Strip 700 -- First Seen: 2011-05-11
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Libby, Emily Rose and Robyn are riding in a mag-train running along Ceres' icy surface. We see them seated in comfortable bench-seats, with Robyn next to the window, looking outside through one of the meter-wide windows. They are traveling very quickly, and the near-ground was just a blur but she could see the background of ice and scattered rocky out-croppings against the black, starry sky.
Title: When Penguins Fly
Caption: Libby, Emily Rose and Robyn are enjoying a 'girls' day out' away from Ceres City, riding the 1000 kilometer-per-centime mag-train to the planetoid's south pole.

Panel 2
Exterior view, we see the mag-train approaching what looks like a giant igloo. The tracks run into the 'igloo's' entrance tunnel.
Caption: Their destination: Polar Park, the antarctic theme park. Robyn knew the igloo motif was from the wrong pole, but it made her smile.

Panel 3
We see the girls, and several other visitors, from behind, looking through a very large plexiglass window (think Seaworld, but bigger). All of the people are wearing warm 'winter' clothing. On the other side of the glass we see, at a slightly elevated angle, the penguin habitat, which consists of two 50x60-meter pools separated by an isthmus topped with arctic tundra grass. There's a sign on top of the isthmus reading, 'Keep off the grass.' The far wall has a rocky cliff face with numerous cubby-holes and flat areas where the birds can rest, and breed. The walls to left and right are simple sheer vertical walls.
We see a variety of penguin species, including adélia, rockhopper, king, chingstrap, gentoo, and emperor. The penguins on the cliff face tend to cluster in small groups of the same kind, although not exclusively. We see some of the swimming birds leaping high out of the water, 50 meters into the air, gliding over the isthmus (remember Ceres' low gravity) and into the pool on the opposite side, penguins are flying in both directions. It's a spectacular scene.
Caption :There were many fauna represented but the crown jewel of the park was the penguin habitat, where several species of the aquatic birds were able to fly – or at least glide – thanks to Ceres' low gravity.