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: Its petals were fused with silicon to withstand the intense UV radiation piercing the dome's cracked glass.

The file was small, heavily corrupted, and buried in the telemetry of the derelict survey ship Eventide . When the salvage crew finally cracked the encryption, they didn't find navigation charts or mineral manifests. They found the log of Aby Sekara. 🥀 The Specimen PodFlower.Aby_Sekara.1.var

Stranded on the tidally locked moon of Kepler-186f, she was the last living crew member of the Aegis expedition. The atmosphere outside the habitat was a toxic soup of heavy ammonia, but inside her failing biodome, Aby had one thing keeping her alive: a single, heavily mutated flowering plant she called the . It was an engineering marvel and a biological nightmare: : Its petals were fused with silicon to

: It glowed with a faint, rhythmic pulse of blue light, mimicking a heartbeat. They found the log of Aby Sekara