On the Silence Between Stars
Subtitle: “Chronicles of the Void”
Author: Scholar-Archivist Pesha Pins
Affiliation: Scholarborne Expeditionary Institute
Dynastic Patronage: House Taelith Continuum Archives
First Circulation: OT-3618
Archive Reference: Continuum Codex Vault 7-V
Preface
The space between stars is not empty.
We call it the void because we lack the language to describe it properly. Our instruments record nothing, yet the human mind perceives something. Generations of navigators have felt it. Commanders who drift too long beyond the Continuum speak of a quiet pressure at the edge of thought.
While machines record silence, humanity does not.
This work is an attempt to catalogue that silence.
The observations collected within these pages come from expedition logs, void-exposed pilots, abandoned research stations, and the rare few who have returned from the far reaches of free space with their memories intact. Some accounts contradict one another. Others defy explanation entirely.
The observations collected within these pages come from expedition logs, void-exposed pilots, abandoned research stations, and the rare few who have returned from the far reaches of free space with their memories intact. Some accounts contradict one another. Others defy explanation entirely.
That is acceptable. The Inuit of Original Terra once looked upon the aurora and saw spirits dancing across the sky. They were wrong in their explanation, but not in their recognition that something profound was there. Knowledge often begins the same way, with imperfect stories told about phenomena we do not yet understand.
If the void has a language, these Chronicles represent only my first uncertain attempts to hear it.
— Scholar-Archivist Pesha Pins
Scholarborne Expeditionary Institute
