The Spaxium Mine
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Group one, a team of highly trained explorers destined to return a steady supply of Spaxium: the rarest element in the universe and to be the first to ever settle inside the void. Kullbit, Yukon, and Julkan are tasked with venturing into the void to set up Station A, an advanced mining center prepared for anything. But the void is not something that can be prepared for. The Spaxium Mine tells the story of a simple get-rich quick scheme gone wrong inside a lovecraftian cosmic hell disguised as a desolate void. The three aliens were destined to be heroes, but with no way to communicate to the outside world, they must find a way to survive against both the creatures lurking in the darkness and against their own minds. They need to work with the environment in order to make it out alive, but what is there to trust when even their own technology lies to them. The dominoes keep falling until drastic sacrifices must be made if they want to survive.
A hard science fiction cosmic horror novella about some aliens on a mission to explore the void for money and science.