"I have to admit, if we're comparing sheer scenic grandeur, Earth truly couldn't rival Pandora, a planet countless light-years away. It's hard to believe something like this existed at such a remote edge of the galaxy."
Protected by Nykona Sharrowkyn and the veterans of the Shattered Legions, Lox also boarded the gunship bound for Pandora.
The Iron Hands veterans expertly piloted the Thunderhawk. The augmentation ports on their bodies connected to the metal craft, torrents of data coursing directly through their nerves, allowing them to control the Thunderhawk gunship as naturally as their own bodies and execute one perilous maneuver after another.
After passing through Pandora's dense atmosphere, the expedition entered the planet's interior.
Through the gunship's portholes, they could see the blue cyclones of the immense gas giant hanging in the sky. From this close, the gas giant covered nearly half of Pandora's heavens, and they could watch its magnificent colossal storms slowly turning.
For creatures as small as humans, it was difficult not to feel as though they were falling into that enormous gas giant beneath such an astronomical wonder.
"Look at all those moons. The gas giant has thirteen satellites. More than ten moons are arranged in a regular pattern across that beautiful, breathtaking blue-violet sky."
Beneath the glow of the colossal gas giant, everything before Lox seemed veiled in a hazy blue light.
It was a sight most humans would never witness in their lives. Yet at this place near the very edge of the galaxy, this uninhabited land possessed such a soul-stirring spectacle.
Beside him, Barabas Dantioch also gazed longingly at the blue planet. Once, he too had wished to gaze upon Earth—holy Terra—in this way.
"Without question, this is a life-bearing planet suitable for human habitation. Its gravity is slightly lower than standard Terran