Between Exoplanet 65834 and 65835 lies the Child’s Wall. Which is a bad name, but the astronomer who found it was, a little too literal. For 230 years no one could explain the once-every-423-day phenomenon. It took the invention of FTL travel to clear it up. It’s a bug, or should I say, it’s the emissions of a space bug. Yes, there are space bugs. The Ampnoa bug lives in zero gravity, and uses its, um, backside emissions, to launch itself across space. The reason is, of course, sex, or shall we say, mating. When the sun is closest to the nesting sites of the Ampnoa, they launch themselves back and forth, creating lines of light as they search for the perfect mate. They also evolved a natural form of space docking, but that is a story for another time.
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