The darkness of space engulfed everything with its spiderweb of neverending stars, luminous patches, and the center of the Milky Way, a giant strip of milky brown and coffee dust covering an important part of the panorama. The faint spiral shape of her galactic twin, Andromeda, was a faint light blur at a corner.
The Sun shined on the horizon ahead, tiny as the morning star or Venus as seen from Earth but 100 times brighter. A swarm of metallic bodies made their way millions of kilometers from it, navigating to the colorful heart of Pluto and his lover of dead colors Charon.
“HQ? Here Vice-Admiral Frederik Alesson, commanding the INN 13th fleet and reporting. We’ve transversed the coordinate radius of our objective location.”
“Received, Vice-Admiral,” responded the technician on New Abu
