I go from backflip to kickflip to shredding a keytar solo, my hoverboard thrumming beneath my feet. It's a standard enough combo in Star Overdrive, and if anybody had been around to see, they would've witnessed a twirling feat of acrobatics and rock music that spits in the face of gravity. All standard practice in this far-flung corner of the galaxy though, and the goal isn't to impress anybody – no, I'm on the hunt. Having flung myself airborne, the elevated perspective lets me spot what looks like a titanic, armor-plated maggot tunneling through the dusty desert plains, several hundred yards southwest of my location.
Target located. I reluctantly let physics have their way at last, riding my board back down to the dunes, and immediately go speeding towards the behemoth, vaulting rocks and sandy drifts in such a way as to make Marty McFly salivate with envy. As I close in on my prey, I pull my keytar off my back once again, and play a thunderous power chord – causing a bolt of energy to spring from it and lasso the beast. A second later, I'm being dragged at a thousand miles an hour behind Shai-Hulud, ollieing every sandbank along the way, already firing up the solo needed to start blasting the beast with lasers.
