The Star Runner

The edge of the galaxy was not a wall.

It was a vast, shimmering curtain of dust and light called the Great Silence.

For generations, the people of the Inner Worlds looked at that curtain with wonder. They stayed safely within the light of their own suns, knowing their limits because of the maps drawn a thousand years before.

The Great Silence was beautiful, but it was a place where instruments failed and light seemed to bend. It was the unknown.

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