Keepin' it Cool (Selka Ventus)

[Popo]

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-7uLg-DZU&hd=1

Popo sat in the middle of a rather large work space with his fingers laced together over his rather large, armored belly. Before him stood a worktable with a variety of parts and other odds and ends. Above him hung reinforced, repulsor powered cranes normally used for lifting things along the lines of heavy machinery, tanks, and other super heavy equipment. Instead, each had a small, shiny metal plate heavily lashed to each crane and suspended overhead, though slightly to the side to prevent unwanted accidents. Today, Popo was designing a little somethin'-somethin' for himself and had spared no expense after extensive research and development into the process.

The finest coolant technicians had been hired to develop some of the parts before him. The greatest machinists had been gathered to prepare the mechanisms on the table. The greatest physicists and metallurgists in the galaxy had congregated to produce the one thing that no one else could or ever would anywhere in the galaxy, and that one thing hung from the cranes.

Quantum Crystalline Panels​

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Each easily weighed a few tons at least hence the heavy cranes and reinforced rigging holding them to the crane arms. All the pieces and all the panels and all the coolant mechanisms would be put together to create Popo's little somethin'-somethin' for his own use.

All he needed now was a little help from a specialist he'd hired...

@[member="Selka Ventus"]

 

[Ashin Varanin]

@[member="Popo"]
The specialist, a mousey girl and bland
Could buy all Tenloss from her pocket change
And its rotund and slobrous boss as well
She dressed and even walked like middle management
Intent upon the quantum crystalline
That hung from reinforced and purpose-made
Supports that could withstand the weight of worlds

"This will be," she said, "a day to ne'er forget
"I have not seen material like this
"Since -- well, that may have been before your time"
She cast on him an enigmatic look
Sufficient to the moment's gravitas
"This work will make you feared, envied, and rich
"Beyond your dreams, if you play your cards right
"I have supplied for you a physics team
"To oversee the welding of the joints
"Each one of them would work without her pay
"They and their families, I shall represent
"This task, I fear, will make notorious
"Each one of them and us, for in your hands
"Rest all our reputations fairly won
"What you do with this project may damn us"
The Popoetics of the Fridge began

 

[Popo]

Before his time? It made him laugh.
Popo was over half a century old.
He'd been around to craft
Such things before, though not usually himself.
"I care not who is damned or left alone
From what this project will bring to me.
For what is there to possibly atone
For food chilled in quantum crystalline?
Bring your scientists, bring your best,
To make me this item I desire.
Then, once done, we'll put it to the test
And see if my beer shall remain utterly cold."

@[member="Selka Ventus"]

 

[Ashin Varanin]

When [member="Popo"] laughed, she smiled along with him
As if 'before your time' had been a joke
"I cannot but respect the crystalline
"Materials we'll put into the fridge
"Your beer will never warm nor lose its chill
"My physicists will oversee the work
"For quantum crystalline is nasty crap
"Improper resonance will blow the weave
"Or so I'm told, and nuke us all to Hell"

Thus physicists and scientific types
Converged upon the fridge, and they began
To work forbidden arts upon its frame
And panels of the quantum appliance
[member="Popo"]

 

[Popo]

Popo cared not for danger,
Though he did yearn for a Danger,
And feared no machine or stranger
That came to him or his own.

The crystalline materials that stood
Ready to be worked upon for his
Own personal gain and prestige would
Further his power many, many-fold

The shell came together with ease
And the internals were pieced slowly.
The fridge would cool beer and wine and peas
And meat and dairy and all manner of Popo's wishes.

An electrical current was all that was needed
To power the fridge of Quantum Crystalline.
No power or nation or person Popo heeded
When it came to his culinary cooling needs.

[member="Selka Ventus"] [member="Danger Arceneau"]

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Popo"]
Unquestionably, Popoetic greed
Brought rational objection to its knees
A cunning mechanism carried power
Through one small segment of the quantum wall
A single arc through dimpled indentates
No compromise of insulated strength
No gap, however small, to warm the brew
Could be permitted by the physics dudes

 

[Popo]

Popo watched the machine take shape
And sat back to watch the show.
Many, many jealous onlookers would hate
The prestige this thing would bring the Hutt.

A box measuring four feet
By two feet by two feet in dimensions.
Ably made of Crystalline, a feat
Unknown to the galaxy as yet.

Popo's desire for ever-cold brew
Increased inside the massive slug's body.
His eagerness and desire for cold beverages grew
Until he could only ask "Is it done yet?"

[member="Selka Ventus"]