The text is authored by jabberjabber and represents fictional scenarios. Any similarity in the text to other works or situations, fictional or real; past or present, is purely coincidental and I would be happy to rectify any unintentional and significant plagiarism, as that is something I want to avoid. All rights reserved.
The images are sourced from a variety of locations and authors, all of which come with permission to copy and distribute under various licences. The images and their authors are alphabetically detailed below as required by the licences.
BalaclavaMill, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, by Ddeyell at en.wikipedia
crabs, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, by Timquade at en.wikipedia
cupola, Free of Copyright, NASA
duststorm, Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, by Mrcricket48
roadrunner, Free of Copyright, LANL
spirit, Free of Copyright, NASA
UpsilonAndromedae_D_moons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, by Lucianomendez