Narrator: Kevyn accidentally started a fire. Hi is now both too unconscious and too low-to-the-ground to fully appreciate it.
Narrator: The plume of smoke is over five kilometers high, and casts its shadow over 900 square kilometers of landscape.
Narrator: It is visible to Kevyn's companions; whose march has taken them over a hundred kilometers away.
Schlock: Smoke. That can't be good.
Pronto: You know what I learned in my Space-Scout Fire-Starting Badge?
Pronto: Where there's smoke, there's something making smoke. Not necessarily fire, though.
Narrator: It is also visible from orbit. . .
Narrator: With good enough sensors, it is visible from several light-minutes away.
Narrator: From 25,000 light-years away, however, it is a little difficult to resolve in any detail.
Captain Tagon: Any news?
Ennesby: Nothing. They might as well be on the other side of the Galaxy.
Narrator: (For starters, you have to wait for light to travel 25,000 years.)