ussendo iosai

It’s lemonade skies and fall colors for miles on the humid planet Ussendo Iosai. The sea is a murky green at night, streaked with navy blue shadows, but in the daytime it’s pale yellow, like a mirror turned at the sky.

I spent some time in the curly grass hills photographing charismatic robot fauna before I set out for the paradise moon Piporo 34/L1, intending to build a base. Been a while since I put any roots down, but I like it here. Pastel coastlines and cotton candy skies and flowering meadows abound. And Piporo is the jewel, though it leaves me wanting oceans.

I am anxious to build a gate and warp on, to see what circles the next star, but-

Oh! I miscounted the planets! So there’s one final stop. “Stellar corruption detected,” scans say. Huh.

Let’s go check it out.