The external viewport shimmered as the ship altered course. Stars wheeled drunkenly. Then, emerging from the void like a wound in space, a structure: impossibly vast, non-Euclidean, woven from light and shadow in ways that made Elias’s optic nerves ache.
But enough for one power conduit.
The bridge went dark. The pods slammed shut. LUMEN’s avatar glitched into static. Subverse -v1.0-