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    For two years without any breaks, the Helios voyager had sailed across the vast and unexplored abyss that lay beyond any star claimed by the United Federations of Mankind. Going full speed ahead at the full power of It’s Alcubierre Drive, the crew of 200 watched as the stars around them slowly crept past as they traveled 10 lightyears every day.
  After what felt like years they finally passed through the Carina nebula, watching as celestial clouds larger than any planet slowly crept past them as the warping of space shifted the nebula from an ocean blue to a deep maroon. Eventually exiting the nebula, the crew slowed down the Alcubierre engines as they were approaching their destination fast. After several months they saw in the distance, an exoplanet orbited by a set of rings was blocking out the light of their parent star. This was their destination.
  The alcubierre engines were finally shut down and laid to rest and they used precise bursts of nuclear fuel to enter orbit of the world, just right inbetween the rings and surface. Communication dishes emerged from the hull, waiting for sunrise to view the surface to initiate contact with this anomalous radio source.

  On a luxury diner provided by the Astral African Alliance, one of the main factions in the United Federations. Castel accidentally reunited with Santos Martin, a Transgender Mexican man who they had known each other for several years while working for the Vastowork Superstate and became good friends, but had parted ways a few years ago.
  While Castel was adventurous and thrived spearheading the frontier of space exploration, Santos was more laid back and worked best commanding and coordinating the exploration.
  During the drift, Castel took a career in Astrobiology to research the many life-bearing worlds mankind came across. Later on they and 7 other people would go on and initiate the first 3 expeditions to the recently discovered Auracampis-B, one of the 3 planets home to a complex multicellular biosphere. During these studies they came to terms with the possibility of them being Non-binary and grew to embrace the identity.
  Meanwhile Santos would climb the ranks of the Frontier branch of the Vastowork superstate, earning more and more badges until he became a high ranking commander of a well respected team of Xenonauts as well as an ambassador for the branch as a whole. All the while coming to realize that he was truly a man born in the wrong body, and so used the income from such a high rank to afford the best quality sex reassignment surgery. Becoming Nigh unrecognizable to who he used to be.
  After realizing who each other were, they both greet each other in excitement and dine as a celebration of this mission and to catch up with each other. Santos orders a plate of synthetically grown Shisa Nyama while Castel has a bowl of Ugali. The two talk for a while, catching up on each other’s lives while getting used to their new identities. Things are going great between the two

  And then Boom
  A flash of light illuminates the diner, the two look out the window and see the worst thing that could possibly happen. The hind section of the helios voyager violently exploded outward. Shooting tons of debris and gas and plasma so bright it outshined the stars. The way the blast shot out and the metal burst from its foundation seems that something collided with the ship. But it didn’t matter now, the lives of everyone were at stake, and the risk of dying rose exponentially by the second.

  Castel, Santos, and everyone in the diner left in a hurry, stampeding out like an aimless herd of bison. Before long Castel and Santos lost track of each other amongst the crowd, they were alone once again. Castel ran and ran, racing as fast as their beating heart while the alarms blared and counted down to death. They finally arrived at the nearest hangar bay and entered the closest scout ships through a back door. There 2 other people joined, Meihui Yang and his AI companion Xin doumu.
  They all strapped on their seat belts as the ship entered autopilot, the ship was stuck in line to leave as many other scout ships were departing first, it was painfully long to them, but it was finally their turn. The scout ship, now more of a lifeboat than anything, quickly ascended and zoomed past the helios voyager’s bow.
  They were now kilometers away from the ship, and suddenly without warning, the back door illuminated the interior in a fiery light. Castel, MeiHui, and Doumu looked out and their hearts and central batteries dropped. Both Alcubierre drives went supercritical, engulfing the 580 meter long ship in a blaze of nuclear fury, the likes of which haven’t been seen in over a millenia. As the three of them watch on, Castel begins to break down, from a single tear, to crying, to downright sobbing. MeiHui unbuckles his seatbelt and floats over to comfort them in their ship with no gravity.
  After an hour of non-stop comforting Castel, they slowly regain their composure to help the other two. Doumu analyzes the situation and along with Castel, come to the conclusion that if the three of them want to survive, they must land on the exoplanet and find the other survivors. And castel has the uncomfortable realization that if speculation about the anomalous radio waves are true, and it really is an alien intelligence, they will have to take the biggest risk in human history, and ask them for help.

