A Peasant Requesting “a Little Help Here” A survey of serfs and yeomen immigrants to Carcosa and the Celestial Neighborhood of the Hyades provided the following popular reasons for space travel among the pseudo-medieval lower classes. To discover the effects of Phlogiston on farm animals and household pests. To bear witness to colors unknown. To collect evidence of colors unknown after failing to describe them to non-spacefaring peasants after witnessing colors unknown. To find potential space-mates. To spread a personal, “cool-looking” sigil beyond their homeland. To poach hyper-deer from the Space Lords. To pledge ultra-vassalship to a Planetary Baron, To market an invention having limited utility in their home environment, such as zero-gravity horseshoes. To hide for a year and a day to attain freeman status To discover if bathing is dangerous under different suns. To expose human dung to the energies of the early universe. To avoid a curse. To endure a curse. To find the n...