The Weekend - Funky Galaxy Battles (C0079)

A: They are breaking through! Set your blasters to

full power!

B: Excellent job. Search the ship, she’s gotta be in

here somewhere... bring her to me!

C: Lord Hater, we have a survivor here...

B: Where is she? Don’t make me destroy you, tell

me where she is!

D: Not so fast! She will no longer be your prisoner!

It’s time you and I settled this once and for all!

B: You are unwise to think you can defeat me. You

know nothing of the power of the obscure side!

D: We will stop you...

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 C: Lord Hater! We have an unidentified spacecraft
taking off from the rear dock! They somehow
managed to escape our tractor beam!

B: After them!

C: They are accelerating towards the speed of light

We lost them, sir...

Key Vocabulary

break through phrase get through by force

blaster common the parts of a spaceship

noun, plu- that are used for emit-
ral ting bombs

settle verb finish, end

once and for phrase forever

all

unwise Adjective not wise, silly

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 manage verb be able to do

tractor beam phrase a device used for at-

tracting one project to
another from a distance

speed of light common the rate at which light

noun, sin- travels. 299 792 458
gular meters per second

Supplementary Vocabulary

android common a robot that looks like a

noun, sin- person
gular

galaxy common any one of the very

noun, sin- large groups of stars
gular that make up the uni-
verse

constellation common a group of celestial bod-

noun, sin- ies (usually stars) that
gular appear to form a pat-
tern in the sky or ap-
pear visibly related to
each other.

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 parsec common is a unit of length, equal
noun, sin- to just under 31 tril-
gular lion kilometres or about
3.26 light-years

light-year common the distance traveled in

noun, sin- one year traveling at
gular the speed of light

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