We Explored A Derelict Alien Megastructure
For twenty years, survey cartographer Mark has mapped structures that stay where he leaves them. The Dyson sphere does not.
His five-person crew is hired to chart the largest artificial structure ever found, a silent alien shell whose corridors are threaded with stresses only Mark's Barycentric Loom can see. The contract is supposed to make his career. Then a routine sample is removed from a wall, gravity vanishes, and the architecture folds itself around one of them.
Mark discovers the sphere is not collapsing. It is balancing. Every gram moved, lost, consumed, or spilled forces the…
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