Bought by the Feral Billionaire
"Visual contact in five seconds. The scout vessel has dropped out of warp near a thousand-mile-wide ice asteroid."
Through the main viewport, the dark-matter scout vessel came into view.
It was an unnerving, bio-mechanical nightmare. Forged from jagged obsidian quartz and chitinous anti-matter plates, the vessel resembled a sleek, mechanical deep-space predator. Dozens of glowing red sensor-eyes lined its hull, and from its underside, three massive scanning arrays were actively firing crimson pulses of energy toward Earth's distant silhouette, gathering telemetry on the Sovereign Shield Grid.
"It's actively scanning our planetary ley-lines," Clara noted, her white-gold frost-fire flaring aro