"Dr. Ugari's digging machine really is something, but don't tell him I said so." The sonarman had leisure to talk, since the dense earth around the digger denied him the use of his instruments. If Professor Moxt was correct, that would change.
"Try honest praise for once, Mr. Jurven. The boost to your career may surprise you." Captain Ittel's casual tone, he hoped, disguised the excitement he and all the crew felt. Out of all the planets from the ice planet to the jungle planet, the lawsuit planet had to be the most boring. And yet, the respected Professor Moxt put forward so convincing a hypothesis that unbelievable finds waited beneath the layers of paperwork that had solidified into the planet's second crust that funds were raised and volunteers found for possibly the greatest expedition of the age. With Dr. Ugari's innovative drilling machine, the truth would be revealed.
The driller not only had to pierce through the layers of the planet but also accommodate the crews for the days the expedition was projected to take. And so it did, until at last Mr. Jurven reported his sonar gave results. They had reached an open area. Not a chamber or a building, but an entire hidden planet.
Exploring all of that was of course an impossible task, but the crew soon found a journal that explained everything.
"Another day on the mining planet. Boy, we mine so much stuff here, but there are so many accidents I wouldn't be surprised if this turns into the lawsuit planet someday!!! Color of the week: Russet."
Historians were stunned.
Finis
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