Battery Pirates

During my afore mentioned caffeine-free coma I had a very unusual dream. It’s been awhile since my last dream related post so I thought I’d give this one it’s own post.

In this dream I lived on an asteroid with the descendants of a band of pirates. The pirates were famous for stealing a massive supply of super Batteries. The colony was inside a rather large bubble on the asteroid and looked very similar to a run down-desert community you’d find in the western united states. It was dusty and everything was rusty, dirty and broken… with the exception of a brand new car dealership near the edge of the bubble.

The descendants of the pirates were a diverse bunch, mostly large working class men with a few stereo-typical female truckers thrown in for good measure. One women had robot legs and arms from an accident and a male dressed like a cowboy was a Psigryant with tremendous psychic abilities, he was however quite mad and locked up inside the city hall/sheriffs office.

The early parts of the dream are vague; but not too far into the dream the descendants of the police who were escorting the batteries came to confiscate the stolen batteries. However instead of landing and taking the batteries the captain of the ship (influenced by the cowboy’s psychic powers) starts to bomb the bubble keeping the colony safe. A battle erupts on the ship between the captain and the cops immune to the cowboy’s psychic powers. Eventually the captain and his faction are forced to the surface in assault pods.

The cowboy escapes from prison during the colony evacuation and the remaining cops flee in their ship. The captains forces are driven insane and start to slaughter the colonists in a desperate attempt to reach the batteries. (stored in a secret underground bunker) The Psychic, the robot and myself find ourselves overwhelmed by police in power armor and on hover scooters.

Clearly outclassed I flee into the bunker while the robot women holds them off. The Psiygrant disappears in the mists of the battle and I find myself being chased in a massive underground storage bunker. I try hiding but the robots clearly have heat detection, so I try pushing the shelves of batteries on them to no avail.

I escape out a hatch to the surface to find the entire colony empty. (Except the car lot which still has salesmen milling around) I flee into town looking for a ship to escape with, but all the ships are gone. All thats left is a childrens hover scooter in front of a diner. I steal the scooter just as the power suits emerge from the bunker looking for me.

I was aware I was dreaming at this point, but the only things I can do easily with lucid dreaming are arm myself with a sword (Iiajitsu style) or wake up. Finding both of those options unlikeable I nudged the dream by thinking of the psygrant and bionic women showing back up to help. With a quick flick of my wrist I armed myself and engaged the police.

When the battle was over, we helped ourselves to some eggs and bacon at the diner.