Excerpts from The Volos Cutlass 

Various, from the week including New Year's Eve. Agatha Smee, ed.

OBITUARIES

SMEE, Longinus Archibald, age 79, Captain of the Unsinkable II, the Unsinkable (sunk), the Deep Threat (sunk), the Unsinkable 1 ½ (run aground), of Volos passed away peacefully in his sleep on Nkesi, the 36th day of Almaz. 

While it is impossible to recount, in its entirety, the Captain’s exceptionally long and storied career, who could forget his heroics at the Battle of…