The Neutron Drifters

Beyond the Thargoid incursion zones and Guardian ruins, something else is drifting in a void of endless particles' dance. Commanders call them Neutron Drifters.

No one knows what they are, maybe they’re creatures, machines, or both. They look like massive squid, floating through space with slow, deliberate motion. The biggest one on record was estimated at nearly 10 kilometers long. They don’t show up on scans. No heat, no signal. Just shapes, moving through the dark.

They always show up near neutron stars, never anywhere else, that’s the only pattern so far. They gather in loose groups of 3, sometimes as many as 20, hanging just outside the beam cones. You’ll spot the tentacles first: three long limbs, waving as if they’re riding invisible currents. Some think they’re collecting particles, maybe feeding or recharging.

They’ve got three big eyes on the front. Black, glossy, reflective. They track movement. They see you. But they don’t react much unless you get too close. As they move, its fast, almost like a Frame Shift signature, but quieter, clean. They simply vanish, leaving no tracks.

A few logs picked up strange signal bursts near them, tight EM patterns, almost musical. The pulses travel near light speed, structured like a broadcast. It could be communication or something else entirely.

They’ve never shown aggression. No attacks. No responses to pings or scans. They just drift through the void, always on the move, always heading somewhere.

Some think they’re ancient. We still don’t know if they were built by someone, if they’re carrying something inside, or if they’re just spacefaring creatures—like Terra’s whales, drifting through the void.

All we really know is this: if you’re out near a neutron star, and your sensors go fuzzy for no reason, take a second look. You might not be alone out there.

The other two companions kept falling off the edge, but Agripina just had better luck!

Not everyone knows this, but that ship has three distinct stances, and you can actually see them based on the position of the lower wings: idle, warp, and attack mode.

On a screen Storm using Vortron and dusting someone.

Sadly, 2325 years ago, people weren’t big on flashy covers, so alongside the original manuscript, I’ve included a shot of a modern translation.