Snake and the black nebula

[Dratai]

[font=Lucida Console]Skipping some of the long storytelling bits, trivia and possibly extravagant descriptions, here are some bits and pieces of what happened on this fateful trip:

"It was deep inside the Omicron systems when I found it, or, well, it found me. The black starcloud itself. An imposing nebula of thunder and gas pockets, serene violence and death, in a can, so to speak." Was what the professor had said to me when he told me about it, I had gone out here to find such a thing, and I was mildly disappointed.

The gas pockets? They were there, but there were no enery discharges and the way deeper inside was, for lack of words, very neat. The gas formed a tunnel around the ship, debris floating around eeriely.
It wasn't serene, nor was it violent.
It was creepy.


It was black.
Dark like the clouds back home, an ominous, quiet sensation of doom spread over me.
Nevermind the excerpt of his logs, Snake proceeded deeper into the abyss, this nebula wasn't all that large, just... out of the way, one of those things where you end up cruise-speeding for at least a month in one direction. He steered his current live-ship closer into the dark, a camara transport, so he was at least stocked on basic needs for the trip and back.

The journey had made him feel old, he was no longer scavenging for simple 'kavosh relics in space.
He was exploring, discovering, seeing.
And here, he'd found a machine. A machine that, well, he didn't know what it did, but it seemed to be the cause of the nebula.

Mainly the volatile gasses hugging around it. It was here he also noticed the "tunnel" was, indeed, artificial, a form of ring structure coursing with fading energy seemed to pry open the gap. Snake guided his ship towards the construction, anchoring against it, strapping himself into a vaccuum suit, and letting himself flow slowly out of the airlock. into an opening not too a-similar to a doorway in a temple-type digsite he saw once.

He thought the nebula was dark.
This.
This was devoid of light.

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One of these days, there will be a clever, stylish and/or funny signature here.
This is still not that day, however.