: Your Glorious Corporate Benefactors have authorized the following event.
“Ladies and gentlemen across the Omni-Net, all temporal regions and alternate planes of existence, are you ready for tonight’s exciting race? It’s the 2077 “RAMJet Supermotoenduro”!
This is your old pal, Drongo Vik coming to you live from Outback Stadium in the former Australian Federation for a very special, 40th Anniversary edition of the “RAMJet Supermotoenduro”! The first leg of tonight’s race will consist of 300 laps over the “Hateful 8”, a deadly criss-cross dirt track followed by a harrowing 700 mile run through the “Inferno Catacombs” before any surviving racers reach the finish line!
Before we begin tonight’s festivities, a few warnings:
As we are in the Radback, be watchful for any mutants near or around the stadium that may want to eat you. Also, be sure that you have stocked up on your P-Luv Bio-Tech anti-rad pills or you are going to start losing hair and teeth.
For anyone that used Spectre-Tech Temporal/Dimensional Conveyance Devices, please be sure to adjust your phase compensators. Remember, last year we had an incident involving a DeLorean, a blue Police Box and an old American-styled phone booth that the lawyers are still arguing over. We don’t want any accidents or paradoxes this year.
For any of our viewers in the past, please do not use any of the information you see and hear to try and alter your future as you may screw up our timeline and then you will no longer be able to enjoy this amazing sport!
For any of our viewers in the future, please do not use historical records of the race’s outcome for gambling purposes, that’s just dirty cricket.
Now, everyone please stand and recite our “Corporate Pledge Of Allegiance”: “I pledge allegiance to our Corporate benefactors, The Five Who Sit Above Us, Who restored our world, And give us life, May their stocks never lose value.”
Alright, race fans, let’s get this started!
The Outback Stadium’s “Hateful 8” track consists of a 3 mile long figure 8 dirt track. Riders are allowed to fly up to a maximum of 75 feet above the surface of the track. Red arrows mark the way, with out of bounds lines marked with neon green pillars. Towers containing race officials are on each side of the center of the course. The start/finish line rests on the center of the x. There are no penalties for going off track, but no shortcuts are allowed.
Our first racer on the track is our pace bike piloted by a very special guest, Beavil Knevil! That’s right, everyone’s favorite human/beaver hybrid corporate mascot had come out of retirement for this 40th Anniversary race! If you remember, Knevil broke the majority of his bones a decade ago trying to jump the New Panama Canal. He has recently regained the use of his legs and has graciously joined us today piloting his customized RAMJet, the “Eager Beaver”.
Knevil revs up his engine and takes off! He is soaring about 60 feet above the track and is about to take his first turn. He’s around the first turn and heading into the “X”!
Oh no! He’s veering off of the track and heading for the stands!
He’s just corrected his course and is returning to the track folks, everything’s fine.
Oh, Gods! There was just a small explosion! Race Ops is reporting that they have lost one of their holo-camera drones used to cover the race. It appears that Knevil collided with it when returning to the track! We can see smoke and flames coming from his left engine!
The track safety crew are waving flags to alert Knevil to land, but he’s still trying to finish his lap! Land, Beavil, land!
His engine just exploded! He’s heading for the ground! Rescue hovercraft have been dispatched!
That was a huge fireball! Beavil’s been through worse so I am sure he is ok!
The rescue medics have him, folks, I see a thumb’s up, he’s alive! As soon as they clear the wreckage from the track and find his arm, we will get the race started.
While we wait for the mess to be cleared, here are a few words from our sponsors:
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