"Which one's ours then?" asked Laertes. Jack stood behind him and stretching an arm over his shoulder pointed in the direction of the craft.

"That one," Jack said.

"Which one?"

"THAT one," Jack repeated with the infinite patience he only ever used for the deeply stupid.

"What? You mean behind the beautiful ship you are pointing at?"

"It IS the beautiful ship I'm pointing at."

"Oh." Laertes was taken aback somewhat. He'd been expecting a small tramp freighter constructed out of chicken wire and baked bean cans, not an elegant ship such as this. This ship, with its subtle beauty, elicted expressions like, "woah", "my god" and "flippin' heck". This ship was to spacecraft what chocolate, treacle and fudge pudding was to desserts. Talking of which, he realised he was also feeling rather hungry. "I hope it has replicators," he muttered.

The Gryphon, a sleek grey AMSV-17T Frigate, crewed by a bizarre group of misfits, tumbles on an erratic path through the interstellar night. Commissioned by its captain, Jack Riley, with the money won from a legal battle with a construction company, the crew seek the fame and fortune of a variety of trades, some less legal than others, but all with the promise of ejecting them into the realm of legends.

Find out more about the ship itself on the stats page, and you can discover more about the crew under the crew roster. Some of the basic positions have been filled up, but there are still loads left!

The Gryphon is one of three ships operating in the Eclipse subset of the Star Trek, interactive fiction universe, created by those almighty beings at World Weavers. More info about interactive fiction can be found at the world weavers homepage, and you can follow the adventures of the Gryphon (and stories from other universes) at the alt.shared-reality.sf-and-fantasy newsgroup.

If you have any questions regarding the Gryphon, Eclipse, or the World Weavers in general, or you want to join the crew, please don't hesistate to drop me a line at llama@verbalchilli,com, and I'd be happy to try to answer any of these questions.

- Martin Davies