Riddles

[Xannari Ferrows]

The entirety of Dokapon?

[Red Iron Crown]

Is it Apollo?

[vexx32]

Hmm. The Cold War?

[DuoDex]

No to all.

Apollo is the closest, but still a long shot away.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Apollo is the CLOSEST? Well shoot, I'm not gonna know this. Mariyate might, though. I'll leave the guessing to her.

(The Avatar?)

[TheMoonRover]

Apollo and Olympian suggests greek myths

The Argo?

Jason and erm... the Argonauts?

The Grey Sisters?

The Three Fates?

Poseidon, Zeus and Hades?

[DuoDex]

Nope to all.

[Xannari Ferrows]

(Ares? He makes the most sense to me.)

[DuoDex]

No.

The whole Greek thing is mere coincidence.e

[cantab]

It's that penultimate verse that is getting me, implying that the rest of the riddle is not describing what the solution is but merely where it can be found.

Is it just spaceflight in general?

[TheMoonRover]

Words. (Probably too literal again, but it fits everything, including the last verse)

Actions. (likewise)

Time. Life. (standard guesses)

Pirates. (?)

[DuoDex]

Pirates is fairly close, as is spaceflight.

[TheMoonRover]

Serenity (Firefly)

[DuoDex]

Nope.

[Bill Phil]

Space pirates?

Can you post the riddle on this page?

[Xannari Ferrows]

(Apollo - Apollo missions?

Pirates... Pirate radio station?

The Apollo 18 movie?)

[DuoDex]

Nope to all.

[Red Iron Crown]

The riddle:

The Olympian sails

With lieutenants three

Across the sound

Upon a great journey.

The journey begun

At great expense

The leader starts

A loneliness hence.

The foe is sighted

And with great haste

Begins the battle

The loser defaced.

In each of these

I may be found

Now what am I?

With these hints

Thou art endowed.

Is it a race? Or a boat? Or a boat race? Or a race boat?

[DuoDex]

Closest by far.

[TheMoonRover]

The Apollo 18 movie?)

I think you meant Apollo 13.

The USS Enterprise and/or it's crew? Klingons?

Dalek Sec? (At this rate I'll soon reach sci-fi related stuff so obscure that no-one's ever heard of it)

An Olympic rower or some such thing?

EDIT: I didn't actually see the boat comment before posting. The Titanic?

[DuoDex]

Nope to all

Also, no more hints.

[cantab]

Rowing in general?

Rowing across an ocean?

A specific crew that rowed across an ocean?

[Bill Phil]

The Odyssey?

Whatever it is I bet it's cryptic.

[Xannari Ferrows]

(The ship of Billy Blood?)

(I think Bill has it. The tale of Odysseus)

[r4pt0r]

I was going to say Odysseus, but a few pages ago he said the greek thing was a coincidence.