Chapter 66: Son of the Flesh Gospel, or: Are You My Father?
There it was—descending from the heavens like a modest god's rental car.
The first proper spaceship I'd seen in this galaxy—no tentacles, no biogrowths, no pulsating nerve-tissue hull. Just cold, hard, artificial steel. The thing looked like a white triangle mated with a torpedo, roughly twenty-five meters long, with two red-glowing thrusters beneath its belly for delicate landings, and five more strapped across the rear like an afterburner bouquet.
The central thruster glowed a sickly violet, like someone had shoved a pocket dimension inside and dared it to misbehave. FTL drive, probably. I'd grill the pilot later if they didn't vaporize into dust at the sight of Crystal.