#space gothic

The surface of the asteroid Ryugu taken by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2.

You watch the sky on a warm night, looking for falling stars. There’s Venus and the few constellations you remember. That moving, blinking light must be a plane. The longer you watch, the more lights you see moving across the blackness, blinking steadily. Hundreds of them. Are they satellites? Would a satellite start traveling towards earth like that?

The repairing of a broken probe just got a litle bit more dangerous. This creature has a second set of beaks inside so it can work as an airlock and its insides never have to interact with the freezing vacum of space, it has reletively normal eyes like us but under a transparent doom (or more like they are just inside the skull) for the same reasons, it can basically look thru its own head similarly like the fish called macropinna. I know that for an animal living without gravity it makes no sense to be horizontally assimetric or to have eyes only on one side of the head but i am planning to build out the World of creatures living in the void more later and i will Will pay more attention for this.

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Asteroid mining is a common practice, they go for gold, platina, helium 3, titanium and other valuable resources usualy from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but not so long ago they noticed a second extremely rich asteroid field just after Pluto. Expeditions and mining teams were launched quickly but they found something way more intersting and chilling between the riches, one of the rocks appear to have patterns on it, we dont know if it is a kind of writing, it was part of a picture or just decorations but it is definitely artifical, though scientists has way bigger problems now than deciding its purpose at the moment.