Lost Lambda

[Leo]

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The Zoner cruiser struggled through the transition. The gravity on the far side of the singularity was messing with rift travel. As they came out, the entire bridge crew gasped at once. There, in front of the Darkhorse, hung the singularity. No human had ever studied one this close.

"Alright." Dante broke the silence. "This is what we're here for. Discoveries. Point the array at the center and gather as much data as you can."

He checked his own readouts. Gravity waves matched several theoretical models, nearby planets were being ripped apart, and other worlds were slowly pulled from their orbits. Dante looked back at the viewscreen. The singularity was a void in space-time. He had seen many strange things during his tenure with Starlight, but nothing like this. It unsettled him.

"Sir." the science officer said. He nodded. "Long-range sensors are picking something up."

"Can you be a little more specific?"

She made a frustrated face, glancing at her screens.

"I can’t, sir. The interference is wrecking even our advanced array. All I can give is a heading and the fact that this object isn’t being pulled in like the rest of the system. It’s resisting the singularity."

Dante chewed his lip, staring at the spinning accretion disk. What could resist something that even light couldn’t escape? Advanced tech? Some unknown mineral? Something else entirely? The possibilities pulled at his explorer’s instinct.

"Conn, set a course. Keep an eye on those gravity waves. No point in having the ship shredded."

The officer nodded and began punching in calculations, plotting a path toward the distant object.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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