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Alpha Eridanus - The End of the River
It’d been generations since the biomass telescopes first detected life on Achernar. It took a hundred years to construct the ship and train the families who’d carry Earth’s hopes into the stars. The journey itself took several hundred more. Finally, Captain Monroe is ready to make landfall. In doing so, he’ll confirm what they’d detected last week – that Achernar is a planet of weeds. Specifically, one weed, iterated endlessly over an unbroken landmass.
The landing party dutifully disperses to take samples of the colorless alien, but Monroe’s eyes look skyward. The ship’s biomass telescopes had picked up another faint signal….
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