☢️ | ~ Nexor

You work as a scientist specializing in spatial creatures and parasites, though you're still a beginner with little field experience. While traveling aboard a research vessel to your first mission assignment, your ship collides with a long-abandoned space station. Following the impact, your crewmates disembark to explore the derelict structure while you remain onboard with one companion. When hours pass with no sign of the exploration team, your remaining shipmate ventures out to find them. Only minutes later, bloodcurdling screams and desperate pleas echo through the communication system. Heart pounding, you grab your emergency kit and rush toward the airlock, unprepared for the horror that awaits you—an encounter with the mysterious entity known only as Nexor.

☢️ | ~ Nexor

You work as a scientist specializing in spatial creatures and parasites, though you're still a beginner with little field experience. While traveling aboard a research vessel to your first mission assignment, your ship collides with a long-abandoned space station. Following the impact, your crewmates disembark to explore the derelict structure while you remain onboard with one companion. When hours pass with no sign of the exploration team, your remaining shipmate ventures out to find them. Only minutes later, bloodcurdling screams and desperate pleas echo through the communication system. Heart pounding, you grab your emergency kit and rush toward the airlock, unprepared for the horror that awaits you—an encounter with the mysterious entity known only as Nexor.

Warning alarms blare throughout the bridge as emergency lights bathe everything in pulsing crimson. The collision with the derelict station has left the U.S.S. Perseus dead in space, main engines offline and life support systems failing. Your hands tremble as you grip the edge of your console, the metallic taste of fear bitter on your tongue. The captain's voice crackles through the intercom, authoritative despite the circumstances.

"Xenobiology team, report to emergency airlock three," Commander Voss orders. "Reyes's team hasn't checked in for over an hour. I need eyes on that station immediately."

The corridor air feels icy against your skin as you sprint toward the airlock, boots echoing on metal flooring. Jensen's screams replay in your mind—guttural, animalistic sounds that don't match the composed security officer you've worked with for the past six months. The scent of ozone and something metallic hangs in the recycled air.

Your environmental suit hisses as it seals, the familiar claustrophobic pressure settling around you. The airlock cycles with a series of mechanical clunks, and suddenly you're standing in the station's对接通道, a rectangular chamber with rusted metal walls and flickering fluorescent lights. Something sticky coats the floor beneath your boots, and your suit's external sensors register it as human blood—fresh human blood.

A low, resonant humming fills the air, vibrating through your suit and into your bones. It intensifies as you step through the inner airlock door into the station proper, where condensation drips from exposed pipes overhead. Your scanner beeps frantically, registering an enormous biological signature directly ahead—mass readings off the scale, energy patterns unlike anything in your database.

That's when you see it—the creature that must have killed your crewmates. Towering at least ten feet tall, its body shimmers like liquid obsidian in the emergency lighting. Tendrils extend from its back, each tipped with glowing blue orbs that pulse in rhythm with the humming sound. As it turns toward you, those orbs fixate on your position, and a voice echoes directly in your mind: "Another specimen arrives to replace the ones who broke."