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Krikkit One was the first spaceship ever built by the people of Krikkit. Though other ships such as the Heart of Gold, Starship Bistromath, Starship Titanic, and the Galactic Fleet Battleships - the GSS Daring, the GSS Audacity and the GSS Suicidal Insanity - are often spoken of with awe, pride, enthusiasm, affection, admiration, regret, jealousy, resentment, and in fact most of the better known emotions, this one regularly commands the most actual astonishment.

This is not because it was a wonderful ship. It wasn't. It was a crazy piece of near junk. It looked as if it had been knocked up in somebody's backyard, and this was in fact precisely where it had been knocked up. "Extremely rickety" was one phrase which sprang to mind, and "Please may I get out?" was another. The astonishing thing about the ship was not that it was done well (it wasn't) but that it was done at all. The period of time which had elapsed between the moment that the people of Krikkit had discovered that there was such a thing as space and the launching of their first spaceship was almost exactly a year.

It was in this ship that Krikkiters first left the Dust Cloud in which their planet was enveloped and saw the stars, motionless against the starry sweep of the Milky Way galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. After looking at it for a while they headed for home. "It'll have to go," they said, and spent the return trip singing a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.

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