Most of the time biologicals will appear in relatively small patches which are visible from very low altitude or on the ground, but large swaths of tussock like this one aren’t unheard of. I felt the urge to run through the grass and leap with my jetpack. Taken on …

A brilliant clear sky dotted with stars and sliced by rings with biologicals sprouting across a sandy-colored landscape drives home how beautiful exploration can be. It’s also often lonely, but one learns to love the sound of the engines in supercruise and the comforting sound of a clean touchdown …

I'm pretty sure that parking a starship this close to a star in real life would be disastrous, to say nothing of parking one between two stars. What kind of gravitational stresses would be placed on it? What would the radiation barrage be like that its shielding would have to …