Sector 6

by Robert Emerald Fountain

Gallus

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Sandbar chose to sit out charting Sector 6, so he stayed on the space station. Gallus proceeded to chart out a galaxy with three solar systems. The first one had eight planets that were all oceans. None of these planets could sustain life. Two of them had acid in the water, while the rest did not have enough plants to provide breathing oxygen. All of the planets had thick layers of clouds that blocked out the sunlight, so it was always dark. On the planets that did not have enough plants to produce oxygen, both the atmosphere and the water were heavily poisonous. Two of these planets had heavy concentrations of radioactive elements, so Gallus made sure to raise his shields to avoid contamination.

The second solar system was comprised of six planets that all had strange magnetic fields. In order to chart out these planets, Gallus had to magnetize his boots because the fields wanted to push him away, as opposed to a regular planet's magnetic field that would pull him down. These planets were metal all the way through and contained mines for the metals that made them up. These metals were like nothing Gallus had ever seen, so the inhabitants were happy to donate samples to him for research when he returned to Equus.

Once Gallus had fully mapped out all of the planets and any stars in the vicinity, he returned to the space station.

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