To Everlasting Ebb

[Dusk]

Omega-97 —> Fischer
02.01.836 AS

---

---

Fortunately for everyone who embarked on this expedition, they were all able to navigate the small areas affected by anomalies without obsessive thoughts or the suicidal urge to fly closer. Still, having insurance in form of fully immune AI was... reassuring.

Time passed slowly in the dark labyrinth. It was quiet here — too quiet. After the "warm welcome" they'd received in the first two systems of this frontier, this silence seemed unnatural and ominous. But it was coming to an end.

After traversing a couple more anomalies, they finally found themselves before the transition point. This was it.

The first thing Crimson Veil saw upon entering the new system was... Hunger. An endless, absolute hunger, consuming everything around it. For a few seconds, she remained frozen, simply gazing at this both majestic and terrifying sight. Her Anubis fighter, in many ways an extension of herself, began to drift slowly toward the cosmic maw. Toward the endless ebb.

She shuddered, waking from her fleeting trance as Chevalier and Novak appeared in the system.

The albino needed to focus. There were numerous objects here that would be an excellent undertaking to study, including the alien structure Novak had spotted dangerously close to the cosmic maw. But Crimson Veil was here for a purpose, and it had to be achieved.

---

---