Krypton Ruins.
A red dwarf star—a red sun—roiled with raging flames across its surface. Its distant, pale crimson light flickered over this devastated region, staining vast stretches of gray dust a grotesque red, as though they were seeping blood.
The ruins left by Krypton's explosion were veiled by vast clouds of gray dust. Ice formed from the frozen atmosphere, rocks shattered by the blast, dust carrying high-energy radiation, and electromagnetic reactions from chaotic radiation all mixed together here.
The red dwarf's usual ultraviolet radiation, high-energy charged particles, magnetic radiation, and various cosmic rays underwent strange changes amid the nebula of these Krypton ruins.
After Krypton exploded, it formed a nebula cloud saturated with high-energy radiation.
Multiple torn-off fragments of Kryptonian continent, along with satellites struck by the explosion, were gradually breaking free of the red sun's gravitational hold and flying outward into the universe, soon to drift through space.
Far from the Krypton ruins.
The Starry Sky Explorer, with its thick, mottled, bullet-shaped armor, emerged in space far from the nebula cloud like a fish leaping from an ocean of space, jumping out from rippling distortions of gravitational collapse.
"Gravitational coefficient normal."
"Spatial resonance terminated. Collapse target point 8516#6566 restoring. Restoration complete."
"String distortion interference terminated. Returning to normal."
"Transition drive cooling down."
"Crystal Core Engine energy remaining: 19.2%."
"Stealth mode activated."
"Transition to target point complete. Stealth engaged. Connecting projection."
The Starry Sky Explorer activated its stealth systems, blocking various forms of detection as its body vanished in place like a stream of light.
Zero completed her report and connected to the external projection.
At once, He-El, seated in the cold command chair with his stomach churning, ears ringing, vision swimming, and thoughts in disarray, began adapting to the aftereffects of transitioning without a stabilizing protective suit.
The command