LAST EDITED ON Nov-10-01 AT 11:19 PM (EST)

A parody of the song by C. W. McCall

Notes about the song:

The 'year of One-oh-Eight' means 2108, the height of the Sixth Great Kilrathi War, in which Decepticons fought as mercenary allies of the Kilrathi. The Kilrathi advance has finally been halted, but pushing them back again is proving very difficult, and the Kilrathi are not breaking.

The Taurus medium freighter is better known as the 'Tarsus' or 'Big Toe.' The stock version is awful, and the stock-modified not much better, but with some industrial-strength re-engineering even that frame can be made into a runner. The 'illegal guns' refers not to cargo but to defensive armament exceeding the maximum allowed by the United Galactica on civilian ships operating in the Core Sectors.

The capital-R Runner refers to a CR-90 corvette in the standard 'Blockade Runner' modification, with stronger engines and most of its internal space converted to cargo holds.

Cats, of course, is derogatory slang for Kilrathi.

MacLeod Station lies nearly in the center of Enigma Sector, about thirty light-years from the pre-war Kilrathi frontier. It lies close to the Blue Nebula, which the Kilrathi had fortified as a natural space barrier against Galactica ships.

You never, ever want to see a stoned bandersnatch.

McAuliffe is possibly Earth's most famous colony; it has been fought over, taken, retaken, surrendered, siezed, etc. more times than any other planet since the fall of Atlantis. McAuliffe, like many other captured Galactica worlds, recieved infrequent smuggling runs from the Allied forces throughout the war to continue a guerilla war against the Kilrathi invaders.

Sivar is the name of the supreme Kilrathi wargod, their largest class of carriers, and their priesthood's flagship (not a carrier). Gralthi, Jalthi, and Dralthi are all Kilrathi starfighter types.

The Condor is Chevrolet's one effort to build a personal FTL spaceship, and is historically notable for being the first hypership with a clutch and an 8-ball stick shift standard.

Dropping the hammer is, in smuggler terms, a mixed metaphor, combining the Earth metaphor of 'flooring the gas pedal' and the Corellian metaphor of 'smashing the competition flat.'

Kilrah was raided later in the war, but not by CFA Rubber Duck.

The current whereabouts of CFA Rubber Duck are unknown...

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