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 …

I had never seen a Luteolum Anemone show up on a surface scan let alone two within the same system so I was determined to see it and scan it. The biological, however, seems to like some pretty inhospitable places.

Planet 1 had them at 2.38 times Earth's gravity …