LOG#033 by Auriscenes published on 2021-04-28T20:51:25Z As I passed through a galaxy on my way to a gig recently, one of my ship's devices picked up a very strange chemical signature emanating from a nearby planet. Normally this apparatus serves to warn me of atmospheres that are simply too destructive to even enter, and this time was no exception. However, it also registered something…else. Worlds with these types of atmospheres are typically devoid of all life. Generally speaking, if my ship and my suit cannot safely weather it, it's impossible for any life to thrive there. Yet if my device wasn't malfunctioning (and this one has yet to in all my years of using it), then amidst the corrosive gases and extreme temperature differentials was something apparently biological. My curiosity piqued, I detoured near the planet to investigate. On approach other various implements started to pick up readings as well, all of them indicating that there was something alive down there. Idling just short of the zone in which the atmosphere would begin eating away at my ship, I investigated. Indeed there was something dwelling on the solid surface, one single being. I couldn't see it in the traditional sense; the atmosphere was far too thick for conventional methods. Instead I relied on one particular tool that could pierce the veil, if with very low clarity. I couldn't make out the exact shape of it. It wasn't large, perhaps twice or three times the size of an average human, and of a reminiscent configuration. As it was not moving much, I thought it might possibly be recently deceased. That is, until in a flash it raced out of view! Try as I might, I could not spot it again. My devices indicated that it was still down there somewhere, but for the time being this unusual thing's location, like its entire existence, was a mystery to me. Like & follow to be notified when new worlds are found! Genre Storytelling