Story: The Endless Voyager: (Part-29) | The Black Sun of Orannis
Chapter 66: The Black Sun of Orannis Space was not silent—it pulsed. And in the distance, like a drumbeat inverted into vacuum, the Aurora detected a tremor of absence. Not a signal. Not a wave. A void in the fabric of sensing itself. Lyara was the first to notice. Her quantum flux array buzzed with null data, a string of zeroes laced with panic. “Something’s eating the field,” she whispered, staring into the black spectrum readout. “It’s not just invisible. It’s… subtracting.” Kael moved to her console, eyes narrowed. “Subtracting what?” “Information,” said Dr. Lian Reyes, stepping forward. “It’s a field of negentropy . A zone where data is unwritten. ” As the Aurora glided closer, the crew witnessed it—a star unlike any they had charted. It pulsed not with light, but darkness. Not a shadow cast by absence, but by inversion. Its glow was a black corona, and around it spiraled remnants of shattered probes and fractured theories. The star had a name—Orannis, plucked from an ancie...