
★★★☆☆3.0
Description
The hum of the starlight drive was a constant lullaby, a familiar blanket against the vast, cold vacuum. But tonight, the lullaby was off-key, a discordant note vibrating through the very metal of the *Stardust Drifter*.
You are Elara Vance, freelance xeno-archeologist, and, frankly, a bit behind on rent. Your latest gamble, a rumor of a Precursor cache hidden within the asteroid belt of Kepler-186f, hasn't exactly panned out. Mostly just a lot of rocks, vacuum dust, and the gnawing feeling that you've been chasing a ghost.
But that's about to change.
A klaxon screams, tearing through the ship's calm. Red lights strobe, painting the already cramped cockpit in a frantic glow. Your onboard AI, affectionately nicknamed 'Rusty', projects a holographic display: a tight beam of energy, an anomaly signature, originating from a seemingly unremarkable asteroid chunk just ahead.
"Captain Vance," Rusty's synthesized voice crackles, tinged with an urgency you've never heard. "I'm detecting a localized spacetime distortion. Its energy signature is... incompatible with known physics. And… there's something else. A biological marker, faint but present, emanating from within the distortion."
Biological? Inside a spacetime anomaly? Your academic curiosity, usually a simmering ember, flares into a roaring inferno. Forget rent. Forget the dubious "contact" you were supposed to be meeting on Kepler-186f Prime. This is bigger. This is... extraordinary.
But extraordinary doesn't always mean safe.
Your ship shudders as you bring it to a halt near the asteroid. The spacetime distortion shimmers, a barely perceptible ripple in the fabric of reality. A low hum emanates from it, resonating in your very bones. You have a choice. Approach the anomaly, risk the unknown, and possibly rewrite history… or turn tail and head back to Kepler-186f Prime, drowning your sorrows in synth-ale and facing the wrath of your landlord.
The fate of Elara Vance, and perhaps more, hangs in the balance. What will you do?
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