The old sub-light engine's pistons #hammered away, the din getting louder and louder, as the ship approached light speed.

"How can you stand that noise?" Barb asked Kaikron the corsiar.

He twisted a knob on his head. "I turn my hearing down. Lost my actual ears in the war."

#vss365 #scifisat

By the time #word reached Earth that the Starburst Confederation had broken through their line, the line was gone.

Earth's colonies at Vega and Proxima broke away from the Alliance and joined the confederation.

New Roma, the only colony with the resources to do so, stood alone.

#vss365

Your daily affirmation:
Humans are simply animals like all the rest. Don't be afraid to show your fangs and use your claws once in a while.

"Time #Loops are child's play," said the old scientist to his protégé.

"You can loop time?"

"Me? Certainly not! Haven't you been listening? It's child's play. I forgot how centuries ago. And so did you."

"Centuries?"

#vss365

Danny Boy - Sinéad O'Connor, 1993 YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults

Sinead O'Connor was an angel who touched us for a time.
And she knew how to kick out the jams.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PweU...

To: Admiral Falcon, Space Fleet Command

From: Lt. Warbler

Re: Revastar B Sit.

Additional:

The #waters of the River of the Dawn have turned #inky black. Land along drying up. Cause unk.

Dawnlee attempted evac before...whatever. Failed. Bodies everywhere, unlike empty Rahlee.

#vss365

A closeup of a Black dog, probably a schnauzer/poodle mix although the owner never did a DNA test, with gray around his muzzle and eyes, his nose prominent in the photo, in a backyard with a contented look on his face that says "hey can I have a pretzel?"

Otis is here to say hello for National Pet Day and to remind you to show some extra love to your senior pets today, they deserve it ❤️

They couldn’t land on the surface of the planet, because there was no surface. The smallest gas giant in the Five Systems. Anything trying to stop on the topmost layer of the atmosphere would #sink and become lost.

Where then, Dylan thought, had the last raider ship gone? Into the clouds?

#vss365

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Amongst the millions of grains of #sand were a handful of deadly ones

A simple touch could prove fatal, but there was no way of knowing which ones they were

It was a terrible situation made all the worse by the fact someone was hunting him across the dunes
#vss365 #vsshorror

Barbara watched as the #rings began rotating and remembered her first time. Oma had taken her to Vega 5, a resort world with #sandy beaches and city-sized fish.

"See, Barb? The rings spin, the portal snaps open, and we step through to another world."

#vss365

A ring of fiery energy crackles in cloud above the ground. Image by Vilius Kukanauskas (https://pixabay.com/users/vilkasss-35420724/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=9966958) from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=9966958)

"It's about to #collapse, last chance for a #lift back to our time," said the man on the other side of the energy #ring.
"But I, wait..." I pleaded.
"Timeline changes? Anything big?" I watched as the villagers threw my iPhone between them.
" #Tiny. "

#scififri #vss365 #2wordprompt #sff Img: Pixabay

Spirited away

a bald man in a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest . Alt: a bald man in a red uniform (Picard) with a star trek logo on his chest shaking his head while bowing and holding his sinuses

People who assert science fiction should not be political have never read any…

much less watched any actual science fiction

He came promising to cure their ailments, and for that they #exalted him

They treated him like royalty, when he was nothing more than a con artist with a few powers

He gave them the illusion of health, then slipped away with their money, leaving them to die horrible deaths
#vss365 #vsshorror

a man wearing a helmet with a blue light around his neck looks up ALT: a man wearing a helmet with a blue light around his neck looks up

" #Which one you wanna be?" she asks. I #examine all the #sprites.
"But these are all 2D characters," I say.
"So?"
"You said we'd go into the computer to play, like in Tron."
"Yes!"
"What happens to our third dimension?"
"Don't worry," she smiles. "It gets backed up!"

#vss365 #2wordprompt #sff

A group of three interacting spiral galaxies which resembles a question mark. At the top of the frame are two spiral galaxies in the process of merging. One of these galaxies has a bright yellow core connected to a short bar and two loose spiral arms. This forms a S-shape. Above this is another circular, yellow galaxy core which overlaps with the top spiral arm of the S-shaped galaxy. On the outer edges of the spiral arms are blue star clusters. Together these form the top curved half of the question mark. To the right of the S-shaped galaxy is a small, relatively normal-looking spiral galaxy, which is likely in the background. At the bottom of the frame is another large spiral galaxy. This galaxy has a bright core and somewhat ill-defined spiral arms which wind counterclockwise around the core. On the bottom half of the galaxy are blue star clusters. This forms the dot of the question mark. Connecting the merging galaxies at the top of the frame and the spiral at the bottom of the frame is a string of blue super star clusters, seen as large blue dots. This forms the straight part of the question mark. On the black background of space are several yellow and red dots, which are background galaxies.

Hubble image of Arp 194, also known as UGC 6945.

This interacting galaxy group includes a pair of merging galaxies with two nuclei and trails of blue super star clusters at top and a single large spiral galaxy at bottom.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team
Source

Report to Admiral Falcon, secured and scrambled:

Re: Rahlee Sit.

What happened to Capt. P. Raptor remains #illusive. Suitcam cut out as flew towards holy city. No idea what he was running from.

Raptor himself remains in regen chamber on HospStat 5. Prog unk.

Please advise.

Lt. Warbler

#vss365

Captured Octopus makes a break for it!!

The Dolphin Head Nebula is bubble-shaped and encompasses a Wolf–Rayet star. These stars are extremely large, hot, and bright. It's in a pre-supernova phase. 🤩
High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/kxi6j7

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #eastcoastkin #photography

"Ship, open firing tube."

"Open."

"Start the clock."

"Running."

"Aim, 317 by 27, just outside the holy city."

"Locked."

"Match rotation."

"Rotation matched."

"Fire."

"Firing."

As the Ship launched Poydras at the surface of Revastar B, she wondered if she would see him again.

#scififri

"Time isn't working right over there. There's a massive gravity increase, like...like...there's some sort of giant structure around the main sequence star."

"I had heard rumors of something happening at Barnard's Star, but I didn't believe them. It's #fascinating!"

#vss365

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Telescopes Survey Pinwheel Galaxy www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
This March 16, 2026, image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope takes a closer look at the core of Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy

The #tempest raged around Poydras, as he fled, climbing through the skies above the holy city. Readout showed one mechwing damaged. He would not be able to achieve escape velocity and get back to the ship. And he was moving too fast for his own wings.

"Suit, seal. Impact survival mode."

#vss365

I miss the version of us that hasn’t happened yet, the idea that moments would stretch into years, feelings that would never #waver and a future filled with echoes of our own laughter.

That us, they, exist somewhere still.

We need their help.

And this machine will find them.

#vss365

Poydras delivered the scanner to Xidril at the archeological site.

"We've been studying this pyramid for months, and we had presumed the opening code would be somewhere on the outer layer of oily black stone, like all the others that dot our world. Sadly, it remains hidden."

#2WordPrompt

Trying to meditate, when this ship came through the blessed purple overcast sky. Clouds divided, and the light! My gods, the light!

Then I saw the thing sitting next to me. And he saw me. And we asked each other, "Have you been there the whole time?"

#vss365 #scifisat

The fleet arrived just in time for the aftermath of the attack. Dylan watched them #divide into rescue ships, such as the Antilles, and escorts that surrounded the beleaguered, mostly destroyed, convoy.

Late again, but the convoy had put up a good fight. It was just never good enough.

#vss365

The Hercules beetle is one of the largest flying insects in the world.
Relative to their size, they are among the strongest creatures on Earth.

Guadeloupe Island, Caribbean