Star System Veti 120, Outer Reaches of the star system [Jan 1, 3000 AD]
In the vast, empty fields of space a pin needle-like space craft with multiple thin, long stretching fin-like extrusions moves forwards with through the silent, soundless medium of space. The world it nears is a icy moon with no life on it, that orbits a similarly lifeless gas giant or a dark purplish coloration.
The needle-like ship seems to be slowing down, as the long, thin needle-like shape folds into itself to become a more shorter, stubbier cylinder craft. Almost immediately after retracting inwards into itself, the ship starts spewing a grey paste all over itself that covers the whole craft in a strange, rapid stabilizing sort of grey paste. After covering itself in the paste a few drones are released that quickly go around the past and refine the shape of the blob that now surrounds the majority of the craft [except a few tiny holes for sensory equipment and weapons].
The drones are quick and deft in their work, adding craters and molding the paste using their tools to make the spacecraft look like a asteroid or comet; or anything but a spaceship. Given that the ship does not use its thrusters, it now can pretend to be an orbiting comet. However the ship does not even think there is sentient life here, covering its self to be a asteroid not for practical reasons, but instead merely to play dress up. Dressing one’s self to look like a comet is considered rather fashionable these days you see.
Moving upwards as it cosplays as a comet, the drones that made the illusion inexplicably reduce themselves to dust as the ship has no need for them anymore. Inefficient it may be, there will always be more material to make more drones and the asteroid covering the short, stubby craft and there wasn’t much way for the drones to get make inside anyhow.
The ship continues moving up through the star system, the glare of the very, very distant yet relatively close sphere of light doing nothing to the craft’s eyes or body; the light mostly reflecting off the fake comet the ship hides in. Due to the far distances planets are, the scanners of the ship take hours, if not days to finally scan all worlds with possible life on them.
[Jan 3, 3000 AD] >>>>> 2 Days later >>>>>
After two days of slow movement through space, the craft inexplicably stops moving. Yet the craft also keeps synced to the movement of the star without actually orbiting Veti 120 or moving very slowly slower in as it had been for the past two days. The ship, patient by nature or at least can alter its perception of time to effectively skip over the two days of absolute silence as the trip tot the star system itself was at least five months even with a inter dimensional warp engine.
The results of the scanners of this somewhat small star system with its bright light finally came in. The results were just what the craft hoped for, there is no life at all in this star system. Just a few barren rocky worlds, a couple balls of gas, with their moon systems and a large, thinly spread asteroid field that pervades much the star system. One of the worlds, in where we’d call the habitable one, small in size but ancient did seem to once contain life of some sort, but whatever life once there may have just been bacteria or animals. Nothing sentient.
From its explorations it seems star systems like this are the majority, but the large minority of star systems tend to have life on them of some sort. Surprisingly often there are many primitive civilizations that never go to space, and only one civ every hundred star systems or so that do go interstellar.
In the craft’s opinion, that is way too much. However, it takes relief in being in a star system free of the interstellar dramas of the cosmic community, as it knows eventually it will partake in such drama again in the near future.
In the vast, empty fields of space a pin needle-like space craft with multiple thin, long stretching fin-like extrusions moves forwards with through the silent, soundless medium of space. The world it nears is a icy moon with no life on it, that orbits a similarly lifeless gas giant or a dark purplish coloration.
The needle-like ship seems to be slowing down, as the long, thin needle-like shape folds into itself to become a more shorter, stubbier cylinder craft. Almost immediately after retracting inwards into itself, the ship starts spewing a grey paste all over itself that covers the whole craft in a strange, rapid stabilizing sort of grey paste. After covering itself in the paste a few drones are released that quickly go around the past and refine the shape of the blob that now surrounds the majority of the craft [except a few tiny holes for sensory equipment and weapons].
The drones are quick and deft in their work, adding craters and molding the paste using their tools to make the spacecraft look like a asteroid or comet; or anything but a spaceship. Given that the ship does not use its thrusters, it now can pretend to be an orbiting comet. However the ship does not even think there is sentient life here, covering its self to be a asteroid not for practical reasons, but instead merely to play dress up. Dressing one’s self to look like a comet is considered rather fashionable these days you see.
Moving upwards as it cosplays as a comet, the drones that made the illusion inexplicably reduce themselves to dust as the ship has no need for them anymore. Inefficient it may be, there will always be more material to make more drones and the asteroid covering the short, stubby craft and there wasn’t much way for the drones to get make inside anyhow.
The ship continues moving up through the star system, the glare of the very, very distant yet relatively close sphere of light doing nothing to the craft’s eyes or body; the light mostly reflecting off the fake comet the ship hides in. Due to the far distances planets are, the scanners of the ship take hours, if not days to finally scan all worlds with possible life on them.
[Jan 3, 3000 AD] >>>>> 2 Days later >>>>>
After two days of slow movement through space, the craft inexplicably stops moving. Yet the craft also keeps synced to the movement of the star without actually orbiting Veti 120 or moving very slowly slower in as it had been for the past two days. The ship, patient by nature or at least can alter its perception of time to effectively skip over the two days of absolute silence as the trip tot the star system itself was at least five months even with a inter dimensional warp engine.
The results of the scanners of this somewhat small star system with its bright light finally came in. The results were just what the craft hoped for, there is no life at all in this star system. Just a few barren rocky worlds, a couple balls of gas, with their moon systems and a large, thinly spread asteroid field that pervades much the star system. One of the worlds, in where we’d call the habitable one, small in size but ancient did seem to once contain life of some sort, but whatever life once there may have just been bacteria or animals. Nothing sentient.
From its explorations it seems star systems like this are the majority, but the large minority of star systems tend to have life on them of some sort. Surprisingly often there are many primitive civilizations that never go to space, and only one civ every hundred star systems or so that do go interstellar.
In the craft’s opinion, that is way too much. However, it takes relief in being in a star system free of the interstellar dramas of the cosmic community, as it knows eventually it will partake in such drama again in the near future.