Somewhere in the void is a star that by all rights should have collapsed in on itself and gone supernova a long time ago. It won't, of course.

Celestia. Tartarus. Equus and Luna. Bucephalus. Tambelon. The Umbre Belt. The Ungula system may be quite populated, but it has many depths yet unplumbed.

The ESS Fire of Friendship is a small research and exploration vessel. As we all know from Star Trot, research and exploration vessels are the ones all the adventures tend to happen to. Fire of Friendship does not buck the trend.

Bit of an experiment. This setting is inspired partly by Starfinder, as I originally wrote up the Ungula system as a location for a Starfinder campaign that never took off and decided I wanted to explore it anyway, though more in terms of vibes than anything else at this point. The other inspiration is a Shadow of the Demon Lord campaign set in Equestria, so. While the story as a whole isn't intended to be primarily horror, dark and horror elements appear, especially as backstory elements.

These hortses are getting traumatized but things will be okay in the end.