Main World · Tia Empire
"So, what exactly is that thing? A spaceship?"
Beneath the brilliant starry sky, several young people huddled together, staring wide-eyed at the massive, crack-covered spacecraft displayed on the telescope's electronic screen.
One young man immediately pulled out his phone and began recording the screen. "I've got a feeling we're about to go viral."
"Wait," another young man beside him raised his hand and shouted, "look at that ship. Doesn't it seem like it's about to fall?"
"What?" The young man recording with his phone froze, then lowered his head to look at the screen.
The enormous spacecraft rapidly grew larger on the telescope screen, falling downward like a streak of light.
In an instant, the telescope screen was filled with nothing but a blurry image of metal.
One of the young men immediately raised his hand and lowered the magnification. The spacecraft image swiftly shrank, then rapidly enlarged again within the telescope.
A young man raised his head and looked toward the sky. Beneath the pitch-black night, the stars and drifting clouds churned. At the very center of the sky, a flickering point of light seemed to be rapidly growing larger.
Crack—
The operating telescope seemed to have been stimulated by something. It suddenly flickered, its automatic star-tracking system malfunctioned, and the entire telescope drooped, pointing toward the distant horizon.
At the same time, twisted patterns of color appeared on the screen.
The young man controlling the telescope reached out, gripped it, switched it to manual mode, and aimed it once more at the flickering point of light.
"Holy shit, what are you still doing?" His companion immediately grabbed him. "That spaceship is about to crash down. It looks like it's headed right here. Run! Forget the telescope!"
"A spaceship—do you know what that means?"