Things are looking bad for the spaceship, it sits, decommissioned and rusting at the bottom of the garden. A colony of feral cats have taken up residence in the port side engine and many of the more portable components have been robbed out by local kids to build make-shift snares.
The cockpit is a sorry sight, the once gleaming control panel is corroded, the screens cracked, the seats threadbare with springs and foam protruding at odd angles.
Beneath the grime the faint remains of the, once bright orange, insignia can just be made out, and below that someone has scrawled 'NCC-1701-X' in road marking paint.
The rain falls more heavily and the cats retreat into their shelter. In the house someone stirs, his one good eye opens slowly and faint green light seems to glow behind the pupil. He slowly rises from the tattered armchair and stretches, joints creaking after years without exercise.
He leaves the living room and walks through the hall way to the kitchen; from a cupboard beneath the sink he retrieves an enormous toolbox. Flicking a switch by the back door he ignites the 10,000watt lighthouse bulb he once stole on a forgotten holiday. He opens the door and takes two slow yet purposeful steps outside and, silhouetted in the doorway, contemplates the task in hand...
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"‘The Drowning of Ys’ [is] a maelstrumm [sic] of whirlpooling density that sends the listener off kilter from the first moments. Stereo bass from Hel orchestrates spiky, chiming e. guitars as a-rhythmical powerdrones blitz the senses. Following this is the half-hour ‘The Long Walk West’, a dogged trek through the arid uplands after having mercifully escaped from the previous track’s storm of intense Doom overload."
Julian Cope
"Truly FANTASTIC and MASSIVE"
Dave Weinberg, White Hills
"Long Walk West is genius. I've been waiting for Cope to make something by way of an "Odin" Part 2. Wait over."
Ian Blackaby, Lunar Dunes
