A mysterious vessel is approaching
They say Spica Negra emerged from the blue-white lights of α-Virginis, the binary star system, some 250 light-years from Earth, appearing as the brightest star in the Virgo constellation.
No harbour or spaceport recorded her departure. No chart names the galactic route she crossed.
During the first stages of her voyage, Spica Negra followed a course known even to the earliest stargazers and seafarers. Their mnemonic has survived in various forms:
Follow the tail of the celestial bear to its keeper Arcturus, and then speed on unto Spica.
Spica Negra sailed this line in reverse, leaving Alpha Virginis behind and heading towards Arcturus, 37 light-years from Earth.
But, as Earth came closer, the well-known galactic route ended.
Close to our solar system lies an uncharted passage — an invisible vault, not yet registered in our astronomical maps, a zone where distance, memory and time no longer obey Euclidean geometry.
Somewhere within that passage, the night sky with our well-known constellations begins to give way to something else: the outer ethereal membranes of Psychia’s dreamosphere.
But Spica Negra’s voyage is not over. Nor is her destination fully understood.
Traverse the Ledger to find out more about this mysterious vessel…
