Beneath him, the planet groaned. A massive tectonic shift in the ice below sent a shockwave through the ship. Elias lost his grip, spinning into the violet haze, saved only by the thin umbilical cord of his tether. "Elias!" Sarah’s voice was a ghost in his ear.

Michelle-020 was a ‘rogue’ planet—a dark world cast out from its solar system eons ago, wandering the void without a sun. The Star 3 expedition was supposed to be a simple extraction of the rare crystalline isotopes found in its frozen core. But the planet’s gravity had a jagged, unpredictable grip.

Should we continue the story with their , or explore what they found in the isotopes ?