Three word game ...

[Fnaar]

grit and swarfega

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The deluxe version

 

[classic33]

in the hope

 

[Fnaar]

of achieving purchase

 

[classic33]

on the surface

 

[Ming the Merciless]

of two moons

 

[classic33]

approaching fast, from

 

[Fnaar]

just behind Uranus

 

[classic33]

Neptune loomed large

 

[Fnaar]

and heavenly bodies

 

[classic33]

attracted all that

 

[Fnaar]

magnetism couldn't provide

 

[classic33]

the forces required

 

[Fnaar]

in Greater Manchester

 

[classic33]

were greater than