I think it would be great to do a "Travel Chronicler" of a poor lost space/time traveler that happens upon a bunch of worlds that have interesting and comic outcomes. He could at one point find himself in a world, looking for a tune-up for his spaceship when he happens upon a planet full of used spaceship salesmen, astrophysics-mechanics and snake-oil salesmen that are eternally reincarnated Greeks.
It's there that he finds a new fuel to make his travels easier and essentially a lot less expensive - the apieron, "it's boundless after all, plus it will transform into anything and everything you like (and its opposite all at once). While mulling over switching to this latest and greatest theory on travel fuel he could stumble upon the workshop of Zeno and check out his latest models of starcrafts:
1. The Bisection (where you get halfway by going halfway and halfway by going halfway of the halfway until you don't get anywhere and are so frustrated by the situation that you buy the upgrade that gets you halfway there halfway faster but never quite gets you home)
2. The Achilles and The Tortoise Models A & T (twin engined spacecraft that has one engine that gets a head start and the other one never quite catches up. It'll get you where you're going, but you'll do it in circles. Very comfortable, but persistent dizziness is a noted side effect)
3. The Arrow (Such smooth space flight it'll feel like you never move. Given that movement is illusionary only anyway you won't feel the motion because there is none).
4. The Place Paradox concept craft (Tagline: since any particular place would imply an infinite number of places, which is absurd, there is no place so you're already where you were trying to go.)
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