Dragonfly

Greetings, ladies and gentlemen of Earth
And all native intelligences of the forty planets
With contestants entered in the annual Grand Trex
The only inter-universal race
This year's event promises excitement to surpass all previous races

As many of you fans know already
The route or track of the race orbits and glides
Has been increased by five thousand million kilometers
Thus enabling Grand Trex to include the B-Arc15 system

Dragonfly
Dragonfly
Satellite
Strike and fight

Laser light
Shot tonight
Target nullified
Gyro subdivide

Latitude
Longitude
Satellite
Solid substitute
Dragonfly
Are revise

What's a drag race? Can't you see?
Those dragons speeding up the street
But I learned they weren't real
Pigments of the ancients' fear

Rapid scan
Radiance
For the chance
To win the Grand

Manoeuvres
Pre-program
Windage
Won't operate
Negative
Bearing swell

Dragons fly, they symbolize
In myth and saga breathing fire
Look up there's one flying higher
Faster than the SSC
Is science hiding witchery?

Grand Trex fans throughout the universe
Are well informed on the risks the pilots take in entering this race
Re-entry into some of the alien atmospheres is tricky business
Which can cause a craft to implode, explode, melt
Lose atomic structure and so forth

Adding to the interstellar debris that on its own
Is a terrific danger to the ships en route
Service craft scheduled to launch at 0700 Flyport Greenwich Mean Time
Have assembled on one of our very own stars before the cheers begin
And the excitement is at a fever pitch as the countdown approaches zero

Dragonfly
Gracious glide
In free fall slide
Systems nullified

Satellite
Dragonfly
Surface launch
Radio silence
Hover high
Level off

The time-space tactics saved us then
Display, report, present, urgent
Sequence counting, surface launch
Dragonfly destroying all

Science claiming newest findings
Chanting, calling flying dragons
Aboard all systems optimum
Nova scheduled war continue
Half the continental shelf
Burned by
Interval
Interval

We have retained, as an added feature
For daring thrills and excitement in this race
A feature which I'm sure you're going to like
A computer override lasting three and half and hours or two gens
When pilots and co-pilots manually control

Free fall, latitude, longitude, protract gravity
Revise dimensional equations, run program checks
Submerge in the wild oceans of Jaspin 22
And photograph as much territory and terrain as they can
In addition to the requisite three thousand automatic shots
The postulate for a mischance runs high
But not as high as the tension and competitive spirit
Right here and all over the galaxies

Dragonfly
Dragonfly
Beacons aim
Space game

Satellite
Computerised
(Good luck to all the entrants)
(And especially to our own ship, Dragonfly)
Hypersonic glide

Win the race
Calibrate
Re-entry place
Failsafe