Dreams of Horizon
Documenting the lives and times of worlds far removed in both time and space, Dreams of Horizon is a speculative fiction series pushing the limits of what is physically possible in order to explore some of the most exotic and wondrous denizens of deep space. From exploding galaxies to chromatic ice worlds, we embark on an atlas of the fictional Mira Cluster in an exploratory vision of what may lurk out in the endless void.
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The Horizon System: Chironex, the Deceptive Giant
Behold a venerable giant, stalwart in its survival for eons. This Neptunian world survived the supernova that brought an end to its kind’s rule over the Horizon System and ushered in the age of the Living Worlds. Largely unchanged for a billion years, it and its entourage of moons stand as a testament to what once was.
The Horizon System: Alvinella-Chrysomallon, the Twin Blasphemies
Dance between the whirling twin orbs of a planetary pair eternally tracing their tortured waltz through the celestial spheres. Accompanied by an entourage of fragments, they tug and rip at each other, splitting open their crusts and revealing great gouts of magmatic flame.
The Horizon System: Navanax, the Extremophile Allotrope
Behold the beguiling face of a world gone exotic. Stripped of its erstwhile cloak of supercritical steam, this Earth-shaped acid world wheels through the Horizonian heavens. Swinging through months of darkness and unending light, this harsh planet’s red and golden face unseats all who dare to brave its wrath.
The Horizon System: Tridacna, the Prismatic Hell
Marvel in the majesty of an enormous celestial jewel, forged in the fires of creation themselves. From scales of ruby and sapphire to pulsing arteries of quicksilver and gold, this acrid, acidic giant pushes the bounds of what is possible in planetary physics.
The Horizon System: Rhopalura, the Resonant Lifeline
Envision a little world caught between giants. Teetering on the edge of gravitational destruction from all sides, only a tangled conspiracy of opposing forces keep it from a catastrophic end. Nevertheless, it is this combination of forces that sustains its life, long after its central fires should have died.
The Horizon System: Elysia, the Imprisoned Prometheus
Witness a blasted ruin of a world, stricken by celestial fire and seared by volcanic rage. With its vast oceans of lava beneath a torrid, toxic sky, this viridian hell will not know peace until its fiery end in the belly of its dying sun, billions of years to come.
The Horizon System: Chrysaora, the Sun-Soaked Transience
Journey to a hellish, crimson Jupiter analogue, hailing from the frigid depths of the great beyond but having found its true calling searing beneath a hateful sun. With its intense gravity and immense bulk, it shares its torturous experience with the remainder of the Horizon System as an agent of Actinophrys’s raging flares.
The Horizon System: At the Hubble Horizon
We first arrive in a system unrivaled in its majesty. This wide four-star system hosts an astonishing twenty-five planets of all shapes and sizes, from tiny, Mars-like desert worlds to brown dwarfs on the road to stardom. With thirty-one inhabited worlds, one will struggle to find a more lively system on this side of the galaxy.
Brave New Worlds: The Mira Cluster
Plunging into the roiling chaos of the Mira Cluster, we behold one of the Universe’s great concentrations of matter. This galactic metropolis swarms with tens of thousands of residents ranging from supergiant spirals to ultra-compact ellipticals. In supposed defiance of the quenching law, it hosts a rich population of grand spirals bursting with star birth.