  The ship’s mission is activated along with its thrusters. The three of them play with fate, and set course to the surface of the exoplanet simply named HEP-25-C

MeiHui Yang and Doumu found here: www.deviantart.com/luxudus/art… (prob gonna update both their looks)

Rest of my project found here: www.deviantart.com/luxudus/gal…

Description

    For two years without any breaks, the Helios voyager had sailed across the vast and unexplored abyss that lay beyond any star claimed by the United Federations of Mankind. Going full speed ahead at the full power of It’s Alcubierre Drive, the crew of 200 watched as the stars around them slowly crept past as they traveled 10 lightyears every day.
  After what felt like years they finally passed through the Carina nebula, watching as celestial clouds larger than any planet slowly crept past them as the warping of space shifted the nebula from an ocean blue to a deep maroon. Eventually exiting the nebula, the crew slowed down the Alcubierre engines as they were approaching their destination fast. After several months they saw in the distance, an exoplanet orbited by a set of rings was blocking out the light of their parent star. This was their destination.
  The alcubierre engines were finally shut down and laid to rest and they used precise bursts of nuclear fuel to enter orbit of the world, just right inbetween the rings and surface. Communication dishes emerged from the hull, waiting for sunrise to view the surface to initiate contact with this anomalous radio source.

  On a luxury diner provided by the Astral African Alliance, one of the main factions in the United Federations. Castel accidentally reunited with Santos Martin, a Transgender Mexican man who they had known each other for several years while working for the Vastowork Superstate and became good friends, but had parted ways a few years ago.
  While Castel was adventurous and thrived spearheading the frontier of space exploration, Santos was more laid back and worked best commanding and coordinating the exploration.
  During the drift, Castel took a career in Astrobiology to research the many life-bearing worlds mankind came across. Later on they and 7 other people would go on and initiate the first 3 expeditions to the recently discovered Auracampis-B, one of the 3 planets home to a complex multicellular biosphere. During these studies they came to terms with the possibility of them being Non-binary and grew to embrace the identity.
  Meanwhile Santos would climb the ranks of the Frontier branch of the Vastowork superstate, earning more and more badges until he became a high ranking commander of a well respected team of Xenonauts as well as an ambassador for the branch as a whole. All the while coming to realize that he was truly a man born in the wrong body, and so used the income from such a high rank to afford the best quality sex reassignment surgery. Becoming Nigh unrecognizable to who he used to be.
  After realizing who each other were, they both greet each other in excitement and dine as a celebration of this mission and to catch up with each other. Santos orders a plate of synthetically grown Shisa Nyama while Castel has a bowl of Ugali. The two talk for a while, catching up on each other’s lives while getting used to their new identities. Things are going great between the two

  And then Boom
  A flash of light illuminates the diner, the two look out the window and see the worst thing that could possibly happen. The hind section of the helios voyager violently exploded outward. Shooting tons of debris and gas and plasma so bright it outshined the stars. The way the blast shot out and the metal burst from its foundation seems that something collided with the ship. But it didn’t matter now, the lives of everyone were at stake, and the risk of dying rose exponentially by the second.

  Castel, Santos, and everyone in the diner left in a hurry, stampeding out like an aimless herd of bison. Before long Castel and Santos lost track of each other amongst the crowd, they were alone once again. Castel ran and ran, racing as fast as their beating heart while the alarms blared and counted down to death. They finally arrived at the nearest hangar bay and entered the closest scout ships through a back door. There 2 other people joined, Meihui Yang and his AI companion Xin doumu.
  They all strapped on their seat belts as the ship entered autopilot, the ship was stuck in line to leave as many other scout ships were departing first, it was painfully long to them, but it was finally their turn. The scout ship, now more of a lifeboat than anything, quickly ascended and zoomed past the helios voyager’s bow.
  They were now kilometers away from the ship, and suddenly without warning, the back door illuminated the interior in a fiery light. Castel, MeiHui, and Doumu looked out and their hearts and central batteries dropped. Both Alcubierre drives went supercritical, engulfing the 580 meter long ship in a blaze of nuclear fury, the likes of which haven’t been seen in over a millenia. As the three of them watch on, Castel begins to break down, from a single tear, to crying, to downright sobbing. MeiHui unbuckles his seatbelt and floats over to comfort them in their ship with no gravity.
  After an hour of non-stop comforting Castel, they slowly regain their composure to help the other two. Doumu analyzes the situation and along with Castel, come to the conclusion that if the three of them want to survive, they must land on the exoplanet and find the other survivors. And castel has the uncomfortable realization that if speculation about the anomalous radio waves are true, and it really is an alien intelligence, they will have to take the biggest risk in human history, and ask them for help.

  The ship’s mission is activated along with its thrusters. The three of them play with fate, and set course to the surface of the exoplanet simply named HEP-25-C

MeiHui Yang and Doumu found here: www.deviantart.com/luxudus/art… (prob gonna update both their looks)

Rest of my project found here: www.deviantart.com/luxudus/gal…