Deleted Scenes - The Colony is Pirate Free!

This is an old blog post from last summer that I never got around to publishing. I publish posts like these with the tag 'Deleted Scenes' [don't ask me why...I don't know]. Point is that it helps you understand what my home is like and why it is so hard to be where we are right now.

We saw them installing these last summer on the tender ship, the Phoenix. They're designed to keep nosy neighbors to a minimum. They call them "CIWS" systems and we are definitely NOT allowed anywhere near them.

Dad says it's a product of paranoid thinking. I asked what that meant but he was distracted and he never answered. I looked it up later - this is what a CIWS is.