We Boarded A Classified Space Station That Fed Its Crew To A Cosmic Horror

Site Twelve has been silent for six days, and its orbit is falling.

When systems specialist Tolliver and his recovery team dock with the classified platform, they find the crew dead in an impossible condition: bodies dried to skin and bone, station air stripped of moisture, and every service line leading toward the sealed chamber at the core.

Inside is an extraterrestrial asset that was supposed to be stable. It is not. The closer the team gets, the slower their clocks run, the faster matter comes apart, and the harder the station is...