Whatever this was, it was ten times wider than our ship. Very few things are wider than a Shamus ship. Our craft has dwarfed small moons. From what I could tell, this startling phenomenon was a… gargantuan vibrating orb of colour. That’s the only way I could describe it. Tensing and contracting aggressively like a cramping muscle. Surrounded by nothing but black space, it was blinding. Sucking all life and matter into itself, growing stronger with every metric of space it consumed. Suddenly, a massive streak of orange lashed out violently from the enormous coloured blob. It whipped out in a flash, slashed through nothingness and retreated back into its ball. By the looks of it, the bow of our ship had already en...

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