“John, we’ve reached the signaled coordinates for our approach,” informed Mike. “Aleos has been moved at great velocities and has reached the orbit of Hawking-616d, at 780,000 kilometers from the planet, and a relative distance of 1,678,400 kilometers from our location.”
The windows in the cockpit polarized their intensity; it was a festival of colors from both stars on the far horizon and the fully-fledged lilac beams transversing space from the Vita Nova System and impacting Aleos position, which was invisible at their cosmic distance.
Xi focused the giant with the telescopic cameras; the black giant of bloody eyes was surrounded by an electrifying sphere of lilac energy, shining harder than the most overcharged EPAL. It was like a mini-planetoid of gleaming colors and burning light,
