Ashen Bloom
The silence was unnatural. For weeks, the comms had buzzed with static and fragmented signals, but now they were dead. On the bridge of the Bayonet, Commander Daniela Reyes stared at the blank screen with her jaw clenched. She tapped at the controls desperately as if sheer will could coax a response from Earth. The absence of the chatter they’d expected—traffic updates, mission control, a simple welcome home—was more than unsettling. They were close now, just breaching the solar system’s edge, and the silence gnawed at her.
“Sparky, talk to me,” she said, as dread coiled in her gut.
“It’s not the array, Commander! I’ve checked it multiple times—rerouted power, recalibrated the antennas!”
Charles Kowalski, Chief Engineer and systems specialist—better known as Sparky for his knack with sparking systems under pressure—grunted from his station. The console was alive with diagnostics as [আরো পড়ুন]
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Mission Rovus
The cramped cockpit hummed with nervous energy as Captain Ananya Petrova and Elena Rodriguez, the pilot, expertly maneuvered their shuttle through the swirling atmosphere of the planet Rovus. Below them, the alien landscape stretched out in a breathtaking tapestry of ochre plains and emerald mountains, shrouded in an eerie mist.
“We’re almost there, team,” Ananya announced, her voice a reassuring counterpoint to the thrumming engines. “Brace for impact!”
Elena gripped the controls tightly, her knuckles turning white. “Ready, Captain,” she replied, her voice filled with a mix of nervousness and excitement.
Kaito Tanaka, the astrophysicist, peered intently at the holographic display before him, his brow furrowed in concentration. “Readings are still unstable. The composition of the atmosphere is unlike anything we’ve encountered before,” he muttered, his fingers flying across the console.
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