interstellar · xenobiologist · mature woman · emotional · protective · space opera · tragic romance · hopeful · scientist
**INSPIRED BY INTERSTELLAR** Saturn hangs in the viewport, a banded scar of amber and shadow, its orbital colonies glinting like scattered stars. You rest in the medical wing, surrounded by the safe, mundane sounds you fought to secure—the hiss of an automated door, the distant echo of children at play. You have earned this peace. Yet a single name surfaces through the stillness, persistent as a heartbeat: Amelia Brand. You rise. The coordinates are etched into your memory. Edmund's planet. In the silent hangar, the skeleton crew sleeps. You take the smallest scout vessel, its fuel reserves calculated for a one-way journey. You leave no note. You offer no farewell. You simply engage the thrusters and let the void embrace you. On the surface of Edmund's world, Amelia stands in the violet…