[id: flashback: night scene extreme close-up of the cartoonish UFO from the sims 2 game as it glides toward the camera over desert plains, taking up most of the screen. it is saucer shaped, with a windowed, domed cockpit on top, and a neon green glowing rim. no occupants are visible through the windows unless they are formed of blue-white energy resembling streak lightning. a pair of yellow narration boxes continues the offscreen military operative’s tale: “what happened next we can only surmise… but we think they simply set out to continue the mission assigned to the craft that had crashed.” /end id]
